Santa Company: Manatsu no Merry Christmas

Santa Company is a worldwide organization dedicated to delivering presents to children. Santa Company's elves—known as "tonttus"—aid several Santas every year by wrapping presents, raising reindeer, and helping with deliveries. Mint Rondo is one of the many new tonttus arriving at Santa Company's tropical island office. Following in her older brother's footsteps, Mint begins training alongside her friend, Thomas Dou, and rival, Noah, to eventually become a Santa herself. Unfortunately, her clumsiness causes her to fall far behind her peers and into her brother's shadow.

One day, while sitting on the beach, Mint, Thomas, and Noah discover the biggest threat that Santa Company has faced yet: ocean pollution! With the accumulation of litter going unnoticed, the growing hazard will soon endanger the surrounding ocean wildlife and the members of the Santa Company. As trouble looms over the horizon, Mint might just be able to clean up her act and save everyone on the island in time for Christmas Eve.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Rondo, Mint Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Noah Main

Yamashita, Mami Japanese

Dou, Thomas Main

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Edison Supporting

Furuya, Toru Japanese

Panal Supporting

Satou, Masaharu Japanese

Itoso, Kenji Director, Script, Original Creator

Abe, Nobuyuki Sound Director

STU48 Theme Song Performance

APAZZI Theme Song Arrangement

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Dec 20, 2024

OneFaintingRobin

Recommended

Nothing says Christmas like a PSA about plastic pollution set on a tropical island...

Joking aside, though, it is a cute little film. The art style really works for me, with this super pastely colour palette and an almost paper-like dimension to the characters that I found very charming.
The story isn't exactly revolutionary, and for me as an adult was obviously very heavy-handed in terms of the 'the sea is full of plastic' thing, but honestly, to the child audience it's actually intended for, I think it would be a pretty good introduction to the topic.

So yeah, nothing much to say, but definitely ... fun.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 4, 2021

uchihasakatsuki

Mixed Feelings

I think it's a good idea to spread awareness about the plastics and trash that contaminated the sea and affecting marine animals. I really wish the anime would be more realistic, based on reality lives than just a fantasy because, in reality, it is really hard to tell people to not littering the ocean.
You can't just tell people "hey the sea is polluted and marine animals are dying we have to stop this" and then they just agree and clean the oceans. In reality, there are many people who are lazy to put trash in to the bin or just put it in their pocket ... or their bag if there is no bin. They literally throw trash like they throw rocks because they are too lazy to find a bin or they don't want their pocket or bag to be dirty. And there are many people who have their stupid reasons.
So, the good thing about this movie is only animation, and others. I hate the pastel colors, they burn my eyes. I really wish the story is more realistic.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 10, 2021

FlyYOUNG

Not Recommended

***SPOILER AHEAD***


Supposed to be educational but instead of focusing on the real life impacts it has (it does touch on this briefly but VERY briefly- probably less than a minute in total), it instead focuses on a monster that appears because of trash which of course not being real, is not going to make people change because it's FICTIONAL.

The main protagonist is also possibly one of the most infuriating characters I've ever met. She's idiotic, blames everything that goes wrong or isn't in her favour on others, and basically just straight up bullies Trevor. She's the epitome of a terrible person yet she saves the ... day. What kind of picture do you think that paints especially to kids?

Story in general is dull. Only redeeming feature about this is that their intentions to bring about awareness to the problem is a good one. And the ending song rocks.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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