#Goodbye Don Glees!

[bluecube92]

Some of my birthday presents.

[seikatsu-ga-tsuzuku]

Toto’s speech here ruined me.

[caiuxraven]

Goodbye, Don Glees!

Oh man, what a sentimental ride it has been. Nostalgic memories and realizations comes rushing in after watching it. Kinda my cup of tea after all. 💕

[moviemosaics]

Goodbye, Don Glees!

directed by Atsuko Ishizuka, 2022

[soulcialdent]

https://www.sdent.net/goodbye-don-glees/

[heartrai]

Let's just say that I died...

[rookie-critic]

Goodbye, Don Glees! (2022, dir. Atsuko Ishizuka) - review by Rookie-Critic

Goodbye, Don Glees! really sneaked up on me. As you can probably tell, I've kind of made it a habit over the past year to go see anything and everything that even kind of interests me. So, when I saw ads for the very limited Fathom Events showing of this unassuming anime film, I just decided to go for it. No trailer, no plot synopsis, just a poster and a title, and I am so glad I did. Goodbye, Don Glees! follows three friends (Roma, Toto, and Drop, three incredibly anime names) during their first summer as high schoolers. Through a few different misadventures, they find themselves trekking off into the deep woods surrounding their rural Japanese hometown to find a drone that flew way off course. Now, a drone isn't a dead body, and there are only three of them, but you can tell this film is heavily inspired by Stand by Me and other childhood adventure films of that time period, and it wears those inspirations well. The first half of the film is entertaining and fun, and sets up its trio of protagonists slowly. Letting their interactions do the talking, and allowing the interpersonal relationships between all three kids to build up their characters and backstories naturally and evenly.

There is a fairly predictable plot point in the movie that seems like something that normally would have been kept more secret until the third act of any other movie, but by the time all the puzzle pieces start to slide into place you hardly care about how predictable or unsurprising anything is because you realize that isn't really important. The point was never the reveal, but what that specific thing means to the character it's pertinent to, and how that in turn affects his companions. This film is emotionally vulnerable, and finds ways to tug at your heartstrings in the third act that, while you may have seen coming, still hit you like a freight train when the needle finally drops, and I will admit to crying a good amount in the film's final moments. I feel a little bad devoting so little text to this review while my review for a film like Clerks III reads like a research paper, but I had a lot of different and complicated thoughts on Clerks. That's not to say that Goodbye, Don Glees! isn't a film worthy of deep critical analysis, but the thing is this; falling in love with Goodbye, Don Glees! was easy. The humor worked, the emotional parts worked, the characters worked, everything about this film simply just worked. It's an amazingly moving film that currently sits as my favorite animated film of 2022, and it has set the bar pretty damn high.

Score: 10/10

Currently available to rent or purchase on digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, etc.) and to pre-order on DVD & Blu-ray through Shout Factory.

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Animation  Adventure  Drama

[glorioblog]

A Very GLORIO trip to Scotland Loves Animation 2022

A Very GLORIO trip to Scotland Loves Animation 2022

Scotland Loves Animation is a yearly festival that runs in Glasgow and Edinburgh, bringing a curated selection of premieres and classic movies to the big screen for a week in October. Three of us from the GLORIO crew returned for a week packed full of old and new films alike. Unfortunately, the Edinburgh leg of the event was thrown into disarray just two weeks before it started when the Edinburgh…

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Goodbye, Don Glees!

[seikatsu-ga-tsuzuku]

These boys are everything to me. My new favorite trio. My adopted sons.

[maryeont]

[creationverseblog]

"This is one of my most favorite voice actors. Who can voice Kimi perfectly in Creationverse. I would like to thanks to my bff's for this idea. Decided to do this to give Johnathan Leon a spotlight again. He's been a hero to me like John Goodman. Ever since Heavenly Delusion came out years ago. He's also a voice of Kazushi Yamiagishi in Tokyo Revenge and Tomoichi (Teen) in Inu-Oh." UwU

[lonleyhumanbeing]

I just watched Goodbye, Don Glees for the first time and if you’ve never seen it, watch it now.

It’s about these misfit boys who go on an adventure to collect a drone they lost, and on the way they learn that we all grow up differently and that treasure is different for all of us. It had me laughing and crying and left me with such a deep sense of there is more to life and this world than I think there is.

I highly recommend it, the animation was absolutely beautiful. I watched the dub version, but I think you’ll have better luck understanding the story in sub.

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

toto mitarai in and out of crossdress can step on me he is such a goddess, smh to roma for taking the mick outta him bleaching his hair as well

[justawaysimp]

everyone should know the masterpiece that is Goodbye, Don Glees!

it's so friendship core coz of the little bois riding their bikes on summer