Hakubo

Hakubo revolves around the daily life of Sachi Koyama, a high school violinist with promising talent. Although Sachi is content with her school life and retains friends within the music club, her favorite pastime is appreciating the scenery around her neighborhood in Iwaki, Fukushima while walking to her bus stop alone.

However, during one of Sachi's after-school walks, she has an unexpected meeting with Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy whom she often notices on her bus ride home. After offering to help Kijinami find a perfect view of the evening landscape—the subject of his next painting for his art club's exhibition—the two forge a bond over their mutual admiration of the beautiful scenery bathed in sunset. This chance encounter brings together these two souls who yearn to cherish the present, knowing full well how easily it can all slip away.

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Koyama, Sachi Main

Sakurada, Hiyori Japanese

Kijinami, Yuusuke Main

Katou, Seishirou Japanese

Matsumoto-senpai Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Rina Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Hii-chan Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Yamamoto, Yutaka Director, Sound Director, Script, Original Creator

Yamada, Haru Sound Director

Kogawa, Tomonori Key Animation

Chikaoka, Sunao Character Design

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Jul 27, 2020

GoodAnime1Season

Recommended

~Overall:
It isn't a great movie BUT IT IS A GOOD ONE. I recommend this movie if you want some Romance Movie without Heavy Plot and just wanted to relax.

Story:
For the story, it doesn't have great twist/mind-boggling/mind-blowing plot. It does have a simple plot but don't get me wrong here, the movie become great (atleast for me) because of that.

Graphics:
For the graphics, it is not that far (again,atleast for me) from well-known animes such as Makoto's work.

Sound:
... If you are a fan of violin then give this a shot ;) but even if your not I think you will enjoy it either.

Characters:
Just as the story, It doesn't have characters which outshines the others. And it does have great character designs which caught my attention.

Enjoyment:
I did enjoy watching it and will going to miss the characters specially the MC.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 10, 2020

Meeju

Mixed Feelings

A pretty simple and boring story with no enjoyment. I barely managed to finish it even tho it was for only 50 mins. The only thing i loved were it's visuals. The art, the animation, the visuals, they were amazing ✨.
Even though I got pretty bored during the movie but the only thing which kept me going on were it's visuals and art. It was so fascinating and soothing.
Other than it's art and animation everything was bring. So if you have a lot of time and are in seek of anime with amazing visuals. Go for it. But if you are looking for a ... good story i would never recommend this one.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 25, 2020

bigboiroy

Not Recommended

This was the biggest load of barnacles I have ever seen. The promotional video looked promising, with excellent visuals and what could have been a decent plot, and gave me high hopes that this short-ish film will be worth my time. After watching it, it’s confirmed that nothing about this movie was good except the gorgeous animation.

And when I say gorgeous animation, I mean the backgrounds and the scenery. The character designs were pretty mediocre and looked like they came straight out of 2010. Even worse than their designs, however, were the characters themselves. They possessed totally unbelievable character traits that no real human ... being would ever come close to. The main characters themselves were less interesting than pieces of cardboard, and the romance was half-assed and cringe. The forced drama in an attempt to make it a more compelling plot landed flat on its face and makes you roll your eyes in exasperation.

The scriptwriting and the plot were terrible, meaning there was no plot. Sure, it's hard to achieve a complex and deep story in a 52 minute runtime, but this movie accomplished absolutely nothing. Nothing happens at all for the duration of the movie. Don’t let the description fool you into thinking that it will detail the lives of people after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and the effects it had on the population, as it was barely even mentioned. The writing felt like it was done by a six year old as it involves girls smelling each other and killing their friends because they got a boyfriend before themselves.

tl;dr - If you’ve come for a compelling, heartfelt, or even remotely believable plot, you have come to the wrong place. You can choose to stick around for the beautiful background scenery, but that’s about all this movie’s got going for it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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