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SARUSBERI: Miss Hokusai

It is an interesting work, well animated, with a quiet visual enlightenment on its final moments when the Edo of 1814 is dreamily replaced by the Tokyo of the 21st century.

Miss Hokusai is based on a manga by artist and Edo researcher Hinako Sugiura, and the film feels like it’s structured on individual chapters of manga. Each scene almost works independently of the previous one in a series of vignettes, usually based around a famous Hokusai work.

Based on my observations, some scenes in the film had a lack of information. It's very confusing for me, specially that this is my first time to watch a Japanese Movie. The film gave too many scenes, that made me confuse about the flow of the story. While the soundtrack doesn't seems to fit on their portraying time.

Through all the film, despite my lack of understandings with some scenes, the animation was pretty good. We can get some strategies with the execution that can help us in this subject.