Audience reviews
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darth_kaiser_x
very reflective, it leaves you thinking about several "what ifs" that could have happened in life, it brings feelings of nostalgia, small moments of joy that make you think: "I was happy and I didn't know it", this work brings you all these feelings, the first story is simple but manages to captivate you with a touching narrative, the second for me is the weakest of the three but it is still good and tells a story of persistence and adaptation when circumstances try to throw you down and the third was the one that touched me the most because it reminds me of something I always wanted but never had when I was younger, the animation is very good and well crafted, if you want to relive simple and nostalgic moments this anime is for you
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This anime reminded me to make the most of now do what I want and say what I want to so when I grow up I have no regrets taught and reminded me to communicate taught me to enjoy what is present in my life because I don’t when it might disappear thought me to not get jealous of others and to keep doing what I’m doing as best as I can until I can’t do it anymore focus on myself I really really enjoyed it.
I also really liked the animation style and I would recommend this to anyone looking for a chill/slice of life watch since it can hit close to home
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Shikioriori 8/10 but uniquely enough for me to write a review for the kind you to give it a try
This movie's theme is: REGRET
I know we humans are bitterly imperfect, but please give your best. I plead with you to do it every time.
This movie's storytelling is different from the usual. 3 individuals with their own monogatari (story).
Each has made a mistake by not trying their best in their own respective way.
1/ Not trying to confront his own feelings and always choosing to watch from sideways
2/ Misplacing her priority between work and family. A major setback e is part of life, stay strong.
3/ Acting based on anger or bitter feelings is the worst self-punishment. You can lose things forever; please give your best: time, effort, and whatever shame you may think you need to go through.
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Flavors of youth.
Damnit why does Anime have to portray food that looks like that?
Even though I cannot eat beef, I want some San Xian Noodles so bad... the way they animated it.... holy
It was advertised as the same people who made Your Name, but no Makoto Shinkai this time.
What you get is the beautiful animation. This movie is about 1 hour 10, so it's quite short. I've seen single anime episodes longer.
This movie is very very similar to 5 Centimeters per Second in many ways. Both movies are shorter, and are split up into episodes. The episodes here are different subjects tho while 5 cm per second is all connected.
I liked 5 cm per second, like a lot.
but like neither of them are Your Name level (My favorite movie of ALL time)
5 Centimeter per second would be a normally mid mo…
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Just a film of three short stories that all worked well together. Such a sweet and easy watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
What I loved is that we were able to see such different parts of one country, and how all these different parts had such different stories, with such different settings and cultures, with such different characters and lifestyles.
It was a breath of fresh air, because the movie was so unique from other films. Something that I'd like to see a little bit more of.
But in saying that, it was also kind of mediocre in a way. It lacked any proper excitement, any big plot twists, which would've upped the score a bit more.
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This anime is by far the best I have seen, here's why. This anime makes you appreciate flashbacks. The story uses flashbacks sooooooo well, as it is about reminiscing about each character's past. The animation is incredibly stunning by itself. If you took away everything else and just watched the characters move... it is still so amazing. The music does absolute wonders for this show with its extremely emotional piano chords. The violin accompaniment to the piano made me swoon. I especially loved the animation of moving noodles and steam. Cooking is very cool in most animes... but this anime shines in that department. There's one scene from this shoe that makes me cry just thinking about it. It 's extremely well done and was very emotional. Please give this a watch. You won't regret it.
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My initial reaction to the end of the movie was merely awe. I could not believe I had just sat though an hour and a half of nothing. I was attracted to the idea that this was an anime created by the creators of your name, a movie that is visually stunning and has an amazing story. When I saw the romance tag to this movie, I had a similar expectation. That expectation was entirely wrong. This is not a romance, it is 3 separate stories that mesh in inconsequential ways at the end of the film. The combination of the three stories as a single movie feels like a crime as the only similar trait between them is all of the characters are finding their 'meaning' in life and reflecting on their journeys. This is realign just in line with some of the other Netflix originals, throwing money at a shit…
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I usually only write reviews for anime or manga that I enjoy, so that I can hopefully convince someone to watch or read it and share my enjoyment for it. But when I looked at the reviews and watched Flavours of Youth, I felt the landscape of reviews misrepresented this movie too much.
