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Over the last 3 years, I’ve drawn 250+ pages of my webcomic but I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve drawn less than 25 drawings of my characters outside of that…

Ohagi (Traditional) From My Neighbour Totoro

Happy #GhibliGourmet month! Today’s recipe is an obscure item from My Neighbour Totoro - the gift that Kanta brings to the Kusakabes when they first move in.

I posted a quick-fix ohagi from Sousei no Onmyoji before, but was tempted to make a real ohagi from scratch. Usually, I do not have not much affinity with western desserts, so I wanted to try an asian one, to only find out that I have not much affinity with wagashi as well.

I tried following the recipe for anko from just one cookbook, but somehow it didn’t work for me. I even soaked the beans for 24 hours! It was a lot of work for not much anko. See whether her recipe above (click the link above) works for you, if not, I have reflected the cooking times it took me below as well. I decided to only make the non-strained tsubuan version.

Also, check out what the rest of the Fandom Foodies have made for #GhibliGourmet in the linkup post here!

Recipe is below the cut! (Dashboard Users)

Ingredients

For Anko

1 cup (250ml)  azuki beans

1 cup (250ml) sugar (or to taste)

Pinch of salt

For Rice

360ml mochi rice

390ml water

Pinch of salt

Others

Kinako powder (for topping, optional)

+ Plastic Gloves/Clingwrap

Method

For Anko

1. Soak the beans in water overnight. (I soaked them for a day)

2. The next day, pour the old water away, and put in new water about 1-2 inches above the beans.

3. Set beans to boil on high heat.

4. Reduce to a simmer after it starts to boil. Keep some water handy to add whenever it boils down. (Note: this somehow took me 5 hours? Even though other recipes say 1-2 hours.)

5. When the beans are soft and you can smush one between your fingers, add the sugar in gradually, stirring with a ladle/slotted spoon.

6. When you can draw a line at the bottom of the pot with the ladle that lasts for two seconds, it means it’s viscous enough and then you can add in the salt, stir, and let it cool.

For the rice

1. Set the mochi rice to cook in your rice cooker. (Use the sushi rice function if it has one.) I was going to make it in a clay pot and everything, but the long anko-making process made me tired, so I used a rice cooker.

2. Sprinkle salt over and then mash it into rough chunks with a wet wooden pestle.

Assembly

I made 2 kinds of ohagi - the anko-covered one, and the kinako covered one.

For the anko covered one:

1. Wet a plastic glove/ clingwrap, and spread about 2 tbsp anko on it.

2. Make a rice ball about 1-1.5 inch in diameter, and place it in the centre of the anko.

3. Cover all the rice with anko. Add more anko if necessary.

For the Kinako-covered one

1. Spread and flatten the rice on your palm, with a layer of damp plastic in between your hand and the rice. Make it as flat and wide as you can.

2. Place a dollop of anko in the centre, and work the rice to cover the anko. Add more rice if necessary. (And this was why my kinako ones were bigger than my anko-covered ones)

3. Pour the kinako (soybean flour) on a plate, and roll the rice-covered ohagi in it!

Finally, decide to just have your neighbours give you ohagi everytime instead of making it yourself.

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circe, madeline miller / what is poetry? keaton st. james (@boykeats) / thus always to tyrants, the oh hellos / spring, mary oliver / walden, henry david thoreau

A music video to There Beneath by The Oh Hellos. no fandom for once. These characters and this video idea just kind of came to me while listening to this song the other day. My grandfather died today. Has been dying for the past week. Which is why I think the idea of death and graves were on my mind. Along with the vivid picture of a zombie hand coming out of the ground but instead of horrific is it soft and gentle and lovingly rendered

Made the mistake of looking up the Oh Hellos on TikTok.

It's all basically...

Imaginary person: “Aren't the Oh Hellos just some Christian Band? Why do you listen to them?”

Response: The person singing along to song with enthusiasm. (As if to say, it doesn't matter because they make actual good music or sometimes “It doesn't matter, music is what you make of it!”

And like listen, generally that's not really a problem, I think. The thing rubbing me the wrong is that... The Oh Hellos are not a "Christian Band". They are christian, they do use religious allegory, but like it is more multifaceted than that. On the religious side they often explore faith and deconstruct ideas they learned in church.

