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Bravo that was great. I really enjoyed Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, it was emotional, powerful, moving, thus becoming a work of art.
Story was good, the plot of two characters of opposite demeanours slowly rubbing off on one another, until they were both leaning off the other for support and comfort now as changed individuals in their own ways was truly touching. Themes were incredibly well handled, the core themes, "death and living" portrayed through Sakura living her shortened life to the fullest and, "importance of others" portrayed through Haruki slowly leaving his shell chipping his uneventful and almost unhappy days off, turned around with help from Sakura was interesting. The result of all this, was making being able to make overall message ,"live life to the fullest" very clear and impactful in many ways.
Personally although the anime gave a lot of hints to the story making it semi-predictable, i was still shocked non the less and thought it was amazing. And I don't think its hard to deny that, the twist to Sakura's end was a shock to many, equally heart breaking.
Characters, wow. Haruki's development from an anti-social, shell of a person to finding meaning in life from Sakura was interesting. Sakura's reveal to the viewers as a energetic big mouth with little worry to her current condition, to someone truly afraid of her fate and not wanting to be alone was heart wrenching. Imo, both these characters roles were done well. Their, "ying yang" personalities that would hinder a normal relationship, was beautifully drawn out with their interactions to show two characters trusting in another.
Side characters, Kyouko surface level felt like an annoyance that was only being sheltered for their better judgment, but diving deeper, Sakura was saving Kyouka a world of pain if she announced her illness.
All though this may be a long shot, i believe Issei was a good example that the mindset that, "already assuming peoples opinion about you, especially as a negative one." is flawed. Issei we see throughout the film was always neutral to Haruki, heck he's the second person we ever see talk to him in the film, who doesn't seem at all fazed about the talks that spread about Haruki. It's an unavoidable fact that, the minute you see a person you've never met before, your brain immediately make assumptions about what they're like. For Haruki, i'm assuming he's accepted the fact most people will think of him in as an unavoidable character, thus not bothering to approach anyone. However characters like Issei are clear examples that, that way of thinking is flawed in a way, and most definitely an unhealthy way of thinking. Although also showing some basic human decency, Issei's character also acted as a way to show Haruki's development e.g. Haruki accepting his second offer of gum on his way to meet Sakura.
Visuals were colourful, scenery was gorgeous and animation was consistent all the way through.
OST had a good selection to dampen or lighten the mood. VA's were phenomenal, could really hear the emotion in there voices, have to hand it to the voice acting in this movie, extremely well done.
One complaint(?) i'd give is, yes, i did think the protagonists both bonded well together under the time they were given, certain scenes showed their relationship well, but i felt that simply, the amount of their relationship that was shown to the viewer did not reflect how close and strong their relationship was. Let me explain, as a movie tight scheduling is inevitable, so i'd agree nothing much could be done to further show this bond without chipping already essential categories down. But personally i feel like if it was, lets say, a 13 episode anime, i feel like then they would of been able to shown their relationship to it's full extent, their time together, their moments and memories together, a stronger sense of their feelings to the other, giving it that extra oof. However I'm no anime studio, and i could imagine doing this could come with it's own down sides, dragging certain points out etc. That isn't to say i'm completely unhappy with what was shown, the firework scene, hospital scene i feel like were significant enough at showing their relationship to get the message across, quality over quantity i suppose.
All in all 8/10, Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai was a great watch, they presented their themes well, the message they were portraying was clear. Again, i believe if it was a little longer, Sakura and Haruki's relationship would of had a bigger impact on me, but that's just a personal whim.
Okay, I finally found the courage to watch this movie. Surprisingly, I actually didn't cry. I actually got a lot sadder when Sakura was around (since I was anticipating the moment) than when she died. It might sounds insensitive, but the reason to that is because it didn't actually seem all that sad to me, because in the end, rather than a tragic story, the movie felt so much more like a love letter to life.
Of course, not gonna lie, I'm really going to miss Sakura. I didn't get to know her for a very long time but it didn't prevent me from quickly getting very attached to her. She's just so lovable, and not only that, she is actually a beautiful character, and so human. She reminded me a lot of Kaori from Your Lie in April, but I found the writing for Sakura to feel much more... Sincere ? I'm not really sure, but her character definitely hit me more in the feels. That's it, I miss her.
I also really liked Haruki. Initially I thought he'd be just the typical lonely mc, and to be honest he kinda is, but just like Sakura, he actually felt so human. I related a lot to him. I can't say I love him because he didn't really stand out but still, his character arc made an impact on me.