Stories - 2/10
The stories were not interesting. You can try to reach for an abstract meaning or personal interpretation of each story, but it was as if they were thought up in a second and based around a singular line. "Guy nostolgically eats noodles" "Clothing industry lady gets hurt" "Idk love romance sadness or something" and then they went to work.
Art - 9/10
Undoubtedly the best part of this anime. It looks amazing, I like the character designs a lot, and it has fluent animation. No complaints he…
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The title is Flavor of Youth and I think not only Asian that can enjoy this movie. This movie have 3 part, 1. The Rice Noodle, 2. A Little Fashion Show and 3. Love in Shanghai. Personally for me, the story is not something special, maybe you have see it somewhere that have similar plot. But the ending and message that they have put in this movie is strong enough. I specially like the ending, but maybe a lot of people skipped this because that ending played after credits.
But if you think you can skipped the story and go for the ending you won't get the same experienced. Because you don't watch the struggle of 3 story before. Although the story is not connected with each other they have the same message that connected in the end. So just watch it and don't skipped it.
If you say only As…
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I so want to give this a 1 / 10. What is this, another certified CoMix Story™ with a new twist? Gosh I detest this production. But I have to give it a 3 / 10 because while the stories are terrible, the art is above average so it technically balances out.
Another cookie-cutter tale of the intersection of personal backgrounds, bygone times, and change this is. Good thing CoMix only made, um, like six of these?
Now, if we disregard the fact that this story literally rips off CoMix’s own stuff (which we should actually disregard since originality does not necessarily equate brilliance), the story is quite bland. It feels like a slog because it's just boring. As for the specifics in the story and other stuff I won't go through them. They are covered by other reviews so just look through those…
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I'm as strange to Asian culture as the next weeb, on my first watch of the movie, I did wonder and question several directory decisions but until I read some reviews and schemed over some snippets from the movie I finally started grasping the genius behind what some would call, a poor man Shinkai's movie.
The movie goes scrolls through an anthology consisting of the transition into adulthood from several points of view, almost like an autobiography that narrates itself.
The first story titled “Sunny Breakfast” mirrors Xiao Ming, a young adult who reminisces on his life decisions as he desperately searches for the perfect bowl of noodles that's yet to remind him with his long lost tasteful youth. On many occurrences, the steam escaping his hot and fresh bowl of noodles foggs everything el…
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This review was originally published to THAO on 8 September 2018.
There’s a certain style of Orthodox iconography. It’s called a triptychon. They are three icons mounted together on hinges at the sides, that open in the middle. The holy images included in a triptychon are typically part of the same spiritual theme, or contribute to a larger whole: for example, a Christ Enthroned icon seated between the Mother of God and Saint John the Forerunner; or icons sequentially narrating the progression of the Crucifixion or the Resurrection. However, all the figures and all the moments are present simultaneously to the prayer before the icon. Past and futurity are eliminated. Time collapses within a diptychon or a triptychon just as sæcular time collapses within the liturgy. Moments in a diptychon…
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This movie is oddly enough, one serious contender in terms of anime, especially when it's a joint Sino-Japanese animation, at that.
It was really enjoyable to watch, and it's like one of the eye-candies you see in watching Kimi no Na Wa and Koe no Katachi. I even remembered they compared this movie to the former, to which I say that it's sufficiently far from it, enough for this movie to be unique.
With that out of the way, I have to mention one glaring flaw, and it's about the characters- their arcs aren't that satisfying when concluded (that doesn't mean it's bad), because it falls short of time needed to give them character development, which is specifically recognizable for me at the last . That being said, it's not a deal breaker, and they caught my attention, though I recognize that…
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I think most of the reviews on here are dumb and defeat the point of the medium we all enjoy and why we enjoy it in the first place. Instead of getting hung up about cultural context , accuracy's and inaccuracy's and instead focus on the emotions conveyed. I am not well versed in Chinese culture and yet I found myself resonating with this anime. Emotion and how that is conveyed through the medium we are experiencing it through surpasses the specifics of culture because we are all human and we all feel these emotions. Those are the only pre requisites to relate to this series of short story's .
