Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare

This movie was average.

It was fast paced. They didn't show much interactions between the male and female leads. The interaction between the female leads, specially how they met, didn't seem forced. In fact, it was okay & I liked how they became friends. But, as for the interaction between the female leads & male leads, I guess many scenes were cut. So it kinda seemed forced.

I think it'd be better if this movie showed more interactions among the leads. Then, a lot of the scenes would have made more sense and would not have looked so forced.

Nevertheless, I kinda enjoyed it. I was ... craving for some romance anime & I got to watch it. So, if you are looking for a light hearted romance anime just like me, you can watch it.

This movie was quite enjoyable in the beginning, however characters were quite inconsistent with their writing while the story devolved into a complete mess. It did not take long for the movie to turn extremely cheesy with most of the character interactions being frustrating and hard to sit through. As I said earlier, the writing for the characters towards the middle of the movie started to show a constant inconsistency. The two characters that were introduced presented a common dichotomy that isn't new, but was rather charming, with both of the characters actually fitting into what the synopsis of the anime described them as. ... However, towards the middle of the story, both characters started to turn into the same characters and lost the charm that was given to us at the beginning of the movie. The movie isn't all bad however, the art was rather impressive for A-1 Studios and surprised me in certain key scenes, but wasn't anything special nor unique other than the bubble motif that was presented towards the end of the movie. Music was excellent as it was not too distracting from the dialogue but when paid attention to really sets the mood of most of the scenarios in the movie as BGM should. BUMP OF CHICKEN really impressed me with a their performance with once of the scenes in tandem with the fairly impressive animation. All in all, the movie is quite a letdown especially with the encaptivating exposition, but slowly derailed into a romance drama with no passion, creativity, or good character development. If I were to describe this anime as an equation, it would be y = -x + 8.

Tl;dr:
- Movie suffers from a pacing issue
- Unrealistic and uninteresting characters
- Forced character interactions
- Cliched and cringe dialogues
- Good animation, character designs and music.
- Targeted for a relatively younger audience.


What's the worst thing you can do with your romance anime?
...
Unrealistic characters?
Cliched and cheesy dialogues?
Forced character interactions?
Or maybe all of the above?

Omoi Omoware Furi Furare should be named as "Rejection Compilation" as rejection is everything that happens.
Am I exaggerating? Ofc but not too much.

The premise of this movie is interesting enough. 4 main characters with different views on the love end up together in a high school as a classmate. Will they be able to achieve their wished youthful romance? It's not bad I liked the first 22 minutes of the show (yes exactly min 22). I wish I could say the same about the rest 1 hour and 20 minutes. It was just a complete mess with a huge Love Triangle.

The characters are nothing new and interesting. Yuna is just like your everyday annoying shoujo character who is living in her fantasy and confessing to someone who already rejected her once. Akari may seem like a mature girl but she is selfish af. Kazuomi is that one character that every anime has that even the author must've forgotten about halfway through their work. He was the most interesting one but had the least screen time. His having to hide his passion and dream of being a movie director from his not well-mannered family was interesting, but the author decided to ignore his interesting side and just focus on boring love triangles. Rio is just a (cool) character that every anime has who is mysterious, tall and handsome. He loves his sister ( not blood-related). So he is jealous when Kazuomi is together with Akari. Nice incest going on here.

Our leads meet with a complete coincidence. Yuna helped Akari once and Akari invited herself to Yuna's house. Kazuomi was Yuna's childhood friend while Rio was Akari's brother who was someone Yuna was interested in.
It's not a bad way to introduce a character to other characters as it is done way too much in animes already, but I don't like when this happens coz this will take away the entire important factor of "How our leads met and became friends first". The movie did a pretty okay job of this on Yuna and Akari, but this movie is not Yuri so it doesn't matter much. Because Rio and Kazuomi are brother and childhood friend of Akari and Yuna they are already friends before even interacting with each other much. So I think this is an easy and boring way to introduce the characters, but not everyone has the same opinions. So there is nothing I can do about it except for putting my own opinion.

