Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru (Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop)

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Japanese: サイダーのように言葉が湧き上がる

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 22, 2021

Producers: flying DOG

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Studios: Signal.MD, Sublimation

Source: Manga

Genres: Romance, Slice of Life

Theme: Music

Duration: 1 hr. 27 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Yui "Cherry" Sakura expresses himself better through the haiku he writes and posts on the internet, even though no one gives it attention. While preparing for him and his family to relocate in August, he spends the summer working part-time at a welfare facility. Meanwhile, Yuki "Smile" Hoshino is a budding influencer who wants everyone to smile. However, she feels uneasy about the braces on her protruding front teeth and conceals her own smile using a disposable mask.

After an accidental encounter with Cherry, Smile finds herself becoming a part-time worker at the same facility as him. Soon, the two assist a senile man, Fujiyama, in searching an old vinyl record he owns. Unable to remember its last location, he wishes to listen to it once more before his memories fade for good. Cherry and Smile only have the record's sleeve and the word "yamazakura" as clues, and their hunt in the hazy summer heat begins.

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Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru was supposed to be released on May 15, 2021. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie was postponed until July 22, 2021.

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Cherry

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Ichikawa, Somegorou
Japanese

Smile

Main

Sugisaki, Hana
Japanese

Beaver

Supporting

Han, Megumi
Japanese

Japan

Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki
Japanese

Mr. Fujiyama

Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Sakura, Kouichi

Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Maria

Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese

Mari

Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire
Japanese

Fujiyama, Tsubaki

Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko
Japanese

Fujiyama, Yasuyuki

Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou
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Ishiguro, Kyouhei

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Satou, Dai

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Ushio, Kensuke

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du Pac, Benoît

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"Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru" by never young beach

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Jul 22, 2021

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

RebelPanda (All reviews)

167 people found this review helpful

Vibrant colors, heartwarming music, and finding self-confidence.

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop is not an uncommon romance anime movie to those familiar with the genre. Charmingly formulaic, it is an easy-going watch that will cheer you up if you’re feeling blue. It’s not likely to leave you with a lasting impact, but it’s a brief, pleasant watch—like a cool breeze on a hot summer day.

Cherry is a boy who writes haikus for fun yet has difficulty expressing himself verbally. Smile is a girl with buck teeth and braces concerned about looking cute for her Instagram following. Each of them communicates their personalities through social media; Cherry posts his haikus on Twitter. Smile streams vlogs to thousands of viewers. Cherry and Smile are relatable in the sense that they lack self-confidence. Both are timid kids; to avoid the daily awkwardness of being a teenager, Cherry has on his headphones, and Smile always wears a face mask.

The first third of the film is wonderfully upbeat; the two protagonists live a day in their life and cross paths at random. Cherry is a caretaker for older people, and Smile likes spending time with her friends. There’s little to know about the main duo, and we learn next to nothing about the one-dimensional side cast. Aside from providing emotional support, the supporting characters are irrelevant caricatures. Cherry and Smile’s meeting is very coincidental. A random person bumps into them, and they accidentally swap smartphones. It’s a wonder they didn’t realize they were in the plot of a cheesy romance. Thankfully, their slow-burn romance is only one of the plotlines because neither characters are interesting enough to form a compelling relationship. The social media motif lightly touches on how apps such as Twitter and Instagram cause insecurities; Cherry felt undervalued because no one ever liked his posts. Smile’s cutesy online persona caused her to be more self-conscious of her teeth. Lamentably, the film quickly forgot the introspective motif in favor of a scavenger hunt storyline.

The middle section consists of montages and slice of life snippets to show how their relationship progresses from friends to romance. During this act, the anime plants itself in a charming and formulaic romantic drama. There is very little character development to be had until the final act. Screentime is primarily taken up by the blossoming romantic duo searching for an old record lost by an older man—one of the people Cherry sees at work. At the start, we witness the man exploring a wide-open field and a mall with nothing but the record cover; this gets hinted at becoming the crux of the film. Their quest to find the lost record fails to maintain interest, but it is accompanied by the beautiful everpresent, primarily instrumental, music.

