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In This Corner of the World is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about the ordinary people caught in the gears of history.
In This Corner of the World is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about the ordinary people caught in the gears of history.
The short version
- There are few anime studios these days with a reputation quite like MAPPA.
- From Attack on Titan and Jujutsu Kaisen to Chainsaw Man and Vinland Saga , the studio has become synonymous with some of the most ambitious productions in the industry.
- MAPPA can do spectacle, brutality, strange little character dramas, and impossibly complicated action sequences, often within the same year.
What happened
MAPPA has made plenty of anime — some of the most well-animated action sequences in the industry — but In This Corner of the World remains the studio's most powerful accomplishment. In the end, the film's strength doesn't lie in the tragedy it depicts, but in the stubborn beauty of the everyday lives it salvages.
Why it matters
It is a quiet triumph for MAPPA, proving that the most enduring animation isn't about grand scale, but deep humanity.
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