Except for how characters are introduced, how characters fall in love is not well executed either. I believe 2 things are important when it comes to romantic progression between the leads and that is " Why they fall in love " and "How does the love affect their lives".
But I think the author has a different view on what's more important. The movie is full of confession, but none of them feels like genuine love and that's because they don't have much reason to fall in love.
Yuna loves Rio coz Rio (coincidentally) has similar hair to her prince from what they read in her childhood. Wow, interesting. If the fairy tale prince had black hair instead of blonde does that mean Yuna would've loved Kazuomi and not Rio? Guess we will never know.
Rio loves Akari since childhood and love at the first sight. Interesting too.
Akari loves Kazuomi and the author dismissed it by making Akari a kind of girl who easily falls in love. How interesting too.
Rio later in the series loves Yuna and that's after literally kissing Akari like 10 minutes earlier. Is that what society calls Fuccboi?
Okay people can defend him and I can understand it as Yuna did help Rio to make up with her sister, but is that enough to make Rio forget his first love and move on? I don't think so.
And last and not least Kazuomi loves Akari. Idk why and I don't think the author knows it too. They had few interactions with each other and none of them helps to justify his feelings. Okay, he once saved Akari from falling as most anime characters do, but it it's not a reason. And to make the thing worse. The synopsis said, "Kazuomi doesn't understand the concept of love and he is dense about these things".
So why will Kazuomi love Akari?

The movie suffers quite a bit from the pacing issue too. The movie is kinda fast-paced than it needs to be. Due to it many of the character interaction seemed forced. The future couples don't have much interaction with each other. A lot of my IRL manga reader friends said a lot of the scenes were cut in the movie. This can be the case but we are not talking about the manga here so it's a con here.

Even though I said earlier that the characters don't have much interaction and when they do have some it's all filled with cliched and cringe dialogues which are simply frustrating to sit through and watch. Just think of any cringe and cliche lines used in romance anime. What can you think of?
- It's okay, you rejected me. I am fine with it. I just wanted to get this off of my heart. (Cries like a bitxh later)
- Please apologise to him/her. He/She did nothing wrong. ( but is shivering with fear ) and characters of the anime will say " Oh wow you were so cool " No it was cringey.
And all of the other things you can think of. It's available in this movie. Yes not even exaggerating.

If you don't know " I love Nitpicking ". Nitpicking is my favourite hobby and something I can do all day. And I have 2 things, in particular, that might not look significant but are something I can't get over with. And both of them is related to Akari's family.

[Spoiler Ahead]

1: In one scene Akari's mom hurriedly comes to the house with a scared look on her face as she thought Rio and Akari were together in the room. So it's kinda obvious she thought they were doing something immoral. But why does she think so?
Is it because Akari's mom knows that Rio loves Akari ? or just because they are 2 people of different sex of the same age? or maybe Rio tried something like that already before? That's something I wanted to know the entire time coz it's not a small deal. The family having no trust is a huge issue that has to be solved but the author forgot that she even included something like that in her story.

2: During the ending part of the story when Akari leaves the house because of her ( Internal Family Quarrels ) you know how and why did she get over with it? Yes, because Kazuomi confessed to her. Yes, as easy as that. If anyone of you is having trouble with family, then just ask your crush to propose to you. They will solve the problem for you.
Kazuomi who has nothing to do with Akari's problem with her family solved it just by confessing to her. Is that how confession and family problem works?
Idk if it does and if it does then my bad but I don't think this is how it's supposed to work.

Moving on from all the criticism I have with it. I do have some positives to say as well.
I am a huge fan of Io Sakisaka's character designs and Bump of Chicken's music. So the movie has pretty great character designs and music (animation is decent too). Lol and that's all about its pros I will say.

I am a huge fan of light-hearted shows in general if you can tell from my favourites, but I think what Io Sakisaka prioritizes in her story is kinda different from what I want from a story ( Hal, Ao Haru Ride and now Omoi omoware furi furare suffering from kinda similar problems for me ) so Io Sakisaka's stories are not something that appeals to me, but it may appeal to a large number of people so I don't want to deny it by saying she is a bad writer.
If you like this movie then good for you it was just not my kind of thing. Well, reviews are not 100% objective.

Thanks for reading.
Have a nice day/night.
 

I haven't read the manga but this movie is good but no more
On the one hand, I was hyped by the annoucement, because it was an romance highschool and it has been a while since I saw this kind of anime. And it doesn't disappoint me. Indeed, I enjoyed the story, which has nothing more than the others but I still like it. We got to see two romances for the price of one, by doing that, it killed two birds with one stone so yeah why not.
Just after my viewing, I was convinced that the film was good and that nothing was missing.
On ... the other hand, the next day, I wondered about the film, and it's never very good when you get there. Indeed, there are elements that are completely forgotten and characters that are not well developed or have disappeared. I think the film is about 20 minutes short of being very good. In those 20 minutes, they could have shown us what happened after high school and so on.
Nevertheless, it remains a good romance and if you are a fan of slice of life with romance, I recommend it for sure.

