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Belle (2021)

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Belle (2021)	comment	Belle note (known in Japan as RyÅ« to Sobakasu no Hime, literally "The Dragon and the Freckled Princess") is a 2021 anime film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Mirai of the Future). The film was produced by Studio Chizu, with collaboration from Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon for the backgrounds of U. The score for the film was made by frequent Hideo Kojima collaborator Ludvig Forssell (Metal Gear Solid V, Death Stranding, Silent Hills).Suzu Naito (Kaho Nakamura) is a teenager living with her father (Koji Yakusho) in a small town in the mountains. Struggling with the loss of her mother (Sumi Shimamoto) when she was a child and her inability to sing that came from it, she enters the virtual world called "U" and becomes Belle, able to sing to her heart's content and becoming a musical icon. When one of her live concerts is interrupted by a mysterious user known as The Dragon (Takeru Satoh), she becomes intrigued with the figure and slowly befriends him.The film also stars Ryo Narita as Shinobu Hisatake, Shota Sometani as Shinjiro Chikami, Tina Tamashiro as Ruka Watanabe and Lilas Ikuta as Hiroka Betsuyaku.The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 15, 2021 to a 14 minute standing ovation. It was theatrically released in Japan on July 16, 2021, with GKIDS gaining the North American rights and screening it subbed and dubbed from January 14, 2022.There is even a novelization and several books you can read here: https://ryuutosobakasuhime.wordpress.com/Not to be confused with the 2013 live-action movie with the same name.
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Belle (2021) / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
Belle (2021) / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Everyone in "U" keeps their real identities secret, including Belle herself. It's lampshaded how no one would suspect that a beautiful and glamorous singer like Belle is really a plain, mousy high school girl like Suzu.
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Belle (2021) / int_1411ae39	type	Likes Older Men
Belle (2021) / int_1411ae39	comment	Likes Older Men: Hiroka has a crush on her teacher, and keeps a picture of him on her phone. The thing is, said-teacher is roughly in his forties or fifties!
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Belle (2021) / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Belle (2021) / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Downplayed. This example is not born from waning sanity so much as it comes from a place of anger and injustice. When Suzu offers to help Kei at first, Kei lashes out because he's had so many people say they'll help him and his brother only for nothing to change. Livid, he starts mockingly repeating "I'll help you I'll help you I'll help you".
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Belle (2021) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Belle (2021) / int_1439161f	comment	Far less mean-spirited is Suzu accidentally revealing Kamishin's (mutual) crush on Ruka, which results in Kamishin freaking out and running away screaming while Ruka simply buries her hands in her face and does her best statue impression for minutes as Kamishin freaks out.
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Belle (2021) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Belle (2021) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: One of the trailers ends with a shot of Suzu floating above the gigantic crowd in U, giving away Belleâ€™s unveiling later in the film.
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Belle (2021) / int_15827a31	type	Morphic Resonance
Belle (2021) / int_15827a31	comment	Morphic Resonance: Suzu's avatar Belle has dotted marking under her eyes, reflecting a passing resemblance to her Youthful Freckles. Kei often wears dark clothing (matching the Dragon's dark coloring) while Tomo (Angel) wears lighter clothing.
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Belle (2021) / int_1762455b	type	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing
Belle (2021) / int_1762455b	comment	Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Ruka is this in spades. Although Hiroka finds her annoying for some reason, it turns out that Ruka is genuinely friendly, even for being the most popular and pretty girl at school. In fact, she's almost as insecure as Suzu about her appearance.
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Belle (2021) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Belle (2021) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The novelization explores the charactersâ€™ thoughts and feelings. It even reveals small details like Hirokaâ€™s parentsâ€™ job. To be specific, theyâ€™re bankers.
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Belle (2021) / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Belle (2021) / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Notably, Suzu often drinks from a chipped red mug, as though reflecting that her once perfect family life has been shattered by the loss of her mother. The same applies to the smashed photo of Keiâ€™s mother.
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Belle (2021) / int_1ee42f1b	type	Instant Web Hit
Belle (2021) / int_1ee42f1b	comment	Instant Web Hit: When Suzu first sings as Belle, she is initially viewed as annoying for just randomly bursting into song and only one person seems to genuinely appreciate it. By the next day, however, she has millions of subscribers and everyone is talking about her.
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Belle (2021) / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Belle (2021) / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: Most of the real-life portions take place in KÅ�chi, a town in the KÅ�chi prefecture on the island of Shikoku, popular with moviemakers in general for its eye-catching scenery. Many landmarks are clearly recognizable, such as the bridge Suzu crosses each day, the elementary school, the rivers and Ino station.
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Belle (2021) / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Belle (2021) / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: One of the major themes in the movie. Suzu's mother went out to save a child in a storm and died because of it, leaving Suzu to believe her mother abandoned her for a stranger. It takes her the whole movie to understand her mother's actions.
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Belle (2021) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Belle (2021) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: U has the ability to synchronize whatever injury, scar or personal marking the user has with their avatar, as exemplified when Belle gains a temporary marking on her forehead where Suzu accidentally hurt herself. Suzu uses this to figure out the unsavory nature of the bruises on the Dragon's back.
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Belle (2021) / int_22e5329e	type	Ordinary High-School Student
Belle (2021) / int_22e5329e	comment	Ordinary High-School Student: Inverted. Suzu is an ordinary, if good at singing, high school student. Which is what becomes so shocking in-universe when she reveals her true self to the world of U, as there have been countless speculations about who could be behind the mysterious diva Belle.
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Belle (2021) / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
Belle (2021) / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: When Suzu first joins U, the avatar it spits out looks almost exactly like her classmate Ruka, leading Suzu to believe the system to mistake her for Ruka.
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Belle (2021) / int_2344d3d6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
Belle (2021) / int_2344d3d6	comment	Post-Cyberpunk: The film's genre could best be described as "cyberprep", featuring very few punk elements but many concepts that find their origin in Cyberpunk, including a virtual metaverse and commonplace brain-computer interfaces coexisting with more mundane technology like smartphones, motorcars and trains.
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Belle (2021) / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Belle (2021) / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Suzu apparently does not find out who started the rumor about her and Shinobu. Downplayed in that the incident which started it happened in front of over a dozen witnesses, meaning it probably didn't have a single source in the first place, and the conflict is ultimately resolved fairly quickly and without any lasting grudges.
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Belle (2021) / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Belle (2021) / int_23781532	comment	Seems rather appropriate that a self-appointed enforcer of justice would name himself Justin. Also counts as an Ironic Name considering he is anything but an impartial do-gooder.
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Belle (2021) / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Belle (2021) / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: At the climax, Suzu physically shields Kei and Tomo from their abusive father. When he finally manages to pull her away, Suzu stands before him, refusing to move or flinch even while he threatens her. It shocks him enough that he backs off.
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Belle (2021) / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Belle (2021) / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: "Justin" bears more than a passing resemblance to Gaston from the Disney version of the story, and he fits the archetype like a glove; handsome, arrogant, cruel, and relentless in his hunt for Dragon. The only thing missings his lust for Belle and his plans to marry her. His name even sounds suspiciously enough the same as Gaston's name.
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Belle (2021) / int_2606f369	type	Club Stub
Belle (2021) / int_2606f369	comment	Club Stub: Kamishin is the only member of the school's kayaking club. His Establishing Character Moment shows him enthusiastically trying to recruit other people to join, only for everyone else to be put off and run away from him.
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Belle (2021) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Belle (2021) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: At least a few for the many references to the Disney version of the Beauty and the Beast tale. The scene were the Dragon frightens Belle way, only to save her from Justin and the Justices (in place of wolves). The ballroom scene. When the castle is finally found, the Justices storm it in a manner not unlike Gaston storming the Castle. A non-Disney gag can be found in Belle's rose motif. In a version of the story from Auvergne, in France, titled "Belle Rose", the protagonist and her sisters have floral themed names with our protagonist being named Rose.