The most praise I can give to this film is the excellent soundtrack. It guided the mood from joyful to melancholy and it progressively became better. There is a lovely song playing in the background at nearly every moment—drowning out sound effects or chance at creative sound design. In a music genre film, that is fine. However, the lack of creative musical transitions left me slightly disappointed. I appreciate they did not attempt to go for melodramatic gut punches at the end. Though very predictable, there’s magic to an easy-going romance ending.

While occasionally choppy, the animation is serviceable. The vibrant and colorful background art is dazzling enough to draw your attention. It bears many similarities to the stunning art direction from Great Pretender. After a while, it feels rather mundane and static. It is more akin to drawn-on Hollywood set dressing than of a believable world. We’ve come to expect this visual fidelity from studio Signal MD. The voice actors did the best they could with the threadbare script: Somegorou Ichikawa’s performance as Cherry was natural, but it slightly conflicted with Smile’s enthusiastic personality—this further emphasizes their lack of similarities or chemistry. Cherry is his first role in an anime, which is clear, though, for a newcomer, he did well.

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop is more on the level of a moderately high-quality anime than a movie. The expressively animated character designs nearly distract from their surface-level depth. There are a couple of impressive animation cuts, such as a boy skateboarding through a shopping mall while evading security at the beginning. Though the rest is simply cartoony. Melodic music, a low-stakes predictable story, and coming-of-age themes. There is just enough here to maintain our attention until the bittersweet finale. This is not a film that warrants a second watch. Although it won't leave a lasting impact, it is a nice passing watch to wind down with during the middle of the summer.

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Jul 22, 2021

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Corrout (All reviews)

85 people found this review helpful

Words That Bubble Up Like Soda is a relaxing music love based story which does what it achieves very well. Though some of the plot points in the show can be a tad bit predictable, it doesn't mind much due to it's great character and incredible animation. It also has emotional value when it needs to, it nearly made me cry twice during the period of the film.

The story was consistently good throughout the anime, though following a traditional structure to where the high or low points of the story was. It's nothing too out of the ordinary for a SoL show which makes the moments where something special happens become even more special. It does have some predictable moments like how both of the main characters meet and what they do but overall with those predictable moments, they didn't really deviate from the overall story's quality and didn't really affect the overall enjoyment of the film.

The art style is done spectacularly, it flows really well between the more actiony scenes and the calmer scenes, with it matches the aesthetic of the show beautiful. The characters are animated very stylishly and their facial reactions are very diverse and helps paint a picture of what the personalities of the characters are, even though they might be a tad overdramatic. There is always a moving part on the screen and even things like a book falling over on the ground is shown in a bright matter. The scenery at the points it need to happen were done well though at times it felt like it was panning a bit slow.

The sound is the best part of the show. The show's background themes brighten up the anime in a bright, colorful way which I expected for it being made by Kensuke Ushio, who also did A Silent Voice and Liz to Aoi Tori. It is also a major part of the show as the whole show resolves around the theme of music.

This characters of this are well done. Cherry, a Japanese haiku poet with a lack of wanting to share his haiku's vocally and hides behind his headphones to make people not want to talk to him and Smile, who is a successful online personality with a personal crisis with her bucked teeth which she wears a mask to protect herself from potential embarrassment. Both characters are very simple but both feel like real characters living with their basic problems, and seeing their interactions with each other and the rest of the cast. The supporting cast can be a bit forgettable apart from Fujiama, the grandfather of one of Cherry's friends. He helps create this diversity from the main characters being this loud, forgetful and annoying character, which makes this story feel more alive and all together more realist.

I found this show to be a simple yet an enjoyable one at that, I would suggest this to people who like music, slice of life and people who love a little romance in the show. I was glad to see the global same time release of this film on Netflix as I think it's the right step for Netflix to have these sort of releases for their original anime films.

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Jul 22, 2021

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

NextUniverse (All reviews)

52 people found this review helpful

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop is a movie that refuses to elaborate, whilst also having the nerve to expand itself as to more than what the premise says it is. I usually don't mind simple stories, and sometimes I praise them beyond belief, but it is comparable to a hack if you use something that will eventually be rendered pointless. I am not sure about you, but wasting time isn't something I'd say is a good thing.