Overall, as I said, I really took this movie as a way to tell us to enjoy life, to love life, because we can't know when everything will end. And of course, I also took it as a way to remind us that people who we can be important to, and who can be important to us, actually exist, and we'd better find them and care about them while we still can.
And that's why I loved the "twist" about Sakura's death. At first I was very confused, because I thought it was some cheap attempt to shock viewers, but actually it just perfectly goes along with the message, and what Sakura told Haruki about how we can't know when death will come. Sakura thought she'd die from her illness, and yet she just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong moment. Tragic, yes, of course it is, but at the same time, suffering from this illness allowed her to embrace life. That way, when she died, she died happy.
So for my final thoughts, that was a beautiful movie and as I said, Haruki was really relatable and Sakura was a great character. It wasn't perfect though, I have a few complaints like for example that I felt everything that happened after Sakura's death felt a bit dragged on, as impactful as it was.
But overall, I loved this movie, so I give it a strong 7/10.
The lame random stabbing ruined the story for the most part, it's lazy writing.
Yeah it's tragic and unexpected but also completely unrealistic.
Probability of something of the sort happening in Japan is less than 0.0003% yet here we have the most unlucky girl in the world. Oh, and cardiac penetrating stab wounds are fatal around 50% of the time. She really is unlucky HUH.
It was already on shaky ground with the undisclosed pancreatic illness #1 and it still decided to through in something that random. While it is in line thematically there's a fine line between meaningful developments to the themes and just throwing out tragedy porn and shock value.
6/10, it had potential though.
Simliar to Your Name in a sense that, on the second viewing you are a lot better able to understand how this movie is one of the best to exist. The foreshadowing, and symbolism set up throughout the movie is set up to well to create such a great conclusion to the story (even though it so sad). Being able to see this as more than a romance story and see the deeper themes will allow you to view this movie as what it is, a masterpiece 10/10
This wasn't anywhere near of what I've been expecting, same apathetic main dude and cheerful main girl plot don't work on me, and it won't be an exaggeration to term it as a way disappointing Your lie in April rip-off.
4/10, atleast some of those visuals were eye-catching.
Can we talk about the foreshadowing that happened?
Spoilers
At the start when the MC was leaving for school on the news it said that there was a stabbing... And as we know there was another... Also why did he have to cut Sakura's life short, she only had a few months left.
Not just a love story, but a beautiful tale of two individuals enjoying life while improving themselves in the short time they have together. I don't see any faults with this movie despite it being a bit cliche but it still got me
Having a mortal disease AND being stabbed in the street on the FIRST DAY after she left the hospital ? well that is ridiculous lol should have just say she was in a car accident at least
I mean if you want to be realistic, don't go too far, it's some bad sitcom level shit right there...
"car accident is too cliché", to be fair this kind of series is kinda cliché too, maybe less in animated form tho
So who stabbed her?? did her friends not care enough about this as it was never mentioned again.
Also who confesses at a grave side??
I suppose the only other character involved just falls for the guy she disliked.
I expected a lump in the throat and got nothing.
Disappointing to say the least.
Kyaaa!! So... BEAUTIFUL! I cried not once, not twice, but three times during this movie. During the third time, I couldn't stop crying. I cried soooo much. I wanna cry just thinking about it. I did know that she was going to die, since the beginning establishes that (Hence the melancholic feeling I felt during the whole movie. Even when I was dancing to the songs with my cat and our glowsticks at our sleepover, I still couldn't help but feel that melancholic feeling.), when it hit me, especially in the way that it did, I just couldn't stop crying. Sakura x Haruki is literally OTP!! They are the cutest. Any moment that they spend together, I loved. I want them to be together forever. Their dynamic is amazing, as well as them helping each other progress as humans. Also, despite the melancholic feeling I had during this show, I had a lot of happy, joyful feelings as well, such as when Sakura and Haruki were spending time together at the beach, hotel, and ESPECIALLY THE FIREWORKS SCENE MADE ME CRY TEARS OF JOY. In short, I love this movie, and I love you, Sakura Yamauchi! I never wanted you to pass away, and you will always be in my, as well as Haruki's hearts. You taught me so much, and I will apply your life lessons!