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Belle (2021) / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Belle (2021) / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Justin presents himself and his group as enforcers of security and order in U. In reality, they're bullies singling out and doxxing those they deem as "other" in order to control U however they wish. Justin also has no problems threatening Belle with doxxing just because she didn't want to help him find The Dragon. Kei's father may come across as a friendly business man and an affable family man who loves his sons and (if suspiciously) insists they're a happy family. But later, it's revealed he's a violent man who loses his temper if either of his son's step out of line. And he has no qualms about beating either Kei or Tomo.
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Belle (2021) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Belle (2021) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: This marks the third film by Mamoru Hosoda set in a digital world, following Digimon: The Movie and Summer Wars.
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Belle (2021) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Belle (2021) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Suzu's name means "bell" in Japanese, and she initially signs up for U under the name Bell to reflect this. As she gets more popular in the U world as a singer, other users refer to her as Belle instead, which is French for "beautiful".
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Belle (2021) / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Belle (2021) / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: How Suzu sees her mother's choice to save a child, losing her own life in the process. Going above and beyond to protect Kei and Tomo from their abusive father gives Suzu a new perspective on her mother's actions, allowing her to finally come to terms with her death.
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Belle (2021) / int_29d26001	type	Spoiled Sweet
Belle (2021) / int_29d26001	comment	Spoiled Sweet: Ruka is not just the most popular and admired girl in school, she's also a genuinely nice and friendly person. She keeps trying to make Suzu welcome in her circle, and is supportive of her efforts to help Kei and Tomo.
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Belle (2021) / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
Belle (2021) / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: Presumably, but Hosoda deliberately leaves the denouement of Suzu and Shinobuâ€™s relationship up to the audience to provide their own interpretations.
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Belle (2021) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Belle (2021) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: In contrast to some of the Internet Jerks U occasionally brings out hidden sides to people. Suzu becomes a beautiful singer in contrast to her gloomy wallflower self, the Beast is hiding beautiful roses and a genuine love for children, and the baseball player that people suspected of being the Beast is hiding surgical scars. Who would have guessed that someone as meek as Suzu would actually be an online superstar? The climax heavily implies that Kei and Tomo's dad does feel guilty for his actions. He just does everything he can to bury it and ignore it.
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Belle (2021) / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Belle (2021) / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: The U app performs this function for its users' avatars by identifying and enhancing their natural characteristics. Though it's usually portrayed aesthetically, it also seems to apply to the Dragon functionally - his determination and defiance of pain resulted in a nearly unbeatable Juggernaut that even thrashes the local peacekeepers, who are no slouches themselves.
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Belle (2021) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Belle (2021) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: During the climax, as Suzu protects Kei and Tomo, their father hurts her enough to draw blood, which shocks him enough to have something of a momentary Heel Realization regarding his violent nature. It becomes something of an Ignored Epiphany when he still threatens to punch her, but Suzu ruins it for him by giving him a Death Glare and leaving him with no recourse left.
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Belle (2021) / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Belle (2021) / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Peggy Sue is this by some degree. She is considered a showoff, and she even goes as far as to make negative comments on Belle. This is later downplayed when she joins in on Belleâ€™s final song in the climax. One of the leads on the Beast claims to be a doting wife with a perfect life. It turns out her kids and husband are completely fake, and she's a womanchild - literally, in her avatar's case (a crying, spoiled baby).
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Belle (2021) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Belle (2021) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When the children try to speak out against the Dragon ever being doxed, some older members of U snidely point out their votes don't count for much in an ocean of Dragon-Haters. When a couple members of U are witnesses (along with Suzu) to Kei and Tomo being abused by their father, what do these fine people do when they have the power to at least try and help? They just mock the brothers for their misfortune. It's bad enough that Kei and Tomoâ€™s father lost his wife in some unspecified circumstance, but to channel that grief through anger and abuse onto his own sons (who themselves already struggle with having lost a mother) is beyond cruel. It earns him a Death Glare from Suzu. Justin and the enforcers brutalizing the Beast's A.I. companions for protecting him and Belle, simply because they could and because they're AIs.
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Belle (2021) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Belle (2021) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Moments before Suzu and Hiroka piece together who the Dragon is, Suzu recalls how the Dragon flinched from her touch during the dance like a frightened child, setting up how he's a few years younger than her.
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Belle (2021) / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
Belle (2021) / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Suzu doesn't really talk about her momâ€™s flaws, and from what the flashbacks show, she was a nurturing parent who encouraged Suzu to follow her passion. The other denizens of the town, however, were quick to judge her mother for saving some little girlâ€™s life over staying alive for her own daughter's sake. Meanwhile, you have Tomo and Kei's late mother, who they miss so much that her photo is displayed as a portrait in the Dragon's castle, as well as on Kei's phone.
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Belle (2021) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Belle (2021) / int_3b113b7	comment	"Come, it's time to live as another you. Come, it's time to start another life. Come, it's time to change the world." The first couple times this slogan for U is said, it feels like an artificial way of advertising that U is all that and a bag of chips. But towards the end, after Suzu has saved Kei and Tomo, the slogan is repeated one last time, having a more meaningful impact. Because U indeed did as it promised. And each sentence reflects what Suzu did on her journey: she's grown as a person, found closure to her mother's death in order to move on, and helped change the lives of two abused brothers.
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Belle (2021) / int_3b194a1a	type	Named by Democracy
Belle (2021) / int_3b194a1a	comment	Named by Democracy: Suzuâ€™s avatar is initially called Bell, as the English translation of her name. However, once she gets famous, her fans start to call her Belle (French for â€œBeautifulâ€�) because of her beauty.
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Belle (2021) / int_3e848d5c	type	Cast of Snowflakes
Belle (2021) / int_3e848d5c	comment	Cast of Snowflakes: The real-world cast is varied, yes, but the denizens of U take the cake. Just among the main cast, there's a Digimon-esque snarker, a glowing jellyfish-angel, a bear in a kayak, a sorceress playing saxophone, and a chimeric Beast. The variety of designs and personalities on display in crowd scenes is staggering.
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Belle (2021) / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
Belle (2021) / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Belle's outfits. Hiro scanned volumes and volumes of costume and fashion design books to give Belle a wardrobe worthy of the gods.
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Belle (2021) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Belle (2021) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Suzu is pretty discouraged that her fame as Belle still garners haters like it did with her first song. However, Hiroka points out that no celebrity is 100% free of any critics. No matter how good a celebrity is, there's always going to be detractors. She even takes it as a sign of a healthy fanbase, because it means she's reaching a wide audience rather than an echo-chamber of die-hard fans. Suzu tries reaching out and offering Tomo and Kei she can help the two escape their abusive father for good. But Kei's first response is distrust, because others have made similar offers and his situation has never improved. Sometimes, reaching out to someone is a two-way street; they have to want your help first.
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Belle (2021) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Belle (2021) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Kei and Tomoâ€™s dad is an abusive prick who viciously berates and beats his children while insisting to the public that he's a good family man.
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Belle (2021) / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Belle (2021) / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: Roses appear frequently throughout the story around Belle and in the Dragon's Castle. Becomes a plot point in the second act, when Belle leaves behind a single rose petal during her escape from Justin, allowing him to locate and raid the Castle.
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Belle (2021) / int_4128bc77	type	Broken Tears
Belle (2021) / int_4128bc77	comment	Broken Tears: Suzu experiences these often, due to the trauma of losing her mother at a very young age in a manner that triggers a deep sense of abandonment. Most notably at the climax, where they nearly cause her to falter while singing her final song in U as herself.
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Belle (2021) / int_4623b3bb	type	Why Couldn't You Be Different?
Belle (2021) / int_4623b3bb	comment	Why Couldn't You Be Different?: A more â€œobedientâ€� variation applies to Kei and Tomoâ€™s fatherâ€™s mindset, and he unfortunately expresses his disappointment through harsh berating and frequent beatings.
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Belle (2021) / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
Belle (2021) / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: Suzu/Belle's freckles and the Dragon's bruises. Everyone uses the latter's mark in an effort to dox him, resulting in the fingers being pointed at a professional baseball player who refuses to show his body because of his surgery scars and a famous eccentric artist with similar tattoos. Suzu and her friends find out that the bruises are actually there because The Dragon is a middle schooler being abused by his father.
