Gênero: Award Winning, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
Estudio: Studio Colorido
Sinopse:
On the eve of a junior high school's cultural festival, Typhoon No. 8 slowly approaches the isolated Okinawan town of Naha. A mysterious girl wearing a strange necklace suddenly appears alongside the storm, catching Shuuichi Azuma off guard.
After getting into a fight with his best friend Kenta Saijou over his decision to quit the baseball team, Azuma notices the same girl standing atop an electrical tower when lightning strikes, cutting power to the school and causing her to tumble down below. Unwilling to stay in the same room as Saijou, Azuma runs off to rescue the strange girl as the storm intensifies.
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Comentários
Kelvets
At the time I'm writing this, 366 people have taken the time to rate this anime, but none have written a review. So I might as well be the first. First, I'd like to point out that this is a short animation, lasting only 30 minutes. As such, it's fair to say you can completely ignore the review and just watch this OVA yourself, as no reviewer can be a better judge of what pleases you than yourself! As at worst you'll only have "wasted" half an hour of your life. However, if for some obscure reason you still prefer to read the review first, carryon.
I'll begin with what impressed me most, the art. It's reminiscent of the works of my favorite anime director, Makoto Shinkai. The backgrounds are drawn with much more detail than the characters, creating a sort of contrast. While the backgrounds in Taifuu no Noruda don't quite have the absurd level of detail found in Shinkai's works, they are still impressive. Other than that, I was also impressed by the feeling of impending doom the incoming typhoon managed to convey. The art direction here is definitely great.
Sadly, the story is not up to par. It involves a mysterious girl that appears during the typhoon and is rescued by the main character. At the end of the show, her origins are still not explained, and we know just as much about who is she is as when the story began (that is, nothing). The story also involves a conflict between the main character and his best friend, which is resolved at the end in a rather clichéd way. Also cliché is the impossibly ridiculous way in which the protagonist saves the mystery girl from her impending doom. But oh well, this is anime, and concessions have to be made.
One could argue that the 30-minute duration puts heavy constraints on the way the story can be told. While I agree, there are also other anime who managed to tell a good story in the same timespan (the excellent Harmonie (also referred to as Anime Mirai 2014) comes to mind). I feel like this one, however, would need two or three times its current length to be told in a satisfactory manner.
The characters are likeable and have potential, but again, there was not enough time to flesh them out and cause me to get attached to them.
If you don't care about having a fully realized story, then by all means watch this OVA. The art alone should be worth the half hour you invest into it. Besides, I can think of far worse ways to spend half an hour.
hellofrnd
Taifuu no Noruda is the result of attempting to squeeze a movie into half an hour. A lot of things are poorly explained if at all. The storyline is incredibly predictable, mostly because the characters are flat and cliche. The art was decent, nothing special, especially when compared to modern standards. The background music wasn't bad, but the voice actors sounded flat and boring. This is especially noticeable during exclamations; the characters do not sound scared or excited at all. The characters as stated before are incredibly cliche. The main character for the sake of wanting to make his own decisions decides to risk hislife to save a girl, Noruda. He fights with his friend because he thinks it is lame to follow him. Characters are not the strongest point in this movie. In fact, Noruda's name is pretty much the only piece of information we learn about her. Nothing is explained about what she is, where she came from, and why she's causing the end of the world. I personally didn't enjoy it at all and would not recommend it.
EroOu
Just like my previous review i won't compare this show to anything else due to the simple fact i'm reviewing this and nothing else. OK lets keep this pretty quick and straightforward. 1st of all i wanna touch on the story side of things, i neither like it or dislike it ,it's a rushed 30 minute movie i treated it more like an OVA ,which it basically is. There is a story but its so short there no point on me talking about it ,the synopsis itself tells u most of what's going on. -Its visual appeal was really good ,i enjoyed the animation thoroughly. -The sounds, ost's and whatnot ,are very appealing and fit that.. let's call it setting.
-Characters well they are pretty lovable even within that short 30 minutes ,but i got nothing furthermore to add to that.
To be honest just watch it, its 30 minutes it's a great animation overall ,just kick back grab a drink and watch it.
If you managed to read this all.. well i appreciate that thanks, much love
(also i give a 5 on story due to what is manage to tell in such short time)
BlurredVision18
Not gonna go in-depth as this is only a half hour film. Well, for this particular film, Ishida and Arai decided to flip their roles of Director and Animator. Arai had been an animator for the late Studio Ghibli, now being quite involved with Studio Colorido, he makes his directorial debut with Taifuu no Noruda. The film takes place on a certain isolated island, at a certain middle school, and on the eve of the culture festival. A boy quits baseball after playing his whole life and has a fight with his best friend. Then, they suddenly meet a mysterious, red-eyed girl named Noruda, and ahuge typhoon hits the middle school.
