Reviews

One of the things that struck me at point while watching this movie was that certain scenes had very...mediocre animation quality. Overall, it's a pretty good story, your typical characters, though a lot of them get very superficial screen time, but my one major gripe about it is that, being a movie it *CANNOT* interfere with the main plot, and thus they had to pull a "it was all a dream" - style ending. (Sorry if that spoils it, but if you thought ahead you'd realize it had to be the case) Since you know that, you can sort of figure out a few main plot points before things even begin.

From this point of view, if you're a Bleach watcher, there is zero room for character development, or really any kid of new information/ability that will be in any way pertinent in the future. If you haven't watched Bleach, well, not sure why you'd want to watch this, you would basically get the idea I suppose, but you probably wouldn't appreciate it nearly as much, and if you have watched Bleach you might end up a little frustrated like me with the inability for any meaningful development.

The overall rating being lower is more or less a reflection of my irritation towards the "OMG we don't remember anything" part of it.