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By Shelley Pallis.<\/p>\n

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Kokoro (Ami Touma) has a name that means \u201cheart\u201d, but feels that hers is constantly being stamped on. Mean girls at school make her life so difficult, that eventually she gives up altogether, and stays home with an alleged stomach-ache. Lying on her bed and feeling sorry for herself, she discovers that her bedroom mirror is a portal to mysterious castle, perched atop a rocky islet on a savage sea, where she finds herself on a staircase with six other teenagers. The masked girl known only as The Wolf Queen (Mana Ashida) tells them that they have been selected for the ultimate game \u2013 they have a year to explore the castle, and whoever finds a hidden magical key will have a wish granted. Oh, and if anyone breaks the rules of the game, they\u2019ll get eaten.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that kids today have a lot of issues to deal with in the world, and by using fantasy I was hoping to redirect that negativity to a better place,\u201d director Keiichi Hara told Carlyle Edmundson at Screen Rant<\/a><\/em>. \u201cSo yeah, recognizing that there is the negativity and the issues that exist in the world, and then bringing it to a positive place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that the set-up for Mizuki Tsujimura\u2019s original novel of Lonely Castle in the Mirror<\/a><\/em> was the same as a zillion other children\u2019s books, all the way back to Narnia. And there is certainly a symbolic, modernist element in the way that her teens find solace and companionship with a bunch of strangers in a remote, after-school game, as if they\u2019d all met up slaughtering each other in Call of Duty<\/em> online. But the long, long game at the Lonely Castle encourages a very different approach \u2013 as time marches on, the various troubled teens come to realise that they are getting more out of hanging out together than they are chasing around after a magic key.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a student, [Tsujimura] hated school,\u201d Hara explained to Richard Eisenbeis at the Anime News Network<\/a><\/em>. \u201cShe felt that she couldn’t enjoy school like every other kid.\u201d Hara explained, \u201cYet all of her books are set in schools. And when a reader pointed that out, Tsujimura said that she thought she was probably rewriting the school days she wished she had.\u201d<\/p>\n

It becomes particularly poignant when the Wolf Queen reveals that once the wish is granted, the other six gamers will lose all their memories of their time in the castle.<\/p>\n

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You, Dear Reader, might wish that you could<\/em> wipe away all memories of having sat through a series of Big Brother<\/em>, but for Tsujimura\u2019s teens, the social network they form by exploring the castle becomes much more valuable to them than any possible wish\u2026. Or does it? It would only take one of them to actually play the Wolf Queen\u2019s game, and all their adventures would be forgotten.<\/p>\n

This is by no means the first fantasy anime from the team of director Keiichi Hara and write Miho Maruo, whom SLA attendees may remember from their appearance in Scotland to unveil Miss Hokusai<\/em> in 2015. They also have form in the melancholy genre, with their under-rated Colorful getting its UK premiere at SLA in 2011 . In a fantasy film environment starved of Ghibli for multiple years, they also showcased their Birthday Wonderland<\/em> in Scotland in 2019 \u2013 Lonely Castle<\/em> shares with Wonderland<\/em> a designer in the shape of Ilya Kuvshinov, who is credited with the architecture of the castle itself. Like that film, Lonely Castle<\/em> is an adaptation from a novel, conspicuously tapping into the concerns of the shut-ins and truants that seemingly form a sizeable component of anime\u2019s Japanese audience. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of anime that deal with the school bullies (although A Silent Voice<\/em> is a notable exception) \u2013 instead it\u2019s their victims that get all the movie attention, those kids who are afraid to go to school or feel that they get more out of life after-hours than they do in the midst of the approved curriculum. Before the anime was released, a manga adaptation of Tsujimura\u2019s novel also ran in Ultra Jump<\/em>, prepping the teenagers of Japan for a trip to the cinema.<\/p>\n

Hara himself picks out a quote from Tsujimura that goes right to the heart of her work\u2019s appeal: \u201cWhen it comes to your bullies, there\u2019s no need to forgive them.\u201d The Japanese school system would rather play touchy-feely politics, and shrug off the effect that bullies have on their victims, but Tsujimura\u2019s comment has an anger to it that recalls the work of Mariko Ohara \u2013 another famous truant, who parleyed her school absences into an anime-writing career.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a film director,\u201d says Hara, \u201cI really want to help these kids change how they feel. Rather than going out and changing the school system administratively, I’ve been given the chance \u2013 and the opportunity and the skills \u2013 to create anime. And that’s the medium through which I can help children to see things differently\u2026 Using fantasy as our platform, we’re trying to show through these kids that there is hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lonely Castle in the Mirror<\/a><\/em> is screening around the UK as part of the Japan Foundation’s nationwide touring festival in February 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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