Ashita Sekai ga Owaru toshitemo

Shin Hazama has shut his heart ever since the mysterious and sudden death of his mother during his childhood. With his scientist father occupied with research, he can only rely on his childhood friend, Kotori Izumi, the popular and good-natured daughter of his father's employer. At the end of their third year of high school with graduation right around the corner, Shin and Kotori finally begin to move forward together, both in life and in love.

Everything falls apart again when Shin's father also suddenly dies. But before things can settle down, he and Kotori learn the secret behind his parents' sudden deaths when they encounter agents from a high-tech dystopian Japan existing in a parallel universe. Among them is Jin, Shin's "relative self," who is working against the humanoid weapons Miko and Niko. As the lives of relative selves are linked, Jin has two objectives: defend the vulnerable Shin to protect both their lives, and assassinate Kotori to end the ironclad rule of her relative self, Princess Kotoko—his mortal enemy and the killer of his parents. Confronted with this new reality, Shin and Kotori must honestly face their feelings for each other, even if the world as they know it will end tomorrow.

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Izumi, Kotori Main

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Hazama, Shin Main

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Hazama, Jin Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Miko Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Riko Supporting

Minase, Inori Japanese

Izumi, Kotoko Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Ishii, Tomohiko Producer

Sakuragi, Yuuhei Director, Script

Aimyon Theme Song Performance, Inserted Song Performance

Kawai, Hidehiro Music

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Sep 6, 2020

Ayano-Sugiura

Recommended

Summary: In short, Ashita Sekai ga Owaru toshitemo or The Relative Worlds (English title) is about a group of high school aged teens who try to solve their world problem (an epidemic of unexplainable deaths) by interactions with their other worldly counterparts.

**Skip to THINGS TO IMPROVE ON below if you don’t want to read**

Story: 7/10
The story itself is interesting and the concepts are very well thought out considering most sci-fi stories can be confusing to understand. One thing I liked was the idea of multiple worlds or parallel worlds and the thought of them actually existing as depicted in the anime made me think ... it could be real one day. The main characters counterparts in the other world reach out to the characters in our perspective of the normal world and work together to solve what is going on between the relationship of the 2 worlds. The story had a lot of potential however, there were many things it needed to change in order for the movie to properly execute this complex storyline. *Will explain later

Art: 7/10
The art is not all that mind blowing as most anime’s tend to have decent art design, however, in this movie the anime is done in 3D or CG whatever it is called and the movement and flow of characters is a bit awkward to watch at times especially in regular movement like walking and swinging their arms. The animation style wasn’t too bad if you got used to it but for some it can be an annoying pet peeve to see as we are all used to the normal animation we see in the majority of anime we watch. Personally, I have seen anime’s with this kind of style and some mix it with the regular style so I did not have any problems watching the movie. The art for the character designs matched cleanly with the background and the background art in itself was well done considering for the different animation style.

Sound: 7/10
The soundtracks used in the movies weren’t all too special but they matched nicely with the scenes and if you can selectively hear them, it is actually not bad
considering the scenes they are used in and the type of music artists they hired.
Sound effects in my opinion were well done, the fighting sound effects, explosions, futuristic sounds (teleporting) were all nice to hear and goes well with the genre of sci-fi.

Character: 7/10
The characters were plain but they were all likeable to a certain extent. You could not really put hate on any characters as they had no purpose in the story other than to support the main cause and all the main characters were the protagonists, there were no antagonists in the cast of main characters. It was more of a character vs self (beginning) and character vs society (middle to end). Characters I liked were pretty much all of them, even the humanoids (Mika and Rika) as they had some pretty interesting development but overall I would say I would feel neutral due to events that happened in the movie.

Enjoyment: 7/10
I did enjoy the movie as the concepts of the story in the sci-fi genre were indeed interesting to me (as a fan of sci-fi). The reasons why I would give it a 7 will be stated in things to improve on.

Overall: 7/10
This anime deserves a solid 7 (I might be a bit generous but it is different for everyone) as the story concepts were interesting and everything else mentioned was a 7. My favourite character would probably be Mika as it was pretty cool in fights and how it protected the main characters. (Notice I used “it”). Hope I don’t get tagged for violating AI rights lmao.

Things for the anime to work on:
Time for the cons, heheh, this is probably what you were here to read anyways for those who watched the movie already or for those who hadn’t watched the movie and came to the review section first to see if it is any good to watch. Fear not, the movie is watchable on the behalf of my witnessing of the movie. You may be wondering why this movie gotten such low ratings and I am here to give a brief review of what I think were the problems.

