 So as we say often, you know, common troops on gig nights are one. If an anime movie comes out, just go see it. There aren't that many that aren't like Naruto. There is a full length animated feature. And it's in, you know, it's usually, there's not a lot of those in the world made each year that are at, you know, top production value. That aren't just one piece 50, the search for the second price. If you don't count all the ones that are one piece 50 or Pokemon 30 or, you know, compilation of Pokemon 30 Ash is still nine for some reason, original theatrical animated feature films from Japan or from other countries, say Ireland, right? Song of the sea, or even the United States, right? Not many of those are produced at the top levels of production value every year. It's worth it to see pretty much all of them. Yep. If you are a fan of animation. So especially when they are made by a top name director studio. So Mavro Hosita, who you may know from such films as that Digimon movie that people say is the good one that I haven't seen. The one piece movie. That's the good one that we did review. Yes. The girl who leapt through time. Summer Wars, Wolf Children, Boy and the Beast, Wolf Children. We're, you know, as much as all of them. Yeah. Boy and the Beast. Yeah. That's it. It was Boy and the Beast. The last one we saw. Yeah. Okay. So anyways, new movie. Mirai no Mirai is Mirai of the future, right? The girl's name is Mirai. You'll just see it as Mirai in most places. It means future. It came out in Japan of July this year in the summer and it was released in the United States. Limited theatrical release from G kids. The other thing we always say is that if you live in a major city in the US, like one of the five, every anime movie is just in the theaters. It used to be that we would have to go to like we actually saw a mom hosted it in person when was it Summer Wars? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. They screened Summer Wars. Yeah. Cause the kids, all the kids were asking about King Cosmo. Right. It was like, it was the, it was the film festival. They screened it at the director's guild. We go there and host it is there. There's probably Geek Nights episode about it. There definitely is. But the point is we used to have to do that to see this anime on the screen in the US. But now it seems like everything that G kids licenses is just in the local theater. We went to the theater in Astoria. Yeah. Just like a movie theater. It's a normal movie theater. Yeah. And there it is because of what the Fathom events, whatever subtitled the dub was on Wednesday night was subtitled and Saturday was dubbed. So, you know, you just took the schedule. So the, the short version of our review is you should go see it. And also Mama Hosada, even if it was bad, you should go see it. But Mama Hosada is like what, like we're in a weird golden age. He is one of several people who's just betting a thousand here. Yeah. Well, it's pretty much you got a Makoto Shinkai. Yep. You got a Hosada. You had Satoshi Khan. You had Satoshi Khan. Miyazaki, I guess, is not retired. Yeah. Not really bad in a thousand, but betting like 980. Right. You know, and then I guess you got the Studio Ponok, which is not, which not really batting a thousand. They've had an abat. They've had an abat. Yeah. And I guess production IG also puts something in there once in a while, right? Yeah. I see, you know, they did. Hosada. And then we also got, you know, the walk on girl. What's his name? Oh, uh, Yuasa. Yeah. It's Masaki Yuasa. Yuasa. Yuasa is betting a thousand, but he's not playing baseball. He's definitely, he's definitely playing Calvin Ball. Anyway, but those are, those are your major anime directors these days. Sadly, none of them are ladies. But anyway, but look at Hosada. He basically, he made a Digimon movie that was actually good. He made a one piece movie that was actually good. I don't know if Digimon people say it was good. I haven't seen it, but I'm confident based on the people I know who've said it's good. Anyway, so the new movie he came out with is Mara no Mara. We went, we're like, oh, let's go see that. And we did. So what it's, it's just what it's about is about basically that same old cliche story of there's a kid in a family and the family has another baby, right? He's got a new young sibling and is this jealousy, you know, of like, oh, my parents aren't paying enough attention to me, which is a cliche because it literally happens. This is the oldest story in the book. I've never experienced it myself, but I imagine other people do because otherwise why would people tell this story if it didn't happen in any families, even though it didn't happen in my family? So I can't really relate to it. But I've seen the story play out in so many different mediums over time that like it's it's very familiar. I've seen other people I know who have kids who have seen it play out live. Yes. And this as you took that core idea and expanded it into is this thing like 90 minutes to two hours something a full length animated feature film 98 minutes that is actually much the story it actually shows even though that's the core of it is much grander than that one aspect like us in general it's another it's a very different movie in some ways from what he's done before but in