The narrative starts off fine, you know, copy stuff from Jun Maeda and make yourself look like some wet market version of Shaft seems to do the trick, read more

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Jul 22, 2021

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

KANLen09 (All reviews)

29 people found this review helpful

Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru a.k.a Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop is yet another Netflix global film release (which is about the ONLY time that I can advocate for the elusive platform for doing releases right). This is a music-centric anime film through and through, and you need not look more than the high-profile production staff behind this to find all the musical influences:
- Director Kyouhei Ishiguro for his work on Occultic;Nine and the famous modern classic that is Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso a.k.a Your Lie in April;
- Music composer Kensuke Ushio (better known by his moniker agraph.) on works ranging from Ping Pong the Animation, Space☆Dandy, Koe no Katachi (a.k.a A Silent Voice), and the soon-to-be Chainsaw Man;
- Scriptwriter Dai Satou on works ranging from the classic Ergo Proxy, Eureka Seven and the more recent Listeners (though this one is more a miss than a hit);
- Character designer (and also animation director) Yukiko Aikyou on works ranging from Accel World to the aforementioned Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso.
- Annimation director Yukiko Watabe on Hanasaku Iroha's movie adaptation,
- Not to mention, this is music production company FlyingDOG's 10th Anniversary film, and this is one good way of plastering a PR stunt.

So you're thinking, what is Soda Pop (since I don't wanna reiterate the super long title) about? I could easily tell you to reference the synopsis (which is taken straight from ANN, but at most times MAL Rewrite would be a better proposition), but in essence, Soda Pop feels like it's made with a childish-cum-mature theme in mind, much more than the music element that it heavily banks on as its sole foundation. And true to the description of the film, "words and music" bridge the gap between characters whom have difficulties in understanding people around them in their own unique ways, and what else better than the "miracle" of music to literally help to bridge that gap. Stevie Wonder quotes it best: "Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand." And that by itself is a moniker as to how Kyouhei Ishiguro sprinkles these words like rhetorics as a means of expressions, I love "show, don't tell" structures like this that gives a whole new sense to storytelling, even if the story is written on a very basic and predictable level.

Cherry, voiced by a debut newbie: 16-year-old Somegorou Ichikawa, and Smile, voiced by Hana Sugisaki, the same VA for the MC Mary Smith in the film "Mary to Majo no Hana" (a.k.a Mary and the Witch's Flower), and both these VAs exude the simplification of a film that looks like it was made for kids. Also, given Dai Satou's work on the kids show "Kaitou Joker", you can feel that there's a genuine mix of interaction between Cherry and Smile, that like Carole and Tuesday, even if there are differences within each other (Cherry for his Haiku communication, Smile for her online persona), music is the universal language that bonds both the boy and girl together. Even if by coincidence, everything works for a reason that doesn't seem too contrived, and even the "forced" romance between both is done in a way that at least feels different. Using Haiku to express love for the significant other? Now that's a skill I would like to have.

It's common that I say this, but looking upon the poster promotion and the teaser PV for the film, I was very enthralled at how it looked like films that are made so similar to Studio Colorido's works like Penguin Highway. A co-production between Signal.MD and Sublimation (which the latter studio is at most one of many exclusive contractual 3DCG studios for licensed Netflix content, if judging by the mediocre Dragon's Dogma), and I'm not gonna mince my words: this film looks insanely gorgeous, even if the animation is good and serviceable at best.

Even the music composition that's done by Kensuke Ushio, all I can say is: if you need to know what to expect of the future of Chainsaw Man's music composition, Soda Pop is just a very small taste for the most recent results. The main theme song "Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru" by never young beach gives off a very Summery lazily vibe of a ragtag song, and is exact for the core themes of the film, which takes place in the aforementioned season. The insert song "YAMAZAKURA" by Taeko Oonuki, the moment I first heard the song that's released first on the film's OST in Spotify, I knew that I'm gonna love this due to my interest in City Pop music, and hearing the exact same song in the film is nothing short of "music to my ears". It's all good on the music aspect for me, but I hope it does for you.

A good effort from YLiA's director Kyouhei Ishiguro that's once again hampered by Dai Satou's storytelling and scriptwriting, though I can be certain to say that this is a far better effort than what Listeners came out to be. Overall, not a great film, but at least it's worth a good watch or two with friends and family just for relaxation.

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