Munto

Story: Cliched fanfiction-level shit. I could talk about the shitty underage romance subplot (a loner encounters a 13 yo girl and they fall in love...in the river), or how fucking socially retarded Munto is: appears out of nowhere and demands a girl give him her "power", when she doesn't even know who he is or what he's talking about. Tells her to "believe in herself", and she actually says "I believe in myself" when all she did was touch Munto. That was literally all she had to do. "Believe in yourself" is literally the most overused line in the history of shitty fanfiction. I would ... give a 0 for the story if I could.

Character designs: Terrible. All the girls have fuckhuge bug eyes and Munto looks like a skinny 12 year old...remember this guy is supposed to be the king of the Magic Kingdom. Just look at that ridiculous hair.

Animation: Average. Nothing to complain about, but it wasn't amazing either. The fight scenes were a letdown. Actually there is only one fight scene in the entire 54 minute OVA, Gas vs the chick with two swords. It was okay animation wise, I mean it's double framed. But in terms of choreography it wasn't that great. It was just Gas dodging the double swords. Was somewhat similar to the Darker than Black OVA where Hei was dodging the chinese contractor's double swords. Gas grabs the sword and vaporizes it. If the sword doesn't cut you then why bother dodging it? Seems kind of pointless really. Anyway that was it. The OVA's only fight scene and was mediocre.

Overall piss poor story and underwhelming fight scenes, really disappointing.

This is one of those interesting looking shows from Kyoto animation. This story seems a bit forced in the beginning. The story actually revolves around Yumemi Hidaka instead of Munto so I’m not really all that sure why the show is named after Munto. It should have been called magical girl or destiny girl, which would be closer to it I think.

I don’t really understand why there is a storyline within a story line. It seems like it confuses it. Fortunately, it makes up for it by the same feeling of Air and Clannad. This has the same feeling as them where if revolves around ... the world of a young girl who doesn’t know where her place is. She tries to find out, but turns out there are powers she has that can save the world. Kyoto has this way of having a rather dreamy and other worldly show. Now this show feels only like a beginning of a chapter, and it doesn’t seem to end really.

The artwork is not as good as the big three, it feels a bit hazy. I guess the hazy is supposed to make it dreamlike, but it just feels a little odd. The 3D animation actually look rather good with this show for however little is in this. Munto looks like Yugi with his spiky hair and lengthy body. Some of the bodies are really small waist.

The voices sound pretty good actually in the English, They did a rather good job. Unfortunately, the magical king Munto sounds like Yugi to in his dueling form. It doesn’t help because of his looks too.

The art style in this anime was amazing! I love it so much! But the same can't be said for the plot. Don't get me wrong. The first episodes of this anime were good and made me want to see the end but the ending was horrible.
The main character in this series sees islands in the sky but wishes she didn't because everyone damns that as abnormal or weird. So, she carries around an umbrella so she can't see them anymore.
One day, she is walking to school when a strange man with red hair comes out of nowhere and ... demands that she give her powers to him. She says no and thinks she dreaming and he vanishes.
Later on, he keeps popping out of nowhere and demands she helps him. She does later and the day is saved! Yay!
This show was a good growing up story and had great character development but there were a lot of characters that were not need at all in the story. They just pop out of nowhere and go with the flow being completely useless.
Another thing is that the ending was about friendship. That pissed me off.
All in all, this was a good series in the beginning but the ending sucked.

This anime was a part of my childhood, and so I decided to watch this movie for nostalgia.
It was such a disappointment.

Story 3/10
The story is there are some pillars falling from the sky and that is causing Munto's kingdom to fall. His world resides in an alternate dimension. However, there is only one girl on earth who can see Munto's dimension as well as the flying pillars, and she is the only one who can "save the world." Munto has to convince her to cross over into his dimension and help him.

This premise is incredibly interesting in theory but this movie does ... not do justice for the plot. In fact, there is quite a bit of filler in this movie. There's an entire side plot about a girl who wants to get married to this guy that has nothing to do with the story, there's interesting characters in Munto's world who are never developed/explained, and there is some evil organization with no plot or backstory whatsoever trying to destroy Munto's kingdom.

Art 6/10
The art is very pretty to look at. I loved the designs of the dresses and how they flowed. There are some scenes in Munto that are beautiful to watch, but unfortunately some of the frames last a long time for no reason other than to save animation budget.

Sound 3/10
This was the most awkward part of Munto. There wasn't any sound during some of the parts, which made it feel...lifeless. The voice acting was fine, but I felt it was too quiet for an anime.

Character 2/10
This show has the worst type of characterization a writer could ever do. There's the kindhearted main protagonist, the stubborn but good natured Munto, etc. No one ever changes, grows, or is explained. They are all shells of character arctypes that could've been interesting but go absolutely nowhere.

Enjoyment 3/10
The only enjoyment I had was making fun of some of the scenes....and wanting to bang my head because I loved the 9-episode show as a child.