But also their use of Christianity is often for framing and comparison. Bitter Water is a song about a toxic relationship using wormwood (a healing, but potentially deadly herb) from the bible as a comparison. Constellations uses the Tower of Babylon as a metaphor for being stuck in your ways and causing damage because of it. Like it's so multifaceted.

(Not to mention that Christianity isn't all they reference at least in their most recent albums. They also reference greek mythology quite a bit. But that might be because they're using the four winds.)

Anyway, just they're so good at writing lyrics that bring together so many ideas and I just want the take on them to be less “Who cares if they make Christian Music, they're still good lol” and more about like how the lyrics become more and more meaningful as you listen to and pick them apart.

Not to be dramatic but youll never find the answers till you set your old heart free. Not to be dramatic but when youll lay me down youll only bury bones. Not to be dramatic but cold is the night without you here. Not to be dramatic but heartbreak pales in comparison to love. Not to be dramatic but we were young when we heard you call our names in the silence. Not to be dramatic but like the dawn you broke the dark and my whole earth shook. Not to be dramatic but shell eat you alive. Not to be dramatic but you gotta go on farther than youll ever know. Not to be dramatic but there wasnt any water in the wishing well. Not to be dramatic but if you leave before the stars then there was never love at all. Not to be dramatic but the truth became a tool. Not to be dramatic but still you lead me. Not to be dramatic but all the days of our delights are poison in my veins. Not to be dramatic but they were pointing ever east to see the ever turning eaon cease. Not to be dramatic but rise up to meet it o sleeper awake. Not to be dramatic but heartache Ive heard is part of life and I have broken more and more. Not to be dramatic but it was the raging storm of a foreign war. Not to be dramatic but these bones never rested while living so how can they stand to languish in repose. Not to be dramatic but there will come a soldier who carries a mighty sword. Not to be dramatic but I know who you are now I name you my enemy. Not to be dramatic but theres a wind alive in the valley itll fill your lungs if youll have it. Not to be dramatic but still you beat your drum raising holy wars with every strum. Not to be dramatic but innocent or not youre not a bet I care to take. Not to be dramatic but I babel on until my voice is gone. Not to be dramatic but every inhale I take swallows the ocean whole and I am one with the hurricane. Not to be dramatic but itll rain for forty days and nights and nothing you do can slow the rising tides. Not to be dramatic but by god Ill bloody up my hands with everything I am to cut away the mountains I made and fill the dales bellow. Not to be dramatic but leave it alone child and let it grow. Not to be dramatic but she finishes her cake and takes a bite out of mine. Not to be dramatic but Ive seen the line of ocean and shore the tumbling tide of water and soil. Not to be dramatic but you were the song that Id always sing you were the light that the fire would bring. Not to be dramatic but you paved your hades with precious stone. Not to be dramatic but what other lapis lazuli was hiding behind my colour blindness. Not to be dramatic but promise me that youll start where I end and I promise to give you everything that I am and will go on and on and on. Not to be dramatic but it could feel like rebirth out of some kind of dying to see yourself so glowing. Not to be dramatic but if I'm a mountain moving I think maybe you can be too. Not to be dramatic but we keep fixing what we know is only bound to break. Not to be dramatic but weather by accident or fotune you and I we are matter and it matters. Not to be dramatic but all your sums and your pieces are enough to clean up all the messes youve made I think that youre worth keeping around I think youre worth holding on to. Not to be dramatic but Ill go on and on and on again if my chest dont cave in.

When the Oh Hellos said "This hill I'll die on is about 90 meters of bricks, colored indigo and inscribed with my name, and lined with cedar" and when they said "with my back, on the floor, cold linoleum icing my growing pains" and when they said "We were born in the shadow of the crimes of our fathers, blood was our inheritance" AND! WHEN! THEY! SAID! "I am not a fool entire, No, I know what is coming. You'll bury me beneath the trees I climbed when I was a child"

daily The Oh Hellos lyrics that stir up so many emotions within me that I’m genuinely convinced they’ve altered the course of my life, in today’s program,

The “watched an animatic of their blorbos to Soldier, Poet, King” to “anti-capitalist indie folk rock enjoyer“ pipeline

folk is the best music genre in the whole entire world btw

when an album tells a story that weaves throughout the songs but the songs can also stand alone just as beautifully as they are together.

