This is a movie by Studio Ponoc, the studio that was started by Hiromasa Yonebayashi in 2017. I've already talked abou this first film, Mary and the Witch's Flower, which was released in 2017. This film was released in 2018, is only 50 minutes long, almost an hour shorter than the previous one, and is an anthology which contains three smaller stories. So if discussing a movie already had to be treated differently than a full fledged anime series, this has to be treated even differently yet because each story is incredibly short. And I thought it was okay. The first one is probably the worst overall in my opinion. The whole movie is beautifully animated just like Mary and the Witch's Flower, but all that happens was that a family of three, which appear to be humans but it seems like they can swim well and breath under water, are hunting in the sea, the children get separated from their father, they're sad, but then they reunite with him by the end of it. It's just kind of meh. The second is kind of interesting only because of the unique visuals. It's about a kid who breaks out with severe allergies, and the visual flare that they use to depict this are incredibly inventive. One of the biggest stand out cuts of animatoin in the movie for me is the scene when he's running frantically down the spiraling stairs, with gross red dots growing all over his body. The third story is about a guy who seems to be invisible but we can see him because he wears glasses, a hat, and a trench coat. I'm not sure but the first thing I thought of in terms of a theme of that story is that maybe it's about the male lonliness epidemic, or maybe more generically maybe just one random dude who is very lonly, which makes him feel invisible, which is why he is invisible in the section. By the end of his part he comes across a beaming, smiling, happy baby, and then he gets incredibly happy, which could signify him coming out of his despressed state. Not exactly how I would react to such a thing, I think I would cry but to each their own.

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