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Information
- A.k.a.
- Penguin Highway
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 117 min.
- Director
- Hiroyasu Ishida
- Genres
- Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Family
- Rating *
- 7.1
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 135
- Favs
- 12
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 8.9% (1:11)
- Favs/dislikes
- 12:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Based on the manga based on the novel, Penguin Highway is certainly very weird, but it's probably not the strange appearance of penguins in a Japanese town, or the crazy anomalies that spring up later that makes its strangeness. Rather the protagonist, through which we follow the story, is an odd duck - a precocious elementary school student who has trouble processing emotions and displays uncommon intelligence (and arrogance), as well as a fascination with women's breasts. it's the last one that might be off-putting given that he's about... nine? There is still something interesting in that his scientific investigations all revolve around girls he's interested in, either consciously or unconsciously, a metaphor for those first stirrings of interest in the compatible sex. Even taken literally, the mysteries still intrigue. Relatively quiet until then, the third act is where the animation really explodes with crazy visuals and the pay-off is worth it. 2 years ago