Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
nozomiEX
As a huge fan of Eve no Jikan, as I was watching Mizu no Kotoba, I was having quite a bit of deja vu, and sure enough, this is the springboard for what later became one of my favorite movies. It was certainly interesting to see the roots, the nascent ideas starting to kick in the womb, and particularly visually and atmospherically, it still has some merits of its own. Sadly, the themes and narrative elements are quite a bit weaker here. Muddled and benign, breaking away from coherence (if it ever was in the first place,) and simply pretty words with not much underneath. As it's only 9 minutes, it might still be worth checking out purely as a shoegazing diversion, but I highly recommend you watch Eve no Jikan first or simply instead.
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Found it on Crunchyroll while searching for another anime. It felt like I was watching a demo of someone trying to test whatever techniques they could pull out in a shortest amount of time. Honestly not a fan but again it was 9 minutes and 5 seconds so I wasn’t expecting much until I saw people giving it a good review so I decided to watch it but it was meh tbh.
The story was unique I guess but you’ll have no idea wtf is happening since it’s too short, is it intriguing? Nope not at all. The characters i found them annoying tbh it felt like someone was bored & observed people in a cafe and decided to put it here.
The art style is fine.
Honestly I wouldn’t recommend it but it’s short so if you want give it a try I guess.
Read at the sourceBurntFlower
Finishing jigsaw puzzles require time, commitment, and a sharp eye for details. Mizu no Kotoba is like someone who started an ambitious 3000-piece puzzle, but gave up half-way through. One can somewhat see what the larger picture was supposed to be, but the overall image is marred by empty swaths of space.
The cast of characters isn't the most memorable - or likable. Short anime are constrained by their run time, but it is not impossible to develop interesting characters despite that (just look at She and Her Cat). This is not the case here. We have a guy who has become embittered with women after breaking up with his girlfriend over a petty fight; two women gossiping over a friend of a friend who had a crush on a man, but they refer to him twice as "not really a guy"; a quiet woman read…
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Spoilers in bound. Watch the short first! At the time of writing this, it's available on youtube with english and spanish subtitles.
Mizu no Kotoba, or Aquatic Language, it's the first short of Yoshiura Yasuhiro, in which he expunges his views on Kotodama, the belief that words are living things, with inherent power when they're spoken. This idea isn't just present in this short, not by a long-shot, but it's one of the few I've seen that name-drop the concept directly. Another one that comes to mind is the movie, Kimi no Koe wo Todoketai, that funnily enough it's about cute girls doing radio. But what is Mizu no Kotoba about and what does it say about Kotodama?
I'll talk a bit about the character models and the animation. Since it was done by one person(at least he's the only one credit…
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Mizu no Kotoba is a nine minute anime from Studio Rikka. That's right, the Eve no Jikan & Harmonie studio. It was released in 2002, making it the oldest Rikka anime I've looked at by over half a decade. It's also the shortest by a pretty wide margin. Let's see how it holds up.
Story:
Our narrative is set in a quaint cafe where a group of patrons are all holding their own conversations. Our main focus is on the young man at the counter and the barista who's trying to cheer him up after he broke up with his girlfriend.
One thing to note about the story-telling is that the conversations from the people besides our main character all, in some form, foreshadow what he's going to experience towards the end of the short. Which, I don't really think is necessary. You could honestly have the c…
Read at the sourceLima-Sama
It has a really nice atmosphere that reels you in from the very first second.
The dialogue is very clean and natural and that, along with the sound effects are the strongest assets of the movie.
The combination of 2d and 3d work beautifully. It feels like a 2d anime and even if things do move a little sluggish sometimes (in typical 3d fashion), it goes well with the flow and rythim of the movie.
The fact that I didn't quite get what it's about was what kept me from giving it a higher score. The whole movie feels like it's leading somewhere and unfortunately I didn't understand where. Noneless, that didn't stop me from enjoying it very much. Like an experimental film, this movie in my opinion is meant to be felt more than understood.
