https://www.tiff.net/films/scarlet

Remember when people thought this guy would be the next Miyazaki
19 years ago every weeb knew about TokiKake

>>280788480
He's better.

>>280788480
Don't know about that, but I really enjoyed most of his movies.

good

>>280788480
>TokiKake
stupid chickflick

Water and the sky are really prominent in art for anime movies.

>>280788416 (OP)
This looks... isekai?

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2025/4/29/mamoru-hosoda-new-film-scarlet--teaser-trailer-visual-november-21-release-date
>Scarlet, a princess who failed to avenge her father's murder, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world full of madness, if she does not take revenge on her nemesis and reach "The Endless Place," she will be reduced to "Emptiness" and cease to exist.
>An adventure beyond imagination.
>A never-ending struggle.
>A fateful encounter that transcends time and space.
>Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?

Trailer looks VERY CG-heavy.

>>280790824
Forgot trailer link. Just let us post pics in Incognito again, dammit.

https://youtu.be/XETw4Yy79nY

>>280788416 (OP)
>>280790824
Director comments:
>I came up with the idea for this film around March 2022.
>In 2021, there was the coronavirus pandemic, and I thought the world was united against the coronavirus. However, in 2022, just as that was about to end, wars broke out all over the world, and I had the sense that the world had suddenly changed for the worse. Every day we learn about the collapse of what we thought was our daily life in the news. I was shocked to realize that the world in which I live, the world in which I spend my time, and the peace that I live in today are very fragile.
>People all over the world are searching for answers to the question of how to live in a world that is not peaceful. I don't know if there is an answer or not, but everyone is desperately searching for an answer to how to resolve conflicts and how we can live in peace. I came up with the idea of "Scarlet" from the point where if we are going to make a film now, we should make a film to face such earnest feelings of all these people.
>When I look at the events that are taking place in the world, I feel that we are in a situation where deep grudges and vengeance are being created one after another. If you “take revenge,” there will be "retaliation" for it. The chain never ends. We have to break out of this loop somewhere, but it is not an easy thing to do. If the protagonist in the film is cornered into a situation where she is forced to take revenge, or if we are cornered into a situation where we are forced to take revenge, what action should be taken? Even though we knew in our head that we needed to break the loop of "revenge," loop, was it emotionally possible to do so? I felt like I was confronted with a task. So I decided to create a "revenge story."

Will it have a better take on this theme than SnK? I have my doubts.

>>280788416 (OP)
Cool. Luv Mirai. Did not care for Belle. I was really enjoying it at first, the visuals and music are phenomenal, but the ending did not sit right with me. It seemed anti parent's rights. I was not shown enough to really dislike the abusive dad - who was a widower with his own trauma. Take away all the pretty animation and the last half of the plot is literally about a teenage girl grooming a middle school boy on roblox and kidnapping him from his sort of mean, sometimes abusive father. Great plot for a dirty doujin, questionable morals to display in a family sing along cartoon.

>>280788480
>19 years
What?

I loath isekai shit so this is a big no from me.
Especially shoujo isekai genre this reeks seeing the MCs.

>>280788416 (OP)
That's an ugly woman

>>280788416 (OP)
Going from half CG slop in Belle to full CG slop here, not a good trajectory

>>280791562
Holy fuck I thought I was the only one who saw the movie that way. It was such degenerate filth.

>>280788416 (OP)
Looks interesting