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which is also soundtracked by the ドンドットット/dondottotto beat of the drums of liberation.

Give me a future where I'm free

"the waves are dancing, sound the drums!"

oh, i can see that, yeah. it's not really the cutesy sort of childish, but the iron giant uses very simple words and simplistic phrasing- short, easy-to-understand statements, like a kid might. and even though its dialogue is written in katakana (a common stylistic choice to indicate a 'robotic/artificial' sounding voice in japanese), it's not uninflected; it ends its sentences with the particle na, which is a seeking-confirmation sort of sentence ending. it makes the tone here seem... uncertain and maybe a little immature, i think?

PEAK FICTION PEAK FICTION PEAK FICTION ABSOLUTE CINEMAAAAA