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SOS Bros React - Liz and the Blue Bird - Quiet Desperation

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Comments

Michael Kerr

I'm so ready for this, let's fucking go

AustinMyB

I know this movie is connected to Hibike Euphonium somehow so thats why ya'll are watching it. But I'd just like to say, I'd really like to see the bros react to more movies sometime

Argo2Unitard

I would have no issue with the next show replacement being a series of movie nights. Though it might be tough on their end considering the length of films vs shoe episodes.

lilmarsha

A Korean anime movie?

Zeemod

The first time I watched this was years after I finished Season 2. I remember it being good, but getting a bit lost in the character dynamics. Excited to rewatch it after rewatching Season 1 and 2 to see what that does to the whole experience. Also, this was the last anime from KyoAni to be released before the fire :( I believe there were other pre-production things like the Violet Evergarden Movie.

Michael Kerr

The "Liz and the Blue Bird" pieces of music written for this are so phenomenal, and I'm still amazed at how well this series manages to portray the characters developing in the way they play, and Mizore's playing in that final performance is the gold star example of this. As a musician myself, I'm not overly fond of how musicians are often portrayed in fiction, it often comes across as too "magical" or heavily sensationalised, but without the music or performance to actually back it up (you end up being told a performance or piece of music is amazing by the other characters, rather than it being apparent from the music itself), but KyoAni seem to just understand how to do it properly. Both Hibike and K-On! feel like real musicians, like real people playing and writing music, and the fact that both shows feature completely different types of musicians and musical environments, yet still achieve this on a similar level, is absolutely incredible. When you hear Mizore playing at the end, you can HEAR how much more emotional and expressive her playing is, and you don't have to have trained ears to hear it. Mad respect to the composer: Akito Matsuda, and also to whoever recorded the Oboe for Mizore's parts. And as long as I'm talking about music, it almost goes without saying, but Kensuke Ushio's bgm is also perfect, I'm totally with Jacob on that. So you mentioned near the end of the discussion about how this might have been portrayed in novel form, and how having the alternating perspectives would be interesting there. A series that actually does this amazingly is "Adachi and Shimamura", which is a phenomenal novel series from the perspectives of the 2 main girls, who are both pretty bad at communicating their feelings to people, and the series is an exploration of their characters as we slowly learn why they are the way they are, and it uses the alternating perspectives in fantastic ways. It also has an anime that adapts the first part of the story really well. I urge people to check either the anime or the books out, because it's criminally underrated.

Yoshe Plays

The Violet Evergarden Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll Movie was actually completed the day before the fire. There's also the Chikai no Finale movie, Tsurune (which was what caused the attack), Free! released before the fire so Liz and the Blue Bird was definitely not the last anime from KyoAni before the fire.

Yoshe Plays

I think they just pasted the text in thinking it was Japanese, Liz and the Blue Bird is a feature film from KyoAni as part of the Hibike franchise.

Anonymous

リズと青い鳥 is the correct title in Japanese