the oh hellos weren’t kidding. when the cold wind rolls in from the north what am i to do fr fr

"are you a soldier a poet or a king" none actually. i am not a fool entire no i know what is coming, you'll bury me beneath the tree i climbed when i was a child. i know i shouldn't love you i know i shouldn't love you but i do



I think its kind of nice how so many people can enjoy the same thing in their own different ways :)

actually i think everyone should listen to the oh hellos' entire discography. you all should hear boreas and eat you alive and lay me down and second child restless child and theseus and zephyrus and rose and a kindling of sorts and passerine and hierogylphs and notos and on the mountain tall and torches and eurus and bitter water and caesar and exeunt and dear wormwood and like the dawn and the valley and the valley reprise and in memoriam and thus always to tyrants and planetarium stickers on a bedroom ceiling and o sleeper rio grande and lapis lazuli

"oh you like *insert media that's super personal to me*? what's your favorite part about it?" well my dear friend i'm gonna have to ask you to settle down, grab some pillows, and prepare for the most annoying 2 hours of your life

lyrics from Wishing Well - The Oh Hellos

he/theys be like "yoooo pass the aux lemme play some bangers" and put on some song that sounds like it was contrived by a ragtag band of little woodland creatures with sticks and rocks

I mean...yeah...

Character Analysis: Shouya from A Silent Voice

(Spoilers for A Silent Voice/Koe no Katachi)

Shouya Ishida is one of my favorite anime/manga characters ever, and I’ve been meaning to make a post about him. In my opinion, he is the poster child for the perfect redemption arc. I want to talk about some of the reasons why his change of heart was foreshadowed/under the surface right at the beginning, and why we as an audience are rooting for him, despite the horrible things he did to Shouko.

A Silent Voice is currently one of the top anime movies of all time, and while I do really love the movie (KyoAni is amazing) I am a much bigger fan of the manga; it has more time to expand on the characters and introduces some smaller important plot lines. In this post I will be quoting some moments that were in the manga and not the anime, aka, Shouya’s internal monologue. Anyway, let’s get into it. I want to start with why I think Shouya went down the bullying path in the first place.

Environment and Role Models

One of the biggest factors that influenced Shouya’s class’s toxic environment and led him to be a bully was having an uncaring ableist teacher. In the manga, the phrases “something we just have to deal with” and “this is your responsibility”, things that the teacher said to him regarding Shouko, repeatedly echo in Shouya’s mind whenever he interacts with her. At some points, the teacher actually laughs when the other students make fun of Shouko, letting Shouya (as well as the others) believe that it’s an ok thing to do. If Shouya had an adult figure in the classroom with a stronger sense of morality, he might have changed his tune earlier.

Shouya was also highly influenced by his peers (which makes sense because he was literally 11 years old). When another teacher comes into the classroom to explain what sign language is, there’s a very small panel before anyone else says anything, where Shouya thinks “that sounds fun”. At first, he’s interested in sign language and may have been willing to give it a shot. But then, Ueno suddenly starts complaining about how it’s much easier for them to use the notebook than sign language, and Shouya absorbs this and immediately goes back to thinking about how much of an inconvenience Shouko is to him.

Another influence on Shouya’s behavior is his home environment. I do not want to shade Shouya’s mom completely because overall I think she is a loving parent, but unfortunately she was not able to fully be there for her son because she is a single mom with a full time job. Even though he was in a caring home, he was not necessarily in one that gave him enough attention, and by the time Miyako realized what her son was up to it was too late. If she had given him more guidance earlier on in his involvement with Shouko, they may have been able to avoid disaster.

But all of these reasons aren’t excuses, they’re explanations. Regardless of why, Shouya contributed to Shouko’s severe trauma and did unforgivable things. So why do I think he’s the best case for redemption in anime?

Recognition/Guilt

Shouya is repeatedly shown as having actual remorse for his past actions. This is why other bully characters like Ueno and Kawai are seen as far less likable than Shouya. Other people on here might have actual analyses about those two characters, but as for this post all I’m going to say is that I believe they are much more widely hated than Shouya because of their initial denial of having done anything wrong.

