The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow

I managed to find this on BluRay at my public library. It was a new addition and there were zero requests so I got it.

Curious, I started to watch it and quickly found it it didn't "speak to me at all". The animation is good but the story is quite odd, as the title would indicate, and for me this was a big miss.

I saw the other reviews and I'm very confused... Have we watched the same movie?

I mean, it's not only a movie for children, it's more deep than that. It's not easy talking about depression or mental health to children, so they've made this weird anime that feels so sweet and has a lot of meaning instead. And I really liked it!

I don't think I'm that big of an animated guy. Oh sure, I surely love some animated films, but I just don't think they often hit the emotional depths live-action films do, this is partly because I just have mostly seen only American animation. Every time I can branch out in a particular film genre or area, I like to do it. I thought this was pretty good, although I was wishing I would feel the same way some f its reviewers felt. The voice acting is pretty good, and the animation creative. The screenplay is also pretty surprising, and while it does have a standard love story at its core, it's all revolved around pretty different circumstances.

Well about this movie the concept of this movie was slightly weird but in all honesty, it was enjoyable enough.

This movie is pretty much about a guy who was once a singer and then gets turned into a cow then meets this satellite who takes a form of a cute looking girl around (13 or 14) and this talking toilet paper and the whole story begins.

Animation wise it was good.

Voice acting wise it was perfect (I watched the dub by GKIDS).

Overall it is good watch. I recomand it although it may or may not be for everyone.

Honestly, how can anyone not love a movie where Merlin the Magician is transformed into a magical roll of toilet paper? (He was sleeping in a tree, you see, and it was cut down and turned into various paper products.)

A run down satellite in space suddenly picks up the mournful singing of a broken-hearted young man and becomes obsessed. The satellite transforms itself into a young Astro Boy-ish girl robot and flies to Earth to save the boy, who has been changed into a milk cow and is being hunted by a giant incinerator AND a plunger-wielding maniac who wants to steal his liver! That's because the broken-hearted of the world are all transformed into farm animals and their livers are highly-prized because humans think eating them can transform them back to human (just a false rumour as it turns out). See? It all makes perfect sense!

Surreal as it all is, the story does have the emotional core of the relationship that develops between the "satellite girl" and the "milk cow". Just give in to the weirdness and you can't hlp but be charmed by this offbeat little masterpiece. Kid friendly? Oh, yeah! My three kids, ages 10, 7 and 6 were all swept up in the story, alternately thrilled, intrigued and teary-eyed.

An absolute winner!