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Nothing short of mesmerizing.
Mamoru Hosoda's fifth animated feature, ___Mirai___, may seem a bit more small scale compared to his earlier movies such as ___The Girl Who Leapt Through Time___, ___Summer Wars___, and ___Wolf Children___, but it's no less mesmerizing. To anyone unfamiliar with these aforementioned films, I do r…
Read full review on AniList →Hosoda's Boldest Artistic Statement Yet
_Mirai_ is truly precious and downright heart-melting, while rarely coming off as treacly or overly-saccharine thanks to the clear place of experience and insight showcased in the portrayal of family and siblings that Hosoda possesses. His understanding of the essence of family grows more profound w…
Read full review on AniList →An anime that breathes childhood.
__First of all I want to apologize for the grammar.__
Mirai No Mirai presents a story of a typical Japanese family whit their culture and their busy lives with mothering and fatherhood, where the main character is Kun, a spoil child that feels jealous of her newborn sister, the lack of attention o…
Read full review on AniList →Has masterful elements, yet the whole didn't fully work; good nevertheless. I believe Hosoda has a masterpiece in him.
Mamoru Hosoda is fantastic at making large set pieces and theatrical visuals with a strong impact and sense of scale. Belle makes that very clear for one, as do sections of this, and his storyboard work for Utena. Similarly Hosoda is brilliant at capturing whimsy and more slice of life dramatics, on…
Read full review on AniList →Time as a function of family relationships
In the planning stage of _Mirai no Mirai_, significant consideration was put into the designing of the house in which the majority of the movie is set. In fact, director Mamoru Hosoda employed a real architect, Makoto Tanijiri, to design the Oota house. The house is a series of four levels, not quit…
Read full review on AniList →Mamoru Hosoda's most ambitious film, and also his most compromised.
Mirai is a baffling film to wrap your head around. It’s Mamoru Hosoda’s smallest-scale film so far, taking place entirely in a single location. Yet it’s also possibly his most ambitious in terms of the kind of story he’s trying to tell and how he goes about telling it. It’s his most technically acco…
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