It’s also important to remember that Shouya changed his tune as soon as Shouko left. It wasn’t years after she left his school that he realized he was wrong, it was days. He as an 11 year old realized he was wrong for hurting her; he figured it out as soon as he noticed how she was protecting him from being bullied. And once he himself started to be harassed by his peers, he finally recognized the full weight of what he had done to her.

Some might criticize this moment, saying “Shouya only realized bullying was bad because he got bullied himself”, but frankly, what’s so wrong about that? Many kids who bully don’t realize the full extent of the emotional damage they’re doing until it happens to them. Through this experience Shouya was able to realize, “this is how much pain she felt from the things I did to her”. And that unfortunate shared experience is what drives him to have so much guilt and a desire to change.

Change of Behavior

After his realization of the severe damage he had done to Shouko, Shouya started actively being more kind and thoughtful to others. He learned sign language in order to properly apologize to Shouko. He started helping out strangers and not judging people who are different (Tomohiro, Yuzuru). He acknowledged the severe financial strain he put on his mother and worked hard to pay her back.

And the whole point of the ending of the story is that him feeling sorry for himself and hating himself for the rest of his life isn’t going to undo his past behavior. All he can do now is operate with a better mindset going forward and make a positive difference instead.

Obviously, no one should be forced to or feel obligated to forgive their bully/abuser. But the story isn’t about whether Shouko should forgive Shouya, it’s about whether Shouya can change into a better person. I think it’s a very harmful ideology to believe that people who were bullies as children will be the same person forever. The world isn’t divided into ‘good people’ and ‘bad people’, it’s made up entirely of people who are capable of doing both good and bad things. And I really like how the protagonist of A Silent Voice is someone who had done bad things but is now choosing to be different.

Anyway, this was super long so thank you if you read all of it. Please let me know your thoughts on Shouya or any other characters from this movie/manga.

Thanks for reading!

-threecheersforinking

This is a weird request, but does anybody have recommendations for media about failure/regret/making mistakes, and the power of human bonds to help cope with it? Off the top of my head, Disco Elysium, Omori, the Baru Cormorant series, A Silent Voice, and Everything Everywhere All At Once have really hit that nail on the head for me, but I am insanely curious what else is out there.

A Silent Voice is so good

movies (for when you want to cry)

believe it or not, my blog was supposed to be all about movies and film (thus the name filminah, innovative i know) i don't know if i enjoy torturing myself or what but here are some movies that made me cry. when marnie was there (anime 2014) - follows teen anna sasaki through a journey of self exploration that takes place due to a mysterious girl she meets named marnie. now, this is definitely not the best ghibli film ever, a little awkward at times especially in the dub but miyazaki does not know how to make a bad movie. the twist was kinda expected but it's ghibli and it's so damn charming you can't help but get attached to anna and marnie and feel everything the way they do. i want to eat your pancreas (anime 2018) - the title is weird, i know. an introverted boy, haruki finds out the secret of his very popular, bubbly polar-opposite-of-him classmate named sakura. she is affected with a severe pancreatic disease. the way they build the connection between the main two characters is so so good to watch, fulfilling what you know will happen in the most unexpected way and showing the aftermath of the movies major events. a silent voice (anime 2016)- this was the first movie i ever found sad enough to make me cry actual tears. ishida shoyo bullied a nishimiya shouko in middle school. shouko is deaf. now a highschooler, after being unable to commit s**c*d* he finds himself becoming friends with shouko, helping her get better and maybe himself along the way. imo this film is one of the best representations of a lead with struggling mental health and they show that incredibly well in both visuals and dialogue, kyoto animation always impresses with their work and the sound work is impeccably done with the way they establish an atmosphere or put you in a characters shoes, embodying them. link to pt 2 (to be added)

My Top 10 Anime Movie Recommendations :

1)) I wanna eat your pancreas-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱𝘆, 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗴𝗲

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟾

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙑𝙊𝙇𝙉

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: An aloof boy comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a fatal pancreatic illness.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 10/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑑𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑝 3 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑖𝑡!! 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

2)) Your name-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝘾𝙤𝙈𝙞𝙭 𝙒𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙨

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 10/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑢𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑈𝑁𝐼𝑄𝑈𝐸 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝐵𝐸𝐴𝑈𝑇𝐼𝐹𝑈𝐿. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑦.

3)) 5 cm per second-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟽

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝘾𝙤𝙈𝙞𝙭 𝙒𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙘.

