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Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows

Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows

For those that don't know this movie is a complete revamped story of the original Eureka Seven series. I will admit that this review will be a bit bias since I myself am a avid Eureka Seven fan boy. Basically the story is set in a somewhat alternate parallel universe from the original Eureka Seven Universe. Even though the story has been completely changed, the same exact characters were used, and some of the integrity of key characters was not maintained "Mostly on Eureka's part". This film still managed to captivate me as did its predecessor.

The animation was superb. It was easily on par with the original series. The animation was very smooth and gave the off the same feel of nature in correlation to technology as did the original series. Every action sequence was beautifully done and it was rendered well across a wide screen. I saw no discrepancies in the movie as far as the animation is concerned.

The soundtrack is what you would expect of the series. I won't give anything away but the ending theme sounded awesome in an eerie kind of way. The voice acting I though was very spot on and the sound effects were on par with the original series.

Due to the fact that this story is completely different than that of the original series. I won't criticize it for its differences since this film was never intended to be a continuation or retelling of the series. It is it's own story and should be judged as such. The plot itself was decent enough though I will admit that half the time I didn't really understand what was going on. Some factors and key moments felt rushed, even so it still managed to be entertaining and for the most part I get what the story was really trying to convey "Love traverses time and space". There were many good points to this movies. For one the action scenes were absolutely amazing. Especially the scenes near the beginning and the very end. Holland I thought was even more of a bad ass this time around and I enjoyed every minute of his screen time. I thought it was nice seeing the series portray Renton in a more series manner. His speech was more direct than the original series and his demeanor was on a maturity level that surpassed the original series. There was alot of RentonXEureka moments that were sure to please fans who watch this movie.

Now for my beef with this movie and I'm sure many people have. I did feel that it just didn't seem natural the way Eureka's character was being portrayed in this film. The ending also didn't really feel like an ending and it didn't really make any sense but I'm sure no one really cares due to EurekaXLongHair. You'll know what I mean when you watch the film

All in all It was a good film and I won't penalize it for not being a retelling or a continuation of the original series like everyone wanted.

Rating: 9/10 read more

Despite what everyone is saying that this is another universe, a revamped story and whatever it needs to be said in order to separate the original story with this movie... well, I got news for you, it's not.

It still involves the universe of Eureka Seven, however, it seems that not many people are paying attention to the date of the events.

This movie tells the story of how everything came to be before the events of the anime series. This movie is set in the 21st century while the anime series takes place many, many years later.

Instead of introducing new characters just for just one movie, BONES used the original cast to tell the story before Psalms of the Planets. That's why we see old characters filling weird roles like Renton's sensei Dominic.

The story itself its very interesting because not only shows how the coralians came in contact with humanity but also alters the personalities of some of the characters, like Eureka for example, where she is not as shy and soul-less as she was portrayed at the beginning of the anime series. She is more friendly and caring towards Renton and at some points, scared of everything that's going on around her. Overall, she feels more open-hearted.

In my opinion, they could have easily extended the whole thing into a 12 episode series, but I can see that having two time settings in the same universe with the same characters would create even more confusion than what it already is going on.

There is not much to review about the art since it's everything you come to expect from BONES, high quality animation and special effects.

The sound is not as good compared to the anime series mainly because its always too serious (even for the battle scenes) for a plot that involves the romantic encounter of a human and a 'robot.' It makes it feel more melancholic and almost sad. At the very end of the movie, we heard a familiar tune courtesy of the original series, what you expected to hear when the Nirvash is battling another mecha unit.

The characters, as already explained, have been given different roles so reviewing their looks at this point is utterly pointless. However, their personalities have changed greatly. Perhaps the one who changed the most is Anemone and you'll see why if you have already seen the anime series. One thing that really bothered me is the fact that they did not included Charles and his wife (sorry forgot her name) as part of the cast since you can see almost everyone from the original series make a kameo appearance every now and then.

The movie is fully enjoyable if you understand the fact that the time period is the one that was changed and not the universe of Eureka Seven.

As a closing comment, it was nice and refreshing to see Renton and Eureka express their feelings towards each other more openly. read more