It was a very, very good day. .｡.:* -On the occasion of the release of the movie 'Baby Assassins: Nice Days'-

It carries an air like a finale.
A good day of daily life in the third installment. A special good day.
The movie 'Baby Assassins: Nice Days' was released on September 27, 2024.
(It was a commemorative release, feeling like a week after the final episode of Everyday, after letting the draft mature, but it's exactly two months since the movie release, what a coincidence..!)

I just wrote an article about the TV broadcast of the first installment the other day, the long-awaited latest Baby Assassins work. I went to watch it at the first screening on the opening day.
I am going to construct this article from several perspectives.

I will proceed in two stages: recommendations for those who haven't seen it, and impressions I can share with those who have,
so please make yourselves comfortable.

🔫 To you who were interested in this movie but haven't seen the previous two works or the TV drama currently airing

First of all, this work is structured to stand on its own,
and Saori Izawa, who plays Mahiro, also said in a special program, 'I'd love to hear the impressions of people who watch from this third one first,' and 'If that makes them interested in other things, they can watch the first one or the drama...'
I really, really understand this too.
(It was super cute how Akari Takaishi, who plays Chisato, was naturally nodding along to this while listening to it (though Takaishi-san herself is like that, more than anything, this dynamic between the two (they are a pair officially referred to as 'ChisaMahi'))

So please rest assured,
and if you are even a little bit interested, please go to the theater..!
The experience of bathing in that action on the big screen of a theater, colored by deep sound, can only be had now while it is being screened..

The very first installment was just broadcast on TV the other day, but I wonder if there are people who went to see it because of that..?!

This story depicts the days of two assassin girls, Chisato and Mahiro, who live together and carry out professional work.
The highlight is definitely these two.
And, and the overwhelming action..!
Saori Izawa, who plays Mahiro, originally has a background specialized in action as a stunt performer, and the top-class skills of action director Kensuke Sonomura, starting with Izawa-san, shine through, making the visuals outstandingly worth watching!
Yugo Sakamoto, who can be called the creator of Baby Assassins, serves as both director and screenwriter, and I get the impression that what he wants to write is directly linked to the visual expression.

By all means, everyone, take this opportunity to experience the culmination in the theater.
The past two works can also be viewed via streaming or on physical media.
The TV drama version is currently airing to great acclaim every Wednesday late at night.

🔫 It is a good daily life. And a special day for the two of them
(※This section contains impressions of the movie that touch on the content)

Where shall I start talking...
First of all, the most outstanding thing this time is the 'overwhelmingly strong enemy' played by Sosuke Ikematsu, who was a big focus from the trailer,Kaede Fuyumura.
While watching, I gradually felt that he might be 'Mahiro Fukagawa who never met Chisato Sugimoto'.
When I opened the pamphlet after watching, Sakamoto-san's interview touched on that, and I thought, ah, exactly.
(Please buy the pamphlet for the details. Even if I repeat that, I don't get anything from it;)

Dramatically, it is also very contrasting.
While this movie was a story around Mahiro's birthday,
he couldn't even remember when his own birthday was when he met his end.
While ChisaMahi 'don't remember well' the individual targets they've had so far,
Kaede recorded every single job in detail in a notebook as if it were a record of his own identity.

(In the trailer, the line 'Play with me over there too' was overlaid on the confrontation scene with Kaede, so I thought a relationship where 'the two of them still want to fight' would occur, butthey forget this immediately..
(They put the sea play scene from the beginning at the end of the trailer in an emotional way, that trailer is too good at editing in a weird way)

Kaede's action was really amazing, wasn't it..
Shin Kamen RiderI had seen his own action in, so I knew he was someone who could move, but when Action Director Sonomura handles it, he embodies something even more tremendous like this...!
The showdown with Mahiro was amazing to watch..!
But
the two of them will probably forget it immediately..(Or maybe, like they remembered the brothers in 2, they will remember someone who went this far. If so, for Kaede, it's the least they could do, isn't it...)

In the car after killing all the executives at the house and making the others 'friends',
Kaede seems to be having fun talking in his own way, but the inability to gauge the distance, like 'he's been talking alone the whole time and everyone is pulling back with frozen smiles'... (It's a situation that is painfully relatable to so-called 'people who aren't good at communication', I understand, I understand....)

