Audience reviews
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NextUniverse
There is something about short anime, music video kind, that gets the best of me. I am a fan of simple, short and sweet and went you have the three combined you get the simple gems like Egao here.
The narrative here is honestly something I don't think I captured as I should have. Apparently, there is supposed to be a boyfriend which I was confused about but running over it and it becomes obvious as to what was supposed to be presented. Anyways the execution of this was pretty good, for a music video, it does well in that space of time. They do tend to play with an emotion easily but Egao feels really smoothing rather than flamboyant for no good reason.
Came here for Shinkai audiovisual and I am telling you now if I am here a 3rd time then this is some good stuff for sure. I love the basi…
Read at the sourcePingPongYa
Makoto Shinkai always has a great way of expressing himself and bringing emotion through little shorts. It's more of a music video than an anime but it was very moving and beautiful.
Story: 6/10
There isn't much of a story that you can put into a 2 minute short, but it was still very cute and wholesome for what there was. Just a lady and her hamster.
Art: 8/10
The art style is very simplistic and messy, but I think this fits the anime perfectly for what it was trying to achieve. I think if it had been more detailed it would have ruined it a little.
Sound: 10/10
The song that played throughout the short was incredibly touching and very catchy. I will be singing it for weeks now haha!! The melody and the actual lyrics almost brought me to tears. It is an extremely beautiful song and it…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 4
English Subtitled
Plot
Entire story there was no main issues to what each word meant in this animation.
Conclusion i had no complaints with. It was fabulous not emotional for me but no complaints. For not only did it relate back to the introduction but had a nice extra farewell animation that was appropriate given the age range.
Art
-I enjoyed how characters were drawn. I am at a loss for an exact word to describing but it was the right level cuteness. Kind of like seeing a puppy. They are quite adorable and cute. Unlike pin up girls because their level of cuteness derives somewhat in an ecchi stand of view.
-I don't like how the artwork or settings was copy and pasted over or politely put recycled. Music video was fairly short in time span. Was it not possible to create some…
Read at the sourceVeronin
In two short minutes of animation, "Egao" tells a short love story that begins with heart-wrenching melancholy and ends with head-scratching confusion. I suppose Makoto Shinkai has always been a master at manipulating emotion.
Egao certainly does not evoke this confusion through deep or complex storytelling, however; it falls very much on the opposite side of the spectrum. The problem, rather, is that Shinkai just does not say or do much of anything with it. The story starts on a happy note, the unnamed protagonist enjoying the company of her new hamster, and then it decides to suddenly turn things into a story of unrequited love-- Shinkai's trademark, the same theme that has been present in his stories from the beginning and likely until the day he retires from animation.
To be fair,…
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Shhhh... And listen to the feels. The story was about a woman getting a hamster and him becoming her companion. It's not really an anime but more of a music short. The melody is calming and I listen to this when I'm sad. It's worth a look at and definitely worth your time.
Read at the sourceMarow
This little film came to be thanks to the Minna no Uta (“Everyone’s Songs") program by NHK and was a way to promote the singer Hiromi Iwasaki. The one who received the task to create a music video for her song “Egao” was none other than Makoto Shinkai.
What he produced was a delightful little video about a girl and her newly bought hamster. This complements the already beautiful song extremely well and creates a charming whole.
Every now and then I find myself re-watching Egao due to how simplistic it is. If I am to make a wild guess, this marks the only time where Shinkai followed the “simple is better” principle. This really works and has resulted in a short little music video full with honest feelings.
And sometimes this is just what you need.
Read at the sourceShioxus
There isn't much to this short really. There is a small story line, but there are only 3 types people who will enjoy this one.
1.) People that adore Makoto Shinkai.
2.) People who liked Hamtaro. A lot.
3.) Moe fans.
I belong to the first category, and while this was nothing extraordinary, I can say that watching this short won't be a waste of time.
Read at the source5hreddy
Again, another short from Shinkai Makoto.
First off this isn't really a proper "anime anime" really. It's actually simply a kind of music video for which the art was constructed by Shinkai-san :) . It's a very short special item so there isn't really much to review for it but it is a fairly entertaining item to simply add to your list.
Story: Well, it is basically as mentioned above and is about a women and her hamster.
Art and Sound: The music itself to which the anime is set is pretty decent. It to me sounds a bit like it could be an opening theme to a tv series of some sorts possibly. The art though is pretty gorgeous within the context of the style. Everything is nice and crisp and the hamster looks really cute (although strangely huge for a hamster).
Character: Not much to say, no…
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