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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- The infamous Oda finally makes an appearance, hopefully he appears again further in the series. A little lackluster but it wasn't a bad side story. |
| What to say ..... What to say about this side story. hmmmmmmmmmm It was fine for me , I gave it 6 out of 10 It's good to see Rukawa again after I finished the series. |
| A decent little side story, it was nice to get more info on Oda and helps put the events in the main series into context. Felt like another fun filled episode, and it's understandable that the game was so condensed since it wasn't the main focus of the movie nor could they fit it with their usual 10+ episodes/game pace. Probably a 6 or 7/10 from me. |
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| Best of the movie was yuko minaguchi as yohko. That voice... <3 |
| I liked how it had that really nice looking movie-level animation... and all of the characters felt good with writing that matched that of the show. However, being only 30 minutes long, while re-telling many of the main plot points of the show to the viewer, and then cutting the basketball game short, it felt like it was missing something, or like part of the script had been chopped off. This made it pretty lackluster, despite it's good parts. I give it a 5/10. |
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| man the opening song is still good to hear,nine job teaching them lesson in spirit . |
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| Nice little side story. I'm not sure why we did not find out who won? |
mshea1213 said: Nice little side story. I'm not sure why we did not find out who won? It wasn't really important as this was a practice match. The movie itself chose to conclude on an inspirational statement about fighting spirit... The outcome itself had no importance. The match was more like of a reality check that Oda needed, in addition of a good check-up for Shohoku. What is mostly at the core of the movie is the parallelism of Oda and Sakuragi's state of mind. The former started Basketball early on in middle school, flaring up with enthusiasm. He enjoyed himself at this time, which made him happy in return. In high school, he gradually lost of sight what made him love the sport in the first place, preoccupied he was by competing against the best regional teams. His deeply rooted denial even led him to smite his girlfriend when confronted to her brutal honesty. Sakuragi's tangent is all the contrary: a no-good thug during middle school, but upon playing alongside Shohoku he demonstrated that he was just in need of a meaningful activity to channel his high-spirit. His utter lack of in-game sense was counterbalanced by this... Sakuragi wasn't as much concerned about self improvement as focusing on antagonization. This is something evidenced by the quote "My adversary isn't you, it is Basket", that made Oda realize that he had become a goon hiding behind a sportsman persona. I can get behind the movie's aim, but the catharsis occurred too suddenly, only backed by Sakuragi desperate attempts to get broken loose balls. It lacked pathos. A 45 minutes movie would have been the way to go to stage the gradual shift between public hostility and general reverence. |
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| It wasn't really important as this was a practice match. The movie itself chose to conclude on an inspirational statement about fighting spirit... The outcome itself had no importance. The match was more like of a reality check that Oda needed, in addition of a good check-up for Shohoku. What is mostly at the core of the movie is the parallelism of Oda and Sakuragi's state of mind. The former started Basketball early on in middle school, flaring up with enthusiasm. He enjoyed himself at this time, which made him happy in return. In high school, he gradually lost of sight what made him love the sport in the first place, preoccupied he was by competing against the best regional teams. His deeply rooted denial even led him to smite his girlfriend when confronted to her brutal honesty. Sakuragi's tangent is all the contrary: a no-good thug during middle school, but upon playing alongside Shohoku he demonstrated that he was just in need of a meaningful activity to channel his high-spirit. His utter lack of in-game sense was counterbalanced by this... Sakuragi wasn't as much concerned about self improvement as focusing on antagonization. This is something evidenced by the quote "My adversary isn't you, it is Basket", that made Oda realize that he had become a goon hiding behind a sportsman persona. I can get behind the movie's aim, but the catharsis occurred too suddenly, only backed by Sakuragi desperate attempts to get broken loose balls. It lacked pathos. A 45 minutes movie would have been the way to go to stage the gradual shift between public hostility and general reverence.[/quote] Wow man. Great response from my lackluster post.. been a while since I've seen the film, but you've made me want to check it out again with your insight. Thanks, buddy. |
| Pretty average tbh, but it was nice to see the characters again. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Never got to review this properly despite watching it 2-3 months ago. They finally showed the Oda match up. Even though we already know they lost against Kainan in the TV series. Animation is beautiful as ever! Really wish we have gotten a BD quality the same as this one. They also changed Youko Shimamura voice (Yuri Shiratori>Minaguchi, Yuko) She same voice as Momiji from Ninja Gaiden/Dead or Alive series. 8/10. Animation made it up for it. |
| 30 minutes just seemed impossible for one whole match + dialouge, but it was nice hearing the first OP again |
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| i honestly thought that yohko chick was haruko at first. i'm watching this after ep 20 and it seemed a bit too similar to the last couple of episodes so i can't give this more than a 7. the animation was really good tho. |
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