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maboroshi (2023)
3K
Original name: アリスとテレスのまぼろし工場
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving teenage Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
Style:
psychological, anime, captivating, thrilling, emotional, surreal, contemplative, melancholic, existential, urban fantasy ...
Plot:
small town, time freeze, coming of age, teenager, youth, adolescence, freezing, life is a bitch, problem, time warp, friendship, young adult, crisis, high school life, isolation, feral child, slice of life, bittersweet, magic realism, intimate, identity, confusion, haunting, slow burn, love ...
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