Post by Teahouse Keeper on May 22, 2012 4:58:55 GMT -5
www.animecrazy.net/hoshi-wo-ou-kodomo-watch/
Somehow stumbled upon the title of it while searching for something else online.
Thereafter, couldn't find a watching site.
Animecrazy didn't seem to work, until today. Or perhaps, I had been too impatient and didn't wait enough for the loading on previous attempts to watch from there. Yet Animecrazy links have loaded fast for other shows I watched.
Whatever the reasons, today I finally watched this anime movie (just finished watching it). Said to be from a famous director Makoto Shinkai.
No idea who he is, but it's said he also did a previous movie called 5cm per second, a title which I find interesting and will probably be checking out.
Upon first sight of the Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo trailer on Youtube, the artwork/scenery reminded me of Miyazaki. The brightness and vividness of the colors and natural scenery. A young girl set in a natural scenery with the lights. I felt this would be a good anime to watch.
However, on watching the anime, it's actually not Miyazaki at all. The details, beauty in the details and movement of the background and natural world, are not there. Not alive compared to Miyazaki's.
It's moving characters on a flat, though vividly illustrated background.
But stop comparison and just on the movie:
It's a strange anime, slow to get into the story, takes some patience to watch, but pretty interesting as it goes.
Sad. I don't know why I keep ending up watching sad anime. Makes me cry.
It's bullshit that death is part of life and we must accept the loss crap.
Too bad the boys look like the girl (Asuna), especially when Shin cuts his hair short, and the part where he places his face next to hers as they fall. There's no differentiation between the young boy and girl faces.
It's quite an art movie. Like the sort sent to win a prize.
Interesting ideas in this anime, unexpected decisions made by the characters which the director takes time to show.
Example: Asuna unexpectedly decides not to follow Morisaki down the cliff after coming this far, then sits for a while before being forced to run in the opposite direction.
The director also takes time in showing Asuna running from place to place at the start (that takes some patience watching for a bit).
Ultimately, it's a growing up film, just like Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
I found Shin/Shun's voice to be rather familiar. That's because it's by the same seiyuu as Haku in Spirited Away.
Voice of Morisaki is by none other than... Naruto's Kakashi: Kazuhiko Inoue.
www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12141
Point of thought: Seems despite his knowledge, Morisaki didn't know a living vessel would be required to contain his wife's soul. And not just a living vessel but more, from him, as well.