As we share the joy of the family reunited as well as the love story of young Taku and Mio through the flash back, the six-week rainy season is mercilessly coming closer and closer to the end. Through that process, they fall in love a second time (I am assuming at this point that she is indeed Mio). Although in a way she is still a stranger, she seems to accept that she is Mio, and asks Taku to tell her the story of how they first met and fell in love. The father and son naturally have no problem believing that it is Mio coming back from heaven, and bring her home. When the rain starts, Taku and Yuji find in the woods a woman looking exactly like Mio, who has apparently lost her memory completely. Before her death, however, Mio promised her husband and son that she would come back after a year and stay with them during the rainy season.
We are then taken back to the time when Yuji is six, a year after he has lost his mother Mio through illness and is living a life of mutual support and love with his father Taku.
IMA AI NI YUKIMASU OSTEOMYELITIS MOVIE
The movie starts with a quaint little house nestled in the most idyllically beautiful, lush green countryside, where a shopkeeper of a cake shop delivers a birthday cake to a young man Yuji, who is making breakfast. It is Ima, ai ni yukimasu, however, that is the best romance coming out of Japan and Korea in the last ten years. "Poetic" director Shunji Iwai brought a breath of fresh air with Hana and Alice (2004). In the meantime, Japanese romances are making a come back. His still widely acclaimed Classic (2003) had in fact faded somewhat, and not even bringing back Jun Ji-hyun from MSG could save Windstruck (2004). The onslaught however soon ran out of steam, even for works by MSG's director Kwak Jae-young. While at least half a dozen made it big in the Pacific region, the most successful worldwide has to be My Sassy Girl (2001). In the end, Be With You is nothing short of being plainly, utterly without any prominent advantages and faults – that is, average.A few years ago, Korean romances took over the market for the romance genre which had been held uncontested by Japan. On the other hand, the plot’s not all that interesting yet not particularly faulty otherwise the art’s not very attractive but could be worse and the cast is good enough but far from great. Unlike some manga that I give similarly low scores to, Be With You has nothing particularly disgusting, offensive, or boring. Sure, they have plenty of qualities that are desirable in people, but none that interesting characters need. Unfortunately, since the story of Be With You is already quite weak, there’s really no place for the characters to shine. They’re a more-or-less generic family that exists to carry out the story efficiently there are no surprises or twists in character development. The characters are no saving grace either. The whole manga suffers because of this unfortunate happening. Unfortunately, the artist instead clutters each page with too many details and panels, a total discredit to the art. It’s the kind of art that would go best with extremely simple backgrounds and page layouts to emphasize the simplicity of the story it accompanies. The basic style is cute, but somewhat sketchy. The art certainly doesn’t help matters much. Things happen, but there’s no reason to care. It has no elements of touching romance, gripping mystery, or calm slice-of-life it’s just… there. The creators of this manga didn’t particularly try – or just failed – to make the readers feel any particular emotions when reading the story. heartwarming, but falls flat when it fails to give any real message or impact. To add an extra twist, the woman doesn’t know she’s a ghost!īut no matter how interesting it may sound from the back cover, the storyline just didn’t progress very well. It’s a shame, since it really has a great concept: a young man (along with his son) meets the ghost of his wife and gets to spend a bit more time with her before she must leave him for good. Unfortunately, the manga (originally a novel, which I have not read) failed to deliver. Be With You has one of the neatest premises I’ve ever heard of.
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