![]() Very quickly into this film I was bawling my eyes out over the connection that these characters share. Joey Richter and Merit Leighton are fantastic in the two central roles, but the entire dub cast does talented work here. Ride Your Wave is no exception here and the relationship between Hinako and Minato is easily one of the best things about this movie. ![]() He creates deeply relatable, authentic characters who will tug at your heart strings both as individuals and in terms of the tender romances that grow between them. The character work in Yuasa’s films is always one of the director’s greatest strengths. The visuals here may not break your mind in the same way that Lu Over the Wall’s do, but they still astound and will make you want to pick up a surfboard and hit the beach more than anything else. There’s so much care and attention to detail that’s put into the surfing sequences where it’s clear how much planning and work was involved here with everything from the character models to the environments. Lu Over the Wall plays with vampire mermaids who want to groove out in rock bands, whereas Ride Your Wave is satisfied with looking at the simple beauty in surfing and the literal ebb and flow of the gentle sport (and life). There are still unbelievable, supernatural things that happen to water in this movie, but it’s all filtered through a surprisingly grounded perspective. The matter is that Lu does wondrous, highly stylized things with the limits and physics of water, whereas Ride Your Wave displays the liquid in a much more pristine, romanticized light. Ride Your Wave has a lot to do with water, which is also the main component of Yuasa’s previous feature, Lu Over the Wall. In this sense, Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave is at least more successful and feels more original as a follow-up feature than Shinkai’s Weathering With You is to Your Name. ![]() Both are exceptional films in their own right, but they touch on similar territory to what the directors’ previous films tackle. While that is true with Ride Your Wave, thankfully it is still a triumph of animation and an incredibly enjoyable experience.Ĭuriously, one of the biggest hurdles that Ride Your Wave faces is similar to the same struggles that beset Makoto Shinkai’s film from this year, Weathering With You. His output has only become more rampant in recent years, but right from the jump Ride Your Wave has been advertised as something that looks much more “normal” by Yuasa’s standards. Yuasa’s a director where you actually lament the fact that the human body realistically needs to blink every so often and there will be frames of his work that you’ll inevitably have to miss. I’d honestly say that every single one of his film’s would be in my top ten animated movies of all time and that’s to say nothing of the groundbreaking work that he’s done on television, such as series like Kaiba, Ping Pong The Animation, Tatami Galaxy, and the recent Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Yuasa plays by no rules and he pushes the boundaries of animation beyond what you’d think they’re actually capable of. ![]() Masaaki Yuasa isn’t just a highly accomplished animation director, but it’s fair to say that he’s made some of the most beautiful animated films of the past decade. These bizarre circumstances set off Hinako and Minato’s relationship in unexpected ways in a very tender love story about finding your bliss, the joys and pains of love, and the importance of discovering your bliss. Hinako is destroyed over the loss of Minato, but she soon discovers that whenever she sings the special song that they shared together, he’s able to materialize in a nearby body of water. A whirlwind romance ensues between the two of them and just as they begin to open up to each other in new ways a tragic accident claims Minato’s life. Hinako meets Minato Hinageshi, a 21 year-old firefighter who’s decidedly more driven about life. Ride Your Wave presents the human story of Hinako Mukaimizu, a 19 year-old who moves to a new coastal town and in spite of her future being ahead of her, she’s not concerned with much beyond her passion towards surfing.
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