Drifting Home

Drifting Home is as charming and well-written a movie as you are going to find in Netflix's catalogue. The pacing and music weren't anything to write home ...

Drifting Home is as charming and well-written a movie as you are going to find in Netflix’s catalogue. As is the case for most shows that come out these days, especially on a platform as huge as Netflix Anime, the production quality of Drifting Home was great. The character design was also sleek, with the entire movie having a cool filter placed that gave it a sea-like ambience, which was apt for the setting. The rest of the cast is fine if a little underdeveloped. His being young excuses a lot of that, although that doesn’t make the end-product any easier to watch. She grows somewhat by the end, thankfully learning the lesson the story was trying to teach her, although that did require a lot of important plot development. Maybe it was because they were all kids, and the dialogue was simplistic, but it helped with the immersion of the movie. The display of Natsume being attached to the one thing that still grounds her, the apartment complex, was a fantastic allegory of what things are like for somebody who is grieving. The writer had a vision from the start that he wanted to see come to the screen, and he did everything in his power to make it as coherent and linear as possible. The most glaring issue was the pacing, as the movie just dragged on and on for much longer than it should have. The movie was big on themes and stuck to the various themes it had decided for its characters. The movie had a vision that it stuck to firmly throughout its runtime and told a very complete and fulfilling story.