Twittering Birds Never Fly [Blu-ray]

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it was really well done.^^ i liked it a lot and have watched it repeatedly. i could follow and understand the plot without having had the benefit of having read the books. the print anime translated well into animation. if you like the books, you will like this dvd, too. the choices for voice actors felt spot on. the sound of their voices carried more than their words, sustaining the movie's affect. its success as a project is largely due to them. i hope they were really well compensated.^^ even excellent anime is utterly ruined by horribly discordant voices. character spoiler but not a plot spoiler: one detail was explicitly edited out, and perhaps too implicitly included. yashiro does not self-identify as gay. in volume 2 yashiro thinks to himself that it is not worthwhile to correct everyone's opinion that he is gay. in the adaptation, it was implicitly included through an exchange with doumeki. doumeki asks how long he's loved men. yashiro replies that the question is stupid and that he has never loved men. he has only ever loved one person. i mention this only because i feel that its omission could affect viewer understanding and appreciation of the BL attachments among yashiro, kageyama, and doumeki; to the extent of their re/semblances. nevertheless, given how it must have been edited to be sold in this market and through this marketplace, the creators did a solid job preserving the integrity of the original. for example, enough of a sense of tension and attraction remains that the main BL line doesn't fade into a desexualized best friendship amidst an essentially homosocial context. in the dvd extra area, there is a long series of shorts, which were ostensibly included to appeal to a wider spectrum of viewers. the manga characters are transformed into cats and dogs: for example, yashiro is a russian blue cat and doumeki is a golden retriever dog. good choices, right? they are cute^^; drawn as their characters dressed up as furries. in then end, even with the shorts, i wish it hadn't been an incomplete narrative. it incorporates content through most of vol 2 through thoughtful editing. i do want to see the other volumes animated, too, but in the intervening time it takes for them to be animated, my motivation to see it might significantly diminish in front of the cost. on the buyer sider, i did feel as though i've spent too much for what i received. additionally, why doesn't amazon sell this as a streamable movie? how many more copies would it sell that way? rating wise, imo most of this video adaptation falls in PG-13 rating (e.g., parental guiding suggested for themes of sexual conduct and violence related to organized crime, verbal and sexual abuse, pedophilia, and sexual assault). i'd say not for a child (not that i know why one would imagine this as appropriate for a child) and supervise an adolescent. maybe a few minutes cumulatively might get an R rating for being explicit but not hardcore (i.e., you see the sex act but no male genitalia). for those familiar with the original manga, this comes as no surprise. comment on promotional value: the movie did motivate me to buy a copy of the manga because i wanted to see how their story continues. on that note, in light of one reviewer saying it incorporated everything through volume 1, i bought volume 2. however, volume 2 was mostly incorporated through judiciously compressed flashbacks. to see how the story continues, volume 3 should've been chosen. i feel pretty adverse to spending another $15 for a volume it takes me less than two hours to read, but i would probably buy a second dvd that included the remaining volumes.

my friend and I watch this movie together. We both really loved it. I hate that it ends on a cliffhanger and I really need the second movie to come out now.

great adaption of the manga and so glad to have it on bluray!

First in a trilogy. English subbed not dubbed. Good clean animation a bit on the naughty side. Characters are interesting. Looking forward to the next film in the series.