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In Johnbobb's topic tiering how much characters from films need a therapist, two of the movies looked anime-ish (they might not be, I don't follow movies at all so I could only name Sonic and Dr. Strange from the pictures). I searched 2022 anime movies and couldn't find them, but I found another recent anime movie instead!

I watched Bubble on Netflix today. I liked it, but I felt like it should've been a lot better than it was. The production was top-notch, the music and visuals were both beautiful and there were a few sections where they both came together in a way I can only describe as epic. Like there was one bit in the middle that, once I finished watching the movie, I immediately went back and watched that part again. And then again. As a pure spectacle, this movie delivered.

As a story... not so much. It's about bubbles randomly raining on the world, but mostly in Tokyo, and screwing with gravity in strange ways. The movie doesn't even try to explain anything. No one really questions anything either, not even when a strange girl appears out of nowhere and turns to bubbles when she touches the main guy. Like the main scientist lady sees Uta's hand partially turned into bubbles and her only reaction is to give her a glove, come on. Still, it's mostly a parkour anime, so I suspect the whole bubble aspect was just an excuse to have crazy parkour scenes. Those scenes definitely delivered so I guess that's fine. I just would've preferred more substance to go along with the spectacle. The main conflict at the end was yandere bubbles and I don't know how or why or what actually happened, but I guess it was pretty?

I don't regret watching it, not at all. This is easily the best stand-alone anime movie I've ever watched (beating out absolute trash in Calamity of the Zombie Girl and mediocre trash like Starlight Promises and Expelled from Paradise... come to think of it, why haven't I watched any of the really good anime movies? I know they're out there). It just should've been better.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch that four minute stretch in the middle of the movie for a fourth time.