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Aura: Koga Maryuin's Last War

2013 · 85 min

A tender, slightly painful coming-of-age story about fantasy and bullying that slowly warms into earnest healing.

Directed by: Seiji Kishi
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Kana Hanazawa, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Takahiro Mizushima

Overview: Satou Ichirou once called himself 'Maryuuin Kouga' and behaved as if he were a hero in a fantasy world. His strange behavior caused his classmates to bully him and he left the school. At his new school, he tries to behave like a normal boy, but one day he meets a girl who cosplays with a blue cape. She calls herself "a researcher traveling from the outer world to search for the 'Dragon Terminal'". At first, Ichirou rejects the girl, Satou Ryouko, because her behavior reminds him of his embarrassing past, but he changes his mind after seeing her getting bullied. In order to bring Ryouko back to real life, Ichirou accepts her and his past and begins the final battle as Maryuuin Kouga.

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Directed by: Seiji Kishi
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Kana Hanazawa, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Takahiro Mizushima

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
coming-of-age
isolation
trauma
friendship
Places: school
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Humour	4
Realism	6
Romance	3
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Darkness	5
Complexity	4
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Genres: animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, romance
Directed by: Seiji Kishi
Written by: Jun Kumagai
Starring: Kana Hanazawa, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Takahiro Mizushima, Yumiko Kobayashi, Kisho Taniyama, Hisako Kanemoto, Showtaro Morikubo, Yu Kobayashi
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Cinematography: Keisuke Nozawa
Runtime: 85 min
Country: Japan
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