Her Blue Sky

Un manga sur une adolescente musicienne qui retrouve, treize ans après, l'ancien petit ami de sa sœur beaucoup plus âgée. Cependant, cet homme abimé et prématurément vieilli apparaît simultanément comme un esprit et dans sa forme plus jeune de treize ans, tel qu'elle se souvient de lui dans son enfance. Cette histoire dramatique avec des éléments magiques, musicaux et romantiques se distingue par un excellent dessin et par le thème du changement des individus au fil du temps. Avec le thème central de la colère de l'adolescence, du dilemme amoureux, des liens familiaux et du conflit entre ambitions et réalité, qui prive l'individu de ses rêves et de ses idées anciennes. Cependant, le récit aurait besoin d'être plus solide et de ne pas être dilué par des personnages secondaires et des digressions inutiles à côté (comme le thème du financement urbain). Certaines scènes émotionnellement puissantes du film résonnent bien plus que le final trop simple dans lequel même la dimension musicale de l'intrigue se perd dans le vide. (21/10/2019)

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)