Drifting Home Review: Release Date, Storyline, and Cast | Know Here

The next anime movie Drifting Home is directed by Hiroyasu Ishida. On September 16, 2022, Netflix will simultaneously release the Studio Colorido-produced movie in Japanese theatres.

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Storyline of Drifting Home

Although Kosuke and Natsume have been friends since they were young children, their friendship has grown tense as the two sixth-graders continue to avoid one another. They visit a housing complex that will soon be demolished one day while on vacation. Growing up there has left me with many fond recollections of the area. The housing complex, along with Kosuke and Natsume, has drifted into a mysterious sea while they were playing, and when they come to after being caught up in a mysterious phenomenon, they witness an entire ocean before them. Can they get back to the world they left behind? A journey to bid summer adieu starts.

Production and Release of Drifting Home

Netflix first revealed the movie in September 2021. It was revealed that Studio Colorido would produce it, and Hiroyasu Ishida would direct it. Ishida would also write the narrative alongside Hayashi Mori and Minaka Sakamoto. 

The characters are being created by Akihiro Nagae, while the music is being created by Umitar Abe. The movie's theme song, "Kieteshimai S Desu" (It Seems I'm Fading Away), as well as the insert song "Natsugare," will both be performed by Zutomayo (Summer Slump). The movie will debut on Netflix and in Japanese cinemas on September 16, 2022.

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Top Cast of Drifting Home

• Daiki Yamashita as Yuzuru Tachibana(voice)
• Kana Hanazawa as Shuri Ando(voice)
• Mutsumi Tamura as Kosuke Kumagai(voice)
• Ayumu Murase as Noppo(voice)
• Inori Minase as Reina Hama(voice)
• Nana Mizuki as Satoko Tonai(voice)
• Asami Seto as Natsume Touchi(voice)
• Bin Shimada as Yasuji Kumagaya(voice)
• Yumiko Kobayashi as Taishi Koiwai(voice) 

Movie Info

• Release date: September 16, 2022 (United States)
• Runtime: 1h 59m
• Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
• Country of origin: Japan
• Official sites: Official Netflix, hyoru-danchi.com
• Language: Japanese
• Also known as Hogar a la deriva
• Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
• Producer: Koji Yamamoto
• Writer: Hayashi Mori, Hiroyasu Ishida, Minaka Sakamoto
• Production Company: Studio Colorido Co. Twin Engine

Drifting Home, a film by Hiroyasu Ishida and Studio Colorido (Penguin Highway, A Whisker Away), depicts the summertime adventures of a group of sixth graders. They decide to break into an abandoned apartment complex because club events and Super Smash Bros. matches aren't enough for them. The structure appears normal enough despite reports that it is haunted due to strange sightings and the remains of former occupants. That is, until a mystery occurrence uproots the complex and dumps it and its youthful guests in the middle of the ocean.

The main conflict in Drifting Home revolves around survival. The children's desperation to go home is only outweighed by their need to obtain food and water as they fight to adjust to this unfamiliar situation. The relationships between the ensemble members, particularly those between estranged pals Kosuke (Mutsumi Tamura) and Natsume, serve as the story's thematic anchor (Asami Seto).

 Their unwillingness to cooperate is a result of their incapacity to comprehend a catastrophic event in its entirety. Both of them have ties to the apartment building that has been converted into a makeshift boat, which serves as a constant reminder of life before the breach in their friendship, making it difficult for them to communicate their anguish. They also find it challenging to patch things up.

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The two leads receive the majority of Drifting Home's screen time, and we get to watch them develop in real time. Unfortunately, a large portion of the supporting cast does not fit that description. Two of the kids, Yuzuru Tachibana (Daiki Yamashita) and Taishi Koiwai (Yumiko Kobayashi), for instance, aren’t given much agency at all; both boys are definitely likeable and do help in moving things along, but they don’t have much of a backstory of their own. They more or less act as tag-alongs. Haba Reina (Inori Minase) gets a few brief moments to reflect on some poor choices but her overall growth as a person is marred by a lack of screen time.

Given how nicely almost everything else in Drifting Home works, this is a bummer. The musical score fits the on-screen events well, the voice acting is good, and the script accurately reflects the character's position in life. Additionally, the 2D animation is superb. Despite a few plot errors, Drifting Home turns out to be a solid movie.