(For some reason, the Swedish DVD subtitles keeps changing this to "Rikako " possibly because the last-name basis would sound strange to Westerners.)
#OCEAN WAVES ANIME ONLINE MOVIE#
Class Reunion: The last act of the movie takes place several years after Taku graduated, when he's preparing to go to his class reunion, where he fixes his relationship with Yutaka and becomes friends with him again while hoping Rikako will show.He falls in love with Rikako while performing his duty of helping her acclimate to her new school. It ends at the same railway platform where Taku and Rikako reunite and exchange smiles. Book Ends: The film opens with Taku catching a glimpse of Rikako at the Kichijoji railway platform in Tokyo.
Alpha Bitch: Rikako acts like this to hide her frustration at her life.The main girl who gave her a hard time turns over a new leaf by the class reunion. All of the Other Reindeer: The other girls in Rikako's class harass her for not fitting in.It was not picked up for release in North America, until 2016, when GKIDS announced that they would release the film in theaters in that same year with a home release the year later, albeit subtitled only. The film was released in Europe in 2008 and Australia in 2010 with English subtitles. However, it went both over-budget and over-schedule, and was not considered a success. It was conceived as a test run for Ghibli's younger staff members to prove they could make a quality film quickly and cheaply. Ocean Waves was the first Ghibli film not directed by Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata. Back at home, Taku's clandestine trip with Rikako causes friction between him and Yutaka, who's had feelings for Rikako ever since he met her. There, he learns that there's a lot more to the troubled young woman than he thought. During a class trip to Hawaiʻi, Rikako cons Taku out of a large sum of money so she can go visit her father in Tokyo, but Taku unexpectedly gets mixed up in her plans and goes along with her. The movie concerns Taku Morisaki, a young man from Kochi, Japan, looking back on his high school days and recalling the Love Triangle between himself his best friend, class president Yutaka Matsuno and beautiful transfer student Rikako Muto. A 1993 made-for-TV animated film from Studio Ghibli, Ocean Waves (海がきこえる / Umi ga Kikoeru, translated as I Can Hear the Sea) was based on the novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro and directed by Tomomi Mochizuki.
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