"Goodbye, Don Gries!" Review A masterpiece animated film that faces "alienation" that meets the expectations of "more than" fans.

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The new anime movie "Goodbye, Don Gries!" Directed by Atsuko Ishizuka from the TV anime "A Place Further Than the Universe" (hereinafter "A Place Further than the Universe") has been released from February 18th. [Video] Watch the trailer Director Ishizuka's previous work "A Place Further than the Universe" has received high praise rarely seen from home and abroad, and was selected as a recommended work by the Jury of the Animation Division of the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival, New York. He was selected as the "Best TV Program of 2018" in the overseas program category by the Times, and won the Best Drama Award and the Best Serial Award in the Japan Animation category of the "bilibili moe 2018 Animation Art Award". Following that "A Place Further than the Universe", Takahiro Yoshimatsu is in charge of character design and Madhouse is in charge of this "Goodbye, Don Gries!" To conclude, this work is a wonderful work full of kindness like Director Ishizuka (also serving as a script this time), which not only meets the expectations of "more than" fans, but can also be enjoyed with no prior knowledge. .. Considering the message in the play, I sincerely hoped that young people would see it, and even if adults see it, the boys in the play should be impressed to remember "the self of those days". Let's introduce more charm.

To a "stand by me" adventure

The synopsis is this. A new boy named Drop has joined the team "Don Gries", which was only two of Roma, a first-year high school student, and her best friend Toto. After that, Roma and his friends, who were unexpectedly made into the criminals of the wildfire, set out on an adventure in search of a drone that was blown to a distant place, which may have images that prove innocence. .. So to speak, this story resembles the 1986 movie "Stand by Me." While you go looking for a corpse, this one goes on a journey in pursuit of a drone. Beyond that, the boys encounter various happenings, but sometimes they confide their worries or even get to know each other through fights. First of all, it will be a lot of fun as a "juvenile adventure thing". Even so, while the main characters of "Stand by Me" were 12 years old, this "Goodbye, Don Gries!" Is set to the age of the first grade of high school, which is like the boundary between children and adults. There is. Of course, there are also "future worries", the fact that we have a good year and continue to stick to childish teams, and the feeling of alienation from those around us, including bullying in LINE (like SNS) groups. You can see complex emotions that are not easily divisible by the age.

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