Paper Moon

Other than movies related to long-running anime series, or "movies" that consisted of a series of experimental shorts (hello Amazing Nuts!), Paprika and Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo ("The Girl Who Leapt Through Time") were the two biggest true anime movies last year. Well, them and Gedo Senki. But Gedo Senki was powerfully un-good, so we won't waste time discussing it in this post, since it's already been criticized to death all over the internet. Anyway, what's interesting about Paprika and TokiKake is that they're both based on classic science fiction novels by the same author, Tsutsui Yasutaka.

And I watched them both last week for the first time. So here are my jumbly-thoughts about both.

( Paprika. Cut for vague plot-related spoilers, and explicit romance-related spoilers. But if you don't care about knowing who will hook up with who (hint: it's obvious from the beginning), go ahead and read! )

( Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo. No spoilers. )