Shisha No Teikoku (The Empire of the Corpses)
By: Ryoutarou Makihara
Dated: February 26, 2019
Overall: 6
Plot: 5/10
"This one looks great, I'm going to watch it." That's the first thing I uttered when I saw this movie. It looks interesting, and magnificent. It looks like a whole new idea that comes to life. But nah, not all expectations come true and it is reaLly disappointing. I don't know if I'm just stupid not to understand what this movie is trying to say. Watching this movie, I can't count the number of times I hope that all the questions will be answered in the end. All the disturbing,
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Project Itoh
Japanese: 屍者の帝国
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Type:
Movie
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Oct 2, 2015
Producers:
None found, add some
Licensors:
Funimation
Studios:
Wit Studio
Source:
Novel
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Duration:
2 hr.
Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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Ranked:
#51842
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#2466
Members:
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I first became aware of The Empire of Corpses before the film was even released, back in around 2014, as this was a feature film made by the same studio that created Attack on Titan. I was genuinely excited for this film to come out, then it did and I never watched it, and the longer I put off finally watching it, the more I noticed that very underwhelming average score it had on MAL.
Upon finally watching the film, I feel relatively confident in saying that if I were to describe the plot to you, you’d probably laugh at the shitty fanfiction I was describing. ... Apr 10, 2024
I saw this a year and a half ago yet the memory stays with me, not because it's so good but because it could have been.
The world built around this anime film is pretty vast and there is so much that happens in its runs through to the point it feels too fast or rather too perplexing when things happen to certain characters, or when the plot develops into a new phase. The characters and setting as well felt derivative. Just taking the sort of character you'd find in sherlock Holmes novels and shoving them into a steampunk Frankenstein type world. A world that doesn't have ... |


