#drifting home

[ghibli-collector]

Another weekend another Studio Colorido film on Netflix! This one was very good!

Drifting Home (雨を告げる漂流団地, Ame wo Tsugeru Hyōryū Danchi, lit. 'Drifting Apartment that Announces Rain') is a 2022 Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy adventure comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Hiroyasu Ishida. Produced by Studio Colorido, the film was released simultaneously in Japanese theaters and on Netflix on September 16, 2022.

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

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New hyperfixation chat yk what that means 😍

(ima change my whole account layout to that said fandom/movie/series)

[animescreencolle]

Drifting Home

[cerealwriter125]

precious lil moss boy 🌱

[sashonya]

I am unapologetically Sad because a building was destroyed, please please please go watch Drifting Home, it's on Netflix it's a good film and it has two little gay bitches

Look at them, little gays, good for them.

10/10 film, would cry because of a building again

[doyoulikethisanimeship]

Andou Juri/Haba Reina (Drifting Home)

Important: Please do not vote if you don't know the characters.

[pibisss]

Noppo!

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me on a weekend

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bday art for noppo!! the day is non canonical I picked it for him :3

bc it’s his special day I’m gonna share songs that remind me of noppo ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

[grumpymoons]

I watched drifting home on Netflix today and it was adorable. I cried at the end when natsume hugged her mom and they were both crying. I also cried when they had to leave noppo. The reviews on letterboxd stated the movie as boring or not much to it but I found it to be so interesting! I’m so glad I watched it.

9/10 rating for me. -1 because occasionally throughout I found reina to be a little annoying but I also get it girl.

Next I’m watching Weathering With You!

[dragonshost]

[musicinanime]

Arashi wo Tsugeru - Umitaro Abe

Anime: Drifting Home

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Not sure if this even merits a submission really but figured I'd mention it anyway.

I recently watched the anime film Drifting Home on Netflix. The two main characters are Natsume and Kosuke. Neither of them are blood related to each other, but due to Nastume's fractured home life, she comes to live with Kosuke's family at a young age and she's essentially raised as part of the family. She mentions that she looks at Kosuke's grandfather as her father figure, and beyond just being best friends it is frequently mentioned that the pair are basically siblings.

However, it's made very clear throughout the film that they both want to be more than "siblings", and by the end- while nothing is ever outright stated- they are obviously going to end up together. (This point is made even further evident as there is another character who is actively trying to get with Kosuke romantically, but his attention is only ever on Natsume)

Nice find, Anon. Thanks for sharing!

[theinternetcafe]

Drifting Home Review

Drifting away is an animated film about the 7 stages of grief. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Guilt, Upward turn, Reconstruction, and Acceptance.

At the start of the movie Natsume is in the first stage of denial when she frequently visits the abandoned apartments even though they are due to be destroyed soon, she doesn't want to let go of her precious memories that she made there as a kid.

Kousuke however is in stage two, anger. He blames Natsume for taking him away from his grandfathers final moments and possibly his death since his grandfathers dying words were for him to apologize to her. He also gets angry at her for almost everything she does, especially keeping everything to herself and never asking for help.

the reason she never asks for help is due to the constant fighting of her parents that eventually lead to them splitting up and Natsume being taken in by Kousuke's grandfather.

"No matter how much I cried nothing would change and everything would break apart" Natsume.

Hense she begins to act like an adult in hopes to not have to lose anyone else.

The third stage begins when they get transported to the endless sea, no matter how long they wait Natsume remains confident that they'll return home despite the growing concern on her face as time pass by. It's also somewhat symbolized by the fact she keeps certain items from the old home like the camera for Kousuke and the stuffed toy that Yasuji bought her, refusing to part with either item.

The fourth stage remains throughout most of the movie and is mixed in with guilt as Natsume constantly blames herself for all the misfortune that happens, from her parents breakup to Kousuke's grandfather passing away to them being stranded in the middle of an open sea, even though she had no control over any of those situations.

And I'm sure a lot of people can relate to that, if something goes wrong you believe it was because of you and then you begin to take the blame for things that may not have had anything to do with you.

Depression is also the hardest stage to come out of which is shown by how long it takes until they return home.

Upward turn is mainly shown with Noppo when he finally realizes that in order to get them home he has to face the fact that they have to move on without him. Which ironically in the movie, when he realizes this the building takes an upward turn out of the sea.

reconstruction is visually shown after the buildings were knocked down and a new one began construction. In the metaphorical sense it happens whenever Kousuke and Natsume argue and finally confess their frustrations and reasonings for everything that happened after Kousuke's grandfather passed away, each time they tear down the broken past a new path into the future or their friendship is constructed.

The final stage acceptance is shown when Natsume says goodbye to Noppo before they leave, accepting that you have to lose people in order to move on forward and it's not always a sad moment as she is seen smiling while they all wave goodbye.

To me the film isn't a particularly sad one, it touching on something that everyone has to accept when growing up.

At first I thought the endless sea was similar to the land of the dead commonly shown in Hispanic culture but realized it's possible a place of it's own somewhere in between the afterlife and the human world. As they leave the flooding apartments and see an image of their parents waiting for them we know that they can return back to normal, but when Kousuke sees Natsume's mom he realizes that she wont be there with them if they do return, this is proven when he turns to face the opposite direction and sees her disappearing into the black sand.

The endless sea itself acts as sort of an outlet of emotions. At the start it's calm but every time they talk about Yasuji's passing or Natsume's parents leaving her behind the sea begins to get more violent.

Noppo was possibly created when the first group of residents came into the apartment and someone grew an attachment to the building, in the Japanese Shinto beliefs around notions of animism it is said that a soul “reikon” lives within all existence (everyday objects). So I assume just like Natsume, someone had a strong attachment to the building which gave him a spirit or perhaps when the building was finally constructed his soul came to be, this is shown throughout all the other buildings as well (public pool, store, ferris wheel).

The final things being the black sand. I believe the sand is just a void, it consumes anything that is either left behind, forgotten or broken beyond compare. If Noppo had stayed in a state of denial and refused to accept the fact that he had to let them go they would've all fallen into a void of depression which I feel is what the sand represents.

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.. 弹射 💭 the energy is haunting