Should you watch Ocean Waves?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Ocean Waves
Anime · 1993
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
The sides of Ocean Waves
- Two school friends and the girl between them
- A trip to Tokyo on borrowed money
- A high school reunion years later
Ocean Waves is good for you if…
- you remember your last year of school and the people you lost touch with.
- you like three teenagers who never say what they feel.
- you like a friendship between two boys tested by the same girl.
Ocean Waves is bad for you if…
- you don't watch animated films.
- you won't read subtitles for a quiet Japanese drama.
- you need something to happen, and here it is phone calls and train platforms.
About: first love · friendship · memory
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