If you loved The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, try maboroshi

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. maboroshi has roughly 6.7× fewer votes than The Map of Tiny Perfect Things — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theysit in Fantasy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What maboroshi is

Here's a film that's going to need a lot of explaining to your non-anime friends. A boy in a frozen town tries to make sense of things when reality starts to fracture. It hits some familiar notes along the way.

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