Bubble

 Recently, Noshi and me sat down behind our Netflix and put on this highly reviewed anime movie.

And I can already say, we where impressed!

Because this is a true masterpiece by Wit Studious, the animation is gorgeous and full of movement, the colours on said titular bubbles is truly playing your eye... amazing work.

The story is that a few years ago, mysterious bubbles started falling to earth, breaking the laws of reality.  When an explosion on Tokyo Tower concentrates them allaround Tokyo, the city becomes uninhabitable.  But young people sneak into the city to hold games of "Battleground Parcours", and the Blue Blazes are one of the top teams, thanks to an introvert boy named Hibiki, who has hearing ultrasensitivity.

One day Hibiki tries to climb the tower as he hears a woman's voice singing, but falls in the water and is about to drown.  One of the bubbles however combines with his final exhale, transforming in a young girl that saves him.  He takes her along to his team, calling her Uta, and she joins their ranks, unknown to Hibiki and the others what she really is.

They beat a rival team, the Undertakers, together in a very intense game, but in the final catch when Uta takes Hibiki's arm, it dissolves into bubbles.  Bubble activity starts up again as it threatens to destroy Tokyom so the residents try to flee but get stuck.  It comes down to Hibiki and his friends to get to the tower where Uta went to in order to try and stop the activity.

Hibiki manages to reach her, and learns of how one particular bubble was attracted to him all those years ago before the explosion, and how it saved him.  Since then, it has been watching over him, as she fell in love with Hibiki like the tale of the Little Mermaid.  She fades into bubbles, but in her last breath she tells him it was worth it all to become human, no matter how briefly, and be with him.  The bubbles are calming, and Tokyo is being rebuild, but Hibiki still practices parkour, with a bubble following him...

A truly beautifull movie based on the tale of the Little Mermaid, with a just as dramatic yet hopeful ending, and definitly worth to watch on Netflix!