Hakubo revolves around the daily life of Sachi Koyama, a high school violinist with promising talent. Although Sachi is content with her school life and retains friends within the music club, her favorite pastime is appreciating the scenery around her neighborhood in Iwaki, Fukushima while walking to her bus stop alone.
However, during one of Sachi's after-school walks, she has an unexpected meeting with Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy whom she often notices on her bus ride home. After offering to help Kijinami find a perfect view of the evening landscape—the subject of his next painting for his art club's exhibition—the two forge a bond over their mutual admiration of the beautiful scenery bathed in sunset. This chance encounter brings together these two souls who yearn to cherish the present, knowing full well how easily it can all slip away.
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bigboiroy
This was the biggest load of barnacles I have ever seen. The promotional video looked promising, with excellent visuals and what could have been a decent plot, and gave me high hopes that this short-ish film will be worth my time. After watching it, it’s confirmed that nothing about this movie was good except the gorgeous animation. And when I say gorgeous animation, I mean the backgrounds and the scenery. The character designs were pretty mediocre and looked like they came straight out of 2010. Even worse than their designs, however, were the characters themselves. They possessed totally unbelievable character traits that no real humanbeing would ever come close to. The main characters themselves were less interesting than pieces of cardboard, and the romance was half-assed and cringe. The forced drama in an attempt to make it a more compelling plot landed flat on its face and makes you roll your eyes in exasperation.
The scriptwriting and the plot were terrible, meaning there was no plot. Sure, it's hard to achieve a complex and deep story in a 52 minute runtime, but this movie accomplished absolutely nothing. Nothing happens at all for the duration of the movie. Don’t let the description fool you into thinking that it will detail the lives of people after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and the effects it had on the population, as it was barely even mentioned. The writing felt like it was done by a six year old as it involves girls smelling each other and killing their friends because they got a boyfriend before themselves.
tl;dr - If you’ve come for a compelling, heartfelt, or even remotely believable plot, you have come to the wrong place. You can choose to stick around for the beautiful background scenery, but that’s about all this movie’s got going for it.
PhoenixCadenza
The only genre this film would fit in is 'school' and nothing else. Watch it if you enjoy staring at screensavers. Hopefully that is enough to give you the gist of the movie but honestly I had nothing better to do and watched it knowing it would be mediocre at best. I think because the movie tried to be dramatic but failed in every aspect, it ended up being entertaining to me anyway, but thats because im braindead. I think the main plot definitely had potential. The idea is that the main characters were involved in the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami back in 2011 and, while admittedlynot the most original concept, could have still made for a nice drama. It isn't that for two reasons: the characters and the story.
The characters are about as bland as the animation. The animation is kinda meh. The personalities of the main characters, in what I think is an attempt to make them look melancholic and troubled, only come out having flat character arcs. Heck even the ending (I won't spoil) felt like a cheap gimmick and not to mention it was very much predictable. So predictable in fact, it was exactly how I imagined it would end, frame by frame. It matched my prediction so well it's my favorite part. Probably because I have no life.
Next it the Tohoku earthquake. If you blink for one second during this movie you might miss this. The tragedy contributes so little to the story I'm pretty sure that was just there so they could put it in the description and lure idiots like me. In short they weren't even trying.
Then we have the story progression. It honestly surprised me that I would only realize something important happened way after it occured in the movie. The film is only 50 minutes long I have no idea how they manage to fail to get my attention.
But it had less cringe than I thought it would so bonus points for that?
GoodAnime1Season
~Overall: It isn't a great movie BUT IT IS A GOOD ONE. I recommend this movie if you want some Romance Movie without Heavy Plot and just wanted to relax. Story: For the story, it doesn't have great twist/mind-boggling/mind-blowing plot. It does have a simple plot but don't get me wrong here, the movie become great (atleast for me) because of that. Graphics: For the graphics, it is not that far (again,atleast for me) from well-known animes such as Makoto's work. Sound:If you are a fan of violin then give this a shot ;) but even if your not I think you will enjoy it either.
Characters:
Just as the story, It doesn't have characters which outshines the others. And it does have great character designs which caught my attention.
Enjoyment:
I did enjoy watching it and will going to miss the characters specially the MC.
Harisrox
No idea why I watched this, but felt like I shouldn't had even tho it's like 50mins long. I hoped it could achieve great narrative about Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, and how it affected the people around, but sadly there was nothing like that. Story 2/10 There wasn't anything interesting with the story, it was a generic romance of a girl meets a cute boy. The movie portrays a highschool girl who plays violin and gets to meet a boy who draws art, the start meeting and end up liking each other. Art & Animation 7/10 The background art was great, and mostprobably the only good thing about this movie.
Character designs were pretty generic and sometimes even looked bad, and animation was just fine.
Sound 6/10
The aural aspects were lacking but they were bearable, their performance for school festival was good but I am not into classic music. The ending song was calming and soothing.
