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A manga that brings a strange feeling of “home”, where right from the start the author shows the protagonists' childhood traumas, with the problems with their parents leading them to traumas and mental blocks.
How could these childhood problems disrupt their personal relationships? In both cases, comfort was found in the books.

It's cute, the artwork is a little fickle, but it has its charm, and I'd easily recommend it to anyone who wants to read it on a Saturday.
The idea of finding yourself and feeling good in each other's presence is a good thing to have once in a while.

I've just finished this anime, and as you can see, I recommend it, because it's definitely not the kind of movie you see on a daily basis.

"After building a train engine, Matthew Tiny leaves town when the factory owner claims it, but the engine has a mind of its own and decides to go its own way." That's a summary of Ra Ta Ta Tam, a book by Peter Nickl, a spiritual guide to the movie. The protagonist here is our very own Matthew Tiny.

Spending a long night discovering different tastes, flavors, people and places, enjoying life in the best way: that's the ... way to go. Many misadventures occur, the protagonists here are not placed opposite each other by coincidence, they fight for it, even at the risk of catching a cold or being caught by the college patrol.
Everyone has their own time, their own priorities, but it's important to note that it's not just about yourself, it's about everyone being connected. The good that you do for someone can at some point help you find your love, even if you weren't looking for it at all.

It's important to note that while Tatami Galaxy and Yoru wa, both works by Morimi, are stories that go from the beginning of a love, where unilaterally only one person acts, to the point where the second person realizes that they also have the same feeling, they "catch the cold".
Go live your life, get out of the house, maybe an apple will fall on your head. That's what the movie shouts at the viewer.

Claudine is the kind of manga
that has come to be called "ahead of its time", because it brings up debates that we're not used to seeing dealt with so well, even nowadays, where sensitive topics such as transsexuality and homoaffectivity are so fetishized.

He is a man who often claims to be a man (a trans man) and that doesn't stop him from suffering like any human being, suffering from love. As is typical of romanticism, the reader can see the tragic issue here being either unrequited love or love forbidden by families, like Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, among many others...

Claudine ... can never be happy, there's always something preventing him from reaching his full potential in relationships, but that doesn't make him desperate to accept anyone, and that's a very important detail in the story.

I hope to read more of the author's work.

As an almost single-handed work, Ongaku take 1hour of your day. Is it too much? In my opinion, no.

About the animation, what I can say is that the lack of dynamism in the more everyday scenes is something that makes part of the story a little boring, but this is compensated in the moments of catharsis, where there is an explosion of colors and expressions, which make On-Gaku such a unique piece artistically speaking.

Here we have de main protagonist, Kenji, who is kinda bored of life, the fights and things he usually do, always trying to do new things and giving ... up before achieve really great things.

His friends are following him all the time, but he himself doesn't know exactly what he wants, as he still doesn't understand his true nature. This fact is repeated with the band almost identical to that of the protagonists: Kobijutsu. They also do not know their own nature, finding it only in moments of greatest disappointment and ecstasy.

I recommend you watch it because it's more than an anime about a band, it's about how seriously you take things in life.

Mirai - 2018 - A movie you should watch with your family on a Sunday evening, because it's a movie about family.

My personal experience began with thinking it was about how moments of distance between parents and children lead to children creating "worlds" in their minds and making the mind work as hard as it can to fill the emotional gap and thus draw their own conclusions without a guide to show it the ways of life.
From the second stage of the movie, I had a clearer idea: the movie is about how we learn from each other throughout life, living and learning, ... passing on our experiences to others, be it from grandfather to grandson or brother to sister: the most important thing is to maintain this thread that leads to the human experience.
Hosoda really surprised me with this movie, because it is very different from his works that I already knew.

I didn't even know this existed until a few days ago, even though I've known Yojouhan for years.

