maboroshi
アリスとテレスのまぼろし工場
Masamune, a third-year middle school student, lives in a town where all the exits have been sealed off due to a sudden explosion at a steel mill, causing time to stand still. Residents are forbidden from making any changes and spend their suffocating days in the hopes of returning to normalcy someday. One day, Masamune's mysterious classmate Mutsumi guides him to the fifth furnace of the steel mill, where they encounter a girl who cannot speak and resembles a wild wolf. The meeting between the two girls and Masamune disrupts the balance of the world, and the unstoppable "impulse of love" from boys and girls tired of their daily lives begins to destroy the world.
maboroshi is a movie with 1 episode, from Summer 2023, produced by MAPPA, rated 7.2/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
Masamune, a third-year middle school student, lives in a town where all the exits have been sealed off due to a sudden explosion at a steel mill, causing time to stand still. Residents are forbidden from making any changes and spend their suffocating days in the hopes of returning to normalcy someday. One day, Masamune's mysterious classmate Mutsumi guides him to the fifth furnace of the steel mill, where they encounter a girl who cannot speak and resembles a wild wolf. The meeting between the two girls and Masamune disrupts the balance of the world, and the unstoppable "impulse of love" from boys and girls tired of their daily lives begins to destroy the world.
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Tags
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Isekai — Features a character from a modern-day setting being transported into an alternate world and has to adapt to their new surroundings.
- Time Manipulation — Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.
- Coming of Age — Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Urban — Partly or completely set in a city.
- Love Triangle — Centered around romantic feelings between more than two people. Includes all love polygons.
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
- Trains — Prominently features trains.
- Incest — Features sexual or romantic relations between characters who are related by blood.
- Gods — Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.
- Parenthood — Centers around the experience of raising a child.
- Time Skip — Features a gap in time used to advance the story.