After you grew up, how often do you watch animation film? Animation films are usually recognized as for children, however; it is absolutely NOT true! Some animation enables us to enjoy the carefully-made story, the elaborate animation technology and so on.

In this time I would like to introduce three animation films focusing on Japanese to you. Japanese animation film are not only the works of Studio Gibli, so I hope this blog will be the footstep to try to watch Japanese Animation Films.

*In case you want to know Studio Gibli, please check our post↓

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#1 Your Name (君の名は)

For the first time in a thousand years, Japan awaits the great approach of a comet one month later. Mitsuha, a country girl living in a small village, long to move to the big city. That is because she needed to follow her ancient customs really strictly, and always needed be a good girl due to her father who is politician. She really wanted to leave the village, and one day she shouted ‘I want to be a handsome boy in Tokyo in the next life!’.

Next morning, Mitsuha waked up as a high school boy living in Tokyo whose name is Taki. At first, she enjoyed the life in Tokyo as a funny dream. However, after the repeated phenomenon, gradually Mitsuha and Taki realized that each other’s bodies are actually replaced…!

Your Name directed by Makoto Shinkai was released in August, 2016 in Japan. The movie made over 25 billion yen and climbed to the fourth of the box office in Japanese movie history.

Interesting Story which enables us to be into the movie, extremely precise descriptions such as townscapes of Tokyo, great music in this movie produced by RADWIMPS which is one of the popular Japanese bands… These are the main reasons why lot of people in not only Japan but also other countries are fascinated with Your Name.

#2 In This Corner of the World(この世界の片隅に)

This story is based in Hiroshima, Japan during the war (WWⅡ). The main character Suzu, who is such a cheerful person, married and lived with her husband’s family in Kure, a little bit far city from Hiroshima. She spent her life with a little happiness, but gradually her peaceful life was collapsing cruel as the situation of war became worse…

Originally In this Corner of the World published as comics by Shiyo Kouno. She is from Hiroshima, and her grandmother and mother are from Kure where is the set of this story. It is said this story is based on the experience of her grandmother. In 2015, in order to produce the film, 3,374 people supported by the way of crowdfunding. Totally 3.9billion yen was raised, and in the end this film was released in 2016.

Although the theme of In this Corner of the World is ‘WAR’, it is really interesting cause the film focus on especially people’s daily life. People in this film is nothing different from people of today. Laughing or smiling with others, having meals with somebody very important for the person, feeling happy and sad…Every person live each life to the full everyday in the corner of this world, and this film tells us how difficult and grateful to live normally. I hope you catch the message that Suzu wants to express us!

#3 Akira(アキラ)

The protagonist is Kaneda who lived in Neo Tokyo built after Tokyo was destroyed by the new bomb in the World War Ⅲ(2019). One day, Kaneda is involved in a battle over psychics, which the military studies secretly, with Tetsuo who is a close friend of Kaneda and has awaked to psychic in the wake of accident. In order to stop the runaway of Tetsuo who attempts to conquer the world by using his power and unsealing the strongest psychic ‘Akira’ sealed by the military secretly, Kanada works with his other friends.

Akira is a comic books by Katsuhiro Otomo for 1982 to 1990, and it is animated as a theater version in 1988. He is such a great comic writer ever, and many famous people related to film and comic have been influenced by him. And also, Akira was elected as one of the best animation movies in the world lining up with Studio Ghibli by Time Out, an international big magazine.

Then, why a lot of people are charmed with this movie? That is because, I think, the quality of music and movie in this film is extraordinary great. For example, the designs of mechanical things like bikes are so precise and cool, and the music when Tetsuo awaked to psychic makes us feel terrified. By using the high skill of music and movie effectively, everyone enable to feel like “I’m inside the movie world!”

Although there are some violent and grotesque descriptions in this film, it must be worth to watching!

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*All three movies which I introduce above, you can watch in Netflix!