Kim Moon-saeng’s 2003 post-apocalypse sci-fi actioner "Wonderful Days" falls in the same bucket as a handful of early 2000s anime movies overlooked in their day and left gathering dust in the aughts ever since. Just like Katsuhiro Otomo’s "Steamboy", Shinji Aramaki’s "Appleseed", and even Mamoru Oshii’s "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", "Wonderful Days" is an all-timer of its genre that oddly enjoys sustained relevance in 2023.
"Wonderful Days", alternately titled "Sky Blue", is a hybrid CGI and cel-animated film packed with themes of class divide, power disparity, and environmental calamity that register as all too familiar today; it’s almost tempting to call the film “prescient.”
“I don't know that the movie was prophetic,” says writer Jay Lender, hired by Park Sunmin, the film’s U.S.-based producing partner, to give the script a judicious edit. “It's just that we've all been talking about it so long and been powerless to do anything about it. We're not on the edge of disaster. We're past the threshold.” FULL STORY from Inverse
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