Bubble - Review
Despite a more than impressive creative team behind the film, I must admit that I did not have the highest expectations for Bubble , considering how relatively mediocre some of the other Netflix-released anime films were that I had seen recently. Nevertheless, the start of this movie definitely got its hooks in me. Beginning with a journey through the cosmos, zooming all the way into the Earth to Tokyo, we get introduced to quite a novel concept that probably could only exist in the realm of anime: kids compete for basic supplies in an abandoned city using parkour skills and mysterious floating bubbles in a game of capture the flag. Our protagonist is Hibiki, the star member of a parkour team and also survived the tower blast that partially destroyed Tokyo and threw everything into chaos (with weird bubbles and gravitational oddities appearing all over the place). As the story progresses we learn that Hibiki suffers from some sort of disorder regarding audio input and frequently c...