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Scored entertainment-first on WhatSphere's content-balance model 2

Its director stated on the record that "it's no film, It failed to be a film, Oshii expressed disappointment with his directorial debut, framing it purely in artistic and craft terms" 1. Taken together, the content-balance model places it entertainment-first at 3 of 100 2.

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    Creator statementdirector: "It's no film. It failed to be a film. Oshii expressed disappointment with his directorial debut, framing it purely in artistic and craft terms."Art Handbook, 2000 (via Wikipedia) source ↗
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    Content balanceAdvocacy 3 of 100, tier entertainment-first.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1

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Primary audienceYoung WomenYoung Women100
Young MaleYoung FemaleMature MaleMature Female
Primary audienceYoung Women
Targeted

Quadrant Scores

Young Men
49
Young Women
100
Older Men
0
Older Women
51
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Audience Representation

Racial audience withheld

Only 70% of the cast has a researched race, so these scores stay blank.

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A partial classification would pull origin-race scores toward the researched slice and away from the cast as it is. The nine audience scores are withheld instead of shown as zero. Zero would mean no audience, which is not what a thin cast record says.

LGBTQ+
0

Faithfulness

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Advocacy

Advocacy3
Entertainment

Synopsis

Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage.

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Cast & Crew

Nobuo Koyama (director) · Mamoru Oshii (director)