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“Abused Asuka finds healing and self-worth living with her grandparents, overcoming life's challenges.”
Re-Birthday
ハッピーバースデー 命かがやく瞬間
7.03
4,546 rank · 4,887 viewers · 23 favorites
Drama
Kids
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Synopsis
Abused Asuka finds healing and self-worth living with her grandparents, overcoming life's challenges.
After being abused by her mother physically and mentally Asuka gets taken in by her grandparents. Slowly she learns her own worth as a human being and overcomes many obstacles.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
7.6
/10
What 5 viewers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 10
σ 2.58
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.58 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.8 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 3.0
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Score over time
↓ 2.40
Running avg · Jul 2012 → Apr 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “You owe it yourself to watch this movie. I agree with most of what the previous person stated in their review. I find it sad that a movie of this quality (ignoring the animation and sound issues)...”
- 7 “This is one of the most depressing anime I've watched, but in a good way. At its core, it's about bullying. What makes the movie interesting is that it portrays the lives of several people and...”
- 10 “It's needless to say that i cryed and got a lot of cold shivers through spines from this movie. So if you are in any case reading this before movie, i should warn you that it's so sad. My eyes were...”
Verbosity
Short · 20%
Medium · 40%
Long · 40%
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A Movie Production
Magic Bus.- Format 1 × 79′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 19m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1999 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-5961 catalog