Story:
The story had many inconsistencies and missing details that evidently led to many plot holes leaving the watcher to have thoughts and questions after the movie has ended. Movies should not leave watchers having questions circulating in their heads and should leave a nice concise ending or an intended open ending which in this case it was really not. If you are a person who gets easily lost from missing details and unexplained events I would suggest you to not watch it, but if you want to for the sake of the story and ideas from it, I suggest you to give it a chance and watch. As I gave it a solid 7, it doesn’t mean I thought it was super good but it was based off how I enjoyed it. With the story having a lot of missing details, it ultimately led to why this anime was rated pretty low. I will not provide examples as to not spoil the story for those that haven’t seen it already.

Characters and Plot:
Really the only thing that bothered me was how this anime was marked as romance when there literally was little to no romance in the movie. Sure the male protagonist and the main heroine have feelings for each other due to knowing each other for a long time but it provides little relevancy to the storyline and plot. The plot as I mentioned previously has a lot of missing details and inconsistencies that made the characters do the actions they did that do not align properly with the “specific” goal the storyline was aiming at. If you watched it, you will know what I mean. (The fate of Izumi Kotori). The humanoid girls which she created got more development and possibly screen time than Kotori herself which really is a problem when you got side characters (ironically in this one was created by the main character herself) overshadowing and taking over the main story line. This problem in trying to incorporate romance into this sci-fi world made it so that there would be inconsistencies in the story and leading towards how badly rated it got.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 11, 2024

Otaku329

Mixed Feelings

Finally.. how long has it been? Ever since the 1st ep of the ONA was released 7 years ago i have been looking forward to seeing the whole movie.. i literally watched the 1st ep on release day and it instantly got me hooked. At first i thought they'll release an entire anime but later i found out itll only be a movie... I dunno why i waited so long to watch the whole movie despite being so eager to watch but welp it is what it is...
I remember when i watched the ep 1 of the ONA i instantly fell in love with the ... plot and the overall concept.. animation might be a little weak but aside from that i loved it..

Short Comprehensive Review

After all these years finally watching this felt so wholesome and nostalgic.. id admit, it had lowkey unlimited potential but failed to utilise it.. they sorta rushed it.. didnt do any world building... execution sucked.. story telling was weak... they didnt add details and couldnt explore the struggles and emotions of the characters.. and there were some plotholes here and there
If you are looking for a good time and hoping for a masterpiece then id say you should skip it for a later time..but if your here for some relaxed enjoyment and wanna watch something digestible and good without being too critical about it, then this is it...
You might be thinking.. if i pointed out so many flaws then why did i rate it so high? Well id say cuz of the sheer uniqueness of the plot and the themes they used... the characters were good and the plot itself, tho executed poorly, was pretty nice... it kept me intrigued throughout without being bored.
The first half of it was pretty strong. It had a solid start and the character introduction, initial fun moments, and the slight romance was fun to watch. However, It fell in the 2nd half and the ending was rushed.
As i said i watched the ONA 7 years ago and its been in my mind ever since because of the intriguing and unique premise and plot..that prolly played some role in me liking the movie as well i guess the build up nostalgia...

Conclusion

I might be a bit biased i dunno but it was a solid 8/10 for me based on personal enjoyment but if i were to rate critically id rate it a bit lower.. ending might be a bit confusing and left mostly unexplained but if you get over it then it wasnt bad..
I'll conclude by saying this.. it definitely deserves a try. Whether you like it or not.. its one of those movies that you should give a try atleast once.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 17, 2023

croisantAlienado

Not Recommended

this movie definitely shatters expectations... for the worse.

History and plot: Relative Words has a plot that at first seems to be very good and interesting, which caused me a particular expectation. However, about halfway through the film, he starts to take a different path than he seems. And I speak with dissatisfaction that this course is completely dull and cliché. However, these clichés could be well executed and make a decent film, which is not the case here.

Characters: The story is completely uninteresting and lazy, clinging to the script's obvious conveniences. Not to mention the many plot holes present in the film's ... fictional universe. As far as the characters are concerned, the anime film also fails abruptly. in which the characters manage to be absurdly uninteresting and poorly developed, a fact that makes it very difficult to sympathize with them and their problems.

Animation:I would say that one of the only positive points of this film is the animation, which, although sometimes causing a certain strangeness, is well executed throughout the work.

although it is a tedious film with a poorly done script. it's not necessarily terrible to watch. that way, I can say that despite being bad, it is a watchable movie

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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