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I really liked the sound of this movie. Very rarely does one get to hear Hungarian folk music or even Romanian-inspired folk music in anime. As one famous Romanian put it ”the Romanian peasant's universal soul” reaches not just Europe, but even far-away lands. The story in my opinion deals with a very concerning issue of our days, namely the migration of rural people to the big cities. And yet, city people get sick and tired of their stressful life, of their big screens and of their growing loneliness. The female protagonist is no different. She wants to get away from the big city, from ... people who work themselves to death for nothing or to get their measly wage, while his/her family is slowly falling apart. Te big city even prevents or discourages young women to get married, have kids and settle down. In their pursuit for a unique career they willingly or not give up their femininity, dreams of having a family and someone to help them when they're old and feeble. In the rural community, everybody knows each other and the suffering of one affects everyone, and not just the family involved. Besides, it's one of the first Ghibli movies that has an adult as a main character. She is not afraid of that others might think or to go on a journey to discover herself. Way better than sports anime shows or even shoujo anime.

Spoiler alert!!!!!!
Sato should have married Misaki at the end regardless of their age difference. He was afraid of confessing his life and that annoyed me. I do not understand why Yamazaki did not try to find a job as an IT guy in Tokyo.

Conclusion

Overall, the relationship between Misaki and Sato lacks the romance that one would have expected to see by the end. The rep class's hikikomori could have had an interesting role in this story, but he was discarded too soon. One of the things Sato could have done is psychological counseling for lonely people or for other hikikomori. Also, at the ... end, I expected to see at least a kiss between the two main characters, but I guess that would be too much to ask for from a producer, who does not understand that the love, at first sight, ends well and even with a wedding.

Would I ever rewatch this anime? Not by a long shot.

Keshiro is for me the Ares of that post-apocalyptic world. He is a self-righteous individual who plays the role of a vigilante that punishes those that are evil. Why do I compare him to a God? Because once you have challenged his fist and if you have angered him then your fate is sealed. And that fate can only be death. Aside from Kenshiro and his main enemies, the plot is not that interesting and although gore, violence, and bloodshed can be seen throughout these three episodes, nudity or sexual abuse was left out. Even the scene in which Sarah loses her virginity is left ... out due to no apparent reason other than the spectator has no wish to see other dirty facades of that reality. If you are going to build a realistic dystopia then do not leave out details that might reveal once more just how hopeless is the world in which Kenshiro resides.