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Went to the theatre to see it opening day. There were 3 other people at the screening but it was a Friday afternoon so most people probably have work. The movie is broken into 3 full-length, not half-length episodes. Without spoiling too much, a couple of the boys get bit parts in a made-for-TV movie, there's a classic sports festival episode, and of course a new song where the boys dress up in the glamorous outfits you can see in the promo art. It was pure comedy and it didn't take itself seriously for a second, but it was pretty funny and sweet as ever. ... According to the other theatre-goers commentary it was "omoshirokatta" and "meccha yokatta." I definitely thought so too. Ishida was trying really hard to be best Eternal Boy, he definitely got all the best scenes. The new song was really good as well, I never knew the boys had so many pheremones (inside joke). Recommended for anyone who watched and liked the first season, 9/10 for a fun way to spend about 70 minutes.

Eternal Boys is a really nice SOL idol anime whose message is "anyone can shine" with subtle comedy, lots of feel-good vibes, and a fair amount of realistic, mature drama that a lot of not-young-adults can probably relate to in some way. It uses the 13-minute format well with succinct episode plots. When not focusing on their trials and tribulations as a new idol unit or daily lives together, each member of Eternal Boys gets their own focus episode telling their backstory of what they were doing before they became ossan-idols. All of the members are 35-45-year-old men with no prior idol experience. There's ... Kakizaki, a mature and charismatic former Host. His friend and colleague Nicolai whose stoic demeanor belies a zest for life who's done a little bit of everything but his specialty is his home-made pickles. Imagawa, who's always wanted to be in the spotlight ever since his CM appearance as a child but never made it big. Asai, the youngest of the group and the only father, a former soccer star/divorced dad, kind of the himbo of the bunch. Ishida, a serious tsukkomi who spent the first half of his career as a teacher while secretly being an idol fanboy. Yamanaka, a former model-turned-talent agent-turned-idol with a caring and nurturing personality. And finally kind-of-the-main-character (although everyone gets time as the focus) Sanada, an average salaryman with a nervous disposition, trying his best to adapt to an entirely new career path after the company he worked for for two decades suddenly went bankrupt. There's plenty of ups and downs and some unexpected story developments, and you seriously don't know until the final episode whether or not this unlikely idol group will make it beyond their first year. Overall, it's just a good casual show with short, easy-to-watch episodes whose overall simplicity holds some unexpected depth that gave me a lot of complicated feelings in my kokoro. Personally I give it a 9/10 but realistically I think it belongs at around a 7.5/10, definitely deserves above a 7 and more views. Give it a shot!

I feel like it's a really average school romance/SOL anime that's easy to follow and fairly entertaining so it's good to watch when you want to relax. I think the high rating has to be just because of the BL factor, maybe especially because it's more 'wholesome' than the typical BL. Although truthfully BL has evolved to the point that there's no shortage of wholesome romcoms, I suppose it's still relatively few BL manga that get adapted into anime. On the other hand, nothing about Sasaki to Miyano really stands out as a school romance for me, whether it be the characters, the story, or ... the artwork. The dialogue is fine, not roll on the floor hilarious, there's not really a whole lot of zany anime hijinks, there's no love triangles or drama, none of the characters are really unique. The two main leads aren't even that close before they start dating, they just hang out at school or after school and talk about BL but they don't feel like best friends or soulmates. The senpai thinks the kouhai is cute and asks him out, the kouhai ponders over whether he should accept or not and doesn't give him an answer for like 6 months, he decides he likes the senpai back and they start going out. I guess the story and the romantic buildup, even the various characters' personalities and everything are surprisingly realistic for anime, but it's because of that realism that just makes it kind of boring. Cute, but nothing memorable.

It's got everything that makes anime fun and exciting to watch. Zany robots, Disney musical numbers, Shipping, big reveals, emotional reunions, princesses, evil scientists who don't understand the Power of Love, a group of plucky teens and also the main girl's Mom fighting against authority to save their friend. The art isn't the best ever, but they do some really cool big, flashy, eye-catching scenes with Shion using her powers to control all the nearby electronic devices. There are a couple of touching Power of Friendship moments that would have made me cry if I were a weaker woman. I genuinely enjoyed the cheesy musical ... numbers. And everyone gets a Happy ending.

Characters don't get too much depth simply because it's a movie and the runtime is limited, but everyone we're supposed to like is likeable especially easily-flustered Wrestling boy.

I am so happy I never saw the trailer and the MAL description for this movie before it was released was completely wrong (it seems like it was based on the book which I haven't read yet and the movie changed things) because I got to go in blind. I was expecting a moving drama about 3 females of varying ages trying to find refuge from their traumatic backstories together that would make me cry. I got magical realism about a kind witch (not actually a witch but close enough) who adopts an orphan who lost her voice and a teenager who ran away ... from her abusive father (rather than a woman running from her abusive husband as in the novel because married women are forbidden in anime I guess) and they live together in her magical, sentient house (Mayoiga) on a secluded peninsula along with youkai such as kappa, guardian dogs, and talking jizo statues. But in this world, not everything magical means humans good will...

Again, they probably changed a lot from the original novel, but what we've ended up with is a tight, well-produced, immersive story with strong characters and well-proportioned whimsy and drama. No loose ends or sequel hooks, it tells the story it wanted to tell.

So yeah, if you like found families and also magic and youkai, I recommend this movie. I already kind of watch it again.

