AniWorthOblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror
Introduction
Your favourite teddy bear. That model kit that took so long to complete. The picture book you used to read over and over again. The shining stone you found that day in the park. Where do all your childhood's treasures go when you grow up? In this story, we meet fantastic creatures that gather all these little objects that fall into oblivion as they are forgotten by their owners when they step into adulthood. These creatures sneak into our world from a different dimension, and unseen by humans, they take all the ditched and forgotten "treasures" into their world. Here, they use their booty to build their own city, a fairy tale-like place called... Oblivion Island!
(Source: Production I.G)
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Audience reviews
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allegrotime
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror is a cute, imaginative, and well-done children's film. I find it exciting and refreshing that more child-friendly anime is being licensed stateside.
A brief overview of the story is that 16 year old Haruka travels to another dimension where neglected items are used by its inhabitants, as the citizens cannot make anything of their own... so they use what humans no longer care for. Haruka wants to find her late mother's hand mirror, and thus begins her journey. The story is very straightforward and simple, which is appropriate for the target audience.
Before putting the DVD in I admit that I was a bit apprehensive about the computer animated art style. Once I started watching though I really enjoyed the art. I guess I feared having to sit throug…
Read at the sourceNeonKazma
Oblivion Island is a movie that pops a question in my mind after I saw this movie; Why can't we get original and creative films like this on Hollywood? Well that's because nowadays, Hollywood is nothing more than a bunch of lazy dumbfucks that rather make garbage for the audience, while original movies get the middle finger by the audiences and they don't ever get mentioned again for generations to come. Oblivion Island gives hope that originality in filmmaking isn't dead and Production I.G has created a film filled with so much wonder and creativity that it deserves to be seen by the whole world and not just the US.
The story is about Haruka, a 16- year old girl who lost her mother at a very young age and forgot all about the mirror that she had as a gift from her mother. Feeling guilty…
Read at the sourceSheepdude
Oblivion Island isn't so much a movie as it is a 90-minute revealing of some impressive cgi technology - or perhaps just a really long toy commercial.
The movie begins with our young protagonist, Haruka, being read a children's fantasy by her bedridden mother. The book tells a story of a man whose treasured comb was returned to him by a fox after offering an egg at a shrine. The townspeople begin offering eggs to the shrine in hopes of having their items returned as well, but little do they know that the foxes are actually responsible for stealing the items that are considered 'forgotten' by the people. Haruka assures her mother that the hand mirror she received as a present won't share the same fate, since she'll treasure it forever.
Flash ten years into the future, where Haruka is now…
Read at the sourceArchaeon
Anime, like many other media, is a veritable Pandora's Box when it comes to finding something entertaining. What you think about a given show may range from outright loathing to blissful wonderment - you never know until you start watching.
Every so often though, something will come along that will give you hope for the future of the medium.
For starters, Hottarake no Shima ~Haruka to Mahou no Kagami~ (or, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror), is possibly the most visually arresting 3D movie I have ever seen (and before you ask, yes, I have seen Avatar, and no, I wasn't overly impressed by that Dances with Wolves crossed with Battle for Terra rip off). Over the years the 3D genre of anime has been woefully misrepresented, however Oblivion Island looks set to not only change the…
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