Super touching and fun movie! I loved it for both its story/storytelling and art (loved the style: it made me want to look into studio Madhouse).

I also THOROUGHLY enjoyed the "non-romanticized" sight of Japan, and the depiction of very real crass, violence and struggles. The movie is not making it weird, or just showing violence on screen for the sake of it, and I appreciated it.

I developped a lot of fondness for the characters, they're all very fun and touching in a way :) Although I was not that much of a fan of the "family is everything" subtext. I felt like it lacked depth and nuance. Didn't prevent me from having a nice time though.

I never read the summary, and didn't expect LGBTQI+ themes to be anywhere in such movie. I was surprised (mostly pleasantly?) to see Mlle Hana being a queer character holding a main role that I found to be much more than just comic relief. Definitely unsuuuuure about how I feel about her despiction, and I highly doubt she'd been written with LGBTQI+ representation in mind. But I do believe she works well and was written and animated with kindness. She feels caricatural in a way that remains more subtle than plain prejudices and misconceptions to me (but please, trans women and old f**g on the internet go give a lecture to this little trans dude if he's being rude).

🦐 🦐 🦐 🦐 ⭐ Overall very nice, would recommend