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Film · 2013

Aura: Koga Maryuin’s Last War

AURA ~魔竜院光牙最後の闘い~

Genres:DramaRomance
A brown-haired girl in a blue fantasy costume holds a staff amid star-shaped lights.
© (C)2013田中ロミオ、小学館/AURA FILM PARTNERS

A boy hiding his former fantasy persona meets a classmate who openly calls herself a witch.

Ichiro Sato wants a fresh start as an ordinary high-school student. Ryoko Sato’s elaborate role-playing brings him back toward a part of himself he hoped his classmates would never see.

A collage shows a girl, a boy and their classmates in classroom and rooftop scenes.
The characters’ imagined roles meet the social world of their classroom. © (C)2013田中ロミオ、小学館/AURA FILM PARTNERS

Ichiro’s wish to blend in makes Ryoko’s conspicuous self-presentation difficult for him to ignore. Their imagined identities exist in a classroom with real social consequences: being seen as strange can shape who gets included and who becomes a target. The contrast gives the fantasy costumes a different function from proof of a literal magical world. Consider it for a school drama about embarrassment, imaginative refuge and the difficulty of supporting someone without first demanding that they become unobtrusive.

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