This weird and sometimes wonderful Japanese anime is approximately a student on a kaleidoscopic all-night quest to find a treasured children’s bookHere is a weird,very bemusing and sometimes wonderful anime from Japan: a kind of miniaturist epic or odyssey from animator and director Masaaki Yuasa, adapted from a campus novel by Tomihiko Morimi – and evidently an extension or development of ideas from his earlier book The Tatami Galaxy. It is romantic and hallucinogenic, and with an edge of softcore erotic sleaze. A female student with dark hair (voiced by Kana Hanazawa) goes down the rabbit hole for an all-night dreamlike adventure of drinking and partying. She is on a quest to discover a children’s book she once loved. She is also being pursued by an older student,Senpai (Gen Hoshino), who is in worship with her, or at any rate sexually obsessed with her,and not only discovers the book but discovers her own childhood copy. He then occupies strange, kaleidoscope fantasies approximately how he might obtain her his own. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk