Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou (Maboroshi)

Masamune, a third-year middle school student, lives in a town where all the exits have been sealed off due to a sudden explosion at a steel mill, causing time to stand still. Residents are forbidden from making any changes and spend their suffocating days in the hopes of returning to normalcy someday.

One day, Masamune's mysterious classmate Mutsumi guides him to the fifth furnace of the steel mill, where they encounter a girl who cannot speak and resembles a wild wolf. The meeting between the two girls and Masamune disrupts the balance of the world, and the unstoppable "impulse of love" from boys and girls tired of their daily lives begins to destroy the world.

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Sagami, Mutsumi

Main

Ueda, Reina
Japanese

Kikuiri, Masamune

Main

Enoki, Junya
Japanese

Itsumi

Main

Kuno, Misaki
Japanese

Sagami, Mamoru

Supporting

Satou, Setsuji
Japanese

Kikuiri, Akimune

Supporting

Seto, Kouji
Japanese

Kikuiri, Tokimune

Supporting

Hayashi, Kento
Japanese

Yasumi, Reina

Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo
Japanese

Hara, Hina

Supporting

Kawase, Maki
Japanese

Nitta, Atsushi

Supporting

Hatanaka, Tasuku
Japanese

Senba, Yasunari

Supporting

Kobayashi, Daiki
Japanese

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Kimura, Makoto

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Ootsuka, Manabu

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Hasegawa, Hiroya

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Noda, Fuko

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"Shin-on (心音 [しんおん])" by Miyuki Nakajima.

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Apr 1, 2024

ep-46_jaegarist

Recommended

The second i finished this movie, i knew i had to write a review! oh myy gosh! What a WORLD BUILDING, It sucks you inside of it, The plot, events in the story, depth in charecters, animation, World creation, environment, Vibes, Emotions, Philosophy and the climax dude. This type of movie comes once in a decade. I saw some guys writing review on 'mal' that it has so many plot points and his weak brains couldn't understand whats going on, im like dude you are incompetent to understand the movie just go and watch boruto and shit, and thats the reason why i dont watch ...

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Apr 22, 2024

zoraideale79

Mixed Feelings

Ok all in all it was pretty good, MAPPA always goes above and beyond with animation ofc. The story is hard to follow but I loved it because I’m a sucker for wack adventures especially having to do with time, time travel, time loop, time lock, etc.
imo I think this would have been AMAZING as a 12-13 episode anime rather than try to fit all this into a movie. The Not Recommended reviews are speaking truth with the crazy plot here. I just kept thinking of Erased and how well that was developed and thought this could have been similar. Still good though.

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Apr 16, 2024

CodeCypheur

Not Recommended

I initially thought the main theme of this anime would be about growing up and how futile it is to resist the changes that come with growing into adulthood. It did well to set this up and it makes sense with the setting being a town where you are literally not allowed to change, but instead the story decided to go down a path Sigmund Freud would love with an elektra complex focus for god knows what reason.

To give the film some credit, it has an incredibly intriguing premise - I may have been confused at times but not once was I bored. I didn't ... read a summary other than glancing at the sypnosis which mentioned how people weren't allowed to change - I think if I didn't see that I would've been a whole lot more confused because I didn't understand this had supernatural elements and people literally weren't changing until the third exposition by the main character. These initial expositions clueing the viewer into the situation of the town were done well, it didn't feel like I was being ham fisted the backstory - but again it took a while for it to click with me and I don't think somebody going in blind would get it either until atleast halfway through the film.

The main character didn't really feel like a person to me, he felt very much like a vehicle for the audience to view the world. He has no distinguishable character traits other than...being good at drawing? That was quite literally the only trait he had, his personality was that of a discarded receipt that had fallen into a puddle on the sidewalk. Completely irrelevant and forgotten. This of course creates a problem when this anime is allegedly...a romance.

The main female lead, at least I believe she's supposed to be, is - I can't really say this nicely but she's genuinely an insufferable bitch? Pretty much every scene she's in she's just...being a bitch. No spoilers so I can't back these up but she's just a horrible person to everyone?

Now you can probably imagine why it's hard to believe a romance when the people who are meant to be at the centre of it are a wet wipe and an asshole. Maybe they are suited to each other...but no accidental puns aside the romance is horrifically forced and at no point did I feel like it made sense. I can think of one possible justification as to why they're meant to be the romance partners of this anime which is revealed about halfway through but if that is genuinely meant to be the reason they're in love then it simply creates more questions than answers and doesn't give across the right message in my opinion.

Then there's the child. I can't say all too much because again, spoilers but just...why. They could have genuinely removed this character completely and the anime would have been better, which clearly shouldn't be the case considering she's a vital character towards the premise but it really is. She's meant to facilitate the two main characters arcs but they don't go through an arc so she is literally redundant. Her own...developments are just weird. So weird. It seems the only reason she's there is so they can add the theme of 'love between boys and girls' into the description but this theme just serves to the detriment of the anime.

Spirit wolf, sacred wolf, whatever it is is incredibly confusing and convoluted, I didn't fully understand it either by the end - the film had a solid enough premise without it. Nothing would really have changed if they just did away with that layer of the not-changing world.

Another over-the-top two dimensional so evil he's evil wow evil, villain. What's new, not surprised just disappointed that we continue to get these boring antagonists who are just plot points and serve as anticlimactic stake makers for the main characters.

It's a shame this sucked so bad because I always look forward to watching these stories told by women as typically romances written by men fail to capture any nuance especially with the women characters - here the woman character does have nuance I'll give her that but the plot surrounding her just diminishes it all to nothing. The more I think about this anime the worse it appears to me because it had potential but overall it got lost in what message it was trying to tell.

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