12/16/2023 0 Comments Animated ocean waves![]() ![]() While it feels nostalgic enough reminding us of a time with no cell phones to easily connect one another, its setting in Kochi isn’t even fully utilized as its own character. But it lacks a bit of the emotional magic that is present in many Studio Ghibli productions.Ĭomparing it to similar Ghibli films like Only Yesterday or Whisper of the Heart, all released around the same time in the early 90s, Ocean Waves seems to lack the same amount of sincerity and emotion. Ocean Waves is undoubtedly a slice of life story. The lack of defined characters, even when we have only three of them at the focus, really prevents the story from taking off toward heights that the premise is capable of reaching. And finally, the falling out between Taku and Yutaka after that Tokyo trip due in part to Yutaka’s romantic feelings for Rikako and Rikako’s troubled family life and antisocial behavior at school.īeing a film that recounts several events by way of Taku’s narration, it becomes a plot driven story that comes at the expense of giving the reasonably stock characters more of a personality or depth. Then, Taku accompanying Rikako to Tokyo to see her father. Second, a class trip to Hawaii where Tokyo transfer student Rikako asks to borrow money. First, becoming friends with Yutaka when they jointly protest the school cancelling their junior class trip. During his flight, he reminisces about a few seminal moments in his high school life. In the film, we meet Taku on his way from Tokyo to Kochi for a class reunion. ![]() The 1993 Studio Ghibli television movie Ocean Waves ( I Can Hear the Sea/海がきこえる) is a beautifully animated, though perhaps undercooked slice of life story. ![]()
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