Great Pretender: Razbliuto

Everything felt too convenient and I didn't mind that, but the ending was particularly so, almost like an incomplete movie. The buildup was fine, and the themes involved were pretty interesting. I mean, who doesn't love a movie about syndicate crimelords? However, the ending just felt like everything got resolved with no explanation and barely any hints whatsoever apart from appearances of characters from the first season. Usually there's this big reveal, but it was absent in this, very uncharacteristic.

Comedy was decent. Some parts of the movie were funny, at least for me. Seeing them squeal at getting a feet massage was very ... relatable. Or stupid scenes like his shorts ripping at his ass crack. Somehow amusing.

Visuals are just as great as the TV series. Beautifully captures the local culture and various cities. Colour palette is very pretty. Not too dynamic, mostly panning shots. Key animation more than makes up for this, decently smooth. Background art is wonderful. CGI is not the best, but is honestly pretty good. The average anime watcher probably won't notice the difference. They tried to add as much visual detail as they can in the scenes, and you can tell they have put in alot of effort.

Don't have much to say about the soundtrack, pretty consistent with what you hear in the TV series.

Overall enjoyable, but most of it came from the visuals.

It was good until it wasn't.

I don't know what's wrong with this series. It always starts strong and interesting, only to completely destroy itself by the end.

The same story is repeated here. The first 3 parts ("intermissions") are interesting and enjoyable, and then there's a blatantly rushed ending out of nowhere that makes zero sense. At least it's not at a Looney Tunes level, like in the original anime.

The original characters don't take part in the story, and honestly speaking, they are not needed. The attempt to link them brings almost nothing.

The art and music are cool, as always. If not for the ending, it ... would be a solid 8. But with how it was done, it's meh.

At first I thought it would be interesting as people relevant crossed path once again. However, unlike season 1 the plotting are terrible. Ending are too rushed, incomplete and too convenient. There were no surprise element nor anything relevant to that make sense with what the role were intended to be. It's just like they just appear there out of nowhere, ohh its the ending, oh he/she is just.... that's all to it. Honestly, I don't understand what the directors are trying to convey or pull off here. It's nothing spectacular, as if they just make this short movie just because they got paid ... for it. Again, comparing to season 1. It's very poorly made, I would rather they did not make this, Or at least spent more time working on the plot, make it 20mins longer to make particular role more relevant to the series instead of rushing it like that.