At age 14, Ruka feels adrift in the world. At school, she doesn’t have any friends. At home, her parents are absent or distracted most of the time: Ruka’s dad works at the local aquarium, while her…
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Some audiences won’t go anywhere near anime, no matter how enthusiastic the endorsement, whereas others limit their exposure to only Studio Ghibli movies.
At first, on the surface, the film seems to be another story of a seemingly ordinary, slightly awkward teenager who feels misunderstood by his or her peers before stumbling across a pair of mysterious young men whose sudden interest seems almost overwhelming. Why would the cosmos choose her, Ruka modestly wonders? And yet, she does feel special. Among humans, only she can hear “the song of the stars,” and sometimes, when she runs fast enough, Ruka’s convinced that she can fly.
Stylistically speaking, Ruka and Umi look like relatively stock anime characters, with their long thin bodies and disproportionately huge eyes, although the rest of the ensemble are given far more distinctive features.
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