The Greatest Anime You ve Never Watched

Was it smart of me to upload my first video on an idol anime instead of JJK or something? I don't know, I don't care. In a season where there's a lot of high-profile, high-action shows, this is the one that actually stood out to me. Now, if we're gonna be honest, the only reason why I did watch this movie at first was because it was a directed movie by Shingo Yamashita, who is literally one of the best directors and animators ever. He was one of the main animators for the Naruto vs. Pain fight, which we do not slander. He directed season 1 and season 2 of JJK's opening, so you know the visuals of this movie are gonna be insane, but I did not realize the peaks that it was gonna reach. I mean, he had one of the greatest animators, Yutaka Nakamura, on this anime, who instead of doing a cut on My Hero Academia, he decided to do a cut on this movie. He also did make a tweet the other night before this movie released, and it was talking about the movie and how passionate he was about it. So I decided to actually promote it, you know? And it's not even like the visuals of this movie were carrying it, the story was also really good and really engaging and also fun. What other adjectives can I use? And this movie did almost make me cry. I mean, if I'm being honest, I did shed one tear, but it was like a manly tear. The story is loosely based off the tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which is one of the oldest stories in Japanese history. It was made back in 909 in the Heian era. I'm not gonna talk about JJK. The story of the Bamboo Cutter goes like this. Long, long ago. Actually, I can't keep that up. So one day in a bamboo forest, this guy who's a bamboo cutter finds a shining bamboo. So he cuts it. Upon cutting it open, he realized that there was a child inside of it. So he takes it back to his wife and they decide to raise a child because they have no children on their own. And they named her Nayotake no Karageya Hime, which means Shining Princess of the Young Bamboo. I'm gonna skip a lot of the story and just summarize it because it kind of gets lengthy. So what happens is that Karageya is actually from the moon and she builds a really strong connection with her parents. But the thing is that the moon people came down to pick up Karageya because you're not allowed to run away from the moon. They have a whole fight against it until Karageya actually decides to leave on her own. I promise to you, this is important to the lore. Anyone wanna know why? Because that is exactly how it goes in the movie. Kind of. This movie surprisingly doesn't do a lot of explaining, which I'm glad because the visual storytelling is really good. All right, now how am I going to cover this film? All right, so there's this overly stressed girl named Iroha who is a perfect student, a perfect model student, but has a really bad connection with her mother. The connection is so bad, in fact, that she decides to move out on her own. So now she's balancing living alone, working, budgeting, getting perfect grades, a whole bunch of other stuff. Even then, she still has time to play games, which is kind of crazy. I would be stressed the whole time. And she is. Up until a meteor comes down. Boom. That's how I thought it sounded. I don't know, I haven't listened to it back. Wait, it's like the bamboo from the story I told earlier. Oh my gosh. So there's a baby in it. She doesn't wanna take care of it, but she has to. And that is really funny to me. And the baby grows up in like five minutes, luckily, because I don't wanna hear crying the whole time. You know what's also cool in this anime? There are virtual reality contact lenses that send you to another world. I don't know where I was supposed to fit this part into the video, but I did. So yeah. There's a lot that goes on in this film, and it's actually really well put together and really well paced. Not to mention there's so much action in this film. Like this is supposed to be a movie where it's kind of music-based, yet there's more action than music. And you know me, I love action and I love animation. You know what I also love? Music! They even have World is Mine by Hatsune Miku covered. Like, come on, man. You know what? Here's all the Vocaloid producers. I realized that I didn't speak about the visuals enough, so I'm gonna do that real quick, because I love animation. The character designs are very appealing to my eyes. I won't say cute, because I don't know. Not to mention the faces that they express in this movie were very expressive, you know? There were some times where I was watching this film and I was like, oh, wait, that was really cool. I really liked how they did that. And it was just the character making a face. I don't know what the face is called, but this one. During the concert, the scene that almost made me cry was the one where it was like in a first-person position and they were on stage. And I was like, damn, it must be so exciting and I'm very happy for them. And then I almost teared up. And finally, let's talk about the action animation. They had Itakan Akamaru on this film, and if you don't know who he is, he's one of the most insane action animators ever. You've seen him before in My Hero, Freerun, Mob Psycho, Soul Eater, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. It goes on. The blend of CGI and 2D animation in this film is also really, really good. It's almost barely even noticeable. And even if you don't notice it, you probably won't notice it the next time. It's like those times where you're actually just looking at one of those previews for maybe fate and you're like, oh, wait, I wish there was an anime just like this. Why can't they make an anime like this? This is the anime! A lot of the ideas and action sequences are really well expressed. I can see a lot of people complaining that it's kind of fast-paced, and that's because it's supposed to be. Although that criticism is kind of valid, though. Just don't mention it towards me or I'll get mad. Also, there is a little bit of criticism that I do have about the story, and that's because of the last hour, I think, of the film. It kind of got a little bit confusing. Like, I don't know if I just looked away for a minute or two, or it just absolutely became a little bit confusing. Although, when it did wrap up, I did understand everything. So, it's fine being lost for 15 minutes, right? This movie will probably go down as one of the best anime movies this year. Of course, there hasn't been enough competition announced, but, you know, just for the record, I said it first. Thank you for watching my first ever video. Like, subscribe, yeah.