- Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
- 119 min
Beautiful word, beautiful world.
A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- Renoon TMDB · May 20165/10
> A quadrangular high school love story! The first mistake we all make is to expect it to match with the type of films what Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosada and few others direct. I meant thematically; either sci-fi, fantasy or the drama with the teen or the tween characters in the lead. Because technically this was a wonderful animation, but I was not impressed with the story, otherwise as usual, my writing would have been very long with the film quotes and other discussions. For the beautifully sketched characters like this, the film totally wasted an opportunity. Should have been a beautiful love story or a pure fantasy, but it was a bit of uninspiring school drama that I kind frequently lost interest while watching. I remind who wanted to watch it that it was a simple story which was like some kind of a television episode. The fantasy parts were too small to notice and the love story was very boring to emotionally feel it. It might suit for those who're seeking matured contents in an anime fantasy-romance than a cute and quirky narration. My point is it is for adults than children. Overall, it failed to reach my expectations, but the online film rating says many has
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Cast
- Inori MinaseJun Naruse (voice)
- Koki UchiyamaTakumi Sakagami (voice)
- Sora AmamiyaNatsuki Nito (voice)
- Yoshimasa HosoyaDaiki Tazaki (voice)
- Taishi MurataItsuki Mishima (voice)
- Rie TakahashiYōko Uno (voice)
- Shizuka IshigamiAsuka Eda (voice)
- Takanori OoyamaMotoki Aizawa (voice)
- Makoto FurukawaToshinori Iwaki (voice)
- Keiji FujiwaraKazuki Joushima (voice)
Crew
- Tatsuyuki NagaiDirector
- Mari OkadaScreenplay
- Hiroyuki MoriyamaDirector of Photography
- mitoOriginal Music Composer
- Masaru YokoyamaOriginal Music Composer
- Shigeru NishiyamaEditor
- Shunsuke SaitouProducer
- Hiroyuki ShimizuProducer
- Mikihiro IwataProducer
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