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The characterization of Iruka-san played by Acchan, at first I honestly felt a bit disappointed, thinking 'I wonder if they think it's interesting to have this kind of conflict with Chisato...', but I was hoping it would be overturned in the second half, and they did that properly.
And that too,
it was exactly what Chisato would call 'If it were about a great cause, I wouldn't have forgiven it'.
(That said, what is that all about??? though! (Don't laugh at someone's admiration for Ai Haibara (I'm not laughing (actually, it's completely free, but I'm just bewildered by how to act when they talk about it with such joy at the after-party (When it comes to this kind of talk, it's a situation a bit close to the aforementioned Kaede. Even though Iruka-san is someone who can properly wear a 'working adult mask' the whole time)

The reaction of ChisaMahi when he first confessed was slightly surprised, but they listened seriously,
and it's because they aren't the kind of kids who would laugh at someone's hobby at a time like this, and it also has a sense of humanity that Iruka-san is also a person.

Surprisingly (if I may say so), neither of them died and left, so if there is a sequel, the tropical group will likely show us various things again as powerful allies.

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A birthday event spent with someone special.
It depicted the unique and natural time that is so characteristic of Chisato and Mahiro.
I expected a development that would be exactly like a final chapter based on that trailer, but instead, it depicted a truly 'usual' yet 'special' good day.

The more I look at Kaede, the more I think that Mahiro might have walked the same life as him if one step had been different,
and it also comes down to whether or not one has encountered the 'person who stays by your side' that Kaede himself mentioned,
and to put it even more simply,
it is not just anyone, but because Mahiro encountered Chisato,
I think that is why she is here today.

Kaede also had a 'person nearby' in the form of his supporter (the one who was called 'the enemy in a crappy Japanese movie').
But,
just as he told Mahiro himself,
like Chisato is to her,
it was fundamentally different from a 'person who stays by your side'...

The two were depicted in a truly contrasting way.
Kaede, who could not become Mahiro,
while thinking about the day he was born,
without being able to remember it,
ended his life.

No, casting Sosuke Ikematsu as Kaede was truly a nice cast, a really nice cast...
I repeat,
rather than a special battle between him and Chisato/Mahiro,
while confronting a special person like him, what was depicted throughout was 'this time's Chisato and Mahiro in such an environment'.

There was talk from the staff side that this could be the final chapter,
and even watching the trailer, I really had the impression that it would be a special 3,
but when I actually watched it, I thought this was the usual, and
special on top of the usual,
a movie about such a 'good day'.
That is why I find myself ruminating on how simple and well-named 'Nice Days' is.
(Even the last scene, despite the large number of people at the wrap party,
naturally became a world of just Chisato and Mahiro, and slowly connected to the end credits....

The theater I went to see it at was a fairly small screen from the first day, so I was worried,
but I hope it becomes a hit...
The TV drama version is also currently airing, so I wonder if the audience is expanding quite a bit, what do you think..?
(And surprisingly, Iruka-san appeared in that other one too, right on cue after the release!!

🔫 Everyday thoughts (I will touch on the content of the TV drama version, not the movie

Now, about that 'Everyday'.
I am already at the episode where I am still stunned by the dream-like environment of being able to watch new Baby Assassins every week,
and it has unexpectedly shown me various things...

At first, I thought it would go on as an omnibus with one-episode conclusions like that,
but I am a little surprised that they developed episodes with a fairly continuous story structure, such as the training camp (Furin Kazan arc) / job shuffle (job rotation arc). A happy miscalculation, so to speak.

Training camp arc.
Training camp arc...........................… (Natsume-san..........................................................................................................…
No,
I thought they wanted to develop a story about how that kind of unusual Baby Assassins is also fine,
but it suddenly became a 'Wow, this is Baby Assassins!!' development, and I thought I was going to die.
(That is not okay (but it is okay) (It was painful that Chisato and Mahiro had developed a bit of affection for them because they weren't just targets, but work colleagues they had spent a few days with (Even so, they finish them off beautifully like that, as expected...

That is where I had left this article to sit (I was surprised that it remained in a tone that I didn't think was my own writing, so I decided to publish it as is (I think this was the verbalization of the shock of the conclusion of the Furin Kazan arc...

It is quite late, having gone to see Nice Days on the first day of the first screening, but this was my movie review. Thank you for reading.

In the meantime, Baby Assassins Everyday has also reached its final episode, and I have written an article about that as well, so I would be happy if you could read it together.
(I am releasing this today, on the anniversary of one week after the final episode, having watched it in real-time as well

🐮🦑 Bonus: Commemorative photo of my character

Personally, my usual commemorative photo of my original character watching the movie (App used: Custom Cast