Jun 11, 2016
Upon watching the first 20 minutes of this anime I was delighted by the world design and art. The opening sequence was for me a masterpiece of storytelling. However, after the initial introduction to the world and its characters, the movie went downhill exceedingly fast. While the quality of animation kept up with the beginning, it lacked cohesiveness, and seemed to push for an ever grander scale of wonder that pushed the integrity of the artistic value way over the line.
As for characters, there are none, only empty voids giving shape to an ever increasingly erratic plot. There is no reason for writing to
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be this bad in a movie that had so much effort put in to the world design. It feels like they made specific plot points on a timeline but didn’t know how to connect them. Except for the beginning every character seems dissociated and hollow, the forced link that allows the plot to move. Everything about the characters development with each other feels unnatural. The characters themselves never change, and the time in which the changes in relationships occur are poorly presented.
The plot of this movie starts strong but becomes cringey. There are certain points where I question whether in the process of making the movie they realized just how forced and choppy it seemed so they attempted to compensate by making the series of events more and more extravagant.
All and all this movie does not live up to its hype and fails miserably in all but the initial world building and art.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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