Characters 1/10
The main girl took most of the screentime and rest of the characters were only there for the sake of being there and their existence actually made them more annoying because the narrative wants us to automatically know all of them without giving them somewhat of a proper introduction.
Enjoyment 3/10
I enjoyed the background scenery more than I enjoyed anything else in this movie and that would give you an idea of how great this movie is.
Overall it's a 3/10, I would not recommend watching this movie.
badabass
Ah, many people complain about unrelated situations that happened between the main story of these movie with its synopsis. Remember, this was about 'the now and present' condition that twos people needed to get along with their new life. Ofc its just about their school life situations, and a bit spicy tastes of romance additional just been added to their relations to gave the show more nuances. But, they still tried to keep it to its main point. Then, its about their now live. The girl as always hinted as a no good person to attached with her new live before meeting the boy. Itsindeed talked about the gloomy feeling, and surrenderring all of the good times she had at the school just to enjoy the twilight, alone. The boy himself felt unrealistic, tho, acted strangely, looked too embarassed, and even never got a chance to forgot his first love that missing from the earthquake events. By their fate of encounters, they both granted a huge changed, a big development over their new life. They both enjoyed it. They both had a fun with how beautiful panoramic it had in their surrounding. At the end, its just a simple story of people that needed to move on from their previous comfort zone. And for me, its just so soothing, and pretty decent.
Idk how people just staked up the movie with such a high expectations, instead of just enjoying the simple meaning. Its just, need to chill down a little bit and enjoyed their amazing art and animation behind all of those gorgeous backgrounds. The story wise was okay with its simplicity. Nothing bad about it. Or people just hate a simplicity over the same clicheness of a romantic school life drama in its progressed. Oh, well, what a touchable reason.
For me, once again at my sole satisfaction, this is deserved on my 8/10 for my Overall.
Its not that great. But surely its had a good moments on it. The storyline somehow had some issues that maybe irritating some elitist people. For me, its just a 7 by knowing how its simple and really easy to understand if really just wanted to enjoyed a simple movie about the classic romantic drama of the high schooler. Yeah, peoples nowaday had so much stake on its head.
A nice art detailed on the background together with its okay animation. Its not my liking, tho. So i found it quite okay. This might be the best aspect for the movie. But, i fit it in 9 just in cased that i still stay true on my previous statement. Its pretty enough, right? Or else its overrated? Whatever, this is my decision. Lol.
The soundtrack and the inserting songs felt good too on my hearing. Who hate the violin rythym mixing it with Beethoven components of music? I am certainly not! The ED quite smooth and attached well too on my heart. So, its matched up on my 8.
The characters hit my fine level. Its nothing bad about it. Its just, simple. Its about their youth life. Its about their puberty. Why so exaggerating about it? Its deserved on my 7.
So, yeah its suited well on my 8, depending my usual averaging style for the Overall sections. 7+9+8+7+9 for my enjoyment, in the end, its granted with a solid 8/10. Thats it for me.
Galatory
Hakubo Review (5.4) About music and love,but they didn't meet my expectations in the story. The animation is not very good, but it's ok.There seems to be something missing that I didn't see in the story.The song is good anyway. STORY:5/10 The story isn't very interesting,it's a bit boring and I thought it was just about the music on her violin and there's also a love story which is quite ok. ANIMATION:5.5/10 The background is beautiful,it looks like they just took a real pic then they edited it so it's not too obvious.But when it comes to the animation it's not good but it's pretty ok.CHARACTERS:3.5/10
A woman who knows how to play the violin and a man who knows how to draw are a good couple,especially the scene where they confess to each other.I'm looking for something that I didn't see in this story.
SOUND:7.5/10
I just thought the song was good because in this genre the song is really good but it's still good.
TheAngryNerd
Story - 1 First, let me talk about the description. The description is VERY MISLEADING. I thought this was gonna be about the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami from 2011 but throughout its entire runtime, there isn't a single mention of it. No, it's not even a part of the story. I'm sure that they only included it to try and lure people in. The story lacks depth and doesn't really go anywhere, nor does it have some sort of message that it tries to give the viewer. What about the plot? There is no plot. Next, let me talk about the actual story. What the story isactually about, is a generic "girl meets boy" romance, and it even fails in doing that.
Art & Animation - 4
The background art is great... and that's just about the only good thing this had to offer.
The art style and the character designs look like they're from 2009 or something like that. It wasn't pleasing in the slightest and sometimes the characters look kinda ugly. They go off model a lot and that really takes away from the experience.
The animation isn't even good either. Actually, it was bad. The characters movements felt stiff, clunky, and unnatural. It didn't feel realistic. The worst part is the part when the girls are playing their violins for their exhibition. It looked like really bad CG, and the movements felt uncanny and the characters were shaking a lot. It reminds me of how the characters tremble in Aku no Hana. It felt rotograved or like they traced CG animation! There were even parts where I could tell it was CG!
Sound - 4
At least the music wasn't terrible. The ending song is okay, but the rest of the music was forgettable and most of the time I didn't even notice it. The voice acting isn't very good, especially the male lead.