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Belle (2021) / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Belle (2021) / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The Beast is considered a likely hacker with a temper as big as his ego with a penchant of targeting any player vaguely near his top ranks in U's PVP modes and absolutely destroying them way more than is necessary. When the self-appointed peace keepers demanded he stop, his response was to not only fight them but deliberately drag their attempts to ban him into U's public events to crash them. Deep down, he's the eldest brother trying to defend his younger sibling from their real beast of a father. The self-appointed peace keepers went after him without due cause and his crashing of events was only a result of attempting to flee. While he's definitely gruff and cynical he cares about others that manage to get close as well as respecting personal strength. He's got a small but significant history of willingly ending a fight early in PVP if he decides the person he's fighting doesn't deserve his ire. Hiroka has moments of being a terrible friend to Suzu by talking over her or peer-pressuring her into things (like bugging her about signing up for U when she's still grieving) and trying to capitalize on Belle's new fame, but she's very supportive of Suzu otherwise, and is instrumental to uncovering the Beast's actual location to rescue him from his abusive father. Peggy Sue is initially jealous and petty about being upstaged by Belle, but when her rival is unmasked as Suzu, she sees this ethereal idol is an average teen just like her. Seeing this, she is the first to encourage Suzu to sing.
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Belle (2021) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Belle (2021) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Kei and Tomo's father regularly beats them. He also hits Suzu toward the end, which draws blood and manages to shake even him momentarily.
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Belle (2021) / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Belle (2021) / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Suzu does this when she tries to sing in public, even though there's no one to hear her. She then joins U and finds she can sing as Belle.
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Belle (2021) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Belle (2021) / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: When Belle hides in order to keep away from Justin and his men, she fails to use an outfit that covers her signature long, pink hair and freckles.
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Belle (2021) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Belle (2021) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: No effort is spared to show off KÅ�chi's pretty scenery, and the U is not any less impressive with its sprawling and colorful virtual landscape filled with quirky avatars.
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Belle (2021) / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Belle (2021) / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: The Voices of U, who maintain the system, though they have no apparent physical presence. They finally act in the climax to restore Suzu's Belle form and give her their approval, dethroning Justin.
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Belle (2021) / int_4ae72307	type	Be Yourself
Belle (2021) / int_4ae72307	comment	Be Yourself: At the end of the film, it is hinted that Suzu will sing outside of the "U" to her friends and family instead of being "Belle".
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Belle (2021) / int_4c961994	type	Acquired Situational Narcissism
Belle (2021) / int_4c961994	comment	Acquired Situational Narcissism: Downplayed and subverted; whereas most people would bask in the attention, Suzu actually struggles with her unwanted new status as Belle throughout the film.
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Belle (2021) / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
Belle (2021) / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: Singing is this for Suzu at first, despite how much she wants to do it again; since her mother was the one who encouraged her love of music, singing reminds her of her mother's death, and even attempting to do so makes her vomit from stress. She starts to get over it when she joins U, since singing as Belle allows her to distance herself from her trauma.
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Belle (2021) / int_4f16a464	type	Artists Are Attractive
Belle (2021) / int_4f16a464	comment	Artists Are Attractive: Jelinek is pretty handsome, in a Punk Goth sort of way.
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Belle (2021) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Belle (2021) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Part of what establishes the true nature Kei and Tomo's dad as an abusive father is that he enacts this on his sons. Although it's every parent's right to be annoyed when their children disrupt their work, the father's response to Tomo mildly singing is to violently wreck the room and then try to beat him up. And when Kei defends his brother, the father responds with unadulterated verbal abuse.
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Belle (2021) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Belle (2021) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Belle's first and last appearance in the movie has her wearing the red dress made up of flowers, all whilst riding on the whale of U. Suzu's first and last scene has her walking somewhere while the movie plays the first notes of "Gales of Song".
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Belle (2021) / int_5717e34	type	Sincerity Mode
Belle (2021) / int_5717e34	comment	When she's deeply moved by Ruka's genuine kindness, Suzu starts crying to herself. The scene cuts to Belle, gently crying while a glow spot of light on her chest indicates her strong emotions. This later comes back to indicate of how her singing vulnerably as Suzu is making nearly everyone in U feel deep emotions.
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Belle (2021) / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Belle (2021) / int_575fd5e2	comment	Kei often wears dark clothing (matching the Dragon's dark coloring) while Tomo (Angel) wears lighter clothing.
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Belle (2021) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Belle (2021) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: In the climax, the choir ladies attempt to cut the knot and call the cops, but are informed that they have to wait 48 hours before carrying it out due to legal reasons. Realizing that anything could happen in that time, Suzu has to take matters into her own hands and race to Tokyo to save Kei and Tomo.
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Belle (2021) / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Belle (2021) / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Aside from Kei and Tomoâ€™s father getting a Death Glare from Suzu to convince him to stop being an asshole to his sons, we learn beforehand that his abuse was exposed online and that heâ€™ll probably spend the rest of his life in imprisonment if he makes no attempt to redeem himself. However, before we even got to this point, Kei and Tomo's father got away with abusing his boys for months (if not years) while countless bystanders told the brothers they would help, only to not follow through. Karma moves slowly, it seems, but we can safely assume it will happen all the same.
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Belle (2021) / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Belle (2021) / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: We never find out about Justinâ€™s true identity.
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Belle (2021) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Belle (2021) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Everybody has secrets, and things aren't always what they seem, especially on the internet. Suzu herself is an example; as Belle, she's a beautiful and beloved singer whom almost no one suspects is really a plain, mousy high school girl who struggles with a lot of trauma. The people Suzu and Hiroka suspect of being the Dragon each have something to hide. The woman who is secretive about how she doesn't have a husband or children turns out to simply hide an immature streak. The Artist who claims he created his tattoos to honor his dead girlfriend is simply a poser whose ex-girlfriend is still well and alive. And the Baseball player everyone suspected of hiding scars from a violent life was a former Littlest Cancer Patient who became an athlete to make the most of his life. And as for Dragon, his and Angel's secret is the most shocking of all in the story: they are but two young brothers who battle with a violent home life.
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Belle (2021) / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Belle (2021) / int_5da37ab5	comment	After the title card, Suzu can be seen walking to school while the audience hears the first notes of "Gales of Song" play. It seems to signify how Suzu has a song in her heart she wants to sing so badly. By the end, "Gales of Song" plays again, but with a warmer, more hopeful inflection, as though singing really did "guide [Suzu] through the storm".
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Belle (2021) / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Belle (2021) / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Implied. After Suzu discovers her Instant Web Hit status, there's a montage of Belle in various outfits, interviews with other stars, different songs, and so forth showing how Belle's popularity surged forward after her initial appearance. When she talks to Hiroka about the negative comments she's been getting, Hiroka is already set up as her producer. Belle's popularity and the loyalty of her fans is such that realistically she would have to have been performing in U for a least several months to really cement her status as the new star of the online community.
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Belle (2021) / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
Belle (2021) / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: Part of what leads Suzu to the the Dragon's real identity is hearing someone sing a song that was shared only between them. In a twist, however, the one singing it isn't the Dragon, but they are close.
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Belle (2021) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Belle (2021) / int_627264e0	comment	It's bad enough that Kei and Tomoâ€™s father lost his wife in some unspecified circumstance, but to channel that grief through anger and abuse onto his own sons (who themselves already struggle with having lost a mother) is beyond cruel. It earns him a Death Glare from Suzu.
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Belle (2021) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Belle (2021) / int_62f9d08e	comment	In a Freeze-Frame Bonus Hiro's world map shows Somaliland as an independent country separate from the rest of Somalia, which was not the case in 2021 when the movie came out.
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Belle (2021) / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Belle (2021) / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Kei and Tomo's father has a bad case of this. Every little annoyance or perceived transgression the brothers make is enough to drive him to viciously beat them.
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Belle (2021) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Belle (2021) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: A flashback reveals Suzu's mother died in one. When a little girl was trapped on a small rise in a flooding river, Mrs. Naito swam out to rescue her. She gave the girl her lifejacket and got her to shore, drowning in the process.
