This one weaponizes a single word: Misaki. You go in knowing exactly where these two end up, blue coat on one side, Homra flames on the other, and the film makes you sit through the years when they were the only person each other had. Yata is all noise and skateboard bravado, the loud kid nobody in class wanted; Fushimi is the sneer that hides a house with Niki in it, and watching that friendship become the one thing he trusts is worse than any fight scene. GoHands pours real money into it too, the color work and the soundtrack doing heavy lifting in scenes that are just two boys talking on a walk home. Fair warning: without the series behind you it plays as a sweet, plain coming-of-age story. With it, you're watching a fuse burn. The last stretch hurts because nothing dramatic happens. They just grow up.

Two boys with very different lives find an unlikely connection. Yata is an energetic, reckless kid whose immature attitude has left him shunned by his classmates. Fushimi is a loner whose dysfunctional family, especially his eccentric father Niki, has given him a pessimistic view of the world. Despite being complete opposites, Yata's enthusiasm eventually earns Fushimi's trust, and the two become best friends. As time goes on, they grow tired of being stuck inside their small world, and that restlessness leads them into the turbulent and dangerous world of the Dresden Slate. The film is a supernatural action story centered on the bond between the two boys.