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
(updated review due to version seen. Originally subbed now dubbed)
Rate of 5
English dubbed
Society is riddle with dilemmas. Luckily an 'individual' was able to enlighten a troubled youth. For when someone is troubled they tend to drawn-out a shield or better yet craw into a shell concept wise of a hermit. Broken down some beyond repair or so they might think forget the power they all wield. Language, is air. Despite our troubles we bottled emotions are airlifted out from verbalization. Not just that but they act in manners similar to the carbon footprint. Forgotten at the moment perhaps but will linger on endlessly like the internet.
Story
neatly constructed from the choice of setting down to the word choices of objects of focus. However, it's message was not one easily obtained. For m…
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Story:
There's a lot of content here bundled up in a short period that is incredibly underwhelming. Despite it being introspective, it gets some sort of point across, but it's really just bits and pieces of a bigger picture that is never fulfilled. It's decent enough to speak to the viewer but not good enough to leave any lasting or memorable experience. I've already forgotten half of what happens, or what was discussed, and I only watched it (with my full attention) nearly 5 minutes ago.
Art:
The art is fitting, but it's a bit of a clash. It's jarring at first but then settles down to a tolerable degree. However, when characters are doing more than sitting idly, they look strange and disproportionate.
Sound:
Audio is fine for the most part, but the song used near the end is pretty lac…
Read at the sourceSaitarra
Despite being a short piece, Mizu no Kotoba is anything but bare and a satisfying use of nine minutes.
One of the anime's most interesting features was how it develops characters in such a short space of time: six people seems like an over-the-top number considering the anime is under ten minutes long. Each action is expressive and the viewer is left with a good impression of each person's personality.
Peppered by quotes from famous literary works, the feeling of watching people as creatures in an aquarium is done justice. I was personally intrigued by how real it felt: the atmosphere is very much that of a calm evening and overhearing snippets of conversation is similar to entering a café in real life. There is not much of a story present, but the brevity of Mizu no Kotoba means this d…
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9 minutes. That was my initial thought when a friend told me about this piece of work. So obviously I had close to no expectations while watching it. Normally I would have thought it was a waste of time, but for 9 minutes? why not?
So I watched all 9 min and 5 seconds it had to offer and I was amazed with what it produced. It gave some nice insight in to the way people think and the values people have. In 9 minutes they introduce 6 characters and develop them just enough to keep it interesting. The art was an interesting style that was appealing and essential at some key points. There was a nice smooth soundtrack to match the setting of a small relaxed coffee shop. It was highly enjoyable and I would encourage everyone to watch it, and for 9 minutes why not right?
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It was clear to me after a few viewings that 'Aquatic Language' or 'Mizu no Kotoba' is a prototype for what would become 'Eve no Jikan' or 'Time of Eve.' Or, perhaps, more correctly, Eve is an expansion on the concepts put forth by Studio Rikaa in Aquatic. The animation style, scripting, 'camera work', layout of the coffee shop, the appearance of the cafe hostess (compare to Nagi), and even the ping at the end of Aquatic are all incorporated, albeit somewhat refined, into 'Eve no Jikan.'
I don't know why Studio Rikka waited 6 years from one project to the other, but from what I have seen of 'Eve no Jikan' I'm glad that they finally moved ahead. As a retrospective on the origins of 'Eve no Jikan' I would say that 'Mizu/Aquatic' is well worth watching. Aquatic seems to explore some things t…
Read at the sourceSlykain
Because I'm of those persons who likes the start and ending and don't care about the middle I can say, wow.
It really makes your squirrel move. It has alot of references (or... the ones I noticed). That makes the cut a little dynamic. And think about whats happening.
And, well... its just weird. Because a lot of things happened at random times.
Also, they tell you some of every character, even if there are 5, the cut tells you the personality of everyone, just what I like, what type of person they are...
Thats why I liked it o.o
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