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Ryû to sobakasu no hime (2021)
What the hell ?
Didn't know what I was getting into when started watching. The first 20mn set up a pretty nice and interesting backdrop, with what seems a pretty straightforward plot until it all went pear-shaped. Two many subplots added, with was turned out to be the main one making absolutely no sense. For overcoming grief, to the struggle of finding one self, to the toxicity of social media, to the weird allegory of the Beauty and the Beast, to in the end standing up against child abuse ? I'm still scratching my head about how the scenarists thought it would / could be connected. There are also so many characters that end up not being fleshed out at all, with their relationship with the main character quite mono-typed / single-use.
Nice-ish songs, if a bit cheesy and commercial. The animation may be beautiful at moment, but it lacked the soul of Mamoru Hosoda's previous realizations.
Rumble (2021)
Utterly charmless
Don't really know what happened there. I remember watching the trailer in 2020 and thinking it had potential. I discovered not then minutes into the movie how wrong I was : something is lacking in that movie, whether it be the charmless animation style, the boring and predictable character development or the fact that half of the jokes fell flat... Fact is I stopped watching at the half hour mark.