Yassadaru Man (2018)

Yassadaru Man: Directed by Ken’ichi Ohmori. With Kasuya Daisuke, Hiroki Horikawa, Seiichiro Konno, Yûki Meguro. Hazime Kisaragi and Satomi Akahata are in charge of management operation for the city’s mascot character “Yassadaru Man.” Yuna Isoya is a big fan of “Yassadaru Man.” One day, she is assigned to the section where Hazime Kisaragi and Satomi Akahata work. Hazime Kisaragi falls in love with Yuna Isoya at first sight. Hazime Kisaragi also gets enthusiastic with work involving “Yassadaru Man.” The big project for “Yassadaru Man” begins.

“Before talking specifically about this film, there are a few things I should mention. First, the correct title for this movie is u0026quot;Yassa Darumanu0026quot;….but IMDB lists it as u0026quot;Yassadaru Manu0026quot;. Second, the mascot in this film, Daruman, was NOT created for this film but existed before the film was made. In fact, he was voted best mascot for Hiroshima prefecture a few years ago.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHazime is a loser whose job it is to wear the Daruman costume and represent his city. But he has absolutely no energy or desire to do anything with this character and so, naturally, the public couldnu0026#39;t care less about him. But when a cute young lady comes to work with Hazime, he slowly gathers up the energy to do something with the character and his life. But itu0026#39;s not like he jumps into this project….he just kind of slowly falls into enthusiasm for his job.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is likable but I really wanted to like it more. First, the story, believe it or not, is a but formulaic and even includes a long montage sequence here Hazime slowly changes. Frankly, SHOWING the change through the course of the story would have been less lazy. Also, the filmu0026#39;s ending leaves you feeling like they just ran out of steam and it left me feeling a bit flat. Not a bad film but one that had promise to be much more.”