another way is it's the same movie in that he's like all his movies they focus on like some idea of what a family is and do it especially really well especially summer wars was about this big awesome family and the sort of person who wasn't in the family coming to them for their at their reunion time. Yeah. Right. Well children's about like a small isolated family and like the pain of both children. What really but the boy and the beast was about like you know it's got well children I think is his best movie maybe I haven't seen it. I don't know but boy and the beast right it's sort of like about you know adoption right whereas like this adopted parent but also parents that aren't great potentially and dysfunctional families. All his movies are about a family in the same way that all McCoder Shinkai's movies are about clouds. But Mariah is interesting in that there's two ways to look at it. It is on one hand a fantastical movie about a young child who meets his ancestors and his future self and his future sister when she grows up and has these experiences across space and time that are going to shape him into the person he's going to become but it's also a story where there are literally no fantastical elements whatsoever and it's the story of a kid who synthesizes the family photos and the stories that older relatives tell to each other with his own imagination and is shaped by those two experience those two things to become the person that he will be and all the fantastic experiences are literally just a child's animation seeded by like you know when you're a kid like you hear the story grandma tells about that time grandpa shot somebody and you don't quite get it and you don't really understand like what's going on but you internalize it and you imagine things about it and those stories like they impact your growth and development whether or not you even realize it that's what this movie is about right the main center the thing that I really liked about this movie a lot is that you know there are a lot of great American movies how old Hollywood movies especially that are based on plays for some reason plays just become a really great movies like you can just go down the list is like tons of amazing plays that became amazing movies you get Chicago cabaret they all start with C but a lot of those great plays that became movies say like a 12 angry men or a dial in for murder take place mostly in one room yep right I love those one rumors right you got those what's that one glass menagerie nice one rumor you got there right I love the one room play movie things I just love those and this is not a one rumor but it's a one house and it's a weird special house oh yeah so you can tell part of this was important for the movie and part of it was the animators slash designers slash people were good at drawing really having fun and really showing off and having a great time because in this movie the dad is an architect and they have architected this amazing super well designed you know super fancy house but it's a weird house very unusual everyone knows the same way like a Frank Lloyd Wright house is unusual but this is more like a Japanese this is like if Muji and Flankroyd had a baby right I would I would like that house I would give almost anything to live in this house this house is so good you could have been an architect instead of an IT person yeah like I would build this I would hire someone to build this house for me the point of the house is that it is the the main feature of it that's important for the movie is that there is a yard in the house and the yard is in the middle of the house so it's like you're going from the you know there's like the kitchen bedroom area up top it sort of slants down right and before you get to the front room where it is like closer to the entrance there's just there's no ceiling and there's a patch of grass and there's a tree and the tree symbolizes the family tree and that is sort of you know what ties in all those you know imaginary fantastical scenes where the kid is seeing his you know future or past relatives or self right is all through this tree this tree is sort of like a magical connection to the actual family tree in a way which really like it fits the like just as a kid like you'd go into the yard and when you're a kid the yard feels way bigger than your art actually is in the real world right and you just have adventures in this yard so it's it's kind of interesting because on the one hand it sort of plays this role in having this cool fancy architecture and cool house for them to stage their their play in right or it's a lot of fun to draw I imagine they did you could tell us a lot of parts where they're sort of you know really getting off on like this the opening scene has the kid like blowing on the the glass and then wiping it away and blowing on it and wiping it away yeah and they're like check how fancy we can do this awesome anime I'm like watching that and I'm like how much time did someone spend on that all those big painting shots with those giant painted backgrounds and all that nonsense they put a lot of monies and time into this animation right but anyway but also right it's like it wouldn't make a lot of sense for the kid to say go outside where a tree was right you know it's like