Nocturn3 T1le

I just watched it through, and I loved it! A wonderful fantasy tale with classic themes and monsters, a well done feminist twist.

There's is a full two page document I could write on this. My whole family are die hard fans of the animation, we watched the series, 2 or 3 episodes at a time as they were released on dvd through netflix. That being said, I was excited (and a little scared) of the creative liberties the creators would take. They were out there, but I truly didn't have an issue with that. What I don't like, was that there are glaring story telling problems with this remake. A common occurrence of telling instead of showing (characters narrating whats happening, who's who, instead of revealing it through action), stripping away critical character flaws in the main trio that made them more believable and multidimensional, and then the mishmash discombobulated mess of multiple stories crammed into the episode that was "Omashu". There were aspects about this that I truly liked, even appreciated and felt nostalgic over. But they simply didn't outweigh, or even balance the issues with it. There is just too much to unpack in a google comment. I am quite sad that this didn't really compare, in any way shape or form to the original.

I've watched this movie twice in the last three months. I love it! Good story, lovable characters, beautiful animation. The voice actors are very pleasant, I've watched quite a bit of anime and anime movies, and anyone else who does knows that voice actors can be grating to listen to sometimes. A coming of age story that has genuine, wrenching scenes a few times. *Spoilers* Two moments in particular stood out to me. One, the few times they flash back to Suzume as a child, crying and asking for her mother, who we learn was killed in a tsunami incident when she was four. I thought that portrayal of raw and innocent searching was truly heartbreaking, and felt like it could be a fairly real reaction IRL. Two, the development of Daijin the cat (I may not be spelling that correctly). From the first moment of being scared sh**less when Daijin tells Sota, "Your in the way... goodbye." And thinking as the audience that it may have just killed him, to when you finally begin to understand that Daijin never really had an evil bone in it's body. It almost seemed childlike, only wanting to be Suzume's cat, and not realizing the damage and pain it's caused her in the process of trying to avoid reverting back to the keystone. I felt my eyes cloud up a little when he did.