out of every single movie i've ever seen this is absolutely the number one film i can say that i'm able to connect to on an emotional level. every single feeling of anxiety, uncertainty, triumph, laugh, or literally any other sentiment that's expressed from the characters in this film feels so absolutely real and realized that it sometimes blows my mind to think that i'm watching an animated film...and what an achievement that animation is.

the fluidity and exaggeration that yuasa is able to express in his animation is honestly a marvel to watch, making his characters just pop with life. an example of this that i adore is whenever a character eats or drinks anything, their entire body expands…

In my experience, a common way of describing Tatami Galaxy is that it adapts a stream-of-consciousness mode of presentation to animation. That is, its way of visualizing all the little, tangential relations in the main character's mind or accenting the specific elements of given events that stick out to him helps the viewer experience the world as it corresponds with the motions of a mind. This is a little more interesting. Its style is similar in many respects, but both because of its structure and its (much more likeable) main character's disposition, "stream-of-consciousness" doesn't adequately describe it.

The mental motions and relations on display in this movie, unlike in Tatami Galaxy, aren't contained in one character. Many unique perspectives are…

Life is people and fullness, for as long as we're here. Life is Plentiful. Giving. Joy.

"I'm feelin' the same as you... I'm not findin' the books I really want. Some nasty collector's got a tight grip on the rare stuff. ...Y'know, way back when, books traveled from person to person! A book is reborn each time it's passed on; it's one of the things that ties us together. But it's like that damn collector's put up a dam to stop the flow of books. Holdin' shadowy auctions for all his rare books... Only fools who don't value their lives take part. Quite the terrible thing..." - Somewhere around the twenty minute mark.

When I first heard this quote, I…