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Dec 8, 2012
Hi everyone!
"Kuragehime"...what a strange synopsis I read until now!
But I was curious so I decided to read it, even though I'm not a lot into crossdressing, I was honestly interested in the josei "slice of life" part.
A bunch of overgrown vergin&otaku gilrs live together in a old building menaced to be destroyed by the typical district renovation which demolishes the old areas to build in new, high palaces and commercial malls.
The Main character, the jellyfish-otaku girl, meets a crossdressing (but not gay), rich and spoiled boy, who'll become part of the group and who will change things a lot.
So, what to say?
This is not, maybe,
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the best anime of the world, but it's hilarious, brilliant, colorful and very very amusing and if you like different and creative anime you can trust "kuragehime".
Story: As I said, nothing striking: little things, a bunch of virgin girls too grown-up to really change but still showing off their best capabilities. Each episode is entertaining and full of details so you won't be disappointly searching for endless explaination.
I found the plot a bit fuzzy and incoherent in the latest episodes: too many characters to deal with, not enough time to care about them, not enough space to let things happen, an hasty way of handing things.
I suppose this is motivated by circumstances: the manga, which I'm now following, is still ongoing and in "kuragehime" they changed it a little to let the story fit with the only 11 episodes. They could just simply follow the main manga lead and wait...sometimes I don't really know why producers are so hasty!
Art: I simply loved this neat, graceful shaped style, very feminine and intriguing. Soft and still not too full to disturb the vision (just as, for example, Gokinjo no monogatari: interesting but too heavy after some time), the brushstrokes are precise, steady but also harmonic.
Animation: interactive, informal and simply funny, I found myself laughing without even knowing it! It's fast and well- done, not a masterpiece but strong enough to let the characters and the story layer over it.
Characters: A little stereotypical at first sight, Kuragehime reveals the various world of otakuness, showing different reasons and behaviours of being overly fond of something. Every girl has her own world but they perfectly fit together because they're all out of the real normal world, where only apparences and lies seem important. A very sharp critique to the japanese social patterns,sometimes so strict and uncapable to let people express their true selves with freedom. And the result is this: they shut themselves out in a room with objects/dresses/games/food/animals etc etc , and this is always too extreme to be lived with serenity.
I didn't really like the male characters, the main is too feminine (but still I'm approving his strong feelings and good nature) and the others are a bit undertone (but still very involving)
Music&Sound: happy and full of rhythm,a normal but very indicative background.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Dec 8, 2012
"Mimi wo sumaseba" it's a nice and warm story about a young girl, Shizuko, who's trying to find her way to adulthood. Apparently, she's not really into anything but she slowly discovers the wonderful joy of writing and she recognizes it as her own true talent. Meanwhile she deals with her first, true love, in a simple, tender and still very romantic way that today is a bit forgotten.
An enjoyable 90's pictures of Japanese life that I appreciated in many levels, with the moving and magic Studio Ghibli's touch.
Story: Good, great subjects always are hidden in the everyday life and this is quite
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the speciality of Japanese narration sensibility (think of Murakami Haruki, the extraordinary is in the ordinary).
Narration: The rhythm is good too, but somewhere in the middle I detected a bit of slowness, maybe due to the fact that a lot of themes were conveyed together and It took a bit to unravelling them. But perhaps this is exactly the way it was meant to be: the story felt by the heart of a teenage girl. She's running over important things, rushing, just only as the youth knows, and abruptely stopping by, puzzled by something very little. You can exactly feel what's in her heart still ( and here we have the good job) without those long and unbearable (and sensless) dialogues that nowadays are so common in anime and movies.
Characters: You'd say they're a bit plain, and that's the truth: we have the normal and common people that always are in Studio Ghibli's world. And that's for me a good point: I never understood those sensational and too eccentric characters, the way they are spoils their possibility to change, mature, become something in their lives. So, yes, Shizuko is a regular girl, so it is the boy she's in love with, so it's her family and so it's the suburb she lives in. But isn't it a very clever way to discover reality and true dephts of things? This is animation depicting reality with the precise intent to give it a new developed meaning (you'd say it's an Ermeneutic circle).
Art&animation: we don't have to forgot the peculiar, simple, light but still bright style of animation, the perfect way the studio ghibli does, 'cause here we have the perfect correspondence between 1) something to express (which I alredy talked about) 2) the way it is expressed. And to me this is the very signal of a very well done job.
Music: how to forget the reason why I first discovered this animated movie? The song they're always singin', John denver's "country roads", it's a classical and it shows itself the meaning of what I was talking about.
Finding the proper way to be, finding who we really are: one can leave only if it's clear where he comes from. The importance of family and roots that are not to bound us, to cage us, but to expand our possibilities.
Let's say: I can't wait to leave, and see the world and grow a lot, just because then I know where I could return to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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