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NiNoKuni (2019)

★ 6.6 · 271 ratings on TMDB

Choose your life

NiNoKuni poster★ 6.6

Adapted from the video game series of the same name, NiNoKuni follows high school peers Yuu and Haru who must travel between two separate yet parallel worlds to help save their childhood friend, Kotona, whose life is in danger. In this magical quest complicated by love, the three teens will be tasked with making the ultimate choice.

DirectorYoshiyuki Momose
CastKenjiro Tsuda, Kento Yamazaki, Koichi Yamadera, Maaya Sakamoto, Mackenyu, Mamoru Miyano
GenresAction, Adventure, Animation, Family
The emergence reading

NiNoKuni keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, grief, mortality, otherness.

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Also inFilms about othernessFilms about griefFilms about mortalityFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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