Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven: Pocket ga Niji de Ippai

I'd like to start by saying... whoever wrote the fanfiction that this was based on, I'm so sorry. /sarcasm

I have never seen a more pathetic excuse for an anime movie in my entire life. Eureka Seven is one of the greatest series to ever be created. It's animation and soundtrack is unusually top notch as well as it's character development and well balanced plot. This sorry excuse for a movie under the same name of that epic animation should be beat down with a stick like a bad cosplayer.

True fans of the Eureka Seven series, spare yourself the two hour torture. If you want cute ... fan pictures or stories of Eureka and Renton, just browse the internet. I'm sure you'd find more things that would probably even satisfy you better.

Moving on, let's get down to each of the categories.

The storyline: 5. Why? I'm sorry but taking the plot of the actual anime, condensing it into two hours and renaming every major plot point is NOT creative. It's not even original. It's silly. Okay, sure, you made some of the characters evil and it was a little different. Hell, Eureka knowing Renton since they were little could even be called adorable! Not to mention Dominic the vampire teacher, let's not forget him in all his awesome Adrock-like glory! However, the small plot that was thought out seemed like an interesting backstory to the 'Desperation Disease' at first and then moved onto being something akin to some kind of backwards fountain of youth that related to the Image (*coughCoraliancough*). If it had been explained a little more, I could have given it more respect, but as it was, it was difficult to follow, not properly thought out and pretty much just vomited into animated form. Nice try guys!

The art: 2. Taking scenes from the completed anime and editing them to be put into a movie is not artistic. I was so distracted by the blatant use of actual anime images that I could not properly concentrate on the movie (I actually would stop and try and think which episode it was from and I got them all nearly correct with a three episode margin of error, whoo!). Unlike Mamma Mia... taking already made things and trying to mesh them into a movie does not work here! Just because it can work with ABBA songs does not mean it should be tried with a perfectly awesome mecha anime. For goodness sakes, make something original!

Sound: 7. I liked the sound. I liked the ending song. I really didn't pay attention to much else. I can be satisfied by the fact that, although strange, mini-fairy!Nirvash was cute and made nice noises. (Yes that really was one of my favorite things.)

Character: 7. Thinking of this as a separate entity from the actual ES series and using this thought to understand the characters better, I was at first intrigued by how everyone had changed. The Sages became very important military figures. Holland and the Gekko State became evil misguided souls. Dominic and Anemone were main people and highly important to the overall status of the movie. To be honest, I could really appreciate this change. Though I disliked some of it, there was development here I could respect. Still, what happened with some of the Gekko State members annoyed me. Evil and misguided is okay. But vicious paranoid rapists? Sorry. I don't approve.

Enjoyment is self explanatory. It's obvious I didn't like it nor did I amuse myself by watching it. However, I gave that category a four. There were parts with Eureka and Renton that sometimes made it worth sitting through every painful scene edit. I guess I just love those two that much, but next time I want cute stuff like that, I'm just gonna google it.

I suggest you all do the same.

To me, i can't see any relationship between the movie and the series. The time lines all messed up. its more like this was there previous life or something. I think the anime series would have been better off without this movie. sure them being kids is just cute but everything else is confusing. i can't fallow and I've seen the whole series. This movie just messed me up and now my head hurts. -__-'
The animation is good. almost and maybe a inch better than the series. The story makes me think a bad fan fiction writer tried to make an epic back story but ... because it was there first time writing they sucked epically. Sound is okay and characters.. I'm not even going there because you'll know when you watch it. enjoyment... put it plainly i lost interest in the first 10 minutes and forced myself to watch the rest. Overall it could have been better. No I take that back. It definitely could have been MUCH better. Who ever made this needs to be hit over the head with a large object until they are unconscious with sever head trauma.

One thing is for sure: the movie is much worse than the series When I saw it come out I was like "Oh damn I gotta watch it NOW". After a few weeks of struggling to get a decent and working version I got really dissapointed.
The story is much over the top. They changed Eureka's character to the point of her being annoying. She is no more the Eureka we all know from the series but more like 'a girl in love from some crappy ecchi anime', except for not having a big chest.
The only things that kept me wanting to finish the movie were ... music and animation. The art is still amazing and music is not something that you don't even notice while watching the whole thing.
Still it's not enough for me to reccommend it to those of you who are, like me, big Eureka SeveN fans. If you really want to watch it, then don't get your hopes too high 'cause you might be really dissapointed, just like me.

Well... this was something
This movie doesn't follow the original Eureka Seven story, it's a different timeline... maybe, it's not very clear, but it is implied that this is the same timeline since at one scene you see the moon with Eureka and Renton's names engraved on it from the last episode of the original series, so these aren't the same characters yet have similar traits and (somewhat) similar personalities, okay i can get behind that, but with not having the setup and character developments from the original series, you get a movie that tries to speedrun what could have been a 12 episode of an ... alternative story of the original series into a 2 hours movie, so these characters aren't very likeable, even thought the Gekkostate crew are the sympathetic evil characters in this timeline, i didn't care for them that much, and not to mention the story isn't very good, it feels at points like a fanfiction that got adapted into an anime.
They re-use a lot of animation from the original series, it comes off as lazy when you use them to tell a completely different story, but i didn't mind it as much since you can see it with full screen resolution here unlike in the original series, still very noticeable, the new animation is also good, this is an all around good looking movie.

Overall this movie is fine, if you want to see Eureka and Renton be cute together then you will enjoy it, but don't expect much as story.