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Belle (2021) / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Belle (2021) / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Suzu crushes on her childhood friend Shinobu, but fails to tell him how she feels. Ruka and Kamishin are unable to reveal their feelings for each other until Suzu drags Kamishin back to Ruka to talk to her.
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Belle (2021) / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
Belle (2021) / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Suzu gets a nasty gouge on the cheek from Kei and Tomo's father while trying to protect them. The ending leaves it unclear whether she gained a permanent scar from the attack.
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Belle (2021) / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Belle (2021) / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Suzu's mother died and is the source behind her trauma in present day. The Dragon/Kei also lost his mother and the picture he has of her is used to identify him in the real world.
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Belle (2021) / int_6760ff37	type	Secret Secret-Keeper
Belle (2021) / int_6760ff37	comment	Secret Secret-Keeper: The adult choir knew that Belle was Suzu for some time and they immediately come to her aid when they see she's in trouble.
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Belle (2021) / int_681f0d25	type	Weirdly Underpowered Admins
Belle (2021) / int_681f0d25	comment	Weirdly Underpowered Admins: The administration of U is strange. While the Voices of U (the ones running the system) do seem to have absolute powers, they almost never intervene in anything. Actual policing of users is deputized to a vigilante group called the Justices, who have been given a few tools to assist them by the Voices, but not only have no admin commands, they can't even seem to report problematic users, having to physically battle them to kick them off the system.
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Belle (2021) / int_6861146e	type	Epiphany Therapy
Belle (2021) / int_6861146e	comment	Epiphany Therapy: In the climax, when Suzu wants to reach out to Kei with her singing, she realizes why her mother was willing to die saving a child she didn't even know: Because life is precious. Through this realization, Suzu finally gains courage and closure.
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Belle (2021) / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Belle (2021) / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: A non-familial variation. Shinobu has been protecting Suzu from the time they were small children, keeping the bullies at bay from picking on her. He does so, up until she grows strong and independent after the climax, determined to keep an eye out for her in her late mother's place. Played straight with Kei, who often shields Tomo's body whenever their father is in a rotten mood to beat up his own sons.
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Belle (2021) / int_6adf60d1	type	Hidden Eyes
Belle (2021) / int_6adf60d1	comment	Hidden Eyes: Suzu's eyes are frequently hidden, to emphasize her grief and isolation.
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Belle (2021) / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Belle (2021) / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Happens in-universe, to further enhance how different the virtual world is. There is something just off about the avatars of U. While the virtual world is deliberately drawn in different art style, the avatars have jerky movements, as if clipping, and for all the lavish details put into their models, they retain the artificial gleam and limitations of a mass-made 3D model.
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Belle (2021) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Belle (2021) / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "Come, it's time to live as another you. Come, it's time to start another life. Come, it's time to change the world." The first couple times this slogan for U is said, it feels like an artificial way of advertising that U is all that and a bag of chips. But towards the end, after Suzu has saved Kei and Tomo, the slogan is repeated one last time, having a more meaningful impact. Because U indeed did as it promised. And each sentence reflects what Suzu did on her journey: she's grown as a person, found closure to her mother's death in order to move on, and helped change the lives of two abused brothers. Both versions of U use "lie" as a scatting lyric. Fittingly, the movie itself focuses on double lives in the internet and the lies we tell to others and ourselves online.
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Belle (2021) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Belle (2021) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A couple in this movie: Suzu means "bell". Notably this was her initial name in U before other users started connecting it to "belle" as in beauty. Seems rather appropriate that a self-appointed enforcer of justice would name himself Justin. Also counts as an Ironic Name considering he is anything but an impartial do-gooder. Peggy Sue, the celeb Suzu winds up upstaging, is named after a Buddy Holly song. Ironically, Buddy's fame lasted long after his death, while Peggy Sue is forgotten almost immediately after trying to drag Belle and getting lit up for it.
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Belle (2021) / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Belle (2021) / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Downplayed. While not outright complete opposites, there's something to be said for how Ruka has a crush on Kamishin. On one hand, she's a socially elegant popular girl with a fair complexion to match her dark hair. On the other hand, Kamishin is a tanned kayaking athlete and a goofball who is outspoken about his passion (even if he's the only one who signed up for it). Yet, when Suzu urges the two to ask each other out, they almost instantly click, especially when they learn they share a liking for Belle's music.
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Belle (2021) / int_71bf37e3	type	Vigilante Militia
Belle (2021) / int_71bf37e3	comment	Vigilante Militia: Justin and his men are self-appointed enforcers of order in U. They do have sponsors but aren't an official part of U's staff.
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Belle (2021) / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Belle (2021) / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Justin is mostly the Big Bad for most of the U segment, but the real world segment has Kei's Abusive Dad who also doubles as a Greater-Scope Villain for most of the early parts of the film.
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Belle (2021) / int_73f799ed	type	The Horseshoe Effect
Belle (2021) / int_73f799ed	comment	The Horseshoe Effect: Justin pursues an insanely harsh and fundamentalist interpretation of justice. Despite his self-proclaimed virtue, he is incredibly guilty of at least a few sins while trying to do "good deeds", including pride. By the end of the movie he goes so far as burn the very castle where the Dragon lives, becoming the villain he claimed to oppose.
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Belle (2021) / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Belle (2021) / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Kids on U absolutely adore the Dragon, to the point that they hop on social media and try to defend him when the rest of U is actively trying to dox him. Turns out the Dragon is only a few years older than most of them.
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Belle (2021) / int_76468dfa	type	Internet Jerk
Belle (2021) / int_76468dfa	comment	Internet Jerk: With five billion people using U, there are definitely a lot of people like this. Most prominent of them are Justin and his posse of self-righteous vigilantes who are willing to expose other people to doxxing just to exert their control over U and the users who mocked Kei and Tomo after footage of them being abused by their father showed up online.
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Belle (2021) / int_79d0b04f	type	Like Goes with Like
Belle (2021) / int_79d0b04f	comment	Like Goes with Like: Discussed by Suzu and Hiroka. They are sure the only girl suited for Big Man on Campus Shinobu is popular and beautiful Ruka. Ultimately subverted because Ruka is crushing on the school joke, Kamishin, and she manages to confess her feelings with Suzu's help.
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Belle (2021) / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
Belle (2021) / int_7b4cbce1	comment	Headbutt of Love: Suzu and Kei share one of these after she successfully defends him and his brother from the abuses of their father.
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Belle (2021) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Belle (2021) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Belle gives a brief one to Justin during her interrogation, accusing him of only wanting to control people and not actually caring about justice at all. Later, Kei (too distrustful to believe she's Belle) gives Suzu a misguided tirade questioning what makes her so special from a long line of bystanders who falsely promised the boys that they would help, but never delivered. Much later, Suzu gives a semi-silent one to Kei's father, causing the coward to run off sniveling in horror at what he's done.
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Belle (2021) / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Belle (2021) / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The anime does not give an exact time period beyond basic 20 Minutes into the Future though it cannot be earlier than the 2020s judging by the tech needed for the U simulation.
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Belle (2021) / int_7fe29ba6	type	Symbolism
Belle (2021) / int_7fe29ba6	comment	Symbolism: After the title card, Suzu can be seen walking to school while the audience hears the first notes of "Gales of Song" play. It seems to signify how Suzu has a song in her heart she wants to sing so badly. By the end, "Gales of Song" plays again, but with a warmer, more hopeful inflection, as though singing really did "guide [Suzu] through the storm". Notably, Suzu often drinks from a chipped red mug, as though reflecting that her once perfect family life has been shattered by the loss of her mother. The same applies to the smashed photo of Keiâ€™s mother. Suzu's pet three-legged dog seems to serve two purposes in the few scenes it appears. First, it's meant to signify the metaphorical elephant in the room: that sooner or later, Suzu has to come to terms that her mother's gone. Second, it seems to reflect Suzu's home life; it's not perfect, it's missing something/someone, but like the family, it's still functioning. When she's deeply moved by Ruka's genuine kindness, Suzu starts crying to herself. The scene cuts to Belle, gently crying while a glow spot of light on her chest indicates her strong emotions. This later comes back to indicate of how her singing vulnerably as Suzu is making nearly everyone in U feel deep emotions. When trying to discuss whether or not she's Belle, Shinoba and Suzu are having this conversation from different sides of a crosswalk. The traffic grows heavier and heavier as Suzu grows more and more resolved to stay in her metaphorical shell. In the ending, Suzu and her father exchanging the traditional Japanese greetings of "I'm home" and "Welcome home" at the train station is loaded with significance. She has finally recovered the cheerful and musical person she was before her mother's death. Kei often has a bang over one eye for the better part of the story, as though reflecting how distrustful he is towards the world. After the resolution, the bang no longer covers his eye, as though Suzu has restored his faith in people.
