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GohanwaOkazu said: I bet some people have missed the best parts of the film, or the whole plot. When Tamako lost her mother suddenly, it was Mochizo as well as Midori who were beside her. While Mochizo grew to care for Tamako as a boy, Midori developed difficult indescribable emotions towards Tamako (which I would not want anyone to call as lesbianism), as well as sort of rivalry and comradeship with Mochizo over who cares the most for Tamako, their best friend. Tamako had been helping her family's business after her mother died, and always related the warm, white, and nicely scenting mochi with memories of her deceased mother (for whom she still buys a flower for prayers every day). In her subconsciousness, the problems of maturing and motherhood was growing on her. Mochizo was initially almost giving up on confession. But knowing Tamako's past sufferings and after hearing Tamako's memories of and helpless admiration towards her deceased mother, he couldn't help but confess his love out of true compassion. While Tamako is initially very confused, she slowly becomes conscious about maturing and love even by seeing her neighbors. Tamako eventually recognizes how important Mochizo had been after her mother's death. Midori is seemingly the most mature of girls but is actually the one who needs to grow up the most. She is frustrated by her complicated feelings towards Tamako and probably also about her undetermined future (the others have more or less clear visions about what to do after graduation). She breaks the old strangled bond and sets free Tamako (and Mochizo) by encouraging their love partnership as boyfriend and girlfriend, with her little assisting trick. Who informed Midori about Mochizo's short trip (and not his definite farewell) to Tokyo is not shown in the film; it's left as a mystery. I suspect it was Tamako's little sister Anko who really liked Mochizo and Tamako, who knew about their difficult feelings, and who heard and knew what Tamako was planning. I assume it was Anko worrying about the two and seeing Mochizo go off to Tokyo that morning, she informed Midori. Midori after seeing Tamako off running towards her love is broken-hearted as well as feeling satisfied with what she had done. She is not alone, as Kanna her best friend had always known Midori's emotions (see the TV series) and comes to her rescue, telling that Midori looks beautiful after having done what had to be done (that is maturing by letting Tamako go free; poetically shown by the pictures of dandelion flying off). Kanna in turn asks Midori to lend a hand in her growing up; that is her overcoming of fear of heights in order to become a carpenter. Thus, this isn't a simple story of a boy meets girl, but it's about acknowledging love of the family, friends, and good peoples of the neighborhood. It's about overcoming of burdens and maturing. Kiss or no kiss, is unimportant, as we know that Tamako's and Mochizo's story will go on, and the future is implied in the film (the ED of the series and film) which we now know that Mochizo took featuring more confident and intimate looking Tamako. The two shadows side by side colliding in the ED tells their relationship well enough. The phrase used for promotion of the film was "Tamako peeled off" and "About maturing", btw. How to mature and find true love is a difficult issue, but there are hints given in this film. If we are careful, we should recognize the reference to the gravity pull, the Sun and the Moon, the apple, and Isaac Newton, who when asked about how he found the law of universal graviations replied that "By always thinking unto them". This is a well thought-out and very clever film with a good script and superb direction. If you didn't get it, watch again. well said! |
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| This was superb. Dunno what to say I loved everything. Not much of a comedy as the main series but it has clear "target" from the start and it pulled it off perfectly. Ps> I forgot how much I loved Kanna <3 |
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| Oh yeah, this is kind of late, but I want to thank those people who replied to my question thread about whether prior knowledge of the series is required for watching this. My girlfriend and I had a good time watching this. |
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| I love the way it ended, it was simply beautiful, i was crying and smiling at the sametime. Mochizou took a little bit of courage to confess to Tamako, eventhough it's awkward at first but in the end his effort pays off, so glad for him, Mochizou and Tamako such a cute couple Too bad Dera didn't get more scenes since the movie is focused on Tamako and Mochizou love story, but it's forgivable because it gives such a serious and heartwarming atmosphere Overall score 9/10, will be missed of course >.< |
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| I DONT LIKE THE ENDING IT ENDS LIKE THAT ITS NOT ENOUGH |
| A perfect masterpiece on a small scale. Really, I used to think Tamako Market was the most pointless anime KyoAni ever produced, with that of the whole main plot of the show being deemed meaningless in the very last episode, but now I'm glad it existed if it's just because of this movie. |
| Much better than the tv series, romance makes everything better. Good story, I so wish there were just 30 more seconds at the end. It was such an agonizing wait for the payoff. 8.5/10 |
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| nice movie, i give it 9/10 |
| Aww that was cute and heartwarming. The ending is subtle and sweet. I'm so happy for Mochizou. The series may have been a bit underwhelming but this sure is one good movie :) |
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| Eh it was ok. Basically from the time Mochi confessed, until the time Tamako decided to run to him, it was nothing but melodrama. Those 2 scenes though were superb. Kind of disappointed that there weren't any post credit scenes showing what happened afterwards. Not even an epilogue showing if Mochi decided to not go to Tokyo. Eh overall 7/10 |
