Should you watch Children Who Chase Lost Voices?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Anime · 2011
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster and saved by a mysterious boy named Shun. However, Shun disappears and Asuna embarks on a journey of adventure to the land of Agartha with her teacher Mr. Morisaki to meet a Shun again. Through her journey she comes to know the cruelty and beauty of the world, as well as loss.
The sides of Children Who Chase Lost Voices
- A girl listening to a crystal radio her father left her
- An underground world called Agartha
- A teacher who wants to bring his wife back
Children Who Chase Lost Voices is good for you if…
- you watch Shinkai for the skies and the light more than for the plot.
- you like a hidden world under the earth with its own gods.
- you like a journey into a land whose rules you learn as you go.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles.
- you don't watch animated films.
- you'd rather not spend two hours with a man refusing to accept a death.
About: grief · loss · growing up
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