Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi (Summer Days with Coo)

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English: Summer Days with Coo

Synonyms: Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi

Japanese: 河童のクゥと夏休み

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 28, 2007

Producers: Dentsu, TV Asahi, Shochiku, Sony Music Entertainment, Dentsu Tec

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Shin-Ei Animation

Source: Original

Genres: Adventure, Shounen

Duration: 2 hr. 21 min.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 7.61¹ (scored by 3,928 users)

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Ranked: #1325²

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Popularity: #3930

Members: 9,194

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Kouichi Uehara is a fourth grade student living in the suburb of Tokyo. One day, he picks up a large stone which turns out to be a fossil of a baby "Kappa" who has been sleeping underground for the past 300 years, and names it "Coo." They become good friends and Coo starts living with Kouichi's family. However, Coo has a hard time adjusting to life among humans and misses his kind.

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Coo

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Tomizawa, Kazato
Japanese

Uehara, Kouichi

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Yokokawa, Takahiro
Japanese

Husband

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Inaba, Minoru
Japanese

Toshio

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Tomita, Kousei
Japanese

Shimizu, Sumio

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Hazama, Michio
Japanese

Classmate 3

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Classmate 2

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Diner Lady

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Ichijou, Miyuki
Japanese

Innkeeper

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Iwata, Yasuo
Japanese

Toono Train Station Announcer

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Nakamura, Chie
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Sano, Hiroaki

Producer

Hara, Keiichi

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Ookuma, Akira

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Suzuki, Kenichi

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"Natsu no Shizuku (夏のしずく)" by Ooyama Yurika (大山百合香)

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May 13, 2010

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

OerbaYunFang (All reviews)

22 people found this review helpful

When I borrowed the DVD from my sister I was sceptical at first because she said she didn't really like it and the graphics weren't really outstanding either. How wrong I was. Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi is one if the most amazing animes I have ever seen. I must admit I expected it to be rather boring and not special at all but I was so wrong. I enjoyed every minute of it, it was fun to watch, I laughed a lot, and I cried a lot too. The story really touched me, the characters really grew on me (even the supporting ones!) and read more

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Sep 17, 2017

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Animeindian (All reviews)

5 people found this review helpful

What makes a great anime movie? Is it visuals, great storytelling, great and relatable characters, mind-bending themes and ideas or just the name of a famous director and studio. Whatever it is, we all love movies and anime. When I think about anime movies one of the first which comes to my mind is Summer Days with Coo and it is not because of complex storytelling, visuals or name of the director but it is because it is the only anime movie that genuinely made me cry and word “genuinely” is very important. Coo is not a movie of fakeness or pretending, it is a movie about reality and humans, It does not pretend anything but show directly what is true and that is the greatest asset of Summer Days With Coo. To understand this we have to understand the story structure and characters of this movie.

Characters in Coo are quite different than rest of the rabble. By that, I mean that they don’t have a specific trait like brave, loving or anything near it and they don’t follow normal convention of movie characters when they take action and when they do take action which will be almost always be motivated by the situation. There is no villain in this movie nor there are any heroes and what we might think is a hero do not follow general rules of a hero, ie. they are not purely selfless, well expect Ossan. In short characters in Summer Days with Coo are humans and nothing more and that is the greatest beauty of this movie. A hero is a hero because of the situation made him and villains are villains because situation made them, there no good and bad just people with different situations and needs. That is why I said there no fakeness or pretending, these people who are in the movie act genuinely like people in that situation, just like you and me. There is no trait defining them, no horrid past poking them, no high goal driving them, they are just normal people nothing more and nothing less.

Story structure is defined by a single action and multiple reactions to that action. Like when you drop a rock in a claim pond and watch ripples react with each other to form different patterns. The movie can neither be called story driven or character driven. it is the initial action that forms the story and characters react with that story making their mark on it and story also making its mark on them. Its beauty cannot be explained by mere words. Summer Days with Coo is a movie that can put nearly every movie I have watched in shame, in the storytelling department.

Again this simplicity and realism also reflect in its vision. It is rough, ugly, detailed, clunky and realistic in an odd way. Everyone looks normal, there are no extraordinary beautiful characters and yet there are detailed and beautiful backgrounds, this gives the movie a unique feel. Some may find visual to be repulsive but what hidden behind them is gold.

Summer Days with Coo is a truly unique and beautiful experience and everyone should give it a try. It is a movie filled with Simplicity and Beauty to the brim and there could be no doubt that it is one of the best movies I have ever watched. So go and give it a try and let me know.

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Nov 7, 2012

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

neUtrino_23 (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

If there's anything this anime could remind you of then it's the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".

A boy finds a strange (initially fossilised) creature, a Kappa named Coo, with a kind character. The family gets attached to Coo and struggles to keep him secret from the public. Coo soon starts to feel lonely and separated and wonders about his own kind.
Even though there's a lot happening in between and afterwards, the movie has a very, VERY calm and smooth way of storytelling but doesn't create a feeling boredom. If you're looking for action and a propulsive plot, then this is nothing for you.

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Jan 28, 2014

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

3MeowMix3 (All reviews)

4 people found this review helpful

I originally watched this since I really find yokai interesting & thought this would be a cute movie from what i gathered from the bio of it. While it was a fairly cute movie it did have a very dark side to it.

It really exposed the nasty side of human beings in this film, to the point where it almost made me uncomfortable. I am very sensitive about the fair treatment of animals, so just as a warning to anyone like me, you may be bothered by a few scenes in this film. Apart from that it definitely had some funny & cute moments read more

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