Goodbye, Don Glees! is Madhouse’s newest anime movie that tells a coming-of-age story in regards to the lives and adventures of three highschool teenagers and associates. Ryoma; is the timid pillar of the group who all the time appears to restrict himself; Toto, the sensible one within the group with ambitions that aren’t absolutely his personal and Drop, the most recent however most cheerful member of the group who has a mysterious previous and unhappy circumstances. After a frantic evening of celebrations with drone flying and fireworks, the trio is unjustly accused of beginning a forest fireplace that simply occurred to happen close by on the identical evening. So to clear their identify, they head out into the woods to hunt out their misplaced drone in hopes that it’s going to comprise the very important footage of that evening that can clear their identify.
A Heartwarming Journey
In fact, the story shortly goes past this because the characters uncover extra about themselves throughout their journey. They share their emotions, crushes, hopes, and extra and uncover what their very own “journey” is in life. The trio’s experiences and adventures evoke extremely nostalgic childhood reminiscences of hanging out with associates, constructing secret bases, goofing round, and doing belongings you in all probability shouldn’t have that almost all adults in all probability have. That feeling was portrayed and displayed excellently on this movie.
Whereas the movie’s opening minute looks like a slice-of-life anime with actually humorous moments and takes time to flesh out its characters, this side solely lasts mere minutes because it shortly jumps to the group’s journey, the place every character is then highlighted individually and collectively. The movie follows the three protagonists from begin to end and goes by way of their adolescent years and closes off with a implausible callback and a grand, tearful journey.
Atmospheric and Lovely
My solely challenge with the story is that whereas it manages to focus on every character, it fails to indicate a lot change within the characters after their grand journey collectively. It’s revealed afterward how little or no that point collectively affected their each day lives, at the least up till the ultimate twenty minutes. And whereas we be taught quite a bit about Ryoma and Toto, the identical can’t be stated for Drop, as what we find out about him is considerably lower than his associates, which is unlucky.
Manufacturing-wise, whereas the character designs are fairly simplistic, Madhouse introduced its A-game with the movie’s extremely atmospheric dynamic artwork path, displaying off all the things from moody skies and putting lighting to enchanting waterfalls and luxurious forestry. That is additionally paired properly with its wonderful soundtrack, partaking ambiance, and excellent sound design. That is completed so properly, actually, that it evoked my nostalgic emotions of watching the equally themed film The Secret Lifetime of Walter Mitty.
Last Ideas
General, Goodbye, Don Glees! is a stable anime movie that may be really helpful to only about anybody. It tells a really emotional story with the themes of journey, friendship, and loss. If you happen to’ve watched and loved an anime like A Place Additional Than the Universe, you then’ll love this movie as it’s virtually the male-focused counterpart of that anime and shares lots of its essential workers.
A screener of this movie was supplied by GKIDS for this assessment.
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The Assessment
Goodbye, Don Glees!
PROS
- Good, touching story
- Nice artwork path and designs
- Good soundtrack
CONS
- An neglected character
- Minimal character growth