First things first: These 3 specials should be seen AFTER "Tatami Galaxy Time Machine Blues". The idea of the group hanging out there and discussing weird and random things adds a lot to the narrative of time travel.
On to the specials themselves: I like that the studio used a cheap production but it works with the "fairytale-type story". But yeah, it's really not on the same level as the other works from the same anime franchise.
All episodes have no more than 8 minutes, so you should ... definitely watch them, because they do not take much time and have their good and funny moments.

An interesting topic in Aku No Hana, among the many topics, is the fact that they constantly show spoiled scenarios. It's a crooked pole, a broken sign, a dirty street, old signs and not-so-fertile plantations.
It seems like every anime is always sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Tourism, but that's not the case here. The scenes always show the same scenarios, from the exact same angle, which shows the viewer that there is an imaginary prison there. Of course, everything is still within what the work proposes and what we want to see.
I personally found the first part of ... the anime better than the second, as it had more unique issues from the anime itself, such as a greater surprise factor. In episode 2 for example, there is a scene where the protagonist receives a note, while Sawa appears distracted in the background. Suspenseful music plays in the background, Takao looks back and Nakamura is staring at him, and not just staring at the protagonist, but also at the viewer.

this manga could be even better.

The first 5 chapters are wonderful. Dealing with each of them individually and how the dynamic with the cat works is wonderful.

The fact that they are girls who are on the path to becoming a woman makes even more sense when dealing with their Ascension as a witch, because in a way, things start to get a little more boring when you have to choose a profession and think about the future, but that doesn't mean everything should stop being magical.

The following chapters are still good, but lose some of the shine from the beginning.

I have a long history with Kimagure Orange Road. I don't remember exactly when I started watching the anime, but I believe it was in 2018 or 2017.
I never wanted to end it too quickly, as it was always a pleasure to be consumed slowly, as it is a 1988 anime after all.

Today, I finished the film that ends the story. I had this promise to myself, that I would only finish the film when I graduated, and here I am, at this crucial moment trying to explain a little what this extremely individual experience I had was.

The entire Kimagure (anime) has an episodic rhythm. ... Few episodic episodes have notable consequences in the following episodes, as is customary with anime at the time. However, the film takes us by surprise: there are no powers, there are not many visual effects to dictate the story, there is no repetition of history and there are no event cuts either. The characters have now grown up, they want to move their lives forward and to do so they need to be direct, as life moves on.
I was very surprised by the content of the film and the decisions made by the characters, as they have a completely different scale from the animated series, and that really pleased me. Kimagure Orange Road is a lesson not only in storytelling but also in life.

It probably took 6 or 7 years just to finish this series, and I can say it was worth every minute.

I just finished Sayonara Eri. I don't usually do reviews here, but I believe I need to say my opinion here so that my future self still remembers these details well.

First: at this current date, I consider it to be Fujimoto's best work, and that reinforces that the man still has a lot to get even better, bringing a new series after CSM or even more one-shots.

Among several points to be mentioned about the manga, the central plan of the plot is the question of the need or not-need to separate fiction and reality, because in several points of the ... plot this is simply irrelevant.
At the beginning, in the INTRODUCTORY part, we can already see that they make a tremendous mess of the protagonist - both his parents and his classmates - and this is where the spoilers come in.
He meets Eri, the girl who gives the title of the one-shot, a beautiful girl who is interested in his film, because it is something unique. Later we see that it wasn't just that, she liked it because she felt personally affected, since she was also on the march towards death, as evidenced in a scene of them watching the film and her identifying with the character who dies at the end; Fujimoto is constantly drawing this parallel between the movies they're watching, the movie they're producing, and the manga the reader (you) is reading, and that's what makes it fantastic.
The scene of Yuta's father failing the film about Eri, her lines about death, our discovery of her disease and only later our break in perspective when we learn that she always wore glasses and dental braces, with her already dead, all this information makes us question what is real from the perspective of the characters, and this becomes less and less easy to know every page, since we don't know if what happens at the end was real or not. It might have been, it might not have been.
With that, I can say that yes, they managed to produce a great film.