Actually just this one word sums it up really well which is why i initally only wanted to give out a one word review but MAL guidelines are like: nah tell us why you liked or disliked this anime. So here is a short +- list for this movie and a little more.
So. Dont get me wrong, Date A Live is one of these few harem anime that focuses a little more on romance instead of comedy (like for example D-Frag which heavily focuses on comedy). Besides that its one of these few harem anime that I really do love even if they might be a little shallow and generic, because the anime was fairly well executed and the characters were lovely. So therefore I had some great hope in Mayuri Judgment, but this movie was a goddamn disappointment. Why it was disappointing? Well...:
-it felt more like an OVA instead of a movie ( e.g.: only 2 minute long dates, only 1 minute long appearance of origami tobiichi, not much of a movie atmosphere/feeling, ONLY 10 minutes of the character which the movie was named after?!?!?!?)
-because Date A Live is a more romance focused kind of harem anime, the missing romance is neck breaking for this anime!! while some kind of intimacy is shown between the spirits and the main character, it never goes beyond the good friends border! it simply felt like the producers were too hesistant to show the true deep bonds and feelings of the spirits to the main character to not upset the fans of each responding character. as a tradeoff the true needed intimacy is missing and the strong points of the anime just drop off
-the namegiving character was just a freaking short cameo. like seriously, while having 10-15 seconds of screentime throughout the whole anime at some points, she only had like 10 minutes main screen time at the end of the anime which is really goddamn bad.
-at the end of the movie the producers tried a bit too hard, to bring the feelings to the viewers which makes it a major disconnect to the story
-scarce explanations which might possibly not clear up any confusion of the viewers
all in all it felt like the producers were just too hesistant to make up a good anime. instead they put in all their money in the surface of the movie without providing much content. at least the surface had their good points though:
-okayish music
-good animations
-nice character design of mayuri
-REALLY shallow but bearable (average garbage)
-while DEFINITELY not well executed, fair premise story i guess?
-while she had not much screentime i guess they made mayuri fairly likable to the viewers? (At least I would have liked to see more of her but that might just be my bad taste speaking for me.)
in conclusion what i really wanted to write for this review: garbage
p.s.: im really struggling with the overall score because MAL says 5 is mediocre while 4 is decent but saying this movie decent is a decent amount too much praise. but 3 is poor and 3 is too hard while poor is a good word for this movie. so basically imma just rate it based on the score i would give out.
