Reviews

The Star Driver movie was on the disappointing side. While it starts out strong, with some new animation set after the end of the series, everything after that is just Star Driver recut into a feature-length 'story'. Of course, cutting that much out leaves a lot of abbreviated scenes without context, and I doubt anyone who hadn't seen the series would have understood what the heck was going on. The animation was pretty good for TV, but extremely underwhelming compared to the sort of animation quality we get out of most movie or OVA productions.

On the other hand, some of the glaring problems with the series, such as the extremely repetitive cybody battles, are glossed over nicely, and while I found Wako to be rather annoying in the series she has less time to irritate me in this abbreviated version.

Would have greatly preferred to have seen the movie continue on from the first five minutes, which occur after the story and leave us with a lot of new questions that the original animation does not, of course, solve in the least. A sequel following that plotline further would be greatly appreciated and likely would receive a much higher score.