Child of Kamiari Month (2021) User Reviews

A completely average and forgettable anime

[siderite · 6/10 · 2 March 2022]

A cheap imitation of a Ghibli anime, this features all the typical clichés, but without eliciting any real emotion. You have the young spirited girl, the magical world she discovers, the strong emotions generated by her fridged mother, the cute companions, the important quest that for some reason depends on her efforts only and the dark villain. But at almost any level the main character is unsympathetic, her friends are pointlessly obtuse and without any credible reasoning for their actions, the villain is a shapeless blob that does absolutely nothing than lurk around and the quest is mired in feudal godly bureaucracy and small island mythology.

Bottom line: remove the fake Miyazaki veneer and all you have is a unlikeable girl running around because she enjoys it, but can't get herself to admit it because her mother died.

Beware the exposition bunny.

[Pjtaylor-96-138044 · 5/10 · 19 April 2022]

The fantastical elements of 'Child Of Kamiari Month (2021)' don't come into play for quite a while and the flick includes no hint of them prior to their inclusion. When the plot takes a turn for the otherworldly, it just unloads a tidal wave of exhausting exposition on you and honestly feels like some sort of lesson. In fact, you may even mistake it as thinly veiled edutainment for a short while; it genuinely feels like something you'd show Japanese children if you wanted to educate them on the Gods. Thankfully, once its lesson is out of its system, it settles back into itself and returns to telling its narrative in a much more relaxed way. The picture isn't especially interesting even at its most assured, although it does feature a few enjoyable set-pieces and is visually pleasing in places. It kind of feels a little cheap overall, both in terms of its production and in terms of its narrative (its emotional underpinning feels rather forced). The flick's structure is also kind of strange in that it provides hints of an antagonist but only really makes that antagonist prevalent for a single scene near the 'all is lost' moment, completely robbing this element of all its potential power. Thankfully, the conflict of the story is mostly internal and mostly convincing. Despite its few fairly significant flaws (that exposition dump is honestly almost fatal), the film is ultimately a decent effort overall. It has some charm to it and is entertaining enough for what it is. It isn't great and it isn't memorable (at all), but I'd consider it a decent animated adventure. 5/10.

Average

[sisubalan · 6/10 · 30 July 2022]

Love the world but kinda boring. It lacks something, maybe due to the main character that lack sparks. Kanna kinda annoying. Great first part of the film then it went down onwards. Great music scores and animation style. Not a fan of the voice casts. Love the ending that kanna didnt get to see her mom she wanted to be at first. Recomended.

Boooooooorrrrriiiiiinnnnngggg!!!!

[lickyfacefilms · 3/10 · 26 February 2022]

Don't know how I can spoil this as it was too dull to pay that much attention to

So basically the premise is about a girl who loses her mother and loses her love for running (at normal human speed for her age) until she puts on a bracelet that slows down time and allows her to see God's and demons. She then has to run from one shrine to another (At normal human speed for her age) and deliver the food offerings to some sort of elemental hybrid god at the end of a big staircase

There's a big deal made about her mother being some errand girl running around once a year for the gods (at normal human speed I'm guessing for her age).

There were a few animation shifts and unlike The Cuphead Show the differences feel really out of place and don't blend at all with other scenes. There's a mix of 2d and 3d right at the beginning that feels very Mowgli like in the worst possible way. Like there were people drawn in 2d pressed against a 3d forest and it looks terrible. The main character is supposed to be 12 but everyone she's around looks about 9 yet they're almost as tall as their parents.

That's basically what you can expect from the rest of the film. It's boring. Full of animation that doesn't blend together. The pacing is awful. The characters go into Japanese mythology in ways that confuse more than they entertain and honestly I didn't give a damn about any of it.

I never leave movie reviews, I was compelled to leave one so the world knows of this attrocity

[mvunic · 1/10 · 2 March 2022]

Deathly boring. Deathly annoying, and should be removed from existence. The movie can be cut down to 10mins without the wasted filler scenes. The protagonist is an annoying little girl, who when cries you want to push down a well and put a lid on it. I imagine this is how the girl from the ring was created really. The story plot is predictable and every essence of it screams of boredom and irritation. I skipped through so many scenes just to get to the end, and it even had an annoying ending.

I died of boredom

[Piker64 · 1/10 · 18 April 2022]

Basically kanna the main character has a panic attack thinking about her dead mom and runs off then crys on her bracelet that her mom gave her which sends her to another plane of existence then a magic rabbit sends her on a fetch quest for food for the feast of the gods and she becomes a God too I think idk. Oh and also there's a monster boy that follows them and hates kanna and wants to take her place as god because she's not as cool as her mom. That's it. Don't watch, it's a waste of time.

What a wonderful treat!

[Der_Merovingian · 8/10 · 10 April 2022]

8/10 Solid. To the team who out this together - thank you! Great story. Heart-warming, original, beautiful in multiple ways, I highly recommend this! The mere idea of a story focussed on running while time stops is wonderful!

You should watch this movie

[Silvarian · 2/10 · 15 March 2022]

This is a story about a girl who likes to run. Then her mother gets sick, but still comes to the girl's running competition at school. But going there is too much for the mother and so she dies. This set of repeating scenes makes up 90% of the movie. The remaining 10% shows the girl trying to deal with her grief by travelling to a fantasy world, and interacting with a child in demon cosplay and a talking white rabbit.

You don't have to watch the movie, because you literally just saw it.

I give this the single minimum star, and one star on top because somebody actually made the effort to produce it. I'm not sure if that shows great confidence or great masochism, but I'm willing to give due credit.

What?

[shangabnoon · 2/10 · 18 April 2022]

Meaningless movie.

What about her father?! And what about his grieve?

She's shown to be so rude to him.

At the end she didn't even understand the reason why her mother did that and way she need to do it.

She only did it because she likes to run!

I don't get it.

Unfortunately, the bad reviews are consistent

[MarcusCyron · 5/10 · 1 May 2024]

This is the 39th anime I've watched in less than a month. There were really great works, but there were less good films among them. But this film is the weakest. It is little more than a number revue. It actually contains all the weaknesses that the mostly not particularly successful anime series have, which the films of the last few years actually seemed to have largely overcome.

But most TV series, even if they consist of boring, redundant episodes, usually have an interesting framework. This is completely missing here. It's also interesting that although there is a universal message delivered in this film, it is delivered in a very Japanese way. The production seems to have been aimed at a more international audience, because more than most other Japanese anime, which are still much easier for Western viewers. This means that the film also fails to combine the two.

Although the film tries in an almost penetrating way to create emotions and trigger emotions in the viewer, it fails in this regard. Contrived, incomprehensible feelings in a (poorly) well-composed plot without real depth simply does not create a good film. The fact that a film about running of all things fails so badly in animation due to the visual representation of running is fatal for the film. This even surpasses the boring, downright embarrassing dialogues.

Ignore the overall rating

[Albatoss · 8/10 · 29 June 2022]

What a wonderful, beautiful film. Absolutely gorgeous animation and the story was so touching and moving that I found myself crying throughout. The film handles grief and moving forward so perfectly and it really hit home with me. I loved this so much that I almost gave it a 9. Please watch for yourself and do not let the haters sway you. This movie is fantastic.

A truly amazing movie that will bring a tear to your eye.

[outflanks · 10/10 · 3 July 2022]

From the animation, to the music, to even the attention to Japanese culture is amazing. The English voice acting isn't the best, but the emotional character development more than makes up for it.