Genres: Comedy, Drama, Magic
Ending Theme: "ウルワシマホロバ 〜美しき場所〜" by Yuko Hara
Production Studio: Production I.G
Staff:
Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
Script: Hiroyuki Okiura
Storyboard: Hiroyuki Okiura
Unit Director: Naoko Kusumi
Music: Mina Kubota
Original Concept: Hiroyuki Okiura
Character Design: Hiroyuki Okiura, Masashi Ando
Art Director: Hiroshi Ohno
Animation Director: Masashi Ando
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Director of Photography: Koji Tanaka
Executive producer: Hiroyuki Ikeda, Kazuya Hamana, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Shigeru Watanabe
Producer: Arimasa Okada, Keiko Matsushita, Mariko Noguchi, Motoki Mukaichi
Assistant Animation Director: Akira Honma, Ei Inoue, Takeshi Honda
Deputy Animation Director: Toshiyuki Inoue
Editing: Junichi Uematsu
VA staff Sub
Karen Miyama as Momo Miyaura
Toshiyuki Nishida as Iwa
Yuka as Ikuko Miyaura
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Momo e no Tegami was an
anime by Production I.G responsible for the works such as Patlabor and the
Ghost in the Shell series, The End of Evangelion, Blood: The Last Vampire,
Blood+, xxxHolic, and FLCL just to name a few and are on my list of favourite
animation studios with Kyoto Animation and Studio Bones therefore I went into
the movie with high expectations so without any further ramblings my review of
Momo e no Tegami.
The story was a captivating tale of a girl trying to
discover the words left to her by her father, the idea itself is very
compelling and the way the story is introduced left little substantial plot
issues this for me was the major selling point as I.G spent the most part of
seven years working on this project the animation felt nostalgic to a degree
and it had the charms that a Ghibli film so readily displays
The animation as stated tied in with the style of story
relating it to previous works of the similar genre and this aided in giving an
atmosphere that shone throughout the movie as I constantly got drawn into the
compelling and touching story due to the well animated scenes.
The characters of Momo e no
Tegami were a credit to the director Hideaki Anno as they were enjoyable and for
the most part entertaining however the character traits of Momo seemed to flip
from being scared to death of these “goblins” to completely forgetting this
fear moving on to the point where she not only can look at them without
flipping hell itself to being able to threaten them to basically leave in a
matter of 10 minutes which didn’t really do her any favours in my opinion.
The music was by Mina
Kubota who is absolutely flawless in her execution of the sound track
resembling her previous works like Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora and Aria the
Origination music so as probably assumed I had no issues with the
soundtrack as a whole with refreshing folk classical style resembling the music
of studio ghibli works.
All in all the movie was a testimony to I.G for 7 years of
hard work to create an amazing work of art with only minor characters leaving
me to give it the following scores
Story
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6.5/10
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Characters
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7.1/10
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Animation
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8.9/10
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Sound
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9.0/10
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Personal Enjoyment
|
7.8/10
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Final Verdict
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7.8/10
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This leaves me give it a recommendation to buy it when released.
~Ota~
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