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Typhoon Noruda
Typhoon Noruda (Japanese: 台風のノルダ, Hepburn: Taifuu no Noruda) is a 2015 Japanese animated fantasy drama film directed by Yōjirō Arai, and produced by Studio Colorido. It was released to Japanese Theaters on July 5, 2015 and was licensed by Sentai Filmworks in 2017. Set in a middle school on an island, The film follows two middle school boys, Shuuichi Azuma and Kenta Saijou. Shuuichi Azuma decided to quit the baseball team, and Kenta Saijou, who is mad at Azuma for quitting. They both would see an unfamiliar girl right before the storm hits the island.

Plot
The film starts with Shuuichi Azuma walking in a classroom and seeing a strange girl with red eyes. When the girl was seen, she fled through the window and Azuma chased her to see that she disappeared. The weather forecast was then played to tell the audience that Typhoon was approaching the island.

The next scene would show the school preparing for a culture festival while Saijou and Azuma get into a physical altercation in one of the classrooms. As they continued fighting, the storm would begin to hit the school. Lightning would hit the powerline above the school, cutting out all the power in the school. After the lightning struck, Azuma looked at the location of the lightning strike and saw the same strange girl however she had a strong red glow on her chest. She would fall from the tower and Azuma would run outside to help her. As he tries to get help for her, she stops him, but she gets weaker and her red eyes disappear and eventually passes out.

Azuma would carry her to a storage room and go out to find food for her because she was hungry. After treating her, she would tell him that she came to this planet in order to rebuild it, she dug a hole where the eye of the earth is located, and in the morning she would be sent into the sky by the eye of earth and become a conduit. In a hurry, Azuma would go to Saijou to tell him about the current situation. Azuma would still be mad at Saijou and believe everything he is saying to be satire. Azuma would try to help the girl as much by blocking the hole with broken wooden pieces around the school.

As the sun rises, the girl would disappear and Azuma would try to find her. He sees her on the roof of the school and runs towards her. He tries to bring her back inside, but then she gets shocked and pushes Azuma away. Shortly after, Saijou would slam open the door to see that Azuma's statements earlier was true. The girl would be flung around and Azuma chases after her. Saijou stops him because it was too dangerous, but after talking to each other about the situation, Saijou comes to an understanding and also wants to help the girl.

They would enter the storage room where the eye of Earth was located, and see her inside of a burst of water. They would enter and try to break the collar that controls her power, off of her, but it was ineffective because they were pushed out. The collar would get more powerful and make things float around it. A baseball would float in front of Azuma and he would use it to throw it at the collar, ultimately shattering it.

Azuma and Saijou would help the girl up and the storm would clear up. She would be thankful to them and tell them her name, Noruda. She then left Earth and as they both watched her fly away, they treated each other like best friends again.

Reception
On MyAnimeList, the average rating is 6.19 out of 10.

Takuto from Takuto's Anime Cafe was drawn in by the animation and he was interested in the story.