The News Team's slai has a new review up on the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:
"Little Amelie or the Character of Rain, distributed by GKids, is an adaptation of Amelie Nothomb’s autobiography beautifully told in traditional 2D animated form. The movie is presented with the original French dialogue with subtitles. It tells the story of Amelie, a Belgian girl in Japan who is born in a vegetative state and remained so for the first 2 years of her life. Even though her body couldn’t move, her mind is fully active the entire time in a dream-like state. Amelie comes to the conclusion that she is god via the movements of her family and everything else around her, and it seems to her anyway that thousands of years have passed even though it was only 2 years in real time.
Amelie’s life changed forever when an Earthquake hits Japan on her second birthday, jostling her out of her vegetative state. She’s finally able to move about freely, but she finds it difficult to interact with her family and cries constantly much to the chagrin of her parents and their landlord, Kashima, who suggests they hire Nishio as a nanny for Amelie. It isn’t until her Grandma Claude from Belgian comes for a visit and introduces Amelie to the sweet taste of white chocolate that Amelie finally feels joy toward her grandma and the rest of the family except for her brother Andre who has teased her."
Read the full review here.
"Review: “Little Amelie or the Character of Rain”: A Visual and Narrative Delight"
"Little Amelie or the Character of Rain, distributed by GKids, is an adaptation of Amelie Nothomb’s autobiography beautifully told in traditional 2D animated form. The movie is presented with the original French dialogue with subtitles. It tells the story of Amelie, a Belgian girl in Japan who is born in a vegetative state and remained so for the first 2 years of her life. Even though her body couldn’t move, her mind is fully active the entire time in a dream-like state. Amelie comes to the conclusion that she is god via the movements of her family and everything else around her, and it seems to her anyway that thousands of years have passed even though it was only 2 years in real time.
Amelie’s life changed forever when an Earthquake hits Japan on her second birthday, jostling her out of her vegetative state. She’s finally able to move about freely, but she finds it difficult to interact with her family and cries constantly much to the chagrin of her parents and their landlord, Kashima, who suggests they hire Nishio as a nanny for Amelie. It isn’t until her Grandma Claude from Belgian comes for a visit and introduces Amelie to the sweet taste of white chocolate that Amelie finally feels joy toward her grandma and the rest of the family except for her brother Andre who has teased her."
Read the full review here.
