Takako Shimura is known for her poignant, queer romances. Does this anime film adaptation of Happy-Go-Lucky Days continue the tradition or veer off course?
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Happy-Go-Lucky Days
Dounika Naru Hibi · どうにかなる日々 · 2020
Tender human connections navigate heartache and modern romance across diverse vignettes.
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Love takes manifold unexpected forms throughout everyday life, leaving behind bittersweet memories and tender vulnerabilities. This delicate omnibus narrative follows three interconnected tales of modern romance and quiet longing. In the first chapter, two young women meet at the wedding of their mutual female ex-lover, discovering unexpected emotional solace in each other. In the second, an earnest high school teacher navigates a surprising romantic confession from a male student. In the final story, two childhood friends confront complex physical and emotional changes during puberty, gently embracing the messy awkwardness of maturing desire.
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Again, I thought the first two stories too spare (though I recognized the point of #2), but I'd say the parents in #3 were criminally irresponsible to put their young son in with, essentially, a (female) sexual predator.
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