Anime Assessment: Goodbye, Don Glees!

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 pals. Ryoma; is the timid pillar of the group who at all times appears to restrict himself; Toto, the good one within the group with ambitions that aren’t totally 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 night time of celebrations with drone flying and fireworks, the trio is unjustly accused of beginning a forest hearth that simply occurred to happen close by on the identical night time. So to clear their title, 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 night time that can clear their title.

A Heartwarming Journey

In fact, the story rapidly 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 pals, constructing secret bases, goofing round, and doing belongings you most likely shouldn’t have that the majority adults most likely 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 facet solely lasts mere minutes because it rapidly 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 improbable callback and a grand, tearful journey. 

Atmospheric and Stunning

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 in a while how little or no that point collectively affected their day by day lives, no less than up till the ultimate twenty minutes. And whereas we be taught so much about Ryoma and Toto, the identical can’t be mentioned for Drop, as what we learn about him is considerably lower than his pals, 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 route, exhibiting off every part from moody skies and hanging lighting to enchanting waterfalls and plush forestry. That is additionally paired effectively with its wonderful soundtrack, participating ambiance, and excellent sound design. That is accomplished so effectively, in reality, 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 useful to simply about anybody. It tells a really emotional story with the themes of journey, friendship, and loss. Should you’ve watched and loved an anime like A Place Additional Than the Universe, then you definitely’ll love this movie as it’s nearly the male-focused counterpart of that anime and shares lots of its important workers.

A screener of this movie was supplied by GKIDS for this overview.

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