Child of Kamiari Month

From the animation, to the music, to even the attention to Japanese culture is amazing. The English voice acting isn't the best, but the emotional character development more than makes up for it.

What a wonderful, beautiful film. Absolutely gorgeous animation and the story was so touching and moving that I found myself crying throughout. The film handles grief and moving forward so perfectly and it really hit home with me. I loved this so much that I almost gave it a 9. Please watch for yourself and do not let the haters sway you. This movie is fantastic.

8/10 Solid. To the team who out this together - thank you! Great story. Heart-warming, original, beautiful in multiple ways, I highly recommend this! The mere idea of a story focussed on running while time stops is wonderful!

This is the 39th anime I've watched in less than a month. There were really great works, but there were less good films among them. But this film is the weakest. It is little more than a number revue. It actually contains all the weaknesses that the mostly not particularly successful anime series have, which the films of the last few years actually seemed to have largely overcome.

But most TV series, even if they consist of boring, redundant episodes, usually have an interesting framework. This is completely missing here. It's also interesting that although there is a universal message delivered in this film, it is delivered in a very Japanese way. The production seems to have been aimed at a more international audience, because more than most other Japanese anime, which are still much easier for Western viewers. This means that the film also fails to combine the two.

Although the film tries in an almost penetrating way to create emotions and trigger emotions in the viewer, it fails in this regard. Contrived, incomprehensible feelings in a (poorly) well-composed plot without real depth simply does not create a good film. The fact that a film about running of all things fails so badly in animation due to the visual representation of running is fatal for the film. This even surpasses the boring, downright embarrassing dialogues.

Meaningless movie.

What about her father?! And what about his grieve?

She's shown to be so rude to him.

At the end she didn't even understand the reason why her mother did that and way she need to do it.

She only did it because she likes to run!

I don't get it.