a disappointment when you've already read the manga

i enjoyed reading the manga (id rate it a 7 out of 10) quite a bit but the anime was so boring to watch, really. i watched it with a friend who neither watched or read it before and she got bored real quick since like nothing happened. the background music was not really there, the animation was okay but sometimes they added corny stuff like them being in another universe when something cute happened?? idk it was just too much for me but the story overall got REALLY boring delivered which is sad because the manga was ... enjoyable..

they left important keys out of the manga as well so i would really recommend it to read it if you haven't yet. i was really excited for the animation, so this was quite a disappointment

i havent read the manga but here is my opinion about the movie as a whole,
(Might contain spoilers)
i honestly think they missed out on so so much, it would have been better if we saw the opinions of others and reactions yuna and rio got for dating and their experiences, and another thing is how much things happened in less than half way through the movie, very fast paced
It would have been so so much cooler if they made it into a 12 eps anime we could have went more indepth and we could have learned more about it characters.
Ex. They could have threw more ... hints that rio always liked akari, could have made more scenes showing how slowly rio and yuna, showed us more of akari and rio before their parents married etc!!
Overall i do recommend it if you like the genre as i personally enjoyed it.

I read the manga wayyy before the movie was released and this series is definitely one of my favorites. When it was announced that they would make a movie I was super hyped to see my favorite characters turned animated, but alas my expectations were crushed. The movie is too fast-paced, they had to chop off a lot of scenes that would help us understand the characters more, and overall it was super underwhelming. I understand that they needed to chop a lot because of time but they should have just made this to a series because this was not it. Don't get wrong I ... love the confession scene between Rio and Yuna but it just didn't make any sense how or why Rio came to like Yuna, sure she helped him but is that just all? Not just that but Kazuomi and Akari's relationship is super bland, they didn't flesh out Kazuomi much and that made me mad because he was such a good character in the manga.

If you want to watch something just to pass the time then I recommend this for you, but I'll just say this. Manga readers, don't get your hopes up.

If you are 15 years old in the prime of your teenage years you will love this movie is a love 4anguel and is not very develop all of their issues can be resolve if they had communication is the normal rom-com school romance that is inlonagted sometimes, it was stress full at times but at the end I wanted the movie to be over, ca¿hacters ar under developing you can't get attached to them because they are not likable. The animation is beautiful but the dialogue is too simple for my licking. I really wanted to like this movie it had so much potential ... but the only interesting drama i got from the almost incest family plot was the parents fighting and the mother almost hitting a 3rd divorce, over all under baked and not a lot to go around not very memorable

I will say it the most easy way... If you want to fully enjoy this movie, read the manga first or else you will feel like its too rushed and prolly wouldnt understand how much time passed between the scenes which can make you feel lost as the movie contains the complete manga in it so a lot of chapters, scenes got cut off to squeeze the story in.

As someone who read the manga while it was still ongoing I enjoyed this a lot as it contains every important scene (except one sweet scene between one of the couples in one's room > read ... it to get what Im talking about 😝) which is kinda disappointing but overall I'm very satisfied with how it turned out. Also the movie doesnt really portray the character development because the movie didnt go too deep into them or rather didnt have time for that. But that's not missing in the manga, actually all four MCs got their fair share of development so thats another reason why you should read the manga beforehand to just fully focus on and find pleasure in the major scenes in this movie.

So my recommendation is read the manga first, if you enjoy it then you will love this movie because you will see all the important and favorite scenes in motion and sound (and with incredible art, just look at those backgrounds, OMG) which is more than enough I would say, something that people who likes Ao Haru Ride (another story by the same mangaka) didn't get in its adaptation.

after reading the manga, i was quite excited to watch the anime but i was honestly met with disappointment.

to get straight to the point, this movie was very fast pace. if you were to visualize the plot of this movie everything was jagged rather than smooth, if that makes sense. i tried to ignore the fact that i had read it beforehand and tried to avoid keeping track of the timeline, but it was very hard. even if i had watched this without reading it, i would still feel lost and confused on what had happen in the span of an hour and ... 40 mins of it. you don't get to see the character developments but instead you're just forced to assume what happened. and many of the interactions between characters like yuna and rio or akari and kazu weren't there to lead you up to the important parts of the story. due to that it made those scenes very anti climactic and quite cheesy. don't get me get me wrong i loved the cheesy parts in the manga and i was looking forward to it in the movie but this was not it.

overall, after watching this i didn't feel the same closer as i did with the manga, but that's due to the fact that a lot of things were changed compared to it so who am i to complain.

I'm sorry if this comes off biased but I was really excited for the movie because I love the manga and tbh it was a big disappointment. It's mainly due to the fact that this manga is around 10 volumes and they shoved that into a short movie.

