(Cherry's male buds, not so much.) Overall, an extremely good-natured romance. But there are a few genuine surprises and what's of most importance, our lead kids, Cherry and Smile, AND their idiosyncrasies, were charming. Some of it was familiar in other cases, you could predict exactly what was going to happen. It also struck me that if the Sought party was live-blogging, it should be relatively easy- even in a crowd- for the Seeker to locate them, by simply finding the spot that replicated the livestream view. (Since Grampa dates from before antiquity, I should explain that Burma Shave ads were rhymes, with parts of the rhyme posted on successive road signs, with the punch line ("Burma Shave") on the LAST sign in the sequence.) Here it's maybe worse due to the Burma Shave-style presentation of the messages. I had the same issue with the end of the "Baby Blue" segment in Genius Party. Setting up signs or some other sort of visual signal, meant for a passenger along the route, suffers from some problems: first, you don't know which side of the conveyance the passengers will be sitting on second, you don't know whether their attention will be focused in that particular direction at that particular moment. I didn't note that the characters ever tried some online auction site to maybe locate a copy of the Missing Item, but then again, if someone DID have it, and realized how important it was to our little cast, they might have priced it out of reach. One person's trash is another's treasure. ![]() (She wears braces, too I guess this is to prevent her oversized incisors from protruding forward too much?) It's also interesting that Smile (over?)compensates for her countenance by being a Net personality. That mask, as I previously noted, is there for a very DIFFERENT reason. The promotional art for the movie- with Smile in face mask- might make one think this is set during the pandemic, but, while the opening of the film WAS delayed due to Covid, the story itself seems to be set in what I've been calling The Before Times. Some of the scenery- the clouds, especially- seems to have been intentionally rendered as unrealistically as possible. And how the day was going to be saved, from the same business, was, in fact, telegraphed even FURTHER in advance, at least a scene or two ahead if you watch this, see if YOU can spot it, too.) (It was obvious how this bit of business was going to wind up just from the setup. And Smile's growing immersion in his daily life was really "Smile"-worthy viewing, even when it seemingly led to disaster. I also liked his "streetlamp" haiku, and how that illuminated (pun intended) his creative thought process. ![]() I thought the symbolism of Cherry's headphones (when, and WHY, he is either wearing them or not) had a nice bit of subtlety. ![]() ![]() There's some of the familiar here (the existential threat looming over Cherry's and Smile's relationship, for example), but like our would-be couple themselves, there's some fascinating quirkiness in the way the story's told as well for example, the "meet cute" moment here may not be completely original, but there would normally be a scene immediately following it that we simply skip past here. "Smile" is a liveblogger/"Influencer" (real name Yuki), whose Net name is meant to be ironic, since she always wears a mask over her mouth on camera (and, indeed, everywhere except in her home she has buck teeth, which she's very self-conscious about.) A cellphone mixup brings the initial introductions, but the relationship grows, partly out of the youngsters' interests in each other's quirks, but also through a kind of quest they embark on together. "Cherry" (AKA Sakura Kouichi, though his parents call him Yui) has difficulty speaking in public, but he does love to write instant haikus about everyday things he observes. A manga adaptation was created based on the film. Notes: An original production of Flying Dog, an animation/music video production company, honoring their 10th anniversary. AKA: サイダーのように言葉が湧き上がる Cider no Yo ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaruĭistributor: Currently available streaming on Netflix.Īlso Recommended: Tsuredure Children Hakubo Lovely Complex
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