Goodbye, Don Glees! is a delightfully small-scale coming-of-age anime that serves as an emotional reminder to make the most of the here and now.
With mainstream anime TV shows and, in this case, movies helping ingrain the genre deeper into the global pop culture sphere, we’ve also been getting a path paved for a welcome dose of refreshing, smaller-scale movies hitting Western theaters. Anime like Inu-Oh and Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko are examples from just this year, and it’s a pleasure to see director Atsuko Ishizuka and veteran animation studio Madhouse’s Goodbye, Don Glees! continue that successful trend.
The basic premise serves as a creative launching pad for such a resulting emotional story, as the individual characters’ diverging life paths start to show the rifts in their relationship. It’s a very down-to-earth plot that cleverly uses its catalyst for thematic significance. In addition to the writing and direction, part of that theme is tastefully conveyed through Madhouse’s stellar animation work. Aside from the character designs, the visuals are stunningly portrayed as lush, picturesque, and gentle environments complemented by an equally striking use of lighting.
Chibori’s character could have afforded to be a bit more fleshed out, but overall feels perfectly in line with the anime’s tight sense of scale and warm atmosphere while making the world around Roma, Toto, and Drop work as dressing for their respective stories. For such a personal story, having background characters be just that is an excellent way to let the rest of the movie around the main cast be in service to their aforementioned adventures of collective and individual discovery.
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