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Hosoda’s latest film is perhaps his most ambitious and least impressive
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<div align="justify">Not that it’s a bad thing or anything, but director Mamoru Hosoda’s films tend to be fairly similar in subject matter and design. I’d argue that his greatest strength and an underlying thread that connects all his works is his minima…
Read full review on AniList →Takes us through an amazing journey of fatherhood in a fantasy type setting, beautiful scenes and excels in animation.
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~~~_The Boy and The Beast_ takes us through an interesting journey of fatherhood from a beast for child who had just recently lost his mother. The story starts out wi…
Read full review on AniList →A charming fantasy coming-of-age tale, until it reach the halfway point and rapidly goes off the rails.
In the past, I’ve described a lot of Mamoru Hosoda’s films as being two films in one. Both Summer Wars and Wolf Children are, to some extent, exercises in duality, telling two separate stories and attempting to weave them together so they feel like a single, cohesive whole. It’s a difficult narrativ…
Read full review on AniList →A good example for a story that can be seen with two points of view
I will give an introduction about the movie first, and then I will dive mainly in story element, so __spoilers ahead__
# ~~~The Boy and The Beast
This is the story of A boy named Ren, who lost his mother in a car accident while his divorced father was away. And since he was the successor, he was…
Read full review on AniList →A Rough Story About Being Raised By A Beast (TL;DR at the end)
Coming from the same studio and director that made Wolf Children comes The Boy and The Beast. The Boy and The Beast actually shares many similarities with its canine counterpart in both animation and character relationships. However, unlike the maternal love that Wolf Children expresses, The Boy and…
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