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: What happens when two people love each other but just aren't meant to be together? Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara are childhood friends, but circumstances beyond their control tear them apart. They promise to stay in contact, and although the progression of time widens the distance between them, the chain of memories remains ever-present.

Byousoku 5 Centimeter is a romantic drama that focuses on the mundane and harsh reality of long-distance relationships. Stuck in the past and unable to make any new memories, Takaki and Akari cling to the hope of seeing each other again. They live their everyday lives half-heartedly, both hurting themselves and the people around them.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 9.5/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 10 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 9.5 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝐼 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝐿𝐿 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ!

4)) Hotarubi no mori e-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆, 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟷

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣’𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: Intrigued by the tale of a mountain god, six-year-old Hotaru Takegawa loses her way in the ancient forest while visiting her uncle. Exhausted and desperate for help, Hotaru is thrilled to find a masked forest spirit named Gin. She learns the hard way that she should not touch the boy, or he would disappear. In spite of this, Gin leads Hotaru out of the forest and warns her never to return when she promises to come again with a gift.

Based on Yuki Midorikawa's manga of the same name, Hotarubi no Mori e is a tale of friendship and compromise of two people who should never have crossed paths, as their lives become hopelessly intertwined.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 9.5/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 0.5 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 10 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒! 𝐵𝑢𝑡, 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ, 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝐹𝐸𝐶𝑇 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒! 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟.

5)) Whisper of the heart-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟻

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙂𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙞 ♡︎

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: Based on the manga with the same title, this animated film follows Shizuku, an inquisitive young girl and a voracious reader, who longs to be a writer when she grows up. One day she notices that all of her library books have previously been taken out by one Seiji Amasawa. Amid chasing after a large cat, befriending an eccentric antiques dealer and writing her first novel, Shizuku aims to find this mysterious boy who may well be her soul mate.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 10/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 5 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 10 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 9.5 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. (𝑖 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜 𝑖 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡. 𝐴 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑁𝐿𝑌 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛,𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑡𝑐.) 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝐺ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒!! 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙, 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑁𝐸𝐸𝐷 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝑇𝐻 𝐼𝑇!!

6)) Spirited away-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆, 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟷

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙂𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙞 ♡︎

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro (Rumi Hiiragi) and her parents (Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi) stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. After her mother and father are turned into giant pigs, Chihiro meets the mysterious Haku (Miyu Irino), who explains that the park is a resort for supernatural beings who need a break from their time spent in the earthly realm, and that she must work there to free herself and her parents.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤: 10/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑! 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑎 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡! 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡, 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠!! 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑 10 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑡, 𝑊𝐻𝐴𝑇 𝐴𝑅𝐸 𝑌𝑂𝑈 𝐷𝑂𝐼𝑁𝐺 𝑊𝐼𝑇𝐻 𝐿𝐼𝐹𝐸?! 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙!

7)) A silent voice-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝙆𝙮𝙤𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 ♡︎

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: A young man is ostracized by his classmates after he bullies a deaf girl to the point where she moves away. Years later, he sets off on a path for redemption.

Where will fate take him?

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 9.5/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝐴 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎. 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐴 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐾𝑦𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛!

8)) Weathering With you -

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟿

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝘾𝙤𝙈𝙞𝙭 𝙒𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙨

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 9/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒! 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔! 𝐼𝑓 𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑖’𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 “𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔.“

9)) Josee: the tiger and the fish-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥:

A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan's Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her days reading and painting until by chance she encounters Tsuneo, and decides it's time to face the real world.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 9.5/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑖 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝐴𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑅𝑃𝐼𝐸𝐶𝐸. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑥?? 𝐵𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠..𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐿𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑, 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑!

10))Tale of princess kaguya-

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕣𝕖: 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆, 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹

ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖: 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹

𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠: 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙂𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙞

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by a old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young lady becomes a princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the ultimate punishment for her crime.

ℝ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘: 8/10

𝕆𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕠𝕟: 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑢𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑..𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 8. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑔ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑖 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑁𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑅 𝑔𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚, 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒’𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠.

Most of the people I talk to who say “I didn’t like A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi” state that they didn’t like it because “The main character is a bully and gets redeemed.”

And I think I know WHY they say that and also why I think that thought process is fundamentally flawed… so I have a few minutes, let’s get into it.

