Audience reviews
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jaamun100
This is criminally underrated. It's such a shame that this doesn't have an English dub, but don't let that stop you from giving this a watch. Summer Days with Coo combines supernatural mythology elements into a beautiful slice of life, following a family on its journey of growth via their special magical pet. Coo himself has his own epic journey, that begins tragically but ends happily. Coo, though not human himself, is treated as a true sibling and goes through an array of human emotions. While deeply moving at times, the movie also possesses fantastic & intelligent comedic relief (no exaggerated manga effects for comedy) and plot-twisting drama. This is a true masterpiece - one of the greatest stories told, and really deserves an English dub.
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Well, this movie broke me. I cried so many times, and all of the times it was the human’s fault.
Two characters died because of humans. Other characters suffered mentally, because of humans.
When Coo discovered an ability, I honestly wished him to kill all humans. Sadly he did not so, but well. Would’ve been too easy anyway, I guess.
Fuck humans. I hate them. I hate to be one of them. If I could choose, I’d be a different species. Anything, really.
But humans are a piece of junk and this movie just proves it once more.
I love the director for exposing humans like that; perhaps that’s why the movie is unpopular.
Anyway, go watch it and suffer.
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What makes a great anime movie? Is it visuals, great storytelling, great and relatable characters, mind-bending themes and ideas or just the name of a famous director and studio. Whatever it is, we all love movies and anime. When I think about anime movies one of the first which comes to my mind is Summer Days with Coo and it is not because of complex storytelling, visuals or name of the director but it is because it is the only anime movie that genuinely made me cry and word “genuinely” is very important. Coo is not a movie of fakeness or pretending, it is a movie about reality and humans, It does not pretend anything but show directly what is true and that is the greatest asset of Summer Days With Coo. To understand this we have to understand the story structure and characters of this mo…
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Humanity was destined to rule, and selfishly at that, it seems. If you're reading this, you're guilty of conquering. While it may not be on the scale of raiding and pillaging villages to gain land, you are indeed living on the natural habitat or animals, both big and small, and that is sort of what Summer Days with Coo illustrates. It gives human-like qualities to turtle-like creatures, called kappas, allowing us to see the consequences of our actions without discarding it as "they're only animals." It gives us a sense of sympathy. At the beginning of the film, a samurai kills a kappa as he pleads to keep some of his land. The kappa's son runs out, but the ground cracks, as a curse has happened due to the elder kappa's death and the younger falls through, becoming fossilized. Fast forward…
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I originally watched this since I really find yokai interesting & thought this would be a cute movie from what i gathered from the bio of it. While it was a fairly cute movie it did have a very dark side to it.
It really exposed the nasty side of human beings in this film, to the point where it almost made me uncomfortable. I am very sensitive about the fair treatment of animals, so just as a warning to anyone like me, you may be bothered by a few scenes in this film. Apart from that it definitely had some funny & cute moments that made me laugh. I think I was just blown away at how emotional and deep that the creators made this film. It was definitely a mixture of things I hadn't seen before. It also showed a very interesting evolution of characters in terms of maturity, etc.
It was al…
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"My father used to say that people rob water and land, and one day they will take away the wind, the sky and all that is sacred to us, but as a punishment for them, they will lose their soul."
It's really emotional anime in Miyazaki's style! One of the things I had to look, I found a wonderful, simple, almost childish cartoon about a Japanese mythical character – a kappa! In the center of the story - a small kappa named Coo (it is eastern Slavic relative of the nix) - green, large-eyed, like a frog and a turtle at a time. Kind, naive and totally unacquainted with the modern world.
Somehow, that full-scale project, that Japanese director Keiichi Hara spent five years, is overlooked. Apparently more people like to look at boobs flashing before his eyes, and rivers of blood than a fairy dai…
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If there's anything this anime could remind you of then it's the movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".
A boy finds a strange (initially fossilised) creature, a Kappa named Coo, with a kind character. The family gets attached to Coo and struggles to keep him secret from the public. Coo soon starts to feel lonely and separated and wonders about his own kind.
Even though there's a lot happening in between and afterwards, the movie has a very, VERY calm and smooth way of storytelling but doesn't create a feeling boredom. If you're looking for action and a propulsive plot, then this is nothing for you.
Most characters have depth and happen to be very open with their feelings - this, the sorrows of Coo and what they entail make "Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi" an exceptionally empathetic and touchi…
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When I borrowed the DVD from my sister I was sceptical at first because she said she didn't really like it and the graphics weren't really outstanding either. How wrong I was. Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi is one if the most amazing animes I have ever seen. I must admit I expected it to be rather boring and not special at all but I was so wrong. I enjoyed every minute of it, it was fun to watch, I laughed a lot, and I cried a lot too. The story really touched me, the characters really grew on me (even the supporting ones!) and when I was done watching, I was sad because I didn't want it to end.
The Story: The young boy Koichi happens to find a Kappa, which surprisingly survived over 200 years. He takes the Kappa, now named "Coo", home, and starting from then on, he secretly lives with fami…
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