For some time now, anime movies have been exploring the melancholic nature of young love side by side with the changing perspectives that come with growing up. From Studio Ghibli’s fantastical journeys to Makoto Shinkai’s space and time-breaking formula, these films deliver their message wrapped in otherworldly themes — for sometimes fiction is easier to fathom than the truth. MAPPA’s Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou, or simply Maboroshi, tells a bittersweet tale about loss, heartbreak and the sheer passage of time.Produced and animated by the studio, while being distributed by Netflix in the United States, the movie is veteran anime writer Mari Okada’s sophomore venture as director. It features the voices of Junya Enoki as Masamune Kikuiri, Misaki Kuno as Itsumi and Reina Ueda as Atsumi Sagami. While the original story is from Okada herself, Yuusuke Tannawa takes care of the cinematography, with character designs by Yuriko Ishii and music composition by Masaru Yokoyama.The audience gets stuck, too, watching the town herd together and people trying their best to keep up mundane mediocrity in the hope of assimilating better with real life whenever the time comes. Masamune’s goes off script and down into a rabbit hole of conspiracy, which hides a potentially world-breaking truth. At the center of it all is Masamune’s classmate and frenemy Atsumi Sagami — who leads him to an abandoned blast furnace inside the steel plant and to a feral young girl. With Masamune already having conflicted feelings about Atsumi, Maboroshi throws in a monkey wrench when he also has to look after this sprightly girl, whom he names Itsumi for her likeness to her caretaker. If this naming is any indication, he cannot push Atsumi out of his head, and the closeness between the three creates a complicated triangle.
For some time now, anime movies have been exploring the melancholic nature of young love side by side with the changing perspectives that come with growing up. From Studio Ghibli’s fantastical journeys to Makoto Shinkai’s space and time-breaking formula, these films deliver their message wrapped in otherworldly themes — for sometimes fiction is easier to fathom than the truth. MAPPA’s Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou, or simply Maboroshi, tells a bittersweet tale about loss, heartbreak and the sheer passage of time.
Produced and animated by the studio, while being distributed by Netflix in the United States, the movie is veteran anime writer Mari Okada‘s sophomore venture as director. It features the voices of Junya Enoki as Masamune Kikuiri, Misaki Kuno as Itsumi and Reina Ueda as Atsumi Sagami. While the original story is from Okada herself, Yuusuke Tannawa takes care of the cinematography, with character designs by Yuriko Ishii and music composition by Masaru Yokoyama.
The audience gets stuck, too, watching the town herd together and people trying their best to keep up mundane mediocrity in the hope of assimilating better with real life whenever the time comes. Masamune’s goes off script and down into a rabbit hole of conspiracy, which hides a potentially world-breaking truth. At the center of it all is Masamune’s classmate and frenemy Atsumi Sagami — who leads him to an abandoned blast furnace inside the steel plant and to a feral young girl. With Masamune already having conflicted feelings about Atsumi, Maboroshi throws in a monkey wrench when he also has to look after this sprightly girl, whom he names Itsumi for her likeness to her caretaker. If this naming is any indication, he cannot push Atsumi out of his head, and the closeness between the three creates a complicated triangle.
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