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07/22/2020 I am so sorry to hear Haruma Miura loss, he played the lead role as Kazehaya-kun in Kimi Ni Todoke, then passed away in his 30, last Saturday. Kimi Ni Todoke is based on a young-teen female romance manga with the same title. Not a few people get bored with watching the movie for this reason. Especially if you are enough older than their age. To be specific, teenagers in Kimi Ni Todoke relatively are too innocent and childish. However, sometimes it is true. When we were teen, we are not aware that we are still naive and often did stupid things, but we just believe ourselves grownups. As far as we understand how was typical teenagers like, we could get more affirmative critics. In addition, I liked incidental episodes that remind me of relationships of over-protection and independence. In conclusion, I will remember a name of Kazehaya-kun every time when I think of Haruma Miura. Haruma himself was similar to one another. Really nice guy. Rest in peace. See more 07/30/2013 I've watched the anime (2 seasons) and then I watched this movie and then... speechless. Not very good. See more 03/25/2013 Such a cute movie! I liked the characters and how it shows innocence, friendship and love. See more 02/05/2013 Kimi Ni Todoke (From Me To You) adapts the anime TV series with some success and some misfires. It's a shojo love story (shy girl meets nice boy) which isn't for a lotta people, but I'm a sucker for that stuff! Anyways, the summary is that Sawako is a shy girl who has struggled to make friends cause of her scary appearance like the girl from The Ring, giving her the nickname Sadako. When she meets the most popular boy in her class, Kazehaya, he sees Sawako as a sweet, pleasant girl and takes attention to her, soon changing her life around as she takes influence from Kazehaya's warm personality. The casting was terrific, making a surprisingly great transition with the characters to live action. The story is what is greatly adjusted in this film version. The movie is based on only the first season, and it eliminates filler, combines or shortens sequences, and eliminates but conveys certain story elements from the anime, as well as condensing secondary characters to minor roles. This is expected, and for a little more than half of the film, it succeeds in condensing the story down to the important stuff, getting the same idea across with less runtime. However, its after the first half of the film that it starts to feel rushed. Sawako is quickly accepeted among the peers, or so I can only assume since the reactions of peers to Sawako is dumbed down, and one of the most important turns of the story unfortunately doesn't work the best: Kazehaya trying to confess to Sawako. At this point, we feel its moving a bit quick, like its clearly established that they like each other, fair enough. But the story is called From Me To You, the animes focus was all on their struggle for the two to get through to each other, and how they slowly admit their feelings to one another, allowing their relationship to develop. Here in the film, the struggle is a bit lost, Sawako gets a bit shy about Kazehaya, but it doesn't take her long to feel she can return her feelings back. It almost misses one of the biggest aspects of the show. In all honestly, the love arc here works rather well on its own, but once you've seen how it's played in the anime, the film version just seems weak in comparison. I'll give it to the filmmakers, 2 hours was difficult to squeeze a lot in, and I'm sure they made a great effort, but they could've learned a thing or two from how the love arc should be handled if they had waited for season two of the anime to come around. Overall, despite some drawbacks in story and some sacrfices, Kimi Ni Todoke "structurally" in terms of visuals and characters almost perfectly captures the feel of the anime. Great casting, some tearjerking moments, some good humoruous moments - it's all here, not in same effect as the anime, but still well done. Recommended for fans! See more 12/17/2012 Painfully slow, but otherwise great. See more 11/30/2012 I do not read the manga, but it is a good and romantic film. Love prevails in the end :) Ganbatte, Ryu! See more Read all reviews

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