Jonesy974 said: Eh it was ok. Basically from the time Mochi confessed, until the time Tamako decided to run to him, it was nothing but melodrama. Those 2 scenes though were superb. Kind of disappointed that there weren't any post credit scenes showing what happened afterwards. Not even an epilogue showing if Mochi decided to not go to Tokyo. Eh overall 7/10 Have you seen the last two shadows during the ED of the movie? That's Tamako resting her head on Mochi's shoulder. You don't have to be dense to know what that meant after she confessed to him. It's not important if Mochi will proceed to go to Tokyo or not. He longed love Tamako and now she confessed to him. He will will not hold back! |
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| Very cute movie, i have to say that i love Tamako's design, really adorable. Lighthearted and easy-going all the way, ended up smiling for most of the movie. BUT.. the ending was so sudden that it left a bitter taste, 3 more minutes of some aftermath, how about that maybe? The minutes of build-up before the train station scene were great and then i get this lol 7/10 |
| Wow.... a movie about innocent romance................................ |
| it was a really cute ending to an otherwise kind of forgettable series, though id argue it ended too abruptly for its own good, yeah the confess and all but you kind of just leave the whole conflict about him going away to tokyo hanging and how their future will exactly be, yeah you can just infer he'll come back to her after college and all but thats inferring not being actually confirmed and its a hell of alot less satisfying still the romance was quite DAAAWW worthy nonetheless especially after going through a series of seeing mochi get friendzoned |
JizzyHitlerJun 9, 2015 3:13 PM
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| 10/10. I loved so much this movie. Spanish:  |
| Perfect ending, nothing to say than perfect! I really loved this movie, it just had the parts I was missing from the main show and that was the romance aspect executed completely, and with this movie the story of Tamako ends wonderfully! I really loved it and can't say more than how I loved it. 9/10 |
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| Oh my god I loved this so much!!! That ending almost had me in tears. I was so happy!!!! 9/10 |
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| WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I LOVE THAT ENDING!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 Mochizou x Tamako Waaa so cute together >3< I will miss them all TT^TT Also kanna Mochizou's reactions is so cute <3 <3 <3   |
MikuruHimeJul 24, 2015 1:13 AM
| I cried at the end... not because it was sad but because it ended. :( I want more! More Mochizou, more Tamako, more market district, more Dera too! There's something about Tamako Market that is just so... soft and sweet. This movie is really well done and beautiful. 10/10 Edit: By the way, the synopsis is perfect. "Everybody loves somebody." |
ak47Aug 9, 2015 11:27 AM
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| まってよ! Loved that scene. 9/10 for me |
| KyoAni at its finest, slice-of-life at its best! First I have to say that all parts of the previous series with Dera were just horrible, I hated how he always destroys the mood with his jokes and this movie was so much much better with him not being around. Graphic and animation was top-notch and the music too. The moment when Tamako put in her mother old casette I just lost it. The clever character writing and plausible spontaneous dialogues just added to this encompassing feeling of emotive love story. The slice-of-life and coming-of-age moments of Tamako's everyday's life were also great. But what's more, it all felt very real. I can imagine many young people could indentify with characters of this movie. While the older ones could see it with sweet enough scent of nostalgia that makes them remember all about their first loves. All-in-all, it's job well done, KyoAni, I alone didn't expected that this movie would move me so much in the end. 9/10 |
| Ok. Movie. No timeskip on what happened to the relationship though. |
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| This is what happens when you remove the annoying chicken Dera in the story. Thank you KyoAni. 9/10. |
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| I finally got around to watching this. Too cute, typical KyoAni wizardry. Really enjoyed this, brought back a lot of memories, too. Kanna is still the effing best! |
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| This one hour movie accomplished to be waaay better than the entire anime. We even see >development<, I was surprised. |
| I liked it! It was a lighthearted film about teenage romance that accomplshed what it set out to do. Now if only Tamako Market was just as good... |
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| I didn't know the movie was a sequel to a TV-series so I was like " what the hell o_O ? " when I saw the opening as the content was too different from the things I expected when reading the description of the anime and seeing the cover. I still think the bird and the prince thing ruins everything and if they appear in the TV-series as well ( and I read somewhere that they do ) then I doubt I'll watch the series. It could have gone good without the bird too. Just my opinion ... I liked the atmosphere of the anime and the place it takes place, also I was tired of shounen anime and wanted to watch a bit of slice-of life/romance anime, so Tamako was a good call. It had everything I wanted. The old man, owner of the cafe shop doesn't talk a lot, but says some nice, good stuff. He's pretty much right and you can see he's experienced. Tamako is your typical dense main character, so in that sense, I'm sorry for Ichizou, but that's life. Glad he makes the move, despite how Tamako is. All in all, it's wasn't a bad anime, I enjoyed it. |
| One of the best confession (Mochizou's) IMO! So cute!! And Tamako's reaction makes it even better so funny x) |
AmyltiaJun 8, 2016 6:01 PM
| This was so much better than the main series, though that might be because I prefer romance. I almost watched the movie and skipped the series (I read that it's possible) but I feel like having all that background knowledge gave good insight into the characters. |