Wow, what a twist. They did set it up with the news report at the beginning of the movie. Plus Sakura's words about not being sure if you might die tomorrow... Yeah it's honestly a great twist for the film thematically. Great way to build tension teasing us on the last message he sent to her as well. Right after the fakeout of her actually getting discharged from the hospital as well.
It didn't hit me super hard emotionally; I'm more of a sucker for family dynamics like in Wolf Children or Clannad, but this was a great film.
I really enjoyed this, and found myself connecting with the characters pretty well. A lot of what Haruki said was amusing to me. At least in the beginning. This is the first time in awhile I've watched an anime movie the whole way through without pausing to take a break in the middle. So I was quite captivated.
That being said, it was a pretty simple and straight forward story, aside from the curveball towards the end. Sakura getting stabbed did seem a bit over-the-top, all things considered. So much so that I was almost expecting Kyouko and Haruki to also get stabbed before the credits starting rolling. That would've been a truly wild ending.
I will say, as a side note: I've been reading a lot about unsolved mysteries lately. It somewhat irks me that there is a random stabbing in this anime and they get the guy who did it within like, minutes. Yet we have people who are caught on camera who are still out there, getting away with their murders.
Anyway, it was quite a good movie.
"...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?"
Was hoping to hear more about the stabber. Was it the guy she kicked in the balls? Was it the ex-bf? Random passerby? Like why did he confess?
Pretty interesting twist. But suppose life doesnt have those answers. Doesnt need to be melodramatic. Random guy down on his luck then went too far I guess.
Usually movies like this are "too" short to hook me up and enjoy them as much as I enjoy longer anime series, but this one was done exceptionally really well.
After Sakura's answer to what she think it means to live, I really like the contrast that became obvious between the two: Even when she was dying, she has being "more alive" than Haruki, who didn't want to communicate with anyone (and hence "not living"). But at the end even after her death, she gave him her meaning to live for.
So to sum it up:
Sakura was "Living with Dying"
Haruki was "Dead while Living", but at the end became "Living while Living", which was actually beautiful conclusion, if that makes sense.
Sol_Ou said: Was hoping to hear more about the stabber. Was it the guy she kicked in the balls? Was it the ex-bf? Random passerby? Like why did he confess?
Pretty interesting twist. But suppose life doesnt have those answers. Doesn't need to be melodramatic. Random guy down on his luck then went too far I guess.
It doesn't matter, because it isn't a crime/detective story, and it could be anything else like traffic accident, terrorist attack, earthquake or whatever, and it won't change anything about the story/message at all.
But if you really need an answer to this, then at the beginning there was a talk about a serial killer, so it makes sense he was the one who killed her. It foreshadowed this event, and I see no other reason why would he be mentioned otherwise.
Reading these comments makes me feel that I am the most emotionless person in this whole galaxy who was bored and annoyed to death by that dumb girl(wtf war wrong with her with that shitty romance type thing) and really didn't care till last that whether main character eats her pancreas or d!ck.
Damn after these I can never muster enough courage to watch these so called "tear jerkers".
F they are so dissapointing.
I'm in love with predictable anime that can make me cry. From the beginning we already know that she WILL die, we already expected her life to be interrupted and that she can complete at least most of her goals and then... her life was simply interrupted, and that was not predictable, maybe some people had taken it from the beginning that she was going to die before the time they thought she would, but I didn't, and this surprise factor caught me off guard, I found myself without that feeling of security that I expect from watching this kind of anime, and honestly, I thought this was great, it was what the anime needed to not be totally generic. I liked the dynamic between the two where the heroine brings out what the main character doesn't know he's capable of and makes him "bloom", I love this type of couple and I enjoy seeing this kind of thing happening. This anime made me very sad and very happy, the time I spent watching it was worth it.
By far the worst anime movie I've ever seen and the worst movie I've seen in theaters. It makes Nicolas Sparks movies look like The Godfather. Surprised it's rated so high, guess a lot of weebs just overrate "sad" anime ith waifu bait characters.
Hmm, not that bad but not that good either. Kinda average. To be honest I didn't feel anything at all til the end. Because I was filled with spoilers from the start. But I did enjoy watching it.
Fucking masterpiece i literally cried like four times watching this move
defiantly in my top 5 with a silent voice
this movie is SO underrated
i am at a loss for words this movie was more than amazing fucking masterpiece
I finished it today after 3 years of wanting to watch it. IT was great. I cried. I hope to never experience such a tragic way to love. BUt with that, I resolve to be a better person.