This is the longest film they have made running 27 mins. It leaves something to be desired for it's typical approach to narrative rather than relying on subtext through their superb visuals. Not to say the animation isn't good, in fact it's really good, but I feel like they are conforming to more recent character designs instead of the their previous works' style that is reminiscent to the more unique Ghibli characters. It's sort of a mash of the two.
The only aspect that's underwhelming is the approach to its story. As typical of most Narrative focused short films, there is just too much of an idea squeezed into an insufficient amount of time, in both production and in the film itself. The story is too complex, forcing characters to develop prematurely and leaving lots of aspects unresolved. The voice acting also could have used a little more work, the characters didn't feel like they had any emotion, farther detaching the viewer from the story.
As I mentioned, it was very well animated and an interesting idea even though events are rather cliche. Has potential to be a decent series if fleshed out properly. Still quite enjoyable. 6/10 (Note that I rate Short Films on a bit of a curve different to that of a series or full length feature film) I'll still be following and supporting Studio Colorido. I think I'll end up ordering the BD if available. And I hope to see a full length feature film or maybe an original single cour series in the future. And when they do, I hope Ishida retakes his rein as director and Arai returns to the drawing board.
IzzyLighto
To keep this review short, the anime is very average. The story two kids, Saijou and Azuma, who get into a fight because Azuma wants to quit baseball. A Typhoon that's about to hit and there's this girl who says the only way to have the world "reborn" is by becoming a pillar. You can figure out the rest of the story. There's nothing deep or sentimental about this anime whatsoever. MAL said to write a longer review so instead I'm going to recommend an anime. If you want something about natural disasters and a way better story/plot/overall anime in general, watch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.Plus it's only 11 and not only 27 minutes. Honestly, I feel like they could've done more with this concept. Maybe more backstory on Saijou and Azuma. Episodes about when they were kids, playing baseball, and about Noruda (the girl, if you didn't know by now) and her past.
Kamunomikotonori
Taifuu no Noruda was frustrating. The thing that I like in the drama genre (well, it was stated that this movie is in the drama genre) is how it will always seemingly attempt to become meaningful to its audience, and the way by which it achieves its meaning can to some extent be separated from the actual overarching story. Both superficially and essentially, what makes a piece of artistic medium meaningful is the general story or message it tries to convey. Most likely, when the story fails, the entire medium becomes trivialized and nonsensical and the viewer has to resort to plot devices, which are oftencliched, in order to grasp some meaning into the story. Primarily, the plot devices that the drama genre utilizes are to me, far more effective in creating meaning than most other genre. Things in drama like cheap feels, even when the main story does not make sense, often tells the viewer that there's something more to the story, and basing from the viewer's perceptions and experiences, symbolism and embodiment of human realities are re-imagined by the viewer himself, even if such things were not even intended by the medium to begin with. This is probably because strong emotions like sadness are the ones associated with those symbolisms. Other genre, like comedy and action, when they become trivialized, and excluding the incorporation of drama in the stories they progress to, are vulnerable to being boring and insignificant. Taifuu no Noruda was cliched with this respect, but nevertheless highlighted this feature of drama rather satisfactorily to me, despite a very poorly presented main story.
So taking the main story into consideration, it could be said that almost everything did not make sense. The pretty obvious explanation was that there was very limited room for story development. But even with that, I feel that some short animated films have done a lot better in terms of building its story, the key is to select obscurities to apply which although will make the story incomplete, will create that eerie atmosphere where the story challenges the viewer to make the interpretations of the events himself, thus still making sense in his perspective. With Taifuu no Noruda however, I think the reason for failing to make sense is that the main story is sci-fi-ish, and sci-fi stories definitely beg for a whole lot of explanation. In fact, the story wasn't only incomplete, it was almost contradictory-kind-of-confusing way. Like Noruda said that she was sent to this world to rebuild it. Yeah, I get it that main questions come to mind of the viewer like, "Who sent you?" "If you're not human, what are you?" "Why did you end up in that school if you are supposed to rebuild the world?" More importantly however, it was kinda confusing whether or not the rebuilding-the-world thing is a good thing, and it felt like she was trying to stop it and even looked happy in the end after the catastrophe (?) was prevented, and she seemed reluctant in doing it. Things like this, I felt, needed to be addressed by the movie to define the stance it takes as it goes along with the story. In terms of the conflict of the two friends however, I felt that it was justified how the actual reason of Azuma leaving the baseball team causing them to have a fight, and only hinted with their conversation later in the story saying something about running away from Saijou. It was a perfect example of obscurity that while seemingly makes the story incomplete, actually adds up to the realism of the story. Furthermore, in my opinion the two major conflicts actually weren't that unrelated at all, in fact it is adequately connected in a prospective manner, like how the conflicts eventually affected each other's crucial details, although I woud personally prefer a retrospective connection of the two.