There are so many scenes that are cut out in order to fit its length. A huge portion of Akari's past and therefore her growth as a character is cut out. Yuna and Rios christmas date is totally missing. There are giant chunks of interactions between Yuna and Akari and Rio and Kazu that show their friendship that ... are just gone now. These are all significant things that happened in the manga that made the story so special. Without it, the story is just missing that special spark.

Even if you didn't read the manga, I think this movie is just average. The most important part of stories like this are that they are character driven. There is such a big change in development that these characters that have such charm and sweetness in the manga feel like they fall flat in this movie.

Overall, the movie was still enjoyable and if you're looking for a simple cute romance anime then this still is a good option. I think this movie would've been much better suited as a one season anime though.

Tldr: Read the manga if you even remotely enjoyed the movie. It is a million times better.

Wow, so, this is my first ever review, hey there. *spoilers free*

So I read the manga without even knowing there was going to be a movie and I loved it. When I knew about the movie I was thrilled, I got really excited over the thing "I read it before seeing it" because, most times, I see the anime and then read the manga.

It was little fastpassed yes, for me and the others we read the manga all of the plot makes sense, as well as the development of each character, but I can understand why someone who didn't read it can find it rushed. ... It's just to tell you, viewer that didn't read the manga, that if you eventually read the manga (I highly recommend it), it will make more sense.
Also expect more plot, because there were parts of the story that were cut (and even though they were cut, the movie staff put the remaining plot together very well, they succeeded in rearranging it), but to be honest, I didn't missed them *drama* thattt much, but they are also interesting and kind of important plot and character development-wise.

I did miss some of the cute moments from the manga though (from both parties, but specially the ones that had to do with Yuna), but the movie still is really kawaii with little fluffy scenes.

If you are into romance and/or into shoujo, you can and probably will enjoy this movie, just, don't let the "rush-ness" bother you, is still very well accomplished and yes, I liked it.

A cute romance with a touch of reality. (but without failing to be a shoujo)
(Sorry for my bad English)

In this story we will accompany Yuna, a shy girl who dreams of her prince charming and Akari, a girl more down to earth who has experienced loving disappointments. We'll also meet the two boys, Kazu and Ryo.

I had already read the manga, I love the stories of Io Sakisaka, so before watching, I as already linked to the characters, which probably helped a lot in my vision for the story. They cut a lot of things, which didn't instill me, but probably for those ... who don't know the story could find it too fast, which would become a problem.

Things are developing at a rapid pace, especially the dramas of Akari's family and Ryo's drama. But they make it clear the passage of time, through the seasons mainly.

I simply loved the animation, the A1 - Pictures is to be congratulated, the movements are fluid, it was too beautiful.

About the instrumental I think it missed a little in a few moments. But I had a great time watching and remembering my favorite moments! The characters are adorable, but as I said before, I'm already familiar with them, so who liked the story and wants to see more, or who thought something was missing, I strongly recommend the Manga!

(PT/BR)

Um romance leve com um toque de realidade. (mas sem deixar de ser um shoujo)

Nessa história acompanharemos Yuna, uma garota tímida que sonha com seu príncipe encantado e Akari, uma garota mais pé no chão que já viveu desilusões amorosas. Conheceremos também os dois rapazes, Kazu e Ryo.

Já havia lido o mangá, amo as histórias da Io Sakisaka, então antes de assistir já estava ligada aos personagens, o que provavelmente ajudou muito em minha visão para com a história. Eles cortam bastante coisa, o que não me incomodou, mas provavelmente para quem não conhece a história poderia achar rápido demais, o que se tornaría um problema.

As coisas se desenvolvem num ritmo rápido, principalmente os dramas da família da Akari e o drama do Ryo. Mas eles deixam claro a passagem de tempo, pelas estações principalmente.

Eu simplesmente amei a animação, a A1 - Pictures está de parabéns, os movimentos são fluidos, ficou lindo demais.
Sobre o instrumental acho que senti um pouco de falta em alguns momentos. Me diverti muito assistindo e relembrando os meus momentos favoritos! Os personagens são adoráveis, mas como havia dito antes, já sou familiarizada com eles, então quem gostou da história e quer ver mais, ou quem achou que faltava alguma coisa, recomendo fortemente o Mangá!

Pretty average anime romance movie with a little twist, but wan't interesting enough to make me engrossed in it. The animation is pretty standard but the character design of the main leads are overly simple making them feel very bland and they have very little personality.I also kinda thought that the character development didn't go smoothly. the characters falling in love felt a little awkward because the plot had many holes and didn't bother to make the characters likable.
However the good thing I like about this anime is although there were countless potholes that made the viewer(me) not love the characters I did love that ... the ending was neatly done without exaggeration. the movie overall was pretty decent, I liked the soundtracks and thought that the initial premise of how the fl friendship developed was splendid.
After saying all that , I would recommend you give it a watch because its decent and I do know its adopted from a manga , so would recommend to read the manga and watch the anime after :-)

I would recommend this a million times over Ao Haru Ride (I gave that a 3).

