Her Blue Sky

Did Makoto Shinkai with his movie Your Name open the door for other studios who are now getting away with producing supernatural romance dramas? It looks this way... Anyway, out of the four anime movies I have stuffed into my imaginary gunny sack in 2019 of supernatural romance dramas, this one is definitely among the better ones even though it is not quite perfect. As a viewer, I thought it presented some pretty interesting ideas and subject matter pretty well. The character motivations and behavior are also quite believable. The storyline and the struggles depicted made sense to me most of the time, except perhaps for one moment near the end. I thought that it even worked on an emotional level too. However,! After saying that, I did not really like the main female character who I sometimes found irritating and the movie was also unnecessarily long-winded... Despite all this, I still found it appealing and I would also like to mention the animation which was, in my opinion, very good. After I had finished watching it, I was left wracking my brain wondering how a confrontation between me and my much younger version would turn out... In the end, I resolved this issue after reading a review of the movie that contained the quote: "Never regret your past, and never give up on your future'', which was enough to snap me out of that mental funk. 7/10. (10/06/2020)

Anime sobre uma adolescente música que se reúne com o ex-namorado da sua irmã muito mais velha após treze anos. No entanto, o homem exausto e prematuramente envelhecido aparece-lhe ainda como um fantasma na sua forma treze anos mais nova, como ela se lembra dele da sua infância. Esta história dramática com elementos mágicos, musicais e românticos destaca-se pelo seu trabalho artístico extraordinário e pelos temas de como as pessoas mudam ao longo do tempo. No papel principal aparecem a angústia adolescente, um dilema de amor, laços familiares, e o confronto de ambição e realidade que rouba às pessoas os seus antigos sonhos e fantasias. Mas a narrativa poderia ter sido construída mais apertada e não diluída com personagens secundários e desvios desnecessários (tal como o tema do financiamento da cidade). Assim, as poucas cenas emocionalmente convincentes ao longo do filme ressoam muito mais do que o simples final, em que até o nível musical da história fica vazio. (21/10/2019)