darn, and I already like the page pictures

found it comes out subbed on amazon.com on January 20th 2013, found this out somewhere but written it down thankfully. I am so excited

Well!.I was able to attend the Boston showing this past Thursday and Mamaru Hosoda was in attendance and gave some comments thru an interpreter.

While I liked the story to start with, I found I was watching it from the wrong perspective. If you are a parent, you need to look at it from that view point. It is about wondering if you have done enough, or can ever do enough for your children.

The second main focus is from the childrens POV. The story has a narrative from the daughters (Yuki) view of how her mother came to this point in her life and how she managed. The question explored is how and when do each child discover how or where they want their lives to go...what path to take.

There is always room for a new full length Anime from a top director (almost 2 hours long) and Mamaru Hosoda delivers. Comparing it to his other two works, I would rank them:

1. The girl who leapt thru time (still something about this film that gets to me).

2. Wolf Children

3. Summer Wars.

This showng was on the campus of MIT..and it was an enjoyable night!

I found a website that played the whole Japanese audio version English subtitled, it's a beautiful anime made me laugh and made me cry and those factors make it a true masterpiece in anime. I hope they make an English dubbed version.