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Anime film ‘Belle’

highlights when parasocial
relationships aren’t enough
There’s a real person behind every account.
K. Naudus | 11.26.21
@krisnaudus

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stories to be set in
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November 26th, 2021 virtual worlds,
from the early
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stylings of Tron to
the hedonistic pop
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fantasy world on
mamoru hosoda, cct tech,
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Earth or Hyrule,
but as we’ve
edged closer to
them existing in
reality they’ve
gotten a lot more
humdrum, maybe
even ordinary.
With this shift
we’ve seen the
real and virtual
worlds
increasingly
collide, and it’s

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January.

Belle is the latest

movie from
Mamoru Hosoda,
the director who
brought us time-
travel adventures
like The Girl Who
Leapt Through
Time and Mirai.
But he’s also
known for
Summer Wars, a
movie that posited
a world where
everything is
connected in the
virtual sphere, not
just for play but
also work, finance

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Hosoda is once
again tackling the
divide between
the real and
virtual worlds
with Belle, a film
that splits its time
between rural
Japan and the
computerized
world of “U.”

Belle is the story of

Suzu Naito, a
“country
bumpkin” living
alone with her dad
and still dealing
with the trauma of
losing her mom
several years

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notifications in a
sappy Dear Evan
Hansen sort of
way. She becomes
a sensation, but
her newfound
fame goes off the
rails when one of
her concerts is
interrupted by a
player known only
as “The Dragon.”
Suzu/Belle
becomes intrigued
by the Dragon and
begins an
investigation into

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apparently overlay
sight as well as
sound, and they
build a person’s
avatar using their
biometric data. It’s
certainly a leap
ahead of the bulky
VR headsets seen
in Ready Player
One, or just the
“theater of the
imagination” that

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such: to be
“unveiled” is to
lose your
anonymity and
have your true
form revealed to
the world of U,
upon which a user
will literally fade

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characters are
named Belle, and
the design and
temperament of
the Dragon is very

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videos on

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