The Boy and The Beast
MOVIE FINISHED SUMMER 2015 1 eps 79%
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The story is set in the human realm (Tokyo's Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm ("Shibutenmachi"). In these two worlds which must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyuuta.
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Studios:
Studio Chizu
Characters
Kumatetsu
MAIN
VA: Kouji Hashimoto
Ren
MAIN
VA: Aoi Miyazaki
Kaede
MAIN
VA: Suzu Hirose
Hyakushuubou
SUPPORTING
VA: Lily Franky
Tatara
SUPPORTING
VA: You Oizumi
Ichirouhiko
SUPPORTING
VA: Mamoru Miyano
Iouzan
SUPPORTING
VA: Kazuhiro Yamaji
Jiroumaru
SUPPORTING
VA: Kappei Yamaguchi
Soushi
SUPPORTING
VA: Masahiko Tsugawa
Chiko
BACKGROUND
VA: Sumire Morohoshi
Staff
Mamoru Hosoda
Original Creator
Mamoru Hosoda
Director
Takaaki Yamashita
Character Design
Takashi Oomori
Art Director
Masakatsu Takagi
Music
Mr. Children
Theme Song Performance
Takaaki Yamashita
Animation Director
Masahiko Kubo
Key Animation
Shinji Ootsuka
Key Animation
Ayako Hata
Key Animation
Hideki Hamasu
Key Animation
Takeshi Koike
Key Animation
Reviews
Peng
Rating: 48 (102 votes)
Hosoda’s latest film is perhaps his most ambitious and least impressive
scaredkrow
Rating: 30 (32 votes)
Takes us through an amazing journey of fatherhood in a fantasy type setting, beautiful scenes and excels in animation.
TheAnimeBingeWatcher
Rating: 20 (29 votes)
A charming fantasy coming-of-age tale, until it reach the halfway point and rapidly goes off the rails.
Roxam
Rating: 14 (18 votes)
A good example for a story that can be seen with two points of view
DeathCounterX
Rating: 7 (10 votes)
A Rough Story About Being Raised By A Beast (TL;DR at the end)
Stats
Average Score
79
Mean Score
79
Popularity
103,489
Favourites
2,142
Status Distribution
CURRENT: 1607
PLANNING: 33989
COMPLETED: 67139
DROPPED: 214
PAUSED: 540
Score Distribution
10: 160
20: 69
30: 211
40: 397
50: 1266
60: 2722
70: 8105
80: 14172
90: 12190
100: 5595
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