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Belle (2021) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Belle (2021) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The prologue acts as this for both Suzu and her U persona Belle. The first half is about how Belle is a singer on U whose beauty is only matched by her singing voice and appreciation for life. The second half focuses on Suzu as she quietly prepares herself some tea and morosely stares out into space. This is meant to tell the audience that without her Belle persona, Suzu is but a timid girl who, when alone with her thoughts, still grieves over her mother's death.
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Belle (2021) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Belle (2021) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The film opens with an introduction to the world of U while Belle is performing a concert. It then switches to scenes of Suzu going about her daily life just before she first creates her U avatar.
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Belle (2021) / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Belle (2021) / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Averted, even after Suzu is ousted of her Belle appearance, the shocked audience still supports her. After all, itâ€™s her talent that counts, not her beauty, and said singing moves her audience to tears.
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Belle (2021) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Belle (2021) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: When Suzu and Hiroka try to deduce who Dragon is, the clues lead them to a kid named Tomo who is humming a song only the Dragon should know. At first, it looks like this mild-mannered, unassuming boy really is the giant, violent Beast, as unlikely as it seems. But as the scene goes on (and reveals Tomo's abusive father), it turns out that appropriately, the Dragon is really the slightly older and brooding Kei.
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Belle (2021) / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Belle (2021) / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Justin has sponsors willing to back his and his men's actions despite him essentially being a bully seeking to control the direction of U however he wishes. His support goes down the drain in the end after his private threat to unveil Belle is exposed.
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Belle (2021) / int_8847d06a	type	Hiding Behind Your Bangs
Belle (2021) / int_8847d06a	comment	Kei often has a bang over one eye for the better part of the story, as though reflecting how distrustful he is towards the world. After the resolution, the bang no longer covers his eye, as though Suzu has restored his faith in people.
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Belle (2021) / int_89d82a1b	type	Aesop Enforcer
Belle (2021) / int_89d82a1b	comment	Aesop Enforcer: Justin and his posse have taken on this role for themselves in U, acting as guardians to preserve order. Justin claims the Voices have granted him special privileges to help him carry out his duty, most notably his ability to Unveil other users and reveal their true identity. When he abuses these privileges against Belle in his quest to take out the Dragon, he ultimately loses the support of his sponsors, and presumably of the Voices as well.
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Belle (2021) / int_8a27f768	type	Space Whale
Belle (2021) / int_8a27f768	comment	Space Whale: When first introduced in U, Belle is riding atop a flying whale covered in stereo equipment. In the climax, the whale returns along with several others similarly decked out, implicitly as representatives of the Voices of U, if not their actual avatars.
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Belle (2021) / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
Belle (2021) / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: Played With. Japanese social services have to wait for 48 hours when getting an outside report to take action and actually investigate to verify if the report is true, but not allowed to act prior. This seems like they are useless... except it's the result of a reform from just two years prior to the anime's production, improving far worse regulations and once those 48 hours have passed, police and child care services are given free hand to act. It's the wait period that makes them powerless when urgent reaction is needed.
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Belle (2021) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Belle (2021) / int_8b606a51	comment	The Beast is considered a likely hacker with a temper as big as his ego with a penchant of targeting any player vaguely near his top ranks in U's PVP modes and absolutely destroying them way more than is necessary. When the self-appointed peace keepers demanded he stop, his response was to not only fight them but deliberately drag their attempts to ban him into U's public events to crash them. Deep down, he's the eldest brother trying to defend his younger sibling from their real beast of a father. The self-appointed peace keepers went after him without due cause and his crashing of events was only a result of attempting to flee. While he's definitely gruff and cynical he cares about others that manage to get close as well as respecting personal strength. He's got a small but significant history of willingly ending a fight early in PVP if he decides the person he's fighting doesn't deserve his ire.
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Belle (2021) / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
Belle (2021) / int_9075ac17	comment	Justin and the enforcers brutalizing the Beast's A.I. companions for protecting him and Belle, simply because they could and because they're AIs.
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Belle (2021) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Belle (2021) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Justin rapidly loses sponsors after it comes to light that he attempted to dox Belle.
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Belle (2021) / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Belle (2021) / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: When Suzu vomits from stress, the camera doesn't change its angle view, so we see what comes out from her mouth. In the following scene she still has some dirt around it.
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Belle (2021) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Belle (2021) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: For a while, Suzu has been living under a Never My Fault belief that her father hasn't talked to her, despite that he's made efforts to reach out to her. After witnessing what kind of monster Tomo and Kei's father is, it dawns on Suzu how good she's had it, living with a kind and understanding father who would never dream of hurting her. As a gesture of apology, while riding the train to Tokyo, she texts him how sorry she is for her emotional selfishness.
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Belle (2021) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Belle (2021) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When Suzu shields Kei and Tomo in the climax, their Father initially refuses to take any responsibility for his abuse and has the utter gall to blame her for trying to ruin his family.
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Belle (2021) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Belle (2021) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: When Belle is Unveiled as mild-mannered Suzu, a former celebrity on U, Peggy Sue, is surprised to learn Belle's but a student no older than herself.
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Belle (2021) / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Belle (2021) / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The segments based within the real world are traditionally animated while the segments inside "U" are in CGI.
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Belle (2021) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Belle (2021) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Kamishin tries to encourage people to join in the kayaking club, Ruka notably turns away from his general direction. It turns out she was turning away, not out of embarrassment, but shyness for her crush. During the scene introducing the Dragon, one of the commenters expositions how the Dragon "plays dirty" in fighting matches by doing overkills on his opponents. One comment theorizes he's using the fights to work through some issues. Sure enough, the movie later reveals those "issues" in the form of Kei and Tomo being abused by their father. During a walk home, Suzu gets a nasty bruise on her forehead, which also appears on her avatar Belle's forehead too. Later, we learn that there's a connection between this and the Dragon's bruises, as they indicate a darker reason he got those specifically on his back in the first place. While looking for who the Dragon could be, Suzu happens upon a clip of a business father mentioning how his sons lost their mother some time ago. Meanwhile, you have Dragon who keeps a mysterious portrait of a motherly-looking woman in his castle, who we can assume passed on. As it turns out, this is not a coincidence. While Suzu and Hiroka investigate who the Dragon is, they happen upon a clip of a young boy saying the Dragon is his hero. It turns out, this isn't just prattle or figure of speech: the boy (Tomo) is actually talking about his brother, who protects him from their abusive father. In the same clip, said brother is seen with his face away from the camera. In the clip of the businessman boasting about his family's happy home life, neither one of his two sons appears the slightest bit happy, and both are studiously avoiding all eye contact. They are later revealed to be the Dragon and the Angel, and their father turns out to be physically and emotionally abusive. When they first meet proper, the Dragon doesn't want Belle to touch him. Later, he flinches at Belle's touch during the dance. On top of his bruises, these are common signs of physical abuse. Towards the end of their dance together, the Dragon suddenly curls up on the ground while the markings on his back start to mysteriously glow, new ones forming in the process. Belle later learns they glow because Kei was being physically abused by his father at the moment. What's more, what prompted Dragon to break away from the dance was the distant sound of glass breaking. After seeing the aggressive tendencies of Tomo and Kei's father, it's no surprise that the sound was what alerted the Dragon that his father was in another one of his violent moods again. Belle tries to reach Dragon with a song called "Lend Me Your Voice". Later, as Suzu, she tries to reach Kei and Tomo with the song "A Million Miles Away". When her voice falters, the audience begins to sing back to her, lending her their voices so she can finish the song.