having that tree in the middle of the house really like makes the story possible to tell the story in the way they want to I think the kid would retreat to the yard in the same way that a real child would retreat into his like their imagination there's a couple scenes outside the house I think we're like goes biking and stuff like that or like and maybe in the cars a little bit yeah but 90 90 plus percent is in the in the house right in the different rooms so the like basically the way where it kicks off where it goes from just being a story about a family to getting this semi fantastical or not depending how you read it thing is right away the dog is jealous of the baby too because the dog which happens with pets was jealous of the of the first kid when he was born yeah the dog was been in the family longer than either of the children yep and it set that up and basically like not really spoilers we're going to avoid talking about the details the movie because just watch a fucking movie it's good it's only 90 minutes yeah it's 98 minutes to spend you should watch this movie but the kid it's actually going to be available to watch you know outside the theater at home pretty soon slash easily so the kid is sort of freaking out about the baby and he goes off to the yard and then suddenly like the yard is a giant palace and he and it's run down in decayed and he meets this right right so like I didn't know what's going on I thought I'm like oh it's another travel to a different world anime like I've seen a thousand of these well all right whatever I'm here I'll watch and he meets what appears for a second to be a regal prince who then very rapidly appears to be very shabby and self-entitled right and then it like pretty much right before the character said they were the dog I'm like oh it's the dog yep and then he's like oh I'm the dog I used to be the prince of this house and then I was usurped by this piece of literally right before he said that line I'm like oh it's the dog and he says I used to be prince of this house and I'm like I am right but the movie does something really great and that the dog like you see the dog and the dog acts like a real dog and the dog seems cute but after you meet the prince and realize that the prince is this personification of the dog then every time you see the dog after that the dog kind of has stubble and you just imagine the dog is this kind of like grumpy shabby older dude right right it's like they you know even though the dog is a dog by introducing this personification of the dog in this one brief scene and then you know it's not really there a lot for the rest of the movie it's just as one imaginative scene with the kid mostly you know but then now this dog you manage to give it this human personality right without having to do like some sort of snoopy kind of thing yep right and bit by bit the movie just introduces like it goes through these scenes of the dog and then a couple other like incidents like that that flesh out the growth of this child and it basically culminates in a very well done child's nightmare scenario like like literally the way like the kind of nightmare a kid would have right so the subplot of this movie that the main subplot is the relationship between the two parents because basically it was a situation where you know it's Japan first of all right so you know the working culture of Japan got to incorporate that right but the mom is the executive right the mom was at home and the dad was out but now that they had the second baby the dad is now home and the mom goes to work right and the dad is freelancing architect from home with his laptop right and now he's got to take care of the vivid and take care of the kid and do all the housey shit right you know it seems it's got a little bit of a mr mom situation if any of you are young enough to have seen the movie mr mom with Michael Keaton right it does but it's not a comedic way it's presented in a realistic way and the two parents they have a very adult and realistic you know sort of conflict resolution and dealing with their relationship thing that's like it's so real it's not you know there's nothing corny about it or you know none of them are stupid about it right it's like they talk to each other and get their shit in order the way adults do in the real world reasonable adults do who are full intelligent non-dramatic real adults in the real world right they get their shit together and you see them get their shit together you know and talk about whether they're good parents and you know how the relationship is and all that kind of stuff together and that's really nice to see and it's also good for adults perhaps who are parents you know or were parents or whatever uh could go and connect with that part of the movie as well as not just the you know the kid jealousy part so you like this is a must-see anime movie and i don't like i don't want to say anything else just Japan anime movie 2018 what other probably what else came out 2018 that was a movie that was animated from Japan i think it's this yes i think it's definitely this i think it is i can't remember another one i could be wrong call me out on it this has been geek nights with rim and scott special thanks to dj pretzel for the opening music cat lee for web design and brand