Hakubo

Hakubo revolves around the daily life of Sachi Koyama, a high school violinist with promising talent. Although Sachi is content with her school life and retains friends within the music club, her favorite pastime is appreciating the scenery around her neighborhood in Iwaki, Fukushima while walking to her bus stop alone.

However, during one of Sachi's after-school walks, she has an unexpected meeting with Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy whom she often notices on her bus ride home. After offering to help Kijinami find a perfect view of the evening landscape—the subject of his next painting for his art club's exhibition—the two forge a bond over their mutual admiration of the beautiful scenery bathed in sunset. This chance encounter brings together these two souls who yearn to cherish the present, knowing full well how easily it can all slip away.

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Hakubo is the final installment in Yutaka Yamamoto's Tohoku Trilogy, a series of films produced to aid in the restoration efforts following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The charity project was intended to be crowd-funded, but the campaign did not raise the funds it was aiming for.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Koyama, Sachi

Main

Sakurada, Hiyori
Japanese

Kijinami, Yuusuke

Main

Katou, Seishirou
Japanese

Matsumoto-senpai

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Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Rina

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Amamiya, Sora
Japanese

Hii-chan

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Sakura, Ayane
Japanese

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Yamamoto, Yutaka

Director, Sound Director, Script, Original Creator

Yamada, Haru

Sound Director

Chikaoka, Sunao

Character Design

Ishida, Keiichi

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"Tooku (とおく)" by AZUMA HITOMI

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Sep 2, 2020

badabass

Recommended

Ah, many people complain about unrelated situations that happened between the main story of these movie with its synopsis. Remember, this was about 'the now and present' condition that twos people needed to get along with their new life. Ofc its just about their school life situations, and a bit spicy tastes of romance additional just been added to their relations to gave the show more nuances. But, they still tried to keep it to its main point. Then, its about their now live.

The girl as always hinted as a no good person to attached with her new live before meeting the boy. Its ... indeed talked about the gloomy feeling, and surrenderring all of the good times she had at the school just to enjoy the twilight, alone. The boy himself felt unrealistic, tho, acted strangely, looked too embarassed, and even never got a chance to forgot his first love that missing from the earthquake events. By their fate of encounters, they both granted a huge changed, a big development over their new life. They both enjoyed it. They both had a fun with how beautiful panoramic it had in their surrounding. At the end, its just a simple story of people that needed to move on from their previous comfort zone. And for me, its just so soothing, and pretty decent.

Idk how people just staked up the movie with such a high expectations, instead of just enjoying the simple meaning. Its just, need to chill down a little bit and enjoyed their amazing art and animation behind all of those gorgeous backgrounds. The story wise was okay with its simplicity. Nothing bad about it. Or people just hate a simplicity over the same clicheness of a romantic school life drama in its progressed. Oh, well, what a touchable reason.

For me, once again at my sole satisfaction, this is deserved on my 8/10 for my Overall.

Its not that great. But surely its had a good moments on it. The storyline somehow had some issues that maybe irritating some elitist people. For me, its just a 7 by knowing how its simple and really easy to understand if really just wanted to enjoyed a simple movie about the classic romantic drama of the high schooler. Yeah, peoples nowaday had so much stake on its head.

A nice art detailed on the background together with its okay animation. Its not my liking, tho. So i found it quite okay. This might be the best aspect for the movie. But, i fit it in 9 just in cased that i still stay true on my previous statement. Its pretty enough, right? Or else its overrated? Whatever, this is my decision. Lol.

The soundtrack and the inserting songs felt good too on my hearing. Who hate the violin rythym mixing it with Beethoven components of music? I am certainly not! The ED quite smooth and attached well too on my heart. So, its matched up on my 8.

The characters hit my fine level. Its nothing bad about it. Its just, simple. Its about their youth life. Its about their puberty. Why so exaggerating about it? Its deserved on my 7.

So, yeah its suited well on my 8, depending my usual averaging style for the Overall sections. 7+9+8+7+9 for my enjoyment, in the end, its granted with a solid 8/10. Thats it for me.

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Oct 5, 2022

Galatory

Mixed Feelings

Hakubo Review (5.4)

About music and love,but they didn't meet my expectations in the story. The animation is not very good, but it's ok.There seems to be something missing that I didn't see in the story.The song is good anyway.

STORY:5/10
The story isn't very interesting,it's a bit boring and I thought it was just about the music on her violin and there's also a love story which is quite ok.

ANIMATION:5.5/10
The background is beautiful,it looks like they just took a real pic then they edited it so it's not too obvious.But when it comes to the animation it's not good but it's pretty ok.

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Jul 20, 2020

TheAngryNerd

Not Recommended

Story - 1
First, let me talk about the description. The description is VERY MISLEADING. I thought this was gonna be about the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami from 2011 but throughout its entire runtime, there isn't a single mention of it. No, it's not even a part of the story. I'm sure that they only included it to try and lure people in. The story lacks depth and doesn't really go anywhere, nor does it have some sort of message that it tries to give the viewer. What about the plot? There is no plot.
Next, let me talk about the actual story. What the story is ... actually about, is a generic "girl meets boy" romance, and it even fails in doing that.

Art & Animation - 4
The background art is great... and that's just about the only good thing this had to offer.
The art style and the character designs look like they're from 2009 or something like that. It wasn't pleasing in the slightest and sometimes the characters look kinda ugly. They go off model a lot and that really takes away from the experience.
The animation isn't even good either. Actually, it was bad. The characters movements felt stiff, clunky, and unnatural. It didn't feel realistic. The worst part is the part when the girls are playing their violins for their exhibition. It looked like really bad CG, and the movements felt uncanny and the characters were shaking a lot. It reminds me of how the characters tremble in Aku no Hana. It felt rotograved or like they traced CG animation! There were even parts where I could tell it was CG!

Sound - 4
At least the music wasn't terrible. The ending song is okay, but the rest of the music was forgettable and most of the time I didn't even notice it. The voice acting isn't very good, especially the male lead.

Characters - 1
I didn't really care about the characters. They were all bland, generic, and 1 dimensional. The main girl, Sachi wasn't very interesting and the only "trait" she really has is that she can play the violin. Her friends are even less interesting and they're only there for the sake of being there. Hii-chan is a comedy relief and her other friend... I don't even know what to describe her as. The male lead (forgot his name) was also quite bland. Everything about them was so bland and emotionless, and they really lacked depth, character, and personalities.

Enjoyment - 2
I was bored the entire time. The only scene that caught my attention was when the main character took off her clothes as well as the background art.

Overall - 3
This was pretty boring. I wouldn't watch it again or recommend it. The romance was cringe and predictable.

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