Ashita Sekai ga Owaru toshitemo

Ashita Sekai ga Owaru toshitemo is an anime no one notices. Airing in the winter of 2019, it's another entry of the never ending list of animes having great potential but falling short due to poor executions and various different reasons.

Hazama Shin is an antisocial high-schooler, but he always had a crush on his childhood friend, Izumi Kotori. One day, with all his courage, he asks the girl out on a date. But before love could blossom, a doppelganger of Shin appeared out of nowhere and attacked Kotori with a strange looking robot. What will happen to them? Let's find out.

While the premier can confuse ... the viewer a bit, the story itself is pretty straightfoward and not that complicated. With the run time of an hour and a half, the infodump is quite big and done in a poor way. What bugs me lies in the story, which such creative start, the director semmingly has no clue how to advance the story, what is its motive? Why we should care for the characters? And even with a happen ending, the story is still flat and doesn't get exploited to its potential.

With such short time, no doubt most of the characters are one-dimensional. The only one benefits from this adventure is Shin and his doppelganger. They're actually becoming better characters at the end. The worst characters here are the bad guys. They barely get screen time, we even don't see their faces. Their motive are unclear. In the end, if you want to know why the hell did they do that, sadly, you won't have an answer.

As a nearly full bad CGI show, Ashita Sekai ga Owaru toshitemo is surely not pleasant to watch even though I don't have a problem with the ways the main characters are designed. They still feel distant and disconnected with the audience.

Overall, with that many problems, I can't say that this movie is worth your time. But if you're into weird stuff, you can give it a try.

This movie was, how should I put it? — A bit of a mess. It definitely has an interesting story, but in my opinion, it’s executed very poorly.

Story :- It’s a story about, parallel dimensions. It’s not exactly what is explained in the story, but to get a simple idea, it’s about 2 earths. I actually started watching the anime, expecting a romance slice-of-life with some science fiction mystery sprinkled on top, because, the genre tags are Drama/Romance; I guess that was my bad. I actually did not expect this to be an action packed science fiction adventure with some romance sprinkled on top instead. ... But either way, the pacing of the story is a bit off. The scenes felt odd, everything was happening really fast. At times, the plot was moving very fast, and the relaxing slice-of-life type scenes were oddly placed at the middle. The story was not that good.

Characters :- Characters have their own goals and motivations, which I appreciate. The characters who don’t at the beginning, will understand their goals later. So it made sense about what and why they were taking the actions they took. I always like when writers include character development into the story, I’m more of a character focused story fan personally. There was character development. But that character development, did not feel satisfying or logical. The emotions and motivations of the characters (most of them) just changed with mere words by another character. It just felt so unnatural and unsatisfying.

Animations :- I personally am not a huge fan of 3D animes. But I’ll look at this anime with a non-biased mind. And I think the animations are quite decent. The animations looked a little bit unnatural to be completely honest. They were not bad by any means, the movements of the characters were robotic. I always thought that since these animes are 2D, the animators might not be experienced in 3D animation, and that’s why the animations are bad. But it was until I saw a specific episode of Osomatsu-san, where Jyushimatsu was animated in 3D—which was amazingly well done. I wish more animation studios implicated those methods. In my opinion and personal taste, the animations don’t need to be realistic all the time; they just need to be pleasing to watch.

At the end, I did enjoy the anime quite a bit. The story idea was interesting and it isn’t so bad that I absolutely hated the anime or anything. I think it had a lot more potential to do something much better.

Warning: May contain some spoilers.

The idea for the anime was actually good. The execution of said idea - not so good.
3D animation was surprisingly great, but stiff when it comes to character emotions and movement when put in a situation outside of a battle.
Enemies were way too easy to defeat. I absolutely hate it when initially strong enemies suddenly turn into an useless existence, whose main purpose is to make the "good guys" stand out and polish their hero image. I don't think some creators understand the importance of a good "bad guy" image, which was missing here entirely.
Another disappointment was the ... fact that with such power and endless possibilities in the hands of both worlds this could have gone to a much better direction plot-wise and actually make the anime worlds better.
And so, we've reached the ending, which was of course a happy ending for both main characters. Too much of a cliche for me. I don't mind happy endings, but an anime doesn't necessarily need everyone to live happily ever after to be a successful story.
All in all, it was a fine watch, and while it wasn't exactly my cup of tea, it can very well be something another person can fall in love with, so give it a chance and judge for yourself.

The story was very confusing in the beggining but I liked the plot. 2 Japan's and if someone dies in 1 of them both of the people die. I like how Shins friend is himself from the other Japan. I dislike how that girl was brought back to life tho. The CGI was ehh idk is I even CGI? I think its 3d. Either way first 3d anime I've seen:D story seems cool, but I just didint like it much, and I'm tired. I skipped a lot of this anime because I just didint enjoy it much. I skipped from the halfway point to the ... end a bit. Overall I didint really care much for this CGI movie. This was the first CGI movie I've seen^-^/

This had one interesting idea, but the movie's execution left me cold on just about every level. The plot stumbles from one messy development to the next, growing increasingly incoherent and picking up worn-out genre tropes as it hurtles downhill. The kernel of what could have been an interesting story ultimately ditches its strongest conflict halfway, and then contents itself with super-powered shonen fight scenes for the rest of its runtime. The director's attempts to inject pace and drama into the proceedings are continually undone by CG characters that unintentionally feel as lifeless as the intentionally uncanny cyborgs from Ghost in the Shell. Individual elements ... of the production (voice acting, music, direction) seem okay in isolation, but nothing gels, resulting in a weirdly detached experience that feels like a hollow imitation of a movie, a calculated average like something made by an AI.