As what I have pointed earlier however, the drama genre has the ability to convey messages exclusive of the main storyline that still enables the viewer to grasp meaning into the entire medium. As far as my interpretation goes, it seemed to me that Noruda wasn't trying to stop the rebuilding of the world. It was her responsibility, and a big one at that, but she seemed very reluctant at it. As what she stated, she was going to be reborn. She even warned Azuma to stay away from her and leave the place. At that, it could probably mean that rebuilding the world means destroying it and all of its iinhabitants. They were all going to be sacrificed for the "greater good". It was also explicitly stated that she was being controlled by a particular necklace she's wearing. I think that those details create very significant symbolism about creating decisions, like sometimes decision-making isn't for your own anymore, and you have to consider everyone at stake, even if it means taking something to your own disadvantage. And she bravely took that decision by being ready to face her fate anytime. Relating it to the conflict of the two friends, I felt that Azuma was conveyed with the exact opposite of Noruda, like he's always taking things on his own, being selfish when he wanted to leave the school grounds with the incoming typhoon approaching. This is potentially related to the very first conflict which actually really bothered me as it dictated the entirety of events into motion: Why did Azuma want to leave the baseball team? Then he met Noruda, learned her fate, attempted to stop it, and realized that there are things that matter to him (like Saijou his best friend) and he wanted to protect them, probably inspired by Noruda's conviction and bravery. Despite the great sacrifice Noruda had to make, still they ended up stopping the storm, and in the process, stopped the opportunity of having the world reborn, and Noruda in the end was seen smiling. What did it tell the viewer? Probably it means that the world isn't so bad at all, and Noruda from the very start realized it (maybe she was previously an inhabitant of Earth?) or that the way to restore the world is not to start from scratch but rather to continue the good and cease doing evil. Whatever that is, it seemed to me that the ending was satisfying and very symbolic although probably these interpretations weren't really intended by Taifuu no Noruda from the very start.
Once again, I am really frustrated with Taifuu no Noruda. It could've been good, too bad it didn't. Still oddly satisfying to me though.
Sasori_Nagashi
The art of this title was pretty good, I can't call out any real glaring issues and the animation was above average for sure, some of the shots portrayed motion extremely smoothly. The soundtrack was pretty standard, not bad but also not anything that stood out. The reason for my rating not being higher is mostly the LENGTH. The 30 or so minutes provided were a fraction of the time this story needed to properly flesh itself out. We are thrust into the middle a friendship between two boys being shaken by an argument that comes to blows. We have no frame of reference for howclose they are other than other characters loudly exclaiming they usually are practically family. Then in the course of only a few minutes we are introduced to a plot line that should have filled at least an hour itself.
Movie would have been a lot better if it was at least 1hr and 30 minutes, maybe a full 2hrs.
Honest_Senpai
Taifuu No Noruda is a short anime film revolving around Azuma, Shuuichi, his best friend Saijou, Kenta and the alien girl Noruda. Story: Azuma quits the baseball team and this causes him to fall out with his best friend. After a storm stops Azuma from going home he spots a woman on the top of a electric tower. After witnessing her fall he goes to her aid. The story then goes about Azuma stopping the storm which will inevitably destroy the earth with the help of his best friend Saijou. Art: Studio Colorido was in charge of this making this anime. The only other show Iknow they cam out with was Brynhildr in the darkness. Safe to say they are relatively new. The art wasn't bad and I'd almost thought that it was from studio MAPPA who did terror in resonance.
Sound:
No particular tracks stand out as it was too short.
Characters:
Azuma was our primary protagonist playing the hero to the helpless alien. He wants to follow his own path rather than that of his best friend, feeling that he is in Saijou's shadow the two fight and fall out.
Noruda is seemingly the catalyst for earths destruction as she is bound by a necklace that causes a storm. She desperately struggles to rid of this and requires the help of Azuma and Saijou to destroy it.
Saijou is Azuma's best friend, he struggles to come to terms with Azuma leaving the club and then holds a grudge after fighting and after talking things through they both come to understanding and make up.