Most media, especially lately, has this redemption arc of… not actually having one. It’s usually a “sacrifice play” that a character makes to redeem themselves before they die, or a very quick “forgive and forget” scenario, or something very much “not built up, and often never referenced again in any meaningful way.”

But A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi is literally all build up, no use of the “sacrifice play” moment, and the purpose of the film is redemption through hard work to be a better person.

The other part of the problem, from my perspective on those who don’t like the series, seems to come from the fact that certain readers refuse to see the abuse and bullying that the bully is put through as well. Almost to the point of saying “well that’s what you get for doing that” - and … yeah I get it, it’s a lesson to be learned but… if the person who was the bully, is also bullied, then makes an effort to be better and then is bullied and cut off from everyone MORE because of their actions to better themselves… is that really a deserved perspective to have as a reader/watcher?

Do we, as actual people and those absorbing this content, want people to suffer that much even AFTER they have properly shown they are growing, changing, being better, working harder, and making that effort on their own even with the constant bullying they receive never going away?

Simple answer to that is NO.

Which is why A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi handles things so well, the main character finds new people who don’t know him or his past, and - through the forgiveness he receives from the person he hurt - begins to try to branch out and become a person again after being forced to lock himself away… both by others and as a self imposed punishment.

So here’s WHY I think A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi is so great about what it does or attempts to do…

The people AROUND the main character are, at their own speed, forgiving and opening up to the main character.

But the main character is still struggling to forgive himself.

The story isn’t about other people forgiving him, he already did most of the work to be a better person by the time we - in the present - meet him. But he’s still lost, disconnected, and not understanding where he is going wrong on making things better… so much so that he almost gives up on everything.

And in that exact thought is where we find the purpose of  A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi’s story overall.

Each player in this story feels like they have done a wrong, one way or another, and it’s the journey to find their own peace, their own acceptance of self, working for the forgiveness they want, and then ultimately forgiving themselves for what they have done.

And again, that’s where I think people’s view on this series is off… it’s not about the redemption arc, most of the cast (especially the main charcters) have already gone through those redemption moments in their past - and we are shown them - but they continue to carry that weight and fundamental disconnection from life and happiness at all because they feel they need to keep hurting themselves in one way or another because they don’t feel they deserve that forgiveness yet.

But they do.

And it’s shown they do.

And when they finally get to the moment of realization that they do… their world opens up to them again.

The best example of this growth is when the main character STARTS to feel better, but then has a triggering interaction, and experiences a huge flair of rejection sensitive dysphoria that causes him to painfully relapse.

Anyway… I adore  A Silent Voice/ Koe no Katachi because it shows just how difficult overcoming these things can be, even if the world has moved on, sometimes you just can’t deal with it… and yet other times you can find the help you need in the most unusual of places.

My Favorite Forms Of Media are the ones that are not afraid to say, “Hey. There’s some terrible things about the world. Sometimes it won’t get better. But that’s what life is and you gotta suck it up and swim by. You don’t get a second life, after all.”

My Favorite Forms Of Media are the ones with the characters that are not painted on a black or white spectrum and simply are. You can judge their actions all you want and hate them, and be perfectly allowed to. 

My Favorite Forms Of Media are the ones that shed light as much as dark. There’s always gonna be hope, even if it’s not possible. There’s always a way to be better even if you don’t follow it. There’s a spectrum of good and bad, but it wouldn’t be doing the good morals justice if you didn’t see the perspective of the bad moral. Sometimes we have to adapt to survive, and that can be either a blessing or a curse if we do survive.

We could die at any time, and there’s no one way for anyone to look at that.

So I wanted to tag some of my favorites as a little tribute.

Best manga descriptions ever.

My little deer oc Archie,, bottom is when he was younger,, he hunts ghosts and the paranormal with his friends!

gaming and giving gives me so much joy

i actually spent a lot of time on it so here's my fav frames

my small baby boy i love him so much, look how smoll and lost he is

The first one here is that man with adhd who got lost in the spiral and then just walked out bc he had remembered ab dinner with his mom icon the second one is that boy whom spiral has been haunting for years And Helen! Is also there. love helen i also wanted to draw that woman with insomnia from the one of the very firsts episodes where michael was spiralling the grass for her (what a cute little dork) but i couldn't match it with the composition so yeah

it's actually pretty scary how much details of the michael story i still remember lol