To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)
- Original title
- 君を愛したひとりの僕へ
- Directed by
- Ken'ichi Kasai
- Genre
- animation, romance, science fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 81 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A boy and a girl fall in love but their parents marry each other. They run away to a parallel world where they are not stepsiblings.
melancholicromanticbittersweetdreamlikecontemplativesoftgentleyearning
What happens
To Me, the One Who Loved You (Japanese: 君を愛したひとりの僕へ, Hepburn: Kimi wo Aishita Hitori no Boku e), often shortened to Kimiai (Japanese: 君愛), is a 2022 Japanese animated film based on the novel of the same name by Yomoji Otono. Produced by TMS Entertainment and distributed by Toei Company, the film is directed by Kenichi Kasai from a script written by Riko Sakaguchi and stars Hio Miyazawa, Aju Makita, Ai Hashimoto, Mutsumi Tamura, Kenji Hamada, Mie Sonozaki, Tomomichi Nishimura, Miki Mizuno, Kimiko Yo, and Tokuma Nishioka. The film follows Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Satō falling in love with each other, but their parents' remarriage has led them to elope to a parallel world where they are not stepsiblings. Its companion film, To Every You I've Loved Before, depicts an alternate version of Koyomi, named in that world as Koyomi Takasaki, meeting Kazune Takigawa, who introduces herself as his girlfriend in the 85th parallel world. The anime film adaptation of one of Otono's novels was announced in September 2021. Kasai and Sakaguchi joined the staff of the film in May 2022. Miyazawa and Makita were revealed as the main cast in June 2022. Additional staff and cast were announced in August 2022. To Me, the One Who Loved You had an early screening in Tokyo on September 14, 2022, and was released in Japan on October 7. The film grossed over US$1 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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