Amateur Recommendation Hour: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Today’s recommendation will evoke memories of your favorite Studio Ghibli films, not only because they were heavily inspirational to the team at CoMix Wave, wearing their admiration for the legendary titans of Japanese animation on their sleeve while still making something that stands on its individual own beyond its influences, but because it is impressively able to capture the feelings of wonder, mysticism, and a mixture of unknown past and future that define the most seminal fantastical works of animation and allow them to endure the test of time. Children Who Chase Lost Voices, directed by Makoto Shinkai, is a work that combines elements of other formative works of animation as a starting point to create something both evocative and similarly special while also distinguishing it from it’s peers in notable ways that alter both it’s themes and it’s tone, synergized to allow a different style of voice and inflection to the work than those that came before. As the most intelligent work...