Enjoyment:
I didn't think this anime was particularly enjoyable, it was too short and not enough time for much development in my eyes. It was rushed greatly and I didn't learn much about Noruda and her origins or why she ended up on earth to destroy it.
Overall:
This is just your average OVA film that you can just add to your list or to pass the time. Good way to kill time if your waiting for a game to download.
The only plus side I can think of is that friends always find a way to pull through? Yeah lets go with that.
I rate this anime a standard 6 our of 10 and a recommendation of try it if you have a spare half hour on your hands.
Whew! its been a while since I've done one of these. Thanks for reading guys, Have a nice day!
JustMonika2
I really wish they tried to develop the characters more, or at least extended the film to make it long enough to develop the plot better. It was kind of confusing and just kind of presents everything at once. Also, the voice acting was a little lack-luster. It didn't feel very expressive, and the characters didn't sound like they were in the same place or talking to each other. They boys' voices were also very deep for middle school students, but that part I don't really mind. Overall, I think it could have been done much better if they only put more effort into the plotand characters and directing. The main redeeming quality is that the art is pretty nice and I love the ending song.
I just felt like it was really mediocre. 6/10
Mahmus
This is just all over the place. The emotional moments fall flat, it takes itself way too seriously and even the visuals are underwhelming. It feels as if this Ova thinks it's a lot prettier than it actually is, like it wants to be a Makoto Shinkai animation. It's not ugly by any means, but with a story this uninteresting, better visuals could have probably save the whole thing. Altough I must say I really liked the music. The muscial score is by far the best aspect of this Ova. I think this would've worked better as a full lenght feature. It could've fleshed out the boring characters andtheir boring baseball freindship, and made some of the more absurd elements of the story less jarring.
Razorcarl
This is my first Review on this site!!! Story (2/10) It was Bad. The story seems short, and it introduces more questions than answers. Like, what will happen after the planet was terraformed? Why is the girl even sent to earth rather than other planet? Where did the girl even come from? What is that blue necklace that she wears? The ending doesn't even feel like an ending, It's like "Yeah, OK that happened". Art (5/10) The art was decent, nothing really special. Sound (3/10) What the fuck is that voice acting? They sound dead. They have no emotion in their voice, I could probably voice them better (PROBABLY). Atleast the ending song is decent.
Character (1/10)
The weakest aspect of the show. They are all flat. They feel like puppets of the plot.
1.) Noruda - she is a girl, that is sent to terraform the planet. Nothing else.
2.) Azuma, Shuuichi- the boy, that will save her.
3.) Saijou, Kenta - the friend or something.
I get it the characters can't be developed since it's a short film, but still friends do not act like that. They don't just fight because you are 'leaving my team' like dafuq.
Enjoyment (5/10)
It's bad but I enjoyed it. It's only mediocre, but I've enjoyed it a bit.
Overall (3/10)
I won't really recommend this. If you have ~25 minutes to waste, sure feel free to waste your time. I wish that the plot is explained much further, but since the Movie is short, I can't really blame them. It had potential, but no outcome.
Now that I think about it isn't this similar to the movie "Weathering with You".
itsyaboity
I think the main issue about this movie is the length. The Story and the characters fell really flat. The only way this could've been solved is by explaining everything in more detail which would only be possible if the movie were longer. The characters weren't actually introduced, also there wasn't any backstory to it. Another thing to mention is that the voice actors were kinda bad. The voices were nice to listen to but there was no energy behind them. Exclamations and moaning and things like that simply sounded extremely "weak". The Sound was a little underwhelming, the BGmusic pretty nice expect that it also felt kind of"weak".
Visually it was good, though nothing too special.
The only reason for me to watch this was because I like the band that made the song for the ED.
Not sure if I can recommend watching this but I don't regret watching it either.
Cainael
A sketched taifuu, that’s it. My main feel after watching it ? Incomplete. It’s like seeing a sketch before the final painting. • Story : 6/10 • It feels really unfinished, there is really too much big action and issues with not enough content and explanations. It's like "Hello here's all my ideas, then bye!". There, an attempt to a beautiful friendship between two boys passionate seeing their first fight. There, a mysterious (naked) beautiful girl There, an attempt to big deep world-crushing questThere, an attempt to romance
There 25 min of attempting something worth of 90 min.
Everything feels like it’s been just brushed on the surface, a big sketch.
• Characters 6/10 •
2 childhood friends and a mysterious girl.
That was too quick, but I liked the story between the 2 main childhood friends.
