You want to spend an anime evening, but don’t feel like watching entire series? We have some top movies for you that will satisfy your anime hunger.
Anime is a great medium – and sometimes very time-consuming. Not everyone has the time or desire to get into 12, 24, 48 or even more episodes. Sometimes you just want a condensed experience that you can watch in one evening – a good movie.
There are many gems in the anime realm as well, of which we want to introduce you to a handful.
Your Name.
Alternative titles: Kimi no Na wa
Genres: Drama, Supernatural
Stream available on: Crunchyroll
While the girl Mitsuha dreams of a wonderful life in the big city, Taki longs for a quieter life in the countryside. The dream comes true when the two seem to swap bodies in their dreams, even if the memory of it quickly fades. Through diary entries, they manage to save some memories – until their dreams suddenly end. Taki sets out to find Mitsuha… but that proves to be difficult.
What to expect from Your Name.: Your Name. starts as a funny “body swap story” that you’ve seen countless times. But this cliché quickly dissolves and develops into an exciting story in which Taki and Mitsuha must solve many more problems to finally meet each other. The less you know about this film in advance, the better it is.
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A Silent Voice
Alternative titles: The Shape of Voice, Koe no Katachi
Genres: Drama
Stream available on: Currently no streaming provider known, only available for purchase.
In school, Shouya Ishida has a perfect way to pass the boredom: he bullies the deaf Shouko for fun. The rest of the class gets in on it. But when Shouko’s mother contacts the school, the class turns against Shouya and blames him as the only culprit. From then on, he becomes the next victim of bullying and is ostracized.
Many years later, in college, Shouya randomly meets Shouko again – and sees it as his chance to make amends for past mistakes.
What to expect from A Silent Voice: A Silent Voice is not just a story about physical limitations, but also about bullying – and what it does to victims and perpetrators. How quickly someone who was once a perpetrator becomes a victim themselves, and how rapidly group dynamics can turn against a new target, are also part of the plot along with some harder themes.
A Silent Voice is worth it for anyone who can even remotely relate to the style of anime. And some will surely discover parallels to their own school days…
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