Canadian filmmaker Domee Shi drew heavily on her own youth for this story, set in 2002
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She is Meilin , voiced by Rosalie Chiang. A straight-A student, Mei has a huge crush on the convenience store clerk, and five more on the members of the oddly named 4*Town, a boy band not unlike another from the era with an asterisk in its name. She and her friends want nothing more than to attend their upcoming concert at SkyDome.Article content
on her own life – in 2002 she’d have been 12 years old, growing up in Toronto, with her own obsessions and a tamagotchi just like the one Mei wears on her backpack. All of which lends a sense of lived-in reality to the story, carrying it through its more outrageous moments of fantasy and magic – and there are many, particularly in the final act.Article content
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