It's an ecchi/comedy manga that, like most ecchi manga, toes the line of going too far without becoming an Adult manga, but unlike most ecchi mangas, it's less fanservice and more outrageous sex/masturbation jokes. The comedy comes from just how big of a pervert with no common sense Miyanokojou is and the ridiculous situations she drags her straight-laced best friend Miyako into. Who is also the only person who will put up with her shenanigans, mostly out of a really strong sense of not only morals and human decency but compassion, not wanting Miyanokojou's stupidity and sex drive to cause her to do something she ... can't reverse that will affect the rest of her life. At some points you feel bad for Miyako for having to deal with this idiot, but she is able to stick up for herself to some degree, and then there are Heartwarming Friendship Moments that make you forget to be angry at Miyanokojou. But mostly it's just really very funny.

Disclaimer that I am conversational-but-not-fluent so there were parts I didn't understand. That being said I also didn't entirely get what was going on in Summer Wars even with English subs and this is very much Same Energy. Anyway maybe it would help if I saw it again, but I found the story difficult to follow. It cuts between scenes really abruptly at times and things just seem to happen without a whole lot of buildup (Belle's fame and her/Suzu's relationships to Ryuu and other characters for instance). Also what are the mods doing? People are just getting doxxed left and right and no one ... is having their account frozen. The future is wild? It was also strange how in the ending, Suzu's friends and adult figures let her go out and do the Thing That Will Not Be Spoiled without any backup or any real plan. The visuals were pretty cool and the music was great, not very diverse but beautiful and cinematic. The characters are fine, but plain. Actually the support/background characters were more interesting. Also artistic references to Beauty and the Beast but only on a visual level. Basically if you liked Summer Wars back in the day also by Hosoda Mamoru (I did not), yes, this is definitely extremely similar but upgraded for 2021 with less family drama and more...family drama? But also singing.

I usually don't gravitate towards Isekai or Shounen anime - in fact, I try to avoid them like a person handing out religious pamphlets! But this anime, which from the first episode I thought was Excessively Shounen (and kind of retro) ended up becoming one of my favorite anime of all time and my number one favorite manga! Every episode made me smile like nothing else due to the show's charm and comedy, and the sweetness of the charismatic and kind main character being able to befriend everybody in the Netherworld. Nobody can hate him for long, not even rivals or villains or grouchy teachers ... and, while unrealistic, I couldn't help but be charmed every time. All of the characters and their interactions are just so great and lovable (but Clara is the best girl). There is quite an interesting overarching plot hinting towards Iruma becoming the next Demon King, but coming from a long-running manga series, it's quite slow, so it's best to just enjoy the ride episode-by-episode. Meanwhile, there are smaller story arcs with Iruma and friends trying to win some competition or prize or other and improve their ranks, etc, and there are some cool action scenes where the characters get to have Badass Moments, and Iruma gets to go from not-trying-to-stand out good kid to true action protagonist, which don't take up the entire series, making them all the more enjoyable when we get to see them. This does kind of gradually intensify later on in the manga, but it's still done so well, with plenty of heart, that I really enjoy it.

It's been a couple years, and this is still my favorite romance anime - nay, my favorite love story of all time. I was hooked from the description because of the whole implied "two-person love triangle, in love with each other's alter ego, not realizing they were someone you knew all along with a dash of gender bender" plot, but the anime is so much more than that. I feel like I can really relate to the main character, Moriko's struggles as a lonely 30-year-old who's done nothing with her life but worked a menial job for a humdrum corporation and decides to screw her ... career and play video games all day. I'm twenty-eight-and-three-quarters years old as I write this, and I feel like I am constantly half a millimeter away from doing the same. As for the plot, I was on the edge of my seat with all of the gradual twists and coincidences and revelations that pull Moriko and Yuuta closer together, in spite of the two's social anxiety and ineptitude at relationships (Koiwai is the greatest wingman in anime history). Even if it wasn't meant to be, this is wish-fulfillment fantasy done so very right and I love it.

I watched and enjoyed the television series before watching the movie, which may or may not be rare. When I walked into the theatre, I was actually the only person there AND I was 5 or 6 minutes late, both of which are a real shame, until a small group of people walked in at least 25 minutes late. Anyway, the first half of the film was amazing, leaps and bounds over the television series which, in my opinion, was already good. I did enjoy how far the film went into Okko's depression and even serious PTSD over her parents' death, which the series kind ... of brushes over. Okko even has dreams/visions of her parents still being alive and with her, when we never got to see them in the TV show, as far as I remember. I LOVED the focus on Glory and how she was such a good adult gal pal to Okko, and she makes a terrific older sister character. I also loved that there was no shoehorned romantic subplot, all the ghost hijinks, and the voice acting/dialogue for the English dub was very well done (Matsuki's famous quotes were neat, the jokes and jabs were good, and Suzuki's voice was amazingly funny). Over all, I thought everything was very well executed. The thing that ultimately kept me from enjoying this movie more was a certain twist that happens with Uribou and Mio. They don't get much focus in the second half despite starting off as great supporting characters and friends for Okko, and there's really no time for any of the three supernatural characters to get full character arcs. I love them already from watching the TV series and I love all the screentime they did get, but I don't know if a movie-only viewer would get as much from them. And the climax was something predictable that often happens to ghosts in movies, which I was really, really grateful never happened in the TV series and really hope it never does in that canon, but it did here, so the ending was a real bummer for me. I would like to watch it again...if my emotions ever recover, which seems unlikely.

TLDR If you liked the movie, you should definitely give the show a try. It's not as flashy, but it's happier and should cheer you up if you were depressed by the movie's ending. Also more Matsuki.