Summer Ghost

Title:Summer Ghost
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Overall:Rent
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Have you heard of Summer Ghosts?" Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo are high school students who met through the Internet. The urban legend of the Summer Ghost is that it is a ghost of a young woman who appears when fireworks are lit. Tomoya is unable to step out into the life he wants. Aoi is unable to find her place in the world. Ryo's bright future is suddenly closed to him. Each of them has their own reasons for meeting the Summer Ghost. On a summer night when life and death intersect, where will each of their thoughts go to?
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39-minute movie that premiered on November 12, 2021.
Animated by Flat Studio.
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Rent 8 8 8 6 7 Ggultra2764 [series:4459#1552]
Summer Ghost revolves around three high schoolers, each dealing with some sort of personal trauma in their lives, coming together to conjure up the spirit of a murdered teenage girl. While trying to know more about the spirit's origins, the three come to terms with the personal ordeals currently affecting them mentally and considering thoughts of death in some capacity. While the lesson the film pushes is a decent one about learning to value life in spite of its hardships and there's enough shown to have you care for each of the four characters, I think the film would have had more impact if it had more time to delve into the lives of its central characters, as that could have certainly been possible for a longer film given the scope of Summer Ghost's story. Otherwise, the film's a decent time-killer that offers enough to get you to care for the problems facing its characters and relating to its moral, and I'd at least watch it once.

Last updated Wednesday, April 06 2022. Created Wednesday, April 06 2022.

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