Overall 4/10
With an interesting premise but severely terrible storytelling, I feel this show could use a reboot that fleshes out the main characters and focuses on the story. If you want a mythical world with dashing young heroes and swordplay, I think you could do better elsewhere.

Munto is the first work of Kyoto Animation, Mundo is the king of a magical kingdom that floats in the sky thanks to a magical power called Akuto. One day when the Akuto is reaching is end, Mundo descendes to earth searching for a girl that have the power to restore the link between the Earth and the magical kingdom.

Story: 6 out of 10

They have an interesting setting but unfortunately they lost time with meaningless actions that didn't make any contribution to the story.

Art: 7 out of 10

At first i really didn't like the art but that's because i already saw many animes until today ... (2017). After checking some animes that i used to watch and having in mind that this anime is from 2013 i start linking more the art and i think that they did a good job.

Sound: 5 out of 10

Unfortunately i saw the English dub version, the voice actors were bad and some scenes didn't had any kind of sound.


Character: 6 out of 10

Good chars no development.

Enjoyment: 7 out of 10

I am a big fan of Kioani, seeing their first work was a nice experience that i can recomende to all the other fans

Overall: 6 out of 10

I was surfing through google images and stumbled upon a picture of Munto. I Loved his design but I couldn't get any of my friends to identify him so after months of staring at his picture and looking for ANY tag that would help me id him, I finally found out about his anime. After reading a bit of the plot, I'd honesty have to say that I was more intersted in seeing this design in action than the actual story but I gave it a chance. From the pictures I saw, I saw promise but after seeing the anime, I was bored senseless.

The ... plot, though somewhat interesting, wasn't as riveting as I hoped. You have two people from two dimensions parallel to each other and it's near imposible to cross over but the girl has to cross over to save the other dimension. These are the beginings of a good plot, so what happened? Well, the characters are as ineresting as mud, they take FOREVER to get to something exciting in the plot, and there's no music to help with the atmosphere of the scenes to make them more bareable.

In one world, you have a group of unnamed bad guys destroying King Munto's kingdom in the sky (and their HOME) just BECAUSE THEY CAN (really, no real motive was EVER revealed, A holy crusade for the greater good would have been nice) and people sitting around and LETTING THEM while saying hope is not lost as long as we withhold our troups and have faith in Munto who has leaped into an area where him just being there is slowly and PAINFULLY killing him while he tries to convince this boring little middle school girl, who is the only one that can see beyond the barrier between them (and that's the only thing interesting about her, everyone else thinks she's a liar instead of crazy), to help him.

In the other world you have the boring everyday life of said boring girl and her friends. She know Munto NEEDS her to help him and that COUNTLESS lives are at stake but even as he lays DYING in front of her, she still says "you have the wrong girl, I don't know what you're talking about, leave me alone" instead of HELPING him like a SENSIBLE person would if a person was dying in front of them. Also, it's a MIRACLE she has just been tagged as a liar and NO ONE has thought to AT LEAST get her couselling. Who wrote this, a 4YO?! Hey, if she was at least considered mentally unstable by the general public, it would make her half of the story more interesting as she is strugling to find answers (is the floating kingdom real or do I really need STRONG medication?), but no, we get this half-a** piece of sh**.

I was excited to see Munto but after watching the OVAs and finding out that they were just a portion of the story and the anime has the whole story, I gave up on it. Usually when anime's chop up episodes into OVAs or a few movies, the pull the highlights of the anime and if THAT was the highlight, I say it's not worth it. Thank GOD my dignity overwhelmed my curiosity to watch them because I don't know how much more of that I could take.

I watched Munto a few years ago (the subbed version). I decided to rewatch it recently and saw a dubbed version had come out. To be honest, I spend the next half an hour looking for the subbed version. Except I couldn't (still can't as I write this review).

It may just be nostalgia, but I remember liking the subbed version SO MUCH more. The dubbed version is like a fanmade version. It is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E. I think other reviewers were a bit harsh. The plot was decent (though it would have been better if it had been longer). Really, the thing that ruins it is the ... dubbed voices. It reminds me of watching the Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged Series except there is nothing funny about it at all.

There isn't anything remarkable about this movie, but it isn't bad either. I'm planning on re-watching the sequels, so I hope they aren't as disappointing as the FREAKING DUBBED VERSION IS!

You know what? Maybe I saw the sequel rather than the movie... I really, REALLY hope that's the case.

For Kyoto Animation's first outing, it's an impressive one. The story itself may be cliche and full of exposition but the art is really good. The pacing isn't as good and the ending feels a bit rushed despite all the time it took getting there but the animation and direction and ideas present make it an interesting watch overall. Got a few Cardcaptor vibes from the story but that's never really a bad thing.

(Also, for the English dub it was pretty hilarious to have Goku's original dub voice coming out of a Vegeta look alike.)

I keep being told to enter a longer review but ... that's pretty much all I got to say on it. An impressive debut even if the material doesn't feel entirely original. I'll still be going on to watch the next part.