Nonetheless we are able to feel their passion about baseball with a really short flashback and how they care for each other.
The main girl, well … she’s pretty I guess, mysterious and maybe strong but ... she might have said like three sentences in the whole show and just left leaving her name.
• Art : 3/10 •
I feel like this kind of movie have a goal to be contemplative and beautiful to compensate the shortness and the attempts, but… can’t say it was beautiful.
The animation of the typhoon wasn’t spectacular, even the robot thing feel bland.
• Sound : 5/10•
I actually watched this movie because of the female voice actress, Kiyohara Kaya, I love her grave and deep tone, but… you can feel my disappointment when I said the main female character only said like 3 sentences.
The music was nice but not memorable
• Enjoyment : 4/10 •
Not sure if I must feel thankful for it being only 25 min of my time or sad of a great potential wasted.
• Overall : 5/10 •
Well, if you like the staff or studio you can give it a try, since it’s only one episode of your time, but otherwise you should rather prefer watching another episode of your current series.
ktulu007
Taifuu no Noruda is a short, original film from Studio Colorido, which I remember as one of the studios behind Burn the Witch and for nothing else. But that one was okay so maybe this one will be as well. Let's have a look. Story: We open with a group of students preparing for a culture festival. There's a fight betwixt two boys because... one of them doesn't want to play baseball anymore. Maybe he just wants to do something worthwhile and not boring as hell. The one who wants to quit, Azuma, is about to go home to avoid further conflict when the news comesin that a typhoon is about to hit. The students are all forced to stay in the school while it passes by. Obviously they stay in a classroom with huge windows instead of heading to the assembly hall or gym or somewhere better protected. Azuma looks out the window and sees a mysterious girl standing on top of some power lines.
There are a couple big issues with this. The first is that the pacing is atrocious. The film wants to have an in depth story about two friends having a disagreement and mending their friendship but it also wants to have a sci-fi plot about this mysterious girl and her connection to this huge typhoon. All while being about as long as a singular episode of a normal anime. It might have had enough time to do the first plot and have it be well-paced and executed if it had focused solely on it. I don't think it's long enough that it could have done the second well. A problem that stems from this is that the film is really bad at extrapolating on any of its major plot points. They'll throw out a half-assed explanation for something and call it good. The third major issue is that it's full of dumb moments. The aforementioned keeping the kids at school but not keeping them away from the goddamn windows, the pettiness behind Azuma's fight with his friend, and the whole reason behind the mysterious girl being there is really stupid when it gets revealed. I mean, very small credit for being ambitious but massive loss of points for shite execution.
Characters:
The characters in this have a major, fundamental problem. A lot of the film's two plotlines revolves around Azuma's relationship dynamics with his friend and the mysterious girl. The problem is that those dynamics are incredibly under-developed and really don't work. He spends less time with the girl than the average Disney Princess from the 70s and earlier spent with her love interest and the fact that we know nothing about him and his friend prior to seeing them get physically violent doesn't afford us as the audience any opportunity to get attached to them or want to see them patch things up.
Art:
The artwork is, by far, the best part of the film and it's just decent. The backgrounds look fine. The animation is okay. The character designs are a bit dull but they work. The only real issue with the art besides it just not having any real impact is that the spaceship we see in conjunction with the mysterious girl doesn't look like it belongs in the same film as everything else. It's very much a case of more CG style art that's out of place.
Sound:
The acting in this is actually really bad. They'll have these character moments that are supposed to be intense and emotionally charged but Nomura Shuuhei, Kaneko Daichi & Kiyohara Kaya just sound like they don't give a shit. They may as well be making awkward small talk about the weather forecast or doing a book report for a book they didn't actually read and have no interest in. The music is also low effort though not as much as the acting.
Ho-yay:
There isn't any.
Areas of Improvement:
If you have very limited time and you know it, don't try to juggle multiple major plot lines. Especially if one of those plot lines is kind of convoluted.
If your plot needs a strong dynamic betwixt two characters, you need to put some actual time and effort into developing their dynamic because if you don't have that it makes the story and character actions come across as unbelievable.
Hire some real actors. I don't care if the children of your staff will work for snacks, you need real actors.
Final Thoughts:
This film really isn't worth sitting through. Even if it is relatively short. The plot is a poorly paced, pathetic pile. The character dynamics don't work. The acting is horrible. It just comes across as low effort overall. I'm going to give it a 3/10. I did seriously consider going even lower than that but I don't feel like it's quite bad enough to merit that since it's more bad in a lazy, low effort way than an unwatchable bad way.
