Flavors of Youth

Flavors of Youth
Chinese poster
Chinese 肆式青春
Japanese 詩季織々
Directed by
Produced by Noritaka Kawaguchi
Starring
Music by Sakai Asuka
Yuma Yamaguchi
Rei Ishihara
Saori
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • July 6, 2018 (2018-07-06) (Anime Expo premiere)
  • August 4, 2018 (2018-08-04)
Running time
 76 minutes
Country
  • Japan
  • China
Language
  • Japanese
  • Mandarin
Box office CN¥2.8 million (China)[1]

Flavors of Youth (Japanese: 詩季織々, lit. "From Season to Season"; Chinese: 肆式青春) is a 2018 anime anthology drama film directed by Li Haoling, Jiaoshou Yi Xiaoxing and Yoshitaka Takeuchi and produced by Noritaka Kawaguchi. A Japanese-Chinese co-production between CoMix Wave Films and Haoliners Animation League, it was released in Japan and in China on August 4, 2018 and globally on the same day by StudioCanal and Netflix.[2]

Plot

The movie is split in three segments (Hidamari no Choshoku, Chiisana Fashion Show, Shanghai Koi) taking place in three different cities in China: Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai. Each chapter explores themes about love and the simple joys of life.[3]

Cast

Character Japanese voice actor English voice actor Segment
Xiao Ming Taito Ban Crispin Freeman Hidamari no Choshoku
Xiao Ming (Young) Mariya Ise Kendall Gimbi Hidamari no Choshoku
Yi Lin (Irin) Minako Kotobuki Evan Rachel Wood Chiisana Fashion Show
Lulu Haruka Shiraishi Jona Xiao Chiisana Fashion Show
Mr. Steve Hiroki Yasumoto George Ackles Chiisana Fashion Show
Limo (Rimo) Takeo Ōtsuka Ross Butler Shanghai Koi
Xiao Yu Ikumi Hasegawa Erica Mendez Shanghai Koi

Reception

Box office

The film earned CN¥2.8 million at the Chinese box office.[1]

Critical reception

Kim Morrissy of Anime News Network gave the film an overall grade of B, praising the "polished background art" while criticizing the "weak character animation", and said that "Flavors of Youth may be far from a masterpiece, but I'm glad that it brought the talented artists at CoMix Wave Films together to portray this sentimental image of China's beautiful cities."[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "肆式青春（2018）". cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 2018-08-27.
  2. ↑ "Shikioriori Anime Film to Stream Globally on Netflix as Flavors of Youth". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  3. ↑ "Netflix Unveils New Trailer & Poster for Flavors of Youth'".
  4. ↑ Kim Morrissy (2018-07-10). "Flavors of Youth". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
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