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Belle (2021) / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
Belle (2021) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: When Hiroka confronts the large woman on why the large woman has a baby for a U Avatar, she claims that it's because she must have "the innocent and pure heart of a child". Not only does Hiroka call the woman out on how being a virtual baby is no excuse to act like a baby, but the woman fails to grasp that her Avatar has less to do with her "innocence" or "purity" and more to do with her imaturity.
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Belle (2021) / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Belle (2021) / int_9f80e1da	comment	When a couple members of U are witnesses (along with Suzu) to Kei and Tomo being abused by their father, what do these fine people do when they have the power to at least try and help? They just mock the brothers for their misfortune.
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Belle (2021) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Belle (2021) / int_a1b141f4	comment	Much later, Suzu gives a semi-silent one to Kei's father, causing the coward to run off sniveling in horror at what he's done.
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Belle (2021) / int_a20032e6	type	Against the Grain
Belle (2021) / int_a20032e6	comment	Against the Grain: Kei defies his fatherâ€™s expectations by following his heart and becoming the Beast of U where he can do and go as he pleases.
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Belle (2021) / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Belle (2021) / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Downplayed a lot, but it does appear that time flows differently inside U to in the real world. The discovery and subsequent ransacking and burning of the Dragon's castle, for example, seems to take quite a bit of time in U. However, context clues point to it only taking place over a few minutes in the real world: Shinobu, Ruka and Kamishin are still at the train station while it all goes down. The same is also true of Suzu's concert as herself at the film's climax, which goes on for a long time inside U, but very little time seems to pass outside.
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Belle (2021) / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Belle (2021) / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Suzu never lets Belle's success get to her head. Also, rather than use the revenue she gets from her performances for herself, she anonymously donates her earnings to charity.
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Belle (2021) / int_a6ed3cd6	type	Scatting
Belle (2021) / int_a6ed3cd6	comment	Both versions of U use "lie" as a scatting lyric. Fittingly, the movie itself focuses on double lives in the internet and the lies we tell to others and ourselves online.
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Belle (2021) / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
Belle (2021) / int_a6ff7243	comment	Hates Being Touched: The Dragon which turns out to be for a VERY frightening reason....
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Belle (2021) / int_a8476736	type	Keep the Reward
Belle (2021) / int_a8476736	comment	Keep the Reward: Hiroka remarks that any revenue Suzu earns in U or on other media platforms as a result of Belle's singing is donated anonymously to charities. There is practicality to this, as info like a bank account could be used to find Belle's real identity.
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Belle (2021) / int_aa9bdb08	type	Youthful Freckles
Belle (2021) / int_aa9bdb08	comment	Youthful Freckles: Suzu puts her real-life freckles on her U avatar, giving it a distinguishing look that made it into the movie's original title.
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Belle (2021) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Belle (2021) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The scene with Suzu contacting Kei and Tomo comes across as this. She offers them to help, and the audience knows she's genuine enough to make good on her promise. But Kei thinks it's but a cruel trick from one more bystander who won't follow through. Suzu and her friends are the only ones who really want to help, and it's by sheer distrust that he and Tomo (nearly) lose out on their only salvation from their abusive home life.
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Belle (2021) / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
Belle (2021) / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The Lonely woman who lied about her home life eventually comes forward as having a baby-looking avatar, the same one who first hated on Belle's singing. She tries to justify she chose a baby as her avatar so she could have attention. Hiroka (as her own avatar) points out that having a baby avatar is no excuse to act immature or hate upon people. Not that the woman listens anyway.
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Belle (2021) / int_af8dad6b	type	Beautiful Singing Voice
Belle (2021) / int_af8dad6b	comment	Beautiful Singing Voice: Suzu has a beautiful singing voice, but she's unable to sing at the beginning of the film since doing so reminds her of her mother's death. She realizes that she's able to sing in U as Belle, and while she's initially criticized by the other users for her unusual rhythm and her freckles, her singing quickly becomes a hit in the online world.
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Belle (2021) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Belle (2021) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: While physically abusing his sons yet again, Tomo and Kei's father also verbally abuses them by wishing they would "disappear". By the climax, Suzu takes the two boys from his clutches, the same sons he took for granted.
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Belle (2021) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Belle (2021) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	The Dragon (Kei) is not only a version of Suzu who was stuck with an abusive father, but he's also who she would be if she came into U with more destructive (if understandable) intentions.
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Belle (2021) / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Hiroka is able to enhance a still from a webcam to filter out sunlight glare coming through a window and get a clear picture of the buildings visible through it.
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Belle (2021) / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Belle (2021) / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: The Other Wiki identifies the film as this. It is based on a fairytale, after all. However, the fantasy elements are relegated entirely to the virtual world of U, with everything in the real world staying grounded in reality.
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Belle (2021) / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Belle (2021) / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: In-universe: Belle is not only a wildly popular singer, she's a model, icon, fashionista, and U spokeswoman all in one! Too bad she's nothing like the real her. Ruka is seen as this by much of the school; she's a funny, kindhearted girl who can play a mean saxophone and leads the music club with unerring proficiency while juggling school assignments effortlessly. Just like Belle, she DOES have a weakness: she's painfully shy about talking to the boy she has a crush on.
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Belle (2021) / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Belle (2021) / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Kei and Tomoâ€™s father all but exists to show what Suzuâ€™s own dad would have been like if he let his grief and agony from his wifeâ€™s death corrupt his head. Likewise, he also acts like a reflection of how his son could've turned out if he gave into his instincts to vent his anger on the innocent, instead of channeling it to protect them. The Dragon (Kei) is not only a version of Suzu who was stuck with an abusive father, but he's also who she would be if she came into U with more destructive (if understandable) intentions.
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Belle (2021) / int_b8f5a02	type	Non-Standard Character Design
Belle (2021) / int_b8f5a02	comment	Nonstandard Character Design: U's denizens are very diverse, but Belle stands out for being so human and so pretty; she looks like a Disney princess died and ascended to goddesshood. The Dragon's hulking size and blood-and-iron color scheme makes him stand out in a different way.
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Belle (2021) / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Belle (2021) / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: The movie ends with Suzu having two prospects: Shinobu, who declared that he no longer needed to be her protector and could focus on being her friend, and Kei, who declared his love for her when they met in person. However, since Suzu only ever shows romantic interest towards Shinobu, and her rescue of Kei is clearly supposed to parallel her mother's past actions, it's possible the declaration of love isn't romantic in nature.
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Belle (2021) / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Belle (2021) / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: The Dragon is normally angry and abrasive towards anyone (minus children), driving them away with all his fury. But when it comes to Angel, he's surprisingly gentle and kind to him, treating him in such a tender and understanding way. It turns out the reason is Angel is the Dragon's younger brother, who he protects from their father's abuse. Later in the story, Belle becomes this to the Dragon, as the only other person on U he cares about and respects.
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Belle (2021) / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Belle (2021) / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Suzuâ€™s appearance as Belle is a big part of becoming a virtual pop star, which is a harsh truth for any public figure. Her original look was fine for a high school student, but being expected to be in the virtual world would require her to look more 'professional'. When she decides to reveal her true appearance to the people of U, this trope kicks in to everyone who assumed her to be as beautiful as a regular supermodel.
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Belle (2021) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Belle (2021) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Justin and his men are set on enforcing their vision of order onto U, and they're willing to dox anyone who they think disrupts that order.
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Belle (2021) / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Belle (2021) / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Suzu and Kei don't do anything after the climax, but fans of this film could interpret this differently.
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Belle (2021) / int_be445584	type	Act of True Love
Belle (2021) / int_be445584	comment	Act of True Love: In order to convince Kei to trust her after so many have stood by while he and his brother were abused, Suzu deliberately Unveils herself in front of all of U to prove how far she's willing to go to help him. It works.