| I skipped the series and watched the movie. Either a sentence of explanation or a sensitive mind needed to get Midori's character but outside of that no problem at all |
| This film does a great job of making you feel sorry for Midori. Anyways, I was really impressed with Love Story. The direction, the focus, the depiction of Tamako's internal struggle, the ending, it was all good. Kanna, Shiori and especially Midori played excellent supporting roles here too and everything from Mochizo's confession to the end was superb. Too bad the film is attached to such a mediocre TV series, it just made caring about anything that happens to these characters that much harder for the movie to do, but it won me over around the confession mark. Could've done without the islanders in this film though, especially in that scene at the end as it disturbed the flow of the climax a little. |
| Ah, nice and relaxing, just like the TV series. Really wish I hadn't taken so long to get around to watching it. |
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| the overall movie was so great..... and well coordination |
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| the way Tamako reacted after he confessed to her was funny and they got together at the end i think overall it was okay not really a big fan of the romance genre |
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| Nice, but frankly I'm sorry. I wanted to see again Tamako, Dera and Midori. However a nice ending. |
| It was very good movie. Ending was awesome. Solid 8/10. |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| i love you. over! damn! Cuteness overloaaaadddd! >.< Loved the movie. the two confessions were awesome and captivatin with the cliche childhood romance genre. :) 10/10 |
| should i watch Tamako Market before watch this one? |
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| Yep that was cute, too bad there was no closure on Dera's side though. The scene at the station was adorable. |
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| Midori is the actual worst. I expected nothing and I was still let down. The film was fine until the last 7 minutes before the credits. |
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| I really really loved this movie. How it wrapped up the series was perfect. Ive seen a lot of people hate on the ending, I thought it was wonderful. "Bam" right to the point, seeing Mochizo's reaction and right to the credits. The rest is up to the watcher/fans. They nailed the connection down with their past as well. Just Mochizo picking on Young Tama. So cute. He handed her the little Mochi as well. While it was a scary moment when the grandfather was hospitalized, there was a part where Tamako looks at Mochizo and just says his name and Mochizo springs into fucking Action. "I'll go with them to the hospital." Like my fucking boy! Then even the father recognizes his manhood as well by him making his own decisions on what to do in life. The father knew all along that Mochizo was in love with Tamako anyway. With him calling him "Father" all the time lol. People love Midori, I have no idea why, I found her to be a bitch at times. Like if you know your love won't come about, why ruin what could be something great? She just had a bitchy vibe the whole series. The only time I cried were at Kanna's part, mainly because I was laughing so hard. Holy shit when she was sliding on the floors in the beginning and making those "sliding" sounds I was done. Then her confession. "I was really happy about what you said. Can you build me a house!" YO I WAS ROLLING haha. Overall great work by Kyoani (no surprise) and one of their best. 10/10 easy. |
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| Gosh, Tamako literally suffered psychological damage from Mochizou's big reveal... Favourite scene was when she forgot how to say "mochi," that was so cute. The budget was evidently increased but overall the animation quality was quite similar to the series, pacing was pretty normal as was the character development. They didn't really clarify whether Kanna's mini-lecture on magnets resonated with Midori which was a shame. I also particularly liked the plot twist with Mochizou not actually transferring as that would have been overly dramatic. Lastly, it was also lovely how they revolved the movie around Mamedai's song, it's nice how both Tamako's parents, especially her mother helped her take her final step towards accepting her feelings. What I would have preferred was a less open-ending; I was really hoping we'd get a time skip to explain what happened afterwards. I kind of had the impression that Tamako would follow Mochizou to Tokyo and they'd enter the same college although she was just as likely to just stay in Tamaya. A 5 year time skip with Mochizou graduating and returning to meet Tamako would have probably made me tear up (as per Mamedai's request). |
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jamsven said: IMO, if you want to know a lot about side characters, then yes. IMO you should watch it tho. should i watch Tamako Market before watch this one? |
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| Happy New Year everyone! Not a bad way to start my anime viewing for 2018, with a fairly sweet if not too groundbreaking little sequel for Tamako Market. One that revolves around not a bird but rather finally answering the series' biggest lingering question, the romantic relationship between Tamako and Mochizou. I had meant to get to this much earlier, but better late than never right? I'm left without much to say about this actually. As I already said, it was a cute little love story. Nothing spectacular or particularly original, but a comfy enough watch. With enough little moments and animation flourishes for an enjoyable experience. And kudos to the new couple! Happy they got together, not that there was ever really any doubt. Maybe I'm just a sucker for young love, but I'm feeling generous. 8/10 :D |
| Lmao I haven't see Tamako Market so I don't know about Midori and Tamako's relationship but all these comments make me understand tbh I kinda thought Midori liked mochizou, idk why |
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