Reviews

Date A Live: Mayuri Judgement is the sequel to Date A Live II and was released in August 22nd of 2015 and ran for 1 hour 12 minutes (72 minutes) and was once again produced by the same studio that did Date A Live II and the Encore OVA, Production IMS. So what did LA think of this anime film?. Before LA answers this let's first look at the premise, well Shidou our main protagonist sees a huge sphere in the sky in which only HE can see, later the Ratatosk group analyze this huge sphere and tells Shidou that he must go on a date with his right now current harem to remove this huge threat from the sky, that's right, the bulk of this movie is Shidou going out on consecutive dates with each of his haremette members Tohka, Yoshino, Miku, Kotori, Yuzuru and Kaguya. The thing is, although the movie spends the bulk of the movie fleshing out these haremette special dates for each of the harem members, LA can sorta see something from this, it's really fleshing out these characters in which some of them didn't get in the anime series, mainly being Kaguya and Yuzuru who gets this effect on LA. The dates have each of their haremette's theme added to it that adds to fleshing out the haremette in questions personality and behaviour, some even making nods to the original series, LA's favourite date would have to Kaguya's, Kotori's and Tohka's but especially Kaguya's (LA didn't know whether it was Kaguya's voice actor ''Maaya Uchida'' or for the fact that they fleshed out one of the Yamai Twins and made her a 3-dimensional character instead of "''Ohh she's one of the Twins''" with her date). Now the series' title is ''Mayuri Judgement'', who's Mayuri?...well she at first comes in a certain points of each of the 6 dates as a "mysterious girl" and she obviously has a connection to the huge sphere in the sky. Well LA can tell you that Mayuri voiced by ''Sora Amamiya'' without spoilers ends up with the same "''anime film with a new character exclusive to the film''" syndrome many anime films have and LA by the time it lead to the huge climactic battle knew this was gonna happen. On speaking of the battle, there is only ONE battle in this 1 hour 12 minute anime film and it's GLORIOUS, with Shidou's harem fighting the "huge sphere" in the sky that turned rogue (ohhh...LA would have never guessed the huge sphere was bad), nonetheless the climactic battle is something to watch in this film alone. The animation done by Production IMS is adequate due to the either fanservice scenes to the quiet moments of the film to upping the ante when it comes to the huge climactic battle, the animation was decent overall and had no hiccups or errors LA saw. The voice acting on the other hand, if you like hearing squeaking haremette characters fawning over their dates or when their on dates respectively especially from Miku voiced by ''Minori Chihara'', Yoshino voiced by ''Iori Nomizu'' or some of the other minor characters in general. So back to LA's question from before, ''what did LA think of this anime film?''...well it has the same trappings as any other anime film with a new character brought JUST for the film itself, however with little flaws it has and how the bulk of the film is the dates that flesh out the majority of the harem AND gives a one huge climactic battle for the finale. LA doesn't hate it per say, but LA doesn't love it either, it's most definitely better than Date A Live II as it doesn't goof around (as the dates ALLOWS them to goof off and it's a PART of the anime film's plot). Date A Live: Mayuri Judgement by all means isn't a terrible film, it could do worse, but for a self-contained anime film from a supernatural slice of life comedy harem anime series...LA wasn't expecting TOO much from this film, but LA still enjoyed it as a fan of Date A Live and as an anime film in general. If you want to see Date A Live II done better, then this film is the best bet.