A beautiful flower coverd with thorns

This time, a symbolic title which might understand those that know and those that watched this certain anime...

I just finished watching the latest release from Studio Ghibli, From up on Poppy Hill.

It was the second movie by Goro Miyazaki, son of famous Hayao Miyazaki. The first one was average, but this was has every right to call itself a Studio Ghibli movie.
While not as deep and driven as some others (especially from his father), I still enjoyed every second of it and it felt nice seeing a new Ghibli movie after all this time.

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The story in the beginning is slow, but it catches on pretty fast. It also has a lot of background info and is based around real story events (everything is happening during the preparation of Japan's 1964 Olympic games and it is symbolic in showing the rising of Japan and its people once again from deep sleep and depression).

It also has some of the standard Ghibli humor which I really like and find refreshing and new to this they also feature love, though in this case forbidden love. But is it really? I don't want to spoil anything, so you will have to watch it yourself.

For anyone wanting a refreshing and nice anime movie go for this one. I think that they are also touring some USA and European theaters, so if you happen to come across one of those, I would recommend not passing this opportunity.

~ Have a good night everyone and hear from you soon! *waves*

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