Megumi

Not a fiction story, or even a proper "story." Megumi is one more appeal from her parents whose haven't seen her since 1977, when she was 13 years old. This short anime tells a little about Megumi, about how loved she was and then, how despairing it was when she vanished into thin air and reappeared inside of a country-sized prison. Her parents have been fighting since then to get their daughter back, even without the help of the government and the silence from North Korea. It's been, by the time of this writing, 41 years since Megumi disappearance and they still haven't heard from ... her ever since, and don't even know if she's dead or alive. This is a informative anime, or a propaganda anime if you prefer, not my first but still something interesting to see.

Megumi, I just hope you get back well.

If to sort specifically, direction is bad. Close ups, delays, other director's counters are realized muffledly. Direction of this anime leaves much to be desired, but it is not because there are no "juicy scenes with pants", there is no silly humour, there are no heroes-adventurers who rescue each young lady who got to trouble. All the matter is that emotions are not showed especially plausibly. Really it was impossible to put a little more heart and soul and compassions in this work? The history deserves that it knew, but the fact that an anime is removed not in the best way, remains the ... fact.

Likely, the main reason for so mediocre work is that the task was to make an anime on this subject, to pay attention and quality of the movie was not among priorities. Matter in that, this anime has no the entertaining or art character; no ha-ha, no boobs, no girls taking a bathtub, no scenes of fight and other to what you got used in an anime.

Essence of this anime is not to strike you with stunning posing and animation, not to show violence scenes (which someone love that you spoke "thank God it doesn't happen to me"), not to strike you with masterly direction, not to surprise with something. This anime has the purpose to draw attention to a real-life problem, and to inform all about it. It is a history-propagation, which has the political character, telling without any lyrics about parents of the ordinary Japanese schoolgirl, about powerlessness of the ordinary person before the governments of the countries. And I deeply respect these unfortunate people who lifted such wave, what even governor admitted this fact.

Sense is not in posing and animation, sense is in the general history and feelings of parents which 25 years look for the child despite of everything. About any highly artistic things can't be speech in this situation. Many of us already lose hope for such period of time, and the sincere love and loss pain here is expressed.

Generally the verdict is that to whom is less than 20 years, I don't recommend for viewing. You will not understand anything, only scribble here spiteful responses. Don't wait for entertainments, something fantastic. You receive a dose of the severe realism which has been buttressed up by facts. It is not that thing which should be compared to a usual anime.

I very much condole with those who got such destiny - to be stolen. But, I think, these people need more understanding than pity. And I admire those who could pass through such difficulty and live the rest of life as they would like. After all it is disgusting that political conflicts of the state level ruin lives of innocent people.

So “Megumi” is an anime based on the real life event of N.Korea abducting Japanese in order to learn Japanese culture. The main character is Megumi yokota a 13 y.o girl who was kidnapped on 1977.

Story:I don’t really know how to rate this because it’s a real life story with real people names on it but the story here is executed badly it’s just bad but you can get a few tear drops out of it. -4

Art:It’s just bad and unique at the same time to me, the animation doesn’t show that many movement the don’t even bother animating the mouth movements,what I found unique ... is that they implemented real life pics of Megumi and her family it helped the story quiet a bit. -3

Sound:It.. it’s just painful to hear, blame it on the dub they don’t even match the mouth movements. -2

Character:It’s horrible you can easily tell who is who easily but there’s like 0 character development. -3

Enjoyment:I do like watching this more than just reading the article about it but yeah... it’s not that enjoyable. -3

So don’t even bother watching it if you don’t wanna suffer from the dub and animation.

P.S: Sorry for the bad english, love y’all x3