Kimi wa Kanata

I wasn't initially gonna write a review for this, but since the naming convention of this film was the one that fancied my senses, I should at least give my 2 cents to say that this film made by one person: the infamous Yoshinobu Sena who did the "so bad, it's bad" Vampire Holmes, how does Kimi no na wa...ahem, sorry, Kimi no Kanata fare against many others who did the same thing?

In one word: NO. In more words: HELL NO. Please do not waste your time on this film just because the film title just cringes you on it being the vastly inferior product to the movies that inspired the creation of this wishy-washy movie.

Story and plot is superbly unoriginal and contrived, characters are hella one-note deficiencies for infodump and nothing else, sound is just poor too. The movie funnily enough, makes you feel like you're watching a Direct-to-TV film that's not even Disney-like quality with Digital Network Animation's (for short, DNA, which I'd bet that the 23 pairs of chromosomes are all connected in disparity) alright but poor to at best, decent visuals.

Save your 95 mins of time and watch 4-5 TV anime episodes or a film that'd make your time more useful. This is a piss-poor worthy cringe film.

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It's not bad but not too good either. It's a very chill movie that you watch some afternoon to pass the time and it's nice to see.

(+) The animation is decent and it feels cute and positive. They added some fantasy. The romance is also adorable but the reasons they have issues are for dumb reasons.

(-) The plot lacks so many extraordinary features, the characters are too generic, they tried to add something supernatural with some character but at the end it's irrelevant. Just a passing dream. Not intriguing, not exciting.

Even with the darkest and the most melancholic mood I think that I wouldn't be too attached to this. At least it has a passing score.

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*Light spoilers ahead*

TLDR Below.

Imagine having Your Name combined with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, stretch it infinitely long, and mix 1 or 5 genres of your choice.

You get this mess. This excruciatingly long boring mess of just silly characters with melodrama that doesn't even fit the frame it is presenting.

I must stress there is nothing wrong with generic titles. Not everything has to be innovative of the past, a push of simplicity is beautiful anyway, but quality matters regardless. KimiKana doesn't even understand that basic fact. Story's out here having a bigger identity crisis than Bloom Into You, seriously, this turns into a Disney musical halfway through with some action sequences to follow on. The only important character here is Mio, you can forget anything to do with Arata, the dude doesn't even take at least half of the screen time, but apparently, he is a very important person (you can tell because he has superpowers). There are also people who you won't care about having relationship ties as if we've seen 20 episodes of this nonsense before. Just one big ambitious mess.

I have to give praise to the audiovisuals though, well, for the trailer, because that is one of the reasons I watched this. Everything in the movie does not correlate to the trailer. It is just basic plain budget-cutting stuff you see in mid-tier seasonals, which, doesn't mean it is bad, but doesn't mean it is unique or anything to praise. This movie probably has one of the few times where I can say something has "bad audio", in the sense that the use was bad not the actual sound that I could hear. I am going to have some very strong words with Sena Yoshinobu for allowing me to know some wild direction could even exist.

Anyways, this was too boring for me to enjoy, chances are it will be the same for you. I will give it praise in that the only thing I liked about this was the flamboyant moments and the wholesomeness that draws later on. Other than that, I don't recommend watching this one. Watch the two titles mentioned prior. Your Name for a good supernatural drama. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time for life lessons that are actually coherent.

TLDR: The movie is a mess of story and characters you don't really care about. Audiovisuals are mid. So everything adds up to be boring as hell but has some good flamboyant scenes.
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I have to say I was eager to watch KimiKana anyway. In addition to a hot trailer, the lack of talk from it was something that made me more interested in it, plus some said it was bad so I had to verify that myself. My curiosity is satisfied however and I have to say, even though it was just bad, I am happy to have seen it anyway.

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I just finished watching this shit, it's a waste of time. I was expecting a romantic drama, with a love triangle, but instead they put mystical powers on you. And feelings that you don't say ??? I don't think the movie is good at all. If you can not see it, it is a total farewell. The animation is not bad but hopefully well it is a movie, the music is very bad. At one point there is some music and the protagonist thinks that this is Disney and half that breaks the meaning of the movie. It is a why? After the character design is very flat, the development of them also never empathize with them. It's like die please, you don't know what you feel. Very bad the movie, do not waste your time watching it, greetings to the administrators.



En español:
Acabo de terminar de ver esta mierda, es un desperdicio de tiempo. Me esperaba un drama romantico, con un triangulo amoros pero en vez de eso te meten poderes misticos. Y sentimientos que no decis??? No me parece nada buena la pelicula si podes no la veas es un despedicio total. La animacion no esta mal pero bueno esperable se trata de una pelicula, la musica es muy mala. En un momento hay algo de musica y la protagonista se piensa que esta es disney y medio que rompe el sentido de la peliucla. Es un ¿por que? Despues el diseño de personajes es muy plano, el desarrollo de ellos tambien nunca empatizas con ellos. Es como mueranse por favor no sabes lo que sentis. Muy mala laa pelicula no gastes tu tiempo en verla saludos a los administradores.

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