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Belle (2021) / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Belle (2021) / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: While taking the train to Tokyo, Suzu's text conversation with her father has shades of this. On Suzu's side, she acknowledges that she's been acting 'selfish' lately, pushing him away when all he wanted was to reach out to his daughter. On her father's side, he's also understanding to say he doesn't blame her emotional distance, as she has been coping with the grief of losing her mother.
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Belle (2021) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Belle (2021) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The last lyric of "Swarms of Song" is "Let the melody lift me, I'll be me." All the while, Belle has been glorified by everyone on U as a virtual angel, driving home that the public's view of her is nothing like the real Suzu.
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Belle (2021) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Belle (2021) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Suzu manages to reach Kei and Tomo as herself by singing one last time in U after being Unveiled, proving to them that she is who she says she is. Kei has accepted her offer of help and is ready to send their address, and then their father comes back, tossing both boys aside and cutting the feed before they can even name the district.
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Belle (2021) / int_c542b258	type	Date My Avatar
Belle (2021) / int_c542b258	comment	Date My Avatar: Suzu's tracking of the Beast blossoms into a full-blown crush when she enters his castle, mirroring the various adaptations of Beauty and the Beast having the romance blossom when the heroine is in the Beast's domain. She even tries to kiss him, only stopped when he cringes away. Good thing, too. He's just a kid.
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Belle (2021) / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Belle (2021) / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: The reveal that the elegant-looking woman (who mysteriously lies about having a family) is actually a baby on U is ludicrously cringe-worthy, as it's a testament of how emotionally stunted she is. One can hardly believe she ever claimed she was a family woman. Far less mean-spirited is Suzu accidentally revealing Kamishin's (mutual) crush on Ruka, which results in Kamishin freaking out and running away screaming while Ruka simply buries her hands in her face and does her best statue impression for minutes as Kamishin freaks out.
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Belle (2021) / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Belle (2021) / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Both a variation and played straight. Suzu appears to have inherited her motherâ€™s looks. It's heavily implied that this is one of the reasons why Kei and Tomoâ€™s father doesnâ€™t hit her; he can see his dead wife in Suzu in both the way she looks, and the way she acts.
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Belle (2021) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Belle (2021) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The film takes very clear influence from the Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast in its main characters and style (with Belle herself being designed by veteran Disney animator and character designer Jin Kim), including a recreation of the ballroom dance. It even includes a scene where the Dragon yells at Belle to get out of his castle before crying and covering his face with one hand, with the camera shot and character body language exactly like the Beast's in the Disney film. Belle's intro features some avatars that look very much like they could be Digimon. Fittingly, Hosoda directed one of the movies.
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Belle (2021) / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Belle (2021) / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: Deconstructed. According to Kei, the reason he doesn't trust Suzu to help him and Tomo escape their father is because he's heard many people on U claim they would "help" as well. But when they're not mocking him, they're just standing by and allowing it to happen.
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Belle (2021) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Belle (2021) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: On the surface, the Dragon is an enigma, fighting hard in combat games, yet trying his hardest to either keep a low profile or drive others away. As it turns out, the reason he's the way he is because he's a 14-year-old boy dealing with an abusive home life, and his wish for anonymity was born from a deep-rooted cynicism that nobody cares to help him or his brother. It's implied that Kei's fatherâ€™s brutish attitude towards his sons could be a negative reaction to losing his wife.
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Belle (2021) / int_ca9c252f	type	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
Belle (2021) / int_ca9c252f	comment	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: Towards the climax, the reason Suzu goes to Tokyo to save Tomo and Kei is because she insisted to her friends and family that she had to do it herself. Justified since the Japanese social services had just informed her friends that a waiting period of 48 hours is required before they can take action on a report, and the situation was urgent.
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Belle (2021) / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
Belle (2021) / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: The music ladies who side with Suzu.
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Belle (2021) / int_cf68da0c	type	Sexier Alter Ego
Belle (2021) / int_cf68da0c	comment	Sexier Alter Ego: Belle was created to look more striking and beautiful than Suzu's conventional schoolgirl self, in part because the picture she used included Ruka.
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Belle (2021) / int_d13a03f0	type	Everybody Cries
Belle (2021) / int_d13a03f0	comment	Everybody Cries: In the climax, Suzu's song has literally everyone in U crying along with her. Possibly extends to the movie audience as well.
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Belle (2021) / int_d259fea2	type	Speak Ill of the Dead
Belle (2021) / int_d259fea2	comment	Depending on how you look at it, the townsfolk who claimed Suzu's mother abandoned her daughter for a stranger kind of fall under this trope. They speak ill of her memory for being foolhardy about saving a stranded girl all by her lonesome. And yet, they didn't do anything to help. They could've worked together as a team to help Suzu's mother save the girl, but they just stood by. Even if her death was pretty much her own doing, these people are just as much to blame for her death.
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Belle (2021) / int_d44ea142	type	You Are Not Alone
Belle (2021) / int_d44ea142	comment	You Are Not Alone: A recurring theme of the film. While Suzu spends much of the movie struggling with the trauma of losing her mother at a young age, at almost every point she has at least one friend or family member nearby offering their support. Suzu herself does this for the Dragon, and later for Kei and Tomo directly, as she learns more about their own traumatic experiences. The entire population of U does this for Suzu after she breaks down in the middle of her final song and almost loses the will to keep going, by adding their own voices in support.
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Belle (2021) / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
Belle (2021) / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: The act of Unveiling is framed as this, the ability to publicly destroy someone's virtual image by exposing who they are in the real world.
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Belle (2021) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Belle (2021) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Justin's preaching of order and justice really falls flat when he commits blatantly unlawful actions like invading and ransacking The Dragon's castle and rather gleefully threatening Belle with Unveiling when she refuses to comply with his interrogation. As she puts it during said interrogation, he isn't being a vigilante for justice, but instead simply wants to control people.. Depending on how you look at it, the townsfolk who claimed Suzu's mother abandoned her daughter for a stranger kind of fall under this trope. They speak ill of her memory for being foolhardy about saving a stranded girl all by her lonesome. And yet, they didn't do anything to help. They could've worked together as a team to help Suzu's mother save the girl, but they just stood by. Even if her death was pretty much her own doing, these people are just as much to blame for her death. While trying to pry Suzu away from Kei and Tomo, their father accuses Suzu of trying to tear his family apart. To repeat: a man who physically and emotionally abuses his children is accusing someone else of trying to destroy his family.
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Belle (2021) / int_d935ee2f	type	Innocent Blue Eyes
Belle (2021) / int_d935ee2f	comment	Innocent Blue Eyes: Belle's light blue eyes dominate her face, ringed by long lashes and elegant freckles. Played With, (not only because Suzu's real eyes are brown), because though she may have a pure heart, Suzu's innocence is long gone.
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Belle (2021) / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Belle (2021) / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Played with. The members of Suzu's singing club guess that the reason she quieter than normal is because she's crushing on a "bad boy". She tries to reason it's less to do with crushing (and more to do with help the Dragon work through his problems). One of the club members regales everyone with a high school anecdote of studying abroad and growing interested in a student who was a moody lone wolf.
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Belle (2021) / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Belle (2021) / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Despite an initial frosty reception, Belle quickly amasses a fanbase in the billions because of her beautiful singing.
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Belle (2021) / int_dc335a04	type	Ear Worm
Belle (2021) / int_dc335a04	comment	Ear Worm: Belle's songs, despite their initial cold reception, quickly become this, as even people criticising her can't shake out the melodies from their heads.
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Belle (2021) / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Belle (2021) / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Suzu's first follower on U is revealed to be the Dragon's younger brother, Tomo.
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Belle (2021) / int_de0db2aa	type	Crush Blush
Belle (2021) / int_de0db2aa	comment	Crush Blush: Suzu gets one of these pretty much every time she interacts with Shinobu. To say she's not great at concealing her feelings for him is an understatement. Kamoshin and Ruka have a mutual one while (at Suzu's prodding) confessing their feelings for each other at the bus station. Kamoshin's extends across his entire body.
