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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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I wrote in a blog after watching this that this transcends anime and competes with Palme d'Or (or other fancy award) winning films. Just brilliant.

Favourite moment: When Taeko puts in an extra performance for the school play, knowing she cant add another line, instead she gives a little wave and sigh, haha.

The end credit montage was superb.

Pretty good...

My favourite Studio Ghibli film.

More people should watch this and not only the fairytale stories from Studio Ghibli...

Where can you watch this btw? :D

It took me two and a half weeks to dl the slowest torrent I have ever attempted.
Absolutley worth every second. Really wonderful.

This movie alone should be enough to cement Isao Takahata's genius. An artistic masterpiece worthy of being called the best anime movie ever made.

This was seriously my first attempt of a really "Slice of Life" anime piece of work, and was I completely stunned by the amazing story this turned out to be... It was enjoyable, interesting and rather thoughtful since the very beggining, simply because the characters were so simple, realistic, well-developed and most important of all, likeable. The ending was outstanding, it showed the romantic side of this story and it was so good and emotional it made me shed some tears, something I almost never do out of Drama.

Miyazaki may be the most popular, with the more thrilling and adventurous anime films out there, making absolutely gorgeous and entertaining movies IMO, but with this movie, in my eyes, Takahata proved to be on par with (if not superior to) Miyazaki when it comes to directing a movie with a memorable story and realistc characters. Well done Takahata, you just won yourself a personal Tag in my Anime list.

Solid 9/10, one of the best 9s Ive ever seen.

I'm so glad to see other people enjoying this. It is a stunningly good film. I think it's one of the few animated movies which is comparable in quality to some of the great works in the upper echelons of the film industry, and I wouldn't even say that about other impressive animated works like Naushika and Totoro.

Takahata can blend the surreal with the realistic far better than anyone else in the animation industry. That one scene for instance where Taeko and that pitcher with the baseball team meet up and exchange a few words because of their classmates teasing, then she runs off and up an imaginary staircase and floats home into her bed in a wonderful dreamlike sequence. That is so trademark Takahata.

The flashbacks were amazing, some of the closest depictions I've seen to real kids. But WTF poor decision making at the end, don't change your whole lifestyle after one night of thinking. The farm stuff was nice in spite of that, at least.

I vastly prefer Takahata over Miyazaki. This is such an underrated wonder, but in a world full of soulless cynics I guess I understand why it is not more revered. This is a brilliantly constructed film.

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