Last time I checked humans from every country and culture felt: Love, Sadness, Regret, Happiness, Relief and nostalgia. Which is why I don't understand why everyone is banging on about how unrelata…
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Flavours of Youth is a story not dedicated to literal food. Rather, a collection of three stories from a time of the early tastes of life. The taste of nostalgia if you like.
I can't say I relate to this movie, my life isn't very exciting or eventful compared to others. What I will say however is that it is a good representation of the many different stories people carry along with them and continue to write days, months, years into the future, until the halting of one's life comes. Picture yourself in a busy metropolitan area, with every person that passes you, a story, eventful, uneventful, exciting, unexciting, happy, unhappy, orthodox, unorthodox, interesting, uninteresting. A magnitude of adjectives can be used to describe an individual's sole story, and it is mind-boggling really. I…
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Although Flavors of Youth might not have the same western appeal as the studios' other works, it is still a film worth experiencing with fantastic visuals, effective music and stories that are short yet sweet. Some might find this movie to be 'boring' as the concepts on paper are quite simple and not particularly interesting, however the artistic way that these stories are told makes them surprisingly engaging and really shows the talent of the studio behind this movie.
It might not be for everyone, however I can safely say I really enjoyed my time with this film and recommend people to give it a chance.
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So Flavors Of Youth is an anime mixed of 3 different stories. So let me explain each of them.
1st one. So the first story is about a guy named Xiao Ming and his grandmother. The whole story of the anime was about the moment's of Xiao childhood with his grandmother and some highschool memories of Xiao.
2nd story. The second story was about two sisters named Yi Lin and Lulu. So Yi Lin is a beautiful model and her little sister is a fashion designer. They both lost their parents in childhood. So they both live in an apartment together. But for some reason, the relationship between Yi Lin and her sister Lulu is not that good. One day Yin Lin had to quit her job ( I'm not saying the reason because it would be a spoiler). But Yin's sister Lulu doesn't want her sister to quit her job. So that'…
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I've read reviews of this movie written by Chinese people who said this spoke to them very deeply. I respect it, because this is coming from a very specific place, but I don't relate to it for the same reason. I just don't share the context. Artistically, this is another hyper-detailed anime that mistakes fidelity for quality. It's completely at odds with my aesthetic preferences.
The first of the three shorts exist solely so they could get funding to make animated food gifs. But I found the short so unappealing that I'll probably never look at those gifs (which recycle regularly) the same again. The second was fine, but not challenging at all. It seemed like they threw it together naratively, because there was no point to the pink-haired girl whatsoever by the end, even though she was no…
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First story was just about a guy smacking on some bomb noodles and that was pretty cool. The animation when they were whipping it up in the kitchen was kinda heat ngl. I personally found this pretty average. The animation was nice and all but the story wasn't that interesting, it's just about a guy that likes grubbing on some noodles. 6/10
The second story was about 2 sisters, one of them worked as a model and the other worked as a designer for her model sister. This story was like eh bruh like I lowkey could've just skipped it and wouldn't care at all. This story might hit the spot for some viewers but it wasn't for me. The story wasn't bad just wasn't interesting enough for me. 4/10
Now the third story, bruh that was like mad heat ong no cap. The third sto…
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Very beautifully and artistically clubbed together 3 pieces of stories, all of them shares a common thing - 'taste of youth'. But the catch is, different meaning of taste/youth ( or perspective i should say) has been depicted in these 3 stories. Since they are not related, i'll try to review them separately based on my experience.
In the first one, taste may refer to the original taste.. the foods we used to love at childhood and can never forget the smile it used to bring on our face, but alas, is available no more. It could be the food made by our grandparents, or as simple as a small candy.
Only for this part, my rating is - 8
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In the second one, taste of youth is the the indomitable desire…
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