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Belle (2021) / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Belle (2021) / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Just like her mother helped a complete stranger child who was in danger while no one ever bothered to rescue them, Suzu saves two teenager brothers from their abusive father, when everyone else didn't intervene or mocked them. The difference is that Suzu comes out from this experience still alive. This actually helps Suzu to understand her mother' motives, coming to terms with her mother's death.
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Belle (2021) / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Belle (2021) / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Kei becoming the Dragon and all the madness and destruction that followed all started because his mother died and his father was so heartbroken, that he took his anger out on him (probably).
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Belle (2021) / int_e313b4e7	comment	The reveal that the elegant-looking woman (who mysteriously lies about having a family) is actually a baby on U is ludicrously cringe-worthy, as it's a testament of how emotionally stunted she is. One can hardly believe she ever claimed she was a family woman.
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Belle (2021) / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: During the climax, when Suzu arrives in Tokyo to find Kei and Tomo, there's a rainstorm, as though reflecting how lost and hopeless she feels finding two boys in the largest city ever. The rain picks up when she finds the boys, but has to contend with their desperate father. When she ultimately wards him off, the weather clears up, as though telling all three focus characters everything's going to be all right now.
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Belle (2021) / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Justin and his men wear primarily white and red superhero-esque costumes and are fanatical vigilantes who hunt down and dox those they disagree with. Likewise, Kei and Tomo's abusive father is often seen wearing a bright yellow polo shirt.
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Belle (2021) / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Belleâ€™s dresses would count merely as Simple, yet Opulent if not for the intricate designs.
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Belle (2021) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The Dragon has the mindset to believe that he can take whatever beating Justin and his men can dish out as long as he holds out. In the real world, this attitude was born from how Kei is willing to protect Tomo, despite that there seems to be no end in sight to the abusive treatment their father gives them.
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Belle (2021) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Justin, his posse, and Tomo and Keiâ€™s father (depending on your interpretation as to how much of a three dimensional character he is) are given little redeeming qualities in the film and only exist to be self-righteous assholes to Belle and the Dragon. Yep, Hosoda really wanted viewers to hate them.
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Belle (2021) / int_e6ce4b	comment	The Maze: The path to the Castle starts in a section of U that has been long abandoned, with the Dragon's AIs preventing access by obscuring the path for anyone who wanders around and leaving them hopelessly lost.
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Belle (2021) / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: In the first minutes of the movie, Belleâ€™s introduction is represented with a shot of a whale with speakers in its flesh, while the camera slowly zoom at its head, showing her singing.
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Belle (2021) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Kamishin is normally the Plucky Comic Relief of the story who breaks the tension with how outspoken and extroverted he is. Even when he's being urged by Suzu to ask out Ruka, it's Played for Laughs. When he and Ruka (along with Suzu and her friends) are witnesses to how Kei and Tomo have an abusive father, he's stunned silent by the spectacle, reflecting the heavy atmosphere the story has taken. He even puts aside the goofiness to help piece together just where the two brothers may be located, offering up a clue that they may be in Tokyo.
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Belle (2021) / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Kei looks like heâ€™s in his late teens despite being a 9th grader who is a few years younger than Suzu.
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Belle (2021) / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Belle (2021) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Justin and his posse are insufferably self-righteous bullies willing to leave users vulnerable to doxxing just for not fitting their personal vision of U. Kei and Tomoâ€™s dad is an abusive prick who viciously berates and beats his children while insisting to the public that he's a good family man.
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Belle (2021) / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Belle (2021) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Played with. Suzu's mother risked her life in order to save a child stranded during a dangerous flood, and of course lost her life in the process. On one hand, instead of making her a martyr in the eyes of witnesses, they gossiped about how inconsiderate it was was to "abandon" her own daughter for a stranger's daughter, and Suzu herself even buys into the grief-stricken belief that her mother didn't love her. On the other hand, later down the line, Suzu is inspired to save Kei and Tomo when she realizes it parallels her mother's self-sacrificing effort to save that little girl when nobody else would. Although she wasn't lauded as a hero for her efforts, one might say her heroic deed was not in vain either.
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Belle (2021) / int_ece07747	type	Bright Is Not Good
Belle (2021) / int_ece07747	comment	Bright Is Not Good: Justin has bright blond hair and wears a white outfit, but he's also a fanatical self-appointed enforcer of order in U willing to dox anyone he thinks disagrees with his vision.
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Belle (2021) / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Belle (2021) / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: At the end of the film's opening parade sequence, Belle finishes singing confidently and closes her eyes, and we cut immediately to Suzu under her blanket, clutching a microphone in her hand, drenched in sweat and gasping for air, thus establishing that Belle is Suzu's online Secret Identity and setting up the film's major theme of the mask and the person hiding behind it.
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Belle (2021) / int_f1c969f6	type	Moving Beyond Bereavement
Belle (2021) / int_f1c969f6	comment	Moving Beyond Bereavement: A good part of Suzu's character arc is her coming to terms with her mother's death, which isn't easy since it's deeply affected her to the point that even attempting to sing is a Trauma Button for her at first. Her determination to help Kei and Tomo and protect them from their abusive father gives her a new perspective on the circumstances surrounding her mother's death, which allows her to finally accept it and move on.
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Belle (2021) / int_f273b1cb	type	Devil in Plain Sight
Belle (2021) / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: A non-evil version. The broody Beast is, in fact, the broody kid with the same far-away look that's a potential lead on the Beast during Suzu's original search.
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Belle (2021) / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Belle (2021) / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: A given since most of Japan and the world looks like the 2010s or 2020s sans the U simulation and the earbuds needed to connect to it. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus Hiro's world map shows Somaliland as an independent country separate from the rest of Somalia, which was not the case in 2021 when the movie came out.
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Belle (2021) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Belle (2021) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Kei hasn't had an easy life. As himself, his mother died for some reason and it has (presumably) turned his father into a bitter person. As the Dragon, he is on the run. By that extent, his brother Tomo shares the same hardships under the same brutish father's roof. All the same, Kei maintains the ideology of this trope, that if he only holds out long enough, it will pay off. Sure off, his iron will pays off in the form of Suzu coming to their rescue and ensuring they'll never go back to their father.
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Belle (2021) / int_f76f8943	type	Bruiser with a Soft Center
Belle (2021) / int_f76f8943	comment	Bruiser with a Soft Center: The Dragon in a nutshell. He is violently confrontational to just about everyone except children, though this is due to the fact that his online persona is his only means of venting the pain and grief he experiences from an abusive home life. Belle sees through his defenses very quickly when she finally reaches his hidden Castle and sees him interact with the Angel, treating him gently despite how he yelled at Belle to leave earlier.
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Belle (2021) / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Belle (2021) / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Justin is astounded that Unveiling Belle had the opposite effect he was hoping for. Instead of shaming her, doxing her or forgetting her, everybody lends their voice to her and returns her to her Belle form.
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Belle (2021) / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Belle (2021) / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: For Team Suzu after Kei and Tomo's father realizes his abuse was just live-streamed and he retaliates. The two kids are in even greater danger, but thanks to their Father cutting the feed when he did, Suzu and company didn't get their address. So without knowing where in Japan Kei and Tomo are located, Suzu and friends can't alert the authorities or take action themselves — at least until Ruka deduces the first clue.
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Belle (2021) / int_fa75f3a6	type	Humans Are Good
Belle (2021) / int_fa75f3a6	comment	Humans Are Good: While U has its bad apples, Suzu manages to move everybody on U (minus Justin and his men) to tears when she sings as herself. In turn, when she's too emotionally drained to sing, everybody sings along with her as a gesture of encouragement. Even those who were previously jealous of her join in the song.
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Belle (2021) / int_fc3e4477	type	Rose-Haired Sweetie
Belle (2021) / int_fc3e4477	comment	Rose-Haired Sweetie: Belle has thick, knee-length hair of rosy pink, and Innocent Blue Eyes to go with it. Her manner is always gracious, sweet, and kindly.
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Belle (2021) / int_fff863c3	comment	Virtual Sidekick: The Dragon keeps several AI companions in the Castle, who help him hide its location from other users in U. Once the Angel guides Belle inside, and after the Dragon softens to her presence, they extend their protection to her as well.
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