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 buddies. Ryoma; is the timid pillar of the group who at all times appears to restrict himself; Toto, the sensible one within the group with ambitions that aren’t absolutely 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’ll include the very important footage of that night time that can clear their title.
A Heartwarming Journey
In fact, the story shortly 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 buddies, constructing secret bases, goofing round, and doing belongings you in all probability shouldn’t have that almost all adults in all probability have. That feeling was portrayed and displayed excellently on this movie.
Whereas the movie’s opening minute seems 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 shortly 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 means of their adolescent years and closes off with a implausible callback and a grand, tearful journey.
Atmospheric and Stunning
My solely difficulty 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 each day lives, not less than up till the ultimate twenty minutes. And whereas we be taught rather a lot about Ryoma and Toto, the identical can’t be stated for Drop, as what we learn about him is considerably lower than his buddies, 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 path, exhibiting off all the things from moody skies and placing lighting to enchanting waterfalls and plush forestry. That is additionally paired nicely with its glorious soundtrack, partaking ambiance, and excellent sound design. That is achieved so nicely, the truth is, that it evoked my nostalgic emotions of watching the equally themed film The Secret Lifetime of Walter Mitty.
Closing Ideas
General, Goodbye, Don Glees! is a strong anime movie that may be advisable to only about anybody. It tells a really emotional story with the themes of journey, friendship, and loss. In the event you’ve watched and loved an anime like A Place Additional Than the Universe, you then’ll love this movie as it’s nearly the male-focused counterpart of that anime and shares lots of its most important employees.
A screener of this movie was offered by GKIDS for this overview.
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The Evaluation
Goodbye, Don Glees!
PROS
- Good, touching story
- Nice artwork path and designs
- Good soundtrack
CONS
- An missed character
- Minimal character growth