Trinity Seven Movie 1: Eternity Library to Alchemic Girl

Before I start my review, Yes I think Trinity Seven was a decent harem with its unique mc and the girls are well, not boring ig.. some of them are interesting and some are them are not. I have been avoiding this movie for a while because I thought the movie wouldn't be as good as the anime and what do you know I was right. Anyway, let's start my review. Also, SPOILER WARNING, if you want to watch this garbage then, be my guest.




Story 3/10- So our main character had a dream where he was about to die and then he wakes up to ... see his harem with him. He comes in touch with red haired girl's grimoire and it becomes a child, consuming both their magic. Later, we see some random character who is a demon lord who wants to kill main boy to become the DEMON LORD.

I feel like the story has no sense of direction whatsoever. It tries so hard to be a harem, action, emotional movie within a 55 minute movie. Hell, the MAIN VILLAIN IN THE MOVIE GOT LIKE 5 MINUTES OF SCREEN TIME. The fanservice lasted longer than the main villain in the show, which is sad. The main focus in the movie was this little girl they made in like the first 5 minutes in the movie, which didn't even add anything new to the story, except here's a new girl to my harem. She was just there and didn't contribute to anything at all, except help the main character get an asspull to win the battle which he was LOSING for not even 3 MINUTES.. 3 FUCKING MINUTES. If I kept talking about this AWFUL PLOT, I would be here all day, so I will stop for now. Overall, its a complete mess of a plot.

Art 6/10- Its an anime from 2017, of course it looks decent

Sound 3/10- No emotion from the voice actresses and the sound they used for the attacks hurt my ears.

Characters 2/10- You can already tell that an anime that has 9 MAIN CHARACTERS, A NEW MAIN CHARACTER (making it 10), A NEW VILLAIN, AND EXTRA SIDE CHARACTERS would already seems difficult to make them all interesting and each of them standout for their actions in a 55 minute movie. Also, the main focal points of the movie were so boring, so generic, it made me feel like I was watching a documentary. Hell, I rather watch a documentary than this. Also, FANSERVICE SUCKS ASS.. I dont mind fanservice, but it felt forced throughout the entire movie. Hell, I think we saw more fanservice than action in this movie, which is disappointing.

Enjoyment 2/10- I can't enjoy something that is so boring and almost made me sleep.

Overall 3/10- TL;DR- Unless you are a die-hard Trinity Seven fan, don't watch the movies. Boring characters, no sense of direction, terrible voice-acting, unnecessary fanservice, need i say more

Recommendation: A rushed and poor adaptation of an arc that's more interesting in the manga. Skippable unless you really want to see Lilim animated.

Positives:

+ If you liked the original anime series, you'll probably enjoy most of this. The comedy and fanservice is mostly the same and Arata is still Arata.

+ Lilim is mega-cute.

Negatives:

... - Wastes a good deal of its runtime on fanservice and recaps of the TV series, leaving the rest feeling rushed. Should have had an extra half hour at least to give the proper amount of build to the central battle of the film.

- The battle against the White Demon Lord is so rushed that it lacks any sense of stakes. This villain is billed as possibly the first real threat to kill Arata, but it doesn't feel that way at all when the battle only lasts about 10 minutes and Arata quickly turns things around after getting his ass handed to him for the first minute or two.

- Still has the familiar Trinity Seven problem of having way, way too many characters. Other than Lilith, basically the entire main cast has become side characters because there are simply too many of them for any to get proper development or satisfying narrative arcs that justify their place in the story.

I loved Trinity Seven, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

This movie was 10% fan service, 20% talking, 30% recapitulation and flashbacks and 30% transformations. The rest 10% is some occasional joke, presentation or little final battle.

Story:
Awful, linear with a dumb villain that was super generic. It tried to be serious but it fails, there were soo many missed opportunities.

>The villain could have been a pal of Arata about his pervert ideas and agreeing on what girl has the best body or something, then before dying Yui could have saved him because of empathy for him being asleep so many ... years and develop her greed investigation. At least the White Devil could have been a girl that gets distracted by ecchi or something but no, we got the most generic villain in history of anime.

The characters stated the obvious continiously and the dialogues were really dull as well, nothing to add to the story of the anime.

The final battle was super rushed and short, the characters that come to help add nothing: Hijiri was so dull in fight and in dialogue that you really can't think that she was the driving motivation of the whole show. Her character suffered a lot in this movie.

The power scaling also gave story inconsistencies too. How is Hijiri going to defeat Arata in the future if he already uses soo many magic archives as well as achieving Paladin, while she barely survived one attack that also hit 2 other girls as well, but she suffered the most despite being more powerful than the trinity seven. Why is she soo weak suddenly?!?!?

Art:
This remains good but the settings and the only fight were really bland. The major part of the movie is flashbacks, transformations and just talking scenes, there is really not much to appreciate. Even the fanservice isn't as good in quality or quantity as the show.

Sound:
Spell effects were soo loud that it sounded more like a tank shooting than a spell.

The sound effects were like x3 louder than the rest and in many cases stepped over the voice acting so you couldn't hear anything, not to mention the effect was literal garbage, all spells were just like a PPPPFFFF nothing special or unique, like for example Megumin's explosions.

Characters:
The characters are not bad, the problem is that the story was soo bad and the movie soo rushed that characters like Hijiri, the school director's and the trinity sevens suffered. The girls all were a way more simpler version of the anime counterpart, and even Liliah development was so bad that you didn't even care for her (despite her being the one in the title).

Enjoyment:
It really is a bad movie even for a Trinity Seven fan, you are probably going to enjoy the movie a little just because you want to see your characters again, but don't get your hopes too high... The only high thing are the sound effects.

Overall the OVA and Second Movie are much better, this one is just a meh, only getting good scores from hardcore fans that were desperate for more content.

Let's pray for S2. This ain't it chief.