- insecurities
- muted yet bright colour palette; evokes feeling of summer day
- in order for cherry and smile to build a connection they must
overcome their feelings of insecurity and shame - music
helps drive this due to the story being motivated by finding
the record; they get closer through this
- smile's journey to overcome her insecurity begins with a record
- lost vinyl for his deceased wife
- smile finds the record - late miss fujiyama who has buck
teeth much like smile
- covers her face with record of someone who is more proud to be
who she is
- smile is able to see herself in another performer who is
radiating, shining and unashamed
- Also, the color scheme are a great tribute to the City Pop album art covers during the 80s. 🥰 And also, Taeko Onuki being there who sang the main OST. ♥️♥️♥️
- buckteeth are considered beauty marks in the 80s Japan.
* Shame gets a lot better when you find a group of people who share the aspect you are ashamed of

- shion is an AI sent into a high school as a test- five days without
anyone finding out she's a robot
- draws most attention to her as possible; high-energy
- diverse group of personalities
- no consistency of developing the background characters across
the film; detracted from the rest of the film
- cliche to a degree
- lacking in consequences - potentially rogue AI, should be taken seriously,
- business driven side of the film is the least interesting part of
the film
- ^ not a major part of the film
- joyous film, pick-me-up movie
- hits familiar and comfortable beats
- visual presentation is excellent
- satomi starts as a loner
- story revolves around satomi keeping shion as an AI a secret - characters
around her have personal issues and relationships are dealt with trhough
shion's expression thorugh music, draws satomi closer to the others
- happiness is different for each person
- core characters have emotional baggage and insecurities - miniature
character arcs, understand each other and grow closer to one another
- through her interactions with satomi and the other characters
she gains a better idea of what it means to be human - working
through the others with their emotional baggage, feelings and identity
- better understand to the complexity of happiness through wanting to
make satomi happy
- musical numbers play a big role in the story; spread throughout
the movie - somewhat of an anime musical
- musicals rely on music, cherography set pieces - sing a bit of harmony
takes full advantage of this
- brilliant use of the power animation brings to character movements
and chereography; using mundane settings and bringing it to life
- camera angles and lighting make musical numbers pop
- songs relate to current narrative
- heavy and emotional to jazzy
- one is bound to resonate with you
- voice actress for shion has range and power - singing sounded
impeccable
- wonder and dazzling spectacle of the musical numbers
- in awe of creativity and soul of the musical numbers the film executed
- song and presentation wise, fits tone of the story
- shows viewers various forms of happiness
- allows audience to come to the conclusion about the movie's themes
- backgrounds are realistic
- great selection of background music that fit varying
emotional beats
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWnxujp4YgM