The Napping Princess (Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari) 2017
This film was sweet and at times exciting, with great character design and some distinctive performances too (especially from Mitsuki Takahata) but overall the split storylines introduced a bit of murkiness for me.
Perhaps related to this, the tone seemed to move in an out of ‘younger viewers’ territory.
I’m certainly not claiming that films aimed at kids are bad – at all – it’s just that The Napping Princess maybe could have done a little more to show consequences of some of the big, city-wide events.
On the other hand, no matter your age, if want something that looks great and is full of cute moments and fun characters, then I think this will satisfy. It was interesting to have a car company take centre stage here too, something I haven’t seen over and over.
It probably sounds like I didn’t enjoy The Napping Princess but that’s not so, it’s just that for me it was ‘good’ but not a ‘knock-out’ and maybe I went in with some assumptions that unfairly impacted my overall enjoyment.
3 Stars
I heard some decent things about it, but that it wasn’t some end all be all anime movie.
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Yeah – I didn’t take much time to highlight many of the good things with this review (as there are others), but it’s firmly in the ‘good but not great’ category for me.
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Gotcha and that’s totally fine. I’ve had some of that with my shorter reviews especially with the short films I cover.
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Increasingly I find myself realising (over and over perhaps) that these are the sorts of ones I find hardest to review 😀
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Short films? I can see the logic in why they can be difficult because there’s not much to show as much as a full length or a series. There’s a quicker turnaround time from my personal experience and there’s a lower demand for a word count most of the time (Okay, I did make a surprisingly long review for a short film for Jungle Emperor Leo: Hon-O-Ji given my obligatory “Kimba/TLK comparison” paragraphs in all my reviews for that series, but I digress). I do feel like I cover a good amount of shorts from around the world though. It kind of started with a short film anthology and one of those entries in that compilation was “Inja” which is an Australian/South African flick.
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