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I played the PSP game first for this one long before seeing this anime movie so I was surprised that I actually liked the main character which also briefly appeared on the game as a supporting character. The story is sort of a cliche but the protagonist Wataru is more mature than most kid anime characters I've watched.

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omg I love this movie (even though it's kinda predictable in many events)!!

but damn, I don't want it to end like that!

I really don't get why they act like they are the best friends in the world, they one met ONCE in their life and only for a few minutes and he also saw Mitsuru murder 3 kids and he acts like nothing happened. Really average movie in all aspects.

I think Wataru is a pretty cool guy. eh fights bad guys doesn't afraid of anything.

I'm a huge fan of this book. I read it several years ago, and two nights ago I found out there was a movie. Unfortunately I got overly excited for it and was thoroughly disappointed. If I hadn't read the book, I get the feeling I would be extremely confused by it. Even if I ignore the fact that the movie left out at least half the book (I understand that this is an adaptation, not a carbon copy), I honestly didn't feel the pace was right at all. I believe this would have made a better 13-episode series than a movie. :\

Animation was beautiful though. I give it props for that.

Mitsuru didn't murder the kids, he scared then tossed them to the side. At least, the pile of them didn't seem dead.

And yes, this should've been a series. Would have been SO kickass, even if the animation wouldn't have always been as good. As long as they still went all out when it counted.

What the movie didn't explain is that Mitsuru actually stole the souls of those kids. His summon ate their souls and left the bodies. But no, they don't die at all.

Yeah, I could sacrifice the animation to turn this into a series as well! :D

Rygart and that crazy dude were awesome this episode.

your mistaking Brave Story for Break Blade

Somewhat lame, or should I say predictable and cliched story coupled with great animation, one-dimensional main characters and much more interesting/intriguing supporting characters. The first half was sleep-inducing at times, while the second tried to be epic a bit to hard I'd say. Overall, nothing to write home about.
It gets 6 from me, the score coul've been even lower, but I simply can't ignore the gorgeous art.

Btw, why does that princess girl look like a mini version of queen Victoria to me xD

It was superb IMO. Wataru's character sucked, and the stroy suffered it, but every other aspect of the movie was first-class. Could've done without the cheesy super-happy ending too but oh well.
Animation, original idea, Sound&music were just great, and the world was awesome and captivating. Yes there were generic fantasy elements (incorporated perfectly btw), but there are some in even the best fantasy stories (especially high-fantasy).

Btw how did Mitsuru becoma a magician anyway?:DDD Never explained, oh well.

8/10

Oh and this was the first time I hated THORA subs.

Haven't actually read the light novel prior to watching the movie, even I could tell that the movie was rushed, and the experience it gave me wasn't very pleasant, and left a slightly horrible taste in my mouth.

The light novel could have been much better, had it been adapted to a normal anime series instead of a movie (Yes, I go for story plot and character development, not just animation alone).

This movie was doing far too much. It had nearly 2 hours, but even that wasn't enough. Not for a story of this magnitude.

I think most of the depth was lost to the pacing of the story.

Animation was superb, though.

Still enjoyed the movie as a whole.

lmao, funny, I finished watching the Break Blade movies today just before watching this completely unrelated Brave Story movie I found in my movies folder.

I enjoyed it but I found the ending far too contradictory and cliche (I still enjoyed it however).

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I totally agreed with you regarding Mitsuru/Aya being dead. By being alive, the whole story moral was diminish.

I did though, like the part where he took up responsibilities now that his lame douche father left.

Definitely not the most mature story, but I gathered it was geared more towards children and expected as much. As such, it did not disappoint me.

Wow, this movie felt really rushed and all over the place because they squeezed so much stuff in there...

I guess it was an adaption they wanted to put as much from the source material in as possible? But that really didn't work out well.

How did the sister die? She just accidently killed herself with the knife or what? This wasn't clear at all. But I watched it on german free TV so they might have cut out a scene or two due to censoring (although I don't think so in this case).

Was about to give this a 6/10 because it basically seemed like they were just lining up random scenes. But then THAT ENDING. What the fuck was up with that? Them being alive and stuff. Ridiculous, stupid and made no sense. *sigh*

So in the end 5/10. Although I feel that this is a bit harsh. After all it was kinda entertaining and the animation was nice. But the plot wanted to do too much in too little time and the characters were terribly flat (and almost all of the entirely pointless) and that nonsensical ending really pissed me off. Would give 5.5 if it was possible.

Quite an amazing story, with a great buildup towards the end with great action, visuals, animation and just a nice and sweet ending! The ending everyone really wanted to see and that just was beautiful!

A great movie in general, really liked it!