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58.179.175.78
Since: Dec, 1969
23rd Jan, 2011 03:04:24 PM
The Sky Crawlers perhaps?
breadcat
Since: Oct, 2013
24th Jan, 2011 11:47:38 AM
Skyland matches about half of what you've mentioned.
Jcatgrl
Since: Oct, 2009
26th Jan, 2011 01:32:33 PM
Yes! It was The Sky Crawlers! Thank you very much, anonymous person.
Cats can lie in wait for hours, then suddenly pounce on a butterfly.
I remember seeing an anime movie awhile ago, but I didn't catch the title and only watched it for a few minutes. I think there was some sort of war going on, and the pilots were mid-to-older teen boys. I think they were stuck at that age, and they had to be in order to fly the planes. There was a girl who was their boss, I'm pretty sure she was a heavy smoker. She was also the mother of a little girl who came to visit, but the girl thought she was her sister. It had a sort of CGI style combined with the anime and the CGI was more apparent in the aerial scenes.