Adrift home | Check out the new animated film from Netflix

Souls are a fantastic metaphor for talking about growing up and coming of age and how some things need to be left behind.

comes to Netflix this Friday (16) Adrift around the house, the latest streaming bet on Japanese animations aimed at an adult audience. Although the aesthetics of the anime always refers heroes screaming and kicking ass, Dragon Ball Z And Naruto, the feature film just premiered on the platform focuses on a much more adult plot with emotional tones. Overall, it’s a beautiful anime to mourn.

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It sounds like a joke, but this is a niche that Netflix has been exploring in relation to its oriental releases with relative success. movies like Your name And The voice of silence they won over a large audience by creating fantastic stories with sensitive metaphors for everyday problems such as empathy, regret and loneliness. And with Adrift around the housethings are no different.

In this case, the anime that is one of the September streaming highlights makes an almost surreal allegory about children trapped in an apartment building adrift in a mysterious ocean to talk about coming of age and how, most of the time, growing up means leaving behind some things – painful as it is.

a sea of ​​memories

The story of Adrift around the house centers on a couple of Japanese teenagers – Kosuke and Natsume – who have been neighbors and friends since childhood. But the condominium where they met and grew up is about to be demolished and, on the eve of the destruction, they visit the building to greet the place with some friends. And that’s when the magic happens.

During this visit to the abandoned building, they are surprised by a kind of magic that takes them to another place. Suddenly, the old condominium is no longer in the middle of the chaotic streets of a Japanese city, but adrift in a gigantic and vast ocean.

With that, six children are trapped in this building floating on the high seas and have to find a way to get home while trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

It is in the midst of this journey back to their families that they will have to deal with their own relationships, feelings and trauma. Furthermore, the very link that each of them has with the building itself needs to be revised so that they can reach their destination safely.

and what it does Adrift around the house interesting is the touching way in which he mixes this fantasy with very human elements. As mentioned, the film is a great metaphor for coming of age and letting go of certain things despite our resistance.

This is quite evident in the relationship between the protagonists. Even though Kosuke and Natsume’s friendship is no longer the same as when they were children, they still cling to that image of the past which becomes a sort of anchor in their lives – to the point of, in some situations, preventing them from Vai. come on. And interestingly, much of that attachment goes through the condo they are trapped in, which brings a sea of ​​fond memories.

That’s why everything Adrift around the house It’s an anime to cry. As absurd as its almost fantastic theme sounds at first glance, it speaks of themes that are common to all of us, all the more so in the age of nostalgia where we are so attached to these memories of more colorful times. However, as these children’s journey will demonstrate, growing up means knowing that some things have to go away.

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renowned history

As if the touching message wasn’t enough, Adrift around the house also draws attention to the names involved. The film is produced by the same Studio Colored which has already made some equally exceptional works, such as Cat eyeswhat It is also available on Netflix.

The studio is also responsible for the anime Burn the witchspin-off of Bleach which was made available here by Crunchyroll. And who has seen the anthology Star Wars: Visionsof Disney +, will also recognize the name from the episode Tatooine Rhapsody, the musical chapter of the series.

However, Studio Colored’s most famous work is, without a doubt, Penguin Highway: The Mystery of the Penguins. The feature film was even released by Netflix some time ago and won over not only audiences but also critics, even being nominated for best animation at the 42nd Japanese Film Academy Awards.

Adrift around the house it’s ready available on Netflix.

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