Kakushigoto Movie

I'm sure many of you remember Kakushigoto from 2020. It was an underrated SOL anime with 12 episodes focusing on the funny and wholesome interactions between a father, a gag mangaka who draws dirty jokes and his daughter, who doesn't know what her dad does for work. This movie is just a compilation/summary/recap of that anime series so if you haven't watched that yet I highly recommend watching it first before watching this movie. As such I'll mostly be discussing about the compilation film itself instead of say, reviewing its story and characters. The movie is almost 1 hour and 19 minutes long so it'sshorter than what I had expected. But recap movies like these are usually short so it's probably better that way. Almost 95% of it is recap though so that might be disappointing to some people. If you don't remember the plot of the main series then it's better to just watch the whole thing. It doesn't include everything from the original anime/manga so some of your favorite moments from the anime series might be missing here. But I think this anime does a good job with its pacing by including most of the important plotpoints (the last half of the movie is mostly the last episodes intact). Good pacing isn't something you normally expect from summary movies so I thought that was great. If I'm not wrong, the last episode of the anime came out before its source manga ended with its last chapter. So some vital info in the manga got cut in the original anime. Despite this the original mangaka Kumeta Kouji loved the anime adaptation of his work and even recommended it over reading his manga. I haven't personally read the manga yet, but I can confirm there's new content in this movie albeit very little. The overall ending of the anime series is still the same. Despite this I think this movie is still worth watching. But if you're stingy with your schedule then you may start watching from around 1:03:30 timestamp as that's where most of the new content starts. There's some new but short scenes with Hime Gotou (cv: Rie Takahashi) at the beginning of the movie though and some new narration by her I think but they're negligible. This compilation film is in no way a replacement for the original anime. Rather it's supplementary to it.

Just watched the recently released Kakushigoto compilation movie. It somehow compressed the TV series into a roughly 80 mins long film. It showed almost all of the beginning and ending part, and skipped a lot of the middle part if I'm not wrong. The extra scenes were added to give vital information about Hime's mom and to stretch the ending a little bit. One of the main problems of the TV series was the rushed ending, but this movie tried to fix that. I would've liked the duration to be longer and more scenes from the TV series to be added, but I still likedit a lot and got emotional just like as when watching the TV version. Recommended for those who liked the TV series. And no, it cannot be used as a substitute to that.

SPOILERS AHEAD Still definitely up there in most heartwarming animes, and only 12 episodes (well, the show). The movie doesn't add much, while there are a couple new scenes esp. with a lil bit more context on the mother, I'd say that it's not necessary to watch this. But if you liked the show, and you'd be crazy not to, then this is the furthest thing from a waste of time. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Hime and Goto again. I missed all the characters and the humour. I cried, I'll admit it. Because as sweet as everything is, I don't think I'll ever get over howgood of a parent Goto is to Hime and how he managed to be a great dad even after the loss of his wife. Nor do I think I'll ever get over the fact he spent his savings on continuing the search for her, even after they called it off. Everything is tied up in a bow, still. But their relationship was perfectly captured in this and you can clearly see how much both Hime's parents love her. I don't think a 12 episode anime has ever been able to perfectly develop a relationship like this before. In summary, I still can't get enough of them. Even though I would've loved more new scenes and content, the movie was still enjoyable and I wish I could go back to when I first started Kakushigoto. It's definitely an anime I'll recommend to people who love SoL, meaningful relationships and this kind of humour. Will always be a comfort anime of mine.

The story really made me sad, happy, all emotions in one. The uniqueness of the story itself lies in how the storyline was rewritten in the previous series, and allows the audience to understand the entire plot. The secrets in this film can be found out from where the house is located, why Hime's mother's past is not known, etc. but the most interesting of all, is how much love and affection a father has. I really liked this anime from the start because in terms of the way the characters are portrayed, they are cute and have a light impression and the story isenjoyable to watch for approximately 80 minutes. This will be one of the best films I have ever watched in 2023. Among all the anime films I have watched, this film in my opinion will be the best of the best.

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