Miah Learns to Write

Episode 16 of "Lovely Runner" This was my review of "Lovely Runner," which I had recently finished watching. And as I have said in that post, I thought I was going to dislike "Lovely Runner" because of its time travel element. But I didn't, and as a matter of fact, I was quite satisfied with the way it ended. I would like to just say that had "Kimi no Na wa" ended in a similar fashion as "Lovely Runner," I think I would have liked that film more. "Kimi no Na wa" (transl. "Your Name.") was amazing, plain and simple. It was stunningly crafted in terms of its technical aspects such as the music and art. The only thing that made me dislike it was its plot. I found the plot a bit confusing and convoluted. Perhaps, that was the intention of the film from the beginning, and I respect the decision to let it end that way, but that doesn't mean I like it. What director and writer Makoto Shinkai wanted to show with ...

Kimi no Nawa, Your Name. It’s probably one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the last five years. Many fans waited eagerly for its release and initially, I heard rave reviews about it. Fast forward to today, the times I brought it up, people were telling me that it is an overrated film. They say the movie didn’t live up to the hype. But what should I think about that? What is it with Kimi no Nawa? So was it overrated as a lot of people say? No, I didn’t think so. For me, it was just right. I wasn’t really all that hyped about it in the first place. However I did grab a copy when it was first released because friends recommended it but I didn’t watch it until two years later. Was it sad or deeply emotional? The idea of the story was, but the execution of it made me feel like it was like a feel-good movie. It did resonate with me though because I understood the feelings that the characters were going through as they had their weird experiences with each other. But ...