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Kotonoha no Niwa
Some people revel and play in the rain; others dread it and hide at the first drop. For high school student Takao, a summer shower is a source of artistic inspiration… but when he skips school in order to sketch in a rainy garden, Takao finds an even greater muse in Yukino, an older woman who seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages and lives, they strike up a comfortable relationship that slowly evolves as they randomly meet in the same garden whenever it rains. But with the rainy season coming to a close, Takao wonders if there's enough time left to put his feelings into actions and words. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Makoto ShinkaiOriginal CreatorMakoto ShinkaiDirector
Kenichi TsuchiyaCharacter Design
Hiroshi TakiguchiArt DirectorMakoto ShinkaiColor Design
Youko MikiColor DesignMakoto ShinkaiDirector of PhotographyMakoto ShinkaiEditing
Haru YamadaSound Director
Eiko MorikawaSound Effects
Daisuke KashiwaMusicMakoto ShinkaiScript
Takao AkizukiMiyu Irino
Yukari YukinoKana Hanazawa
Souichirou ItouTakanori Hoshino
Shouko AizawaMikako Komatsu
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# [~~~**This review will contain Spoilers for the movie!**~~~]() <br> A movie with an okay story and amazing visuals. [**_(SPOILER AHEAD)_ STORY:**]() The whole premise of the show is that an upcoming shoemaker "Takao Akizuki" meets an older lady when he skips school to go to a garden. He meets her…
Read full review on AniList →In a single word: elegant. This short review will simply be an expression of my take on the movie. It may be helpful in deciding whether or not you want to watch the movie, which I would highly recommend. Kotonoha no Niwa (Garden of Words) is a short movie about a schoolboy, training to be a shoem…
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SatouMegumi Han
! This review contains spoilers ! I truly despise this movie. But before I get into _why_ I despise it, I want to praise a few things. 1. The visuals (pretty easy to see why) img220(https://i.imgur.com/QtZ9EdS.gif) The visuals, to put it plainly, are stunning. Makoto Shinkai always has a way with…
# __~~~THE GARDEN OF WORDS (REVIEW)~~~__ __~~~Short Outline~~~__ 1. About “The Garden of Words” in general; 2. Plot 3. Beauty and problems of main heroes’ relationships 4. Music 5. Picture 6. Grace of this anime 7. Summary of advantages and disadvantages 8. Conclusion ~~~img220(https://image.tmdb…
Read full review on AniList →The garden of words is one of my favourite anime movies of ROMANCE genre. This movie depicts the different sensations and since i have always been a devout of rains, i get to experience the joys and delights of seeing the rainy sky, walking barefoot and jumping on puddles. The cold breeze that follo…
Read full review on AniList →The garden of words: a miracle of animation This single work of director Makoto Shinkai is astonishing it leaves you with a sense of rejoice, and completion. The images, and scenes setting is what strikes the viewer first, the simple drawings of the scenes in a town resemble at the same time the tr…
Read full review on AniList →Makoto Shinkai is a director who has made a name for himself in recent years. He started out doing short movies before dipping his toes into longer feature length films, and then his movie Your Name came out and basically became the most popular anime movie ever. I've been following some of his work…
Read full review on AniList →Garden of Words suffers because the story lacks a familiar structure. This analysis is all spoilers. __~~~Summary~~~__ A depressed OL and a high school boy obsessed with shoe-making meet under the veranda at a garden on a rainy day. They get along with each other and nonverbally agree to meet under…
Read full review on AniList →<center> __Not really a review, but more my disjointed thoughts directly after watching. This was originally a comment on my completion activity, but I’d like to keep it here for easier viewing.__ --- This was a complete spur of the moment watch since I was just looking through my list and happen…
Read full review on AniList →Makoto Shinkai's The Garden of Words is one of those films that earns the word "immersive" without having to ask for it. From the first scene, it pulls you in. Not with action, not with urgency, but with the quiet insistence of rain on glass. You settle into it before you've even decided to. The vi…
Read full review on AniList →With how poignant and admittedly stunning the art of The Garden of Words was, it’s a shame that it was wasted on a movie with a convoluted and contrived “plot” loaded with trivial characters with seemingly arbitrarily chosen traits all shoved into a 45-minute-long movie. The premise is simple enough…
Read full review on AniList →Time and time again, you are gonna see romances developing through a full 1-cour season, a movie, or maybe even 3 seasons. Are they wrong for doing so? No, nothing leads me to think that way. But what romance appears as in many cases, is as long as a very short experience, of you meeting someone, t…
Read full review on AniList →While I wasn't a fan of The Garden of Words at all, I'll give credit where credit is due, and there were definitely a couple of aspects to this that I appreciated a lot. The big one was the way Makoto Shinkai seemed to have intentionally keep things very understated, keeping away from having anythin…
Read full review on AniList →# __ Story__ _The Garden of Words_ tells a nice enough story, but with a runtime of only around 40 minutes, it kind of bites more than it can chew. The film centers on Akizuki, a 15 year old aspirant shoemaker who often skips school to design shoes, and Yukino, a 27 year old woman who skips work…
Read full review on AniList →You've gotta love Shinkai and his obsession with establishing shots. If "Your Name" was any indication that he lacks the skill of directing meaningful imagery, then "Garden of Words" is a full on confession that he absolutely has no idea what he's doing. His writing in Your Name was completely absur…
Read full review on AniList →#~~~The garden of words ~~~ My very first step into Makota Shinkai's journey as a director. I liked this film -I did- the music is incredibly calming and peaceful, combine this with the animation and supernatural talent used to create the rain and you have an incredible atmosphere to work with that…
Read full review on AniList →Another day, another Shinkai movie. Some classify this to be his best work, some see it as his worst. I watched this movie after watching byousoku 5 cm, kimi no na wa, and tenki no ko, so I (would like to think) have a pretty decent idea of his style. Unlike kimi no nawa and TnK, this doesn't really…
Read full review on AniList →____WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD____ Honestly I thought that this was going to be a romance story, however I got something different. First half of the movie is knowing what is going on with the male lead, understanding his struggles, and I was trying to piece together what was going on with the female…
Read full review on AniList →__Pros:__ The Garden of Words is a story about how two people can help each other even if it starts off inadvertently. Takao and Yukino start off as complete strangers, just seeing each other at the park when it rains. ~!Just by being around someone Takao is helping Yukino with her loneliness and Ta…
Read full review on AniList →In a conventional sense, *The Garden of Words* is barely a story. If you strip the presentation off it, the plot summary sounds almost trivial: boy meets girl -- sorry, woman, in a park during rainy mornings, they talk, they help each other, they separate. You could say that's practically nothing, y…
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