Spirited aways target audience wasnt myself and I knew that going in, I particularily like romance genre and ofcourse some action but Ive always rated anime with a lick of romance in them a bit higher than ones without and it could be an epic action anime but I tend to binge watch ones that had romance, Ive watched every fairy tail episode, movie, ova, etc but only 30 episodes each from hunterxhunter, one piece, and only the first series of 220 episodes for naruto. Now that you know how my mind works a little, spirited away has a bit of a romance theme to it but I knew since it was targeted at young audiences that it wouldnt have an ending like that of toradora or angel beats, none the less they still delivered a bit of romance zonI found that pleasing. Now, keeping in mind that this is an anime alice in wonderland meant to be watched by a grade schooler I took note that they did a very great job on character design, music, and animation. Too many movies meant for kids these days look over these aspects knowing that they are kids that arent going to pay attention to details, so as an adult I could definetely see and appreciate the amazing work that was put into this movie. Now, through an adults point of view, the movie didnt entertain me because it justbsimply doesnt appeal to me, I dont believe in fairy tales, it just cant be helped, I cant relate to the mc and I wasnt asking for more when it was over, but if I was a 9 year old who loved fairy tales(which I used to love peter pan and the likes of other disney movies) then this movie would get a solid 8-10/10 so I rated it as such, now if ur an adult you wont be moved by this movie, but its still not bad, I can still sit down and watch a disney movie but this movie would illicite the same responce as other disney movies do "oh that was nice" meanwhile ur child is like "zOMG daddy that was so cool". To finish this off if u want something thats not too serious then this is the movie for you, its not going to depress you or leave you with a gaping wound in ur heart like pretty much every anime with a rating higher than 7 or 8 (usually a romance will do that especially if its good regardless of happy or sad ending), like erased, angel beats, anthem of the heart, kimi ni no wa etc.
Do I think its over rated? I can see why youd think that if ur above the age of 13 I dont think it was meant to get 10/10 but as far as its target audience goes its one of the best and deserves anything higher than 8/10.
Just one complaint I had, I was a bit confused on who the no face guy was, wish that got explained better, I think a lot of the spirits needed to be addressed of their origin more, because of that I fairly rated it 8/10 even tho it didnt move me emotionally like other anime I rated 8/10, so maybe I over rated it haha. Yes I think people over rate it but itsbokay because its not fair to rate something that ur twice the age of the target audience, thats like gramps watching naruto or one piece(I used popular anime on purpose dont crucify me) and then rating it 4/10 because it wasnt made for his age group. |