A young Hayao Miyazaki walks around aimlessly in a summery 70's Stockholm waiting for a meeting with Astrid Lindgren that never happens. Fifteen years later in small town Västerås, a young teenage boy discovers the Japanese cartoon series Sailor Moon and it transforms him from a mediocre Swedish teenager into an ambassador for a colorful secret. In another part of Sweden a young cosplay queen sews wings and lifts over the suburbs like an angel. Leaves us others down here gasping for air.
In the feature film “Places that were anime to me” archive material is mixed with dramatizations to tell the story of a first love in bleeding video colors. An extremely subjective depiction of the history of Japanese animation filtered through Swedish teenage years at the turn of the millennium. With original music composed by pop artist Kalle J.