Natsu e no Tobira

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Synonyms: The Door Into Summer, Opening to Summer, Natsu he no Tobira, Door to Summer
Japanese: 夏への扉


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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 20, 1981
Producers: Madhouse
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Toei Animation
Source: Manga
Genres: Boys LoveBoys Love, DramaDrama
Demographic: ShoujoShoujo
Duration: 59 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.911 (scored by 27392,739 users)
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Ranked: #107682
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Popularity: #8021
Members: 7,279
Favorites: 16

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Synopsis

Marion is a young schoolboy who prides himself on his adherence to a philosophy he calls "rationalism". Because of his disdain for emotional display, he ignores anything remotely akin to affection. But when he's entangled in a romantic affair with an older courtesan, his rationalism is revealed to be little more than a cover for his own emotional immaturity. Learning to love, Marion blossoms under his older lover's care but unfortunately, Marion has yet to learn the true price of the affair.

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Jan 1, 2025
A journey through MadHouse chapter 8: one of the pillars of shone ai.

The central theme of the film is the passage to maturity through love. The story is not limited to telling a common summer romance, it will use all kinds of love that its duration allows. The sexual awakening of a relationship between an adult woman and a teenager, a homosexual love, unrequited love and even a kind of a rather twisted love triangle. The story is made so that you question each of the characters and their actions. That the axis of the story is romance does not mean that everything you are ...
Aug 26, 2023
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
~David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1739-40

Someone once asked me how to best describe *The Door into Summer*, and the word that came to mind is “humid.” The film resides in that certain kind of summer afternoon where the sun is overhead and the clouds are beautiful, but the air is dense and heavy, as though it was so thick that you had to swim your way through it. The characters all feel the weight of imposing emotional pressure ...
Sep 18, 2021
Regularly scheduled disclaimer: I don't believe in the MAL rating system, so ignore everything but the overall score if you actually want to know my opinion for some reason.

Natsu e no Tobira is, like many films from this era, more interesting from a historical perspective (in this case as one of the earliest depictions of gay characters and perhaps the first proper BL anime). Unfortunately unlike films like Ashita no Joe in a similar position, its characters are lacking the core appeal they need to make the growing pains of anime as a medium more tolerable, and ultimate there isn't much to actually say ...

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