Characters - 1
I didn't really care about the characters. They were all bland, generic, and 1 dimensional. The main girl, Sachi wasn't very interesting and the only "trait" she really has is that she can play the violin. Her friends are even less interesting and they're only there for the sake of being there. Hii-chan is a comedy relief and her other friend... I don't even know what to describe her as. The male lead (forgot his name) was also quite bland. Everything about them was so bland and emotionless, and they really lacked depth, character, and personalities.
Enjoyment - 2
I was bored the entire time. The only scene that caught my attention was when the main character took off her clothes as well as the background art.
Overall - 3
This was pretty boring. I wouldn't watch it again or recommend it. The romance was cringe and predictable.
itsallinyourmind
Short and simple. This movie wasn't that bad as people reviewed it to be. There really is no story or plot here. Just a slow mundane kind of setting growing into romance between 2 people. And whats wrong with that? The animation is really good. Probably the strongest plus point of this movie is the animation. The characters are alright. The main female lead is very relatable to certain degrees. She is quite, innocent and also seemed very pure. Very likeable character indeed. But the male lead seemed pretty high on puberty. The movie also felt kinda rushed and that's also a downside to it.It did lacked a lot of element that a romance movie should have. But nonetheless it was still enjoyable.
PS- I don't think i wasted 50 mins of my life and i think you're not going to waste it too.
WaifuIsLifu
10/10 Orange Scene Best Scene, Really Enjoyed that part. The orange scene was by far the best aspect of this movie. I really liked the visual effects of the orange scene. You can really relate to the main character in that scene. I was taken aback when i first realized what was going on. She even talks about smelling weird because she isn't sure what is going on with her feelings. I must say just watch it for that one scene and you'll never regret it. I learned that the orange scene really speaks to us as an audience, I learned that oranges are the keyto having a wonderful woman just as the main character.
10/10 really recommend this movie honestly. The ending was really good when they confess their love for one another and she wants to be one with him, if you get what she is implying.
Go give it a watch. 30 minutes in and further is when its best!!
Meeju
A pretty simple and boring story with no enjoyment. I barely managed to finish it even tho it was for only 50 mins. The only thing i loved were it's visuals. The art, the animation, the visuals, they were amazing ✨. Even though I got pretty bored during the movie but the only thing which kept me going on were it's visuals and art. It was so fascinating and soothing. Other than it's art and animation everything was bring. So if you have a lot of time and are in seek of anime with amazing visuals. Go for it. But if you are looking for agood story i would never recommend this one.
musx
The music were great. two scenes were good, the one were the friends found out about him and freaked out in the cafe, and the one were he wanted to ask her for her LINE. everything else was cliche and cringy AF. i had a cringe overload at the end when they were confessing i thought i would die . The MC had the personality of a dead jellyfish, you could hear the oil dripping from her mouth, if this was a real girl i would euthanize her and save the world. there is too many red flags about her, she remind me toomuch of Stephanie Lazarus. that poor boy is looking for too many years of horror. i wish he had friends to tell him to run away from that bitch. anyway, its not that bad but not that good.
JadentheAnimeguy
I've seen some negative reviews and I felt I should clarify my stance. Hakubo is a very solid movie; it's a simplistic love story revolving two teenagers brought together by the Hakubo. Hakubo being the title for the scenery near their bus stop. They begin a relationship that naturally progresses into a romantic relationship. The movie doesn't do much or attempt to do much. It's a love story between two completely normal teenagers, it's pure, cute, and awkward, all playing to its benefit. It does so by creating a serene atmosphere and calming tone to the overall movie; supported by the very solid production. Otherwise, thecharacters felt human and so did their lives, nothing special to it, no excessive drama or deep character arcs, just a cute romance journey.
The problem for some may be that it's boring because of how serene it is or the fact it lacks no real direction. I've seen one person complain that it doesn't elaborate much on the premise seen in the synopsis/the earthquake plotline(something that didn't bother me since I went into it raw, without reading it)
The most reasonable complaint is its lack of standout aspects. Especially for a simple movie like this, some may expect a standout cast; which is fine, the movie doesn't exceed a 6 because it's lacking in these departments
Kuchai913
So I don't think you should expect the synopsis to hold much weight in this movie. The hook that its about the lives of teenagers post the 2011 earthquake is of little to no significance in the narrative. That out of the way, it's an okay high school romance. The story is predictable, but if you like the high school romance premise, this is passable. I wish the duration of the movie was a bit longer to flesh out the events post the 2011 earthquake we were alluded too. 5/10 The characters are nothing special either, but they fulfill their roles well. I liked the voiceactors they used for this. 5/10
Animation-wise, its fluid and the background art is nice. However, it feels dated, like something from around the 2010s. This shouldn't matter too much though, as there were no overly bad frames in this short movie. 7/10
Overall, I'd rate this way lower had I been promised a story about school kids dealing with the trauma of the 2011 earthquake, but I'll look at the show for what it is and give it a pass. 6/10
