Synopsis:
Numerous differences exist between the live action movie and the anime, due to time restraints. In the movie multiple characters are missing, such as Take, Yukari, Nori, and Akemi’s sister Satomi. Shuji has never quit the track team, and Fuyumi was never his middle school teacher –their relationship never goes past playful flirtation. Tetsu is initially hostile to Chise, and sees her as a monster, but she changes her mind and decides to take care of Chise (in contrast to her immediate embracement of Chise in the anime); also, Tetsu’s death is a very brief affair in the live action in comparison to the anime. In the live action Atsushi does not enlist in the army for the sake of Akemi, whilst in the anime he dies clutching a photo of her at his death. Akemi does not die in Shuji’s arms from an earthquake, rather she dies in a hospital from injuries sustained during an air raid; however she still confesses her love to Shuji.

Chise and Shuji do not run away to a harbor city in the live action, but to an isolated farm house; here Chise is not shown as becoming progressively inhuman, as she was in the anime. Also, the circumstances of the invasion are clear in the live action movie; the invading countries are doing so due to the creation of Chise herself – they also threaten nuclear attack unless Japan destroys Chise by a certain date. Overall, the live action movie does not actively portray the suffering of a besieged Japan: such medicine and food shortages as are shown in the anime are not present in the live action movie. Importantly, the world is not destroyed in the live action movie.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikano

Genre:
Sci-Fi | Drama | Romance

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