Don't you just hate it when you follow your crush to a spooky portal and they're transformed into a talking chair by a cat-god hell-bent on unleashing the apocalypse?
Such is life for Suzume (voiced by Nanoka Hara), the high school heroine who lends her name to Makoto Shinkai's new animated feature — a ravishing, romantic, and often very funny road movie that continues the Japanese filmmaker's fruitful obsession with fantastical teen sci-fi.