The story is fine. I expected the melodrama from Io Sakisaka, but the decently and mature enough characters make up for it. Sure, there are some communication problems, but given the age of the characters, it's understandable. In the end, they all find a mature way to resolve them.

My first impression of the girls was that they were going to be childish and annoying, but they surprised me being far more likeable than I anticipated. I ended up rooting for them halfway through (especially Yuna).

The acting was good (nice ... debut for Marika Suzuki) and the sound aswell, with some nice music. The art was easily the best part. Jesus, the are some great shots and everything looks beautiful.

Overall I find myself enjoying the film, getting really invested at some parts. It's no masterpiece but it's a nice time.

So the movie s art style was very good...but the main problem is that the movie was a very rushed...it would have been more interesting and the plot would have been nicely presented if the movie wasn’t that much rushed.the intoduction of the character and their design was okay. But there is a lack in the development in their experiences of love life,I think it could be presented more nicely.overall this is not that bad...but it could have been a masterpiece if everything seemed to work properly *-*
I haven’t read the manga but I plan to ... because I think manga has much to offer me.. So this is a no read manga review of its manga adaptation..
Overall u can enjoy the art style sound and the story...and if u are a romance and shoujo lover I believe u will like it...

Love Me, Love Me Not was dull and the love quadruple never got interesting. The only positive thing this movie had was it's animation done by A-1 Pictures. The story started decently, but it felt very rushed and the characters were forcibly developed without even displaying an emotional connection between them.

Maybe, if the runtime was extended by 30 minutes or so, the movie would have made a bit better sense. It's nothing new and nothing special, we have seen number of romance movies in the past and it doesn't even felt like there was an romantic connection. After the first half, the characters were all ... over the place and the story got rushed and messed up.

To summarise, Love Me, Love Me Not can be skipped, even though it has a beautiful animation. The reason being the lack of character development and connection between the leads along with rushed second half that messes up the movie as a whole.

GOOD
• Animation by A-1 Pictures, the characters were sharp

BAD
• Rushed 2nd half
• No character development
• No connection factor between the leads


MY RATING : 4/10

I had thought that this anime will be same as the "Romance Anime" that created by Honeyworks like "Zuto mae kara suki deshita" or "Itsudatte bokura no koi wa 10 cm datta" . But, it's different, it's more complex. In beginning, you will be shown love story like romance anime in general, but, a few minutes later you will be shown one-sided taboo love feelings (i don't know the right words) that is heated up at middle of story.

For the character, akari is more dominant in story than yuna.

The art and music is good, i like art style like this

Overall is good, you can enjoy ... this anime if you like romance drama anime such as "Ao Haru Ride"

*SPOILER WARNING*

The pacing of the story is so whack. Since when did Rio and Yuna get close enough to be able to borrow and lend shoujo manga to each other?? Since when did Kazu and Rio become bestfriends that Kazu would sacrifice his love for him, thinking that his bestfriend likes Akari? There was so much important scenes that was cut out, which made parts of the story making no sense. I wish there were more interactions between the characters. Btw, the "Rio grabs onto any confession as an opportunity—so long as the girl looks cute" part of the synopsis was a total lie, ... I don't know where that came from since he rejected every girl that confessed to him. PS. This is my first time making a review.

tldr: don’t even bother, just go read the manga.

I can only speak as someone who read the manga and while it wasn’t an outstanding shoujo this adaptation didn’t do it justice at all, it was just bad and sad. I’m so disappointed.

My main gripe is with how the characters were handled. The reason why this film is boring and difficult to get through is because they cut so much important characterisation that made the characters stand apart from each other and made their relationships interesting. SPOILER >>>>>>> Rio and Yuna’s mutual confession holds so little emotional weight because SOOOO much development that led ... up to that point was cut out, especially from Rio’s side. It just all feels very sudden and pointless.

I missed the internal dialogue of the characters; from Yuna in particular cause to me it’s what made her an MC worth caring about. A lot of the internal conflict of Yuna and Akari was cut. Not to mention Agatsuma appearing as this one dimensional nice guy from the jump. In conclusion all the characters felt very flat and it was hard to care about any of them.

I love the animation in this I thought it was pretty and I was happy to see the characters in colour and motion, but I really wish this manga had been adapted into an episodic anime and not a movie. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.