Kimi wa Kanata

High schoolers Mio Miyamasu and Arata Kishimo are childhood friends. Mio harbors feelings for Arata, but she lacks the courage to express them. Even when her friend Madoka asks if she is in love with Arata, Mio reluctantly declines and encourages her friend to pursue her own feelings for him instead.

Later, while Mio and Arata visit a fortune-teller, the boy notices a strange phenomenon and tries to drag Mio out of the shop—much to her annoyance. As Mio begins to question her relationship with Arata, an argument erupts between them. That night, feeling guilty for what had occurred, Mio ventures into the rain to apologize to Arata and make her feelings clear. However, an accident along the way turns Mio's world upside down.

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Miyamasu, Mio Main

Matsumoto, Honoka Japanese

Kishimo, Arata Main

Seto, Toshiki Japanese

Orika Supporting

Tsuchiya, Anna Japanese

Madoka Supporting

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Lost Item Attendant Supporting

Kimoto, Takehiro Japanese

Mogari Supporting

Takenaka, Naoto Japanese

Mori Supporting

Natsuki, Mari Japanese

Miyamasu, Sachi Supporting

Sendou, Nobuko Japanese

Gimon Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Kiku-chan Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Sena, Yoshinobu Director, Sound Director, Original Creator, Screenplay

saji Theme Song Performance

Yoshida, Takumi Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition

Kawai, Eiji Theme Song Arrangement

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Nov 1, 2021

KingShulox

Recommended

Funny

It was July 2020, I was just starting watching anime and exploring MAL and found a movie that looked very promising. It looked similar to Your Name, which I loved, so I wanted to give it a try. I waited patiently until the release, in November. The day thay movie aired... nothing happened. Not the day after, not in a week, not for a long time. "It was badly received" "It was only showed two times on cinemas" "Rakuten only sells it raw and within Japan" was what I could see from different pages and the official website. I was losing all hope until some ... days ago I happened to look for it again. And to my great surprise, it was there, it was not fake. So I decided to watch it at night yesterday, which I did. Was it worth to look for it so much? Let's find out.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

Story: 6.5/10 - The story centers arround Mio and Arata, the typical childhood confession and an accident that transported her to a parallel world. So far so good. What happens then is a very rare mix of everything possible. A colourful world with spirits reincarnated on things she remembered, her worst fears personified in giant monsters that chased her for the entire world and a lot, really lot of metaphoric uses. All of this which would have been perfect if there weren't so many plot holes and, mainly, non-explained things. Especially at the end. But hey, we won, right? Dale campeón.

Art: 8.5/10 - As most movies that inspired in beautiful works like Your Name and A Silent Voice, Kimi wa Kanata has amazing landscape design. Each of the scenarios were beautifully drawn, and you could feel they were very inmersive. Also the character design were very charming and easy to like. Animation was fine, being great at little things like Mio's moving hair and fair at moments like her flight over the fish. An overall great thing that with a little more budget could have been even more amazing.

Sound: 8.5/10 - Soundtrack was also something very special. All the orchesta was very nice and according to the movie. And both songs, To You (Mio's song) and Shunkan Dramatic (Ending) were incredible. I'm even listening to Shunkan Dramatic in loop as I write this. This is the part that creates great memories, and they achieved it by a lot.

Character: 7/10 - Not very amazing but still nice. Mio and Arata were the typical two main characters that everyone like, and then we had the different supporting characters and the main 'antagonist' (was it one though?). They made the movie enjoyable without shining too much. Fair enough.

Enjoyment: 8/10 - Being extremely strange and without sense for some times doesn´t make it less enjoyable. Even more, it makes it even better sometimes as I already knew this could be like that and wanted to feel something like this. I´m glad to find another 'falopity' show, those anime so strange that make you wonder about everything in their world.

Overall: 7.5/10 - I don't really know how much to score this. I feel a 6 is definitively low, a 7 misses something but an 8 is too much for a movie that was so inconsistent for moments. Maybe I will give it an 8 in support for the movie, as 6.55 rating is not fair at all. But the real score for me is 7.50.

Story: 6.5/10
Art: 8.5/10
Sound:8.5/10
Enjoyment:8/10
Character: 7/10

Overall: 7.5/10 --> 8/10
Should you watch it? Yeah, it's a very nice movie.

Was it worth the wait? I would say YES.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 22, 2021

CinaGinger

Mixed Feelings

It's not bad but not too good either. It's a very chill movie that you watch some afternoon to pass the time and it's nice to see.

(+) The animation is decent and it feels cute and positive. They added some fantasy. The romance is also adorable but the reasons they have issues are for dumb reasons.

(-) The plot lacks so many extraordinary features, the characters are too generic, they tried to add something supernatural with some character but at the end it's irrelevant. Just a passing dream. Not intriguing, not exciting.

Even with the darkest and the most melancholic mood I think that I wouldn't ... be too attached to this. At least it has a passing score.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 22, 2021

KANLen09

Not Recommended

I wasn't initially gonna write a review for this, but since the naming convention of this film was the one that fancied my senses, I should at least give my 2 cents to say that this film made by one person: the infamous Yoshinobu Sena who did the "so bad, it's bad" Vampire Holmes, how does Kimi no na wa...ahem, sorry, Kimi no Kanata fare against many others who did the same thing?

In one word: NO. In more words: HELL NO. Please do not waste your time on this film just because the film title just cringes you on it being the vastly inferior product ... to the movies that inspired the creation of this wishy-washy movie.

Story and plot is superbly unoriginal and contrived, characters are hella one-note deficiencies for infodump and nothing else, sound is just poor too. The movie funnily enough, makes you feel like you're watching a Direct-to-TV film that's not even Disney-like quality with Digital Network Animation's (for short, DNA, which I'd bet that the 23 pairs of chromosomes are all connected in disparity) alright but poor to at best, decent visuals.

Save your 95 mins of time and watch 4-5 TV anime episodes or a film that'd make your time more useful. This is a piss-poor worthy cringe film.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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