Shikioriori

Title:Shikioriori
Flavors of Youth
詩季織々
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Notables: Animation - CoMix Wave
"Clothing, food, housing, and transport" - this theme ties the three stories in this anthology film together. "A Breakfast of Sunflowers" tells the story about a youth working in Beijing, who misses the food he used to eat in his hometown. "A Little Fashion Show" is about sisters living in Guangzhou, struggling to connect after the elder sister pushes herself too hard in her modeling career. "Shanghai Love" is an homage to 5 Centimeters Per Second set in 1990s Shanghai. Two childhood friends parted ways years ago, and now they remember their past together through the old cassette tapes they left behind.
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74-minute film that premiered on July 6, 2018.
Animated by Comix Wave.
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This anthology film appears to be focused on several people within China undergoing different experiences regarding sentimentality for their pasts and having passions for things they are interested in. Apparently, this film was trying to go for something similar to Makoto Shinkai's film, 5 Centimeters per Second. But the results are quite varied in their quality with the shorts in this anthology and probably not among the best anime anthologies I've had a chance of checking out. I'm only offering quick thoughts on each short in this anthology, so I'm not offering up any numerical ratings for categories with this review.

  1. Breakfast of Sunflowers: Has the simplest story of the three shorts in Flavors of Youth focused on a young Beijing man getting sentimental over his enjoyment of eating San Xian noodles due to his family preparing for him as a child. The simplicity works very well here as the young man recalls different points of his youth as he dabbles into his favorite food and reminding him of the family bond this helped built with his grandmother.
  2. A Little Fashion Show: The weakest of the shorts, this one is supposed to focused on the strained bond between sisters long reunited and attempting to reconnect. But there's too much focus on the elder sister struggling with her modeling career and lacks the genuine sense of sentimentality that was offered up with Breakfast of Sunflowers.
  3. Shanghai Love: It looks like this short was attempting to set up its story similar to 5 Centimeters per Second focusing on a budding romance between friends that slowly drifts apart over time due to the different paths in life each of the friends are taking. Unlike Shinkai's story, Shanghai Love tries to be more hopeful with the friends in question eventually reconnecting instead of their separation being an inevitability of growing up. The story told is a decent one, though I did get the impression the short was trying a bit too hard at points with copying a number of the aesthetic elements of Shinkai's filming style instead of establishing its own.


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