Movies like Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021) is a animation movie directed by Kyohei Ishiguro. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
★ 7.8 · 2,328 votes · Fantasy, Animation, Drama
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
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2. Only Yesterday (1991)
★ 7.4 · 1,308 votes · Animation, Drama
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
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3. 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)
★ 7.3 · 2,232 votes · Animation, Romance, Drama
Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.
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4. Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
★ 8.2 · 642 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
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5. Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll (2019)
★ 8.1 · 487 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.
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6. Your Name. (2016)
★ 8.5 · 13,097 votes · Animation, Romance, Drama
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
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7. Ocean Waves (1993)
★ 6.4 · 1,017 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
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8. The Anthem of the Heart (2015)
★ 7.6 · 444 votes · Animation, Drama, Music
A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?
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9. Whisper of the Heart (1995)
★ 7.9 · 2,378 votes · Animation, Drama, Family
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."
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10. Given (2020)
★ 8.2 · 427 votes · Animation, Drama, Music
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
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11. When Marnie Was There (2014)
★ 7.9 · 2,035 votes · Animation, Drama, Family
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
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12. The Garden of Words (2013)
★ 7.6 · 2,314 votes · Animation, Drama, Romance
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.
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13. Fireworks (2017)
★ 6.6 · 378 votes · Animation, Romance, Fantasy
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
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