Reviews

Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare is a shoujo manga's movie adaptation. This shoujo manga has 48 (monthly) chapters. As one may guess, this is problematic. Setting aside for a moment anything to do with the story and characters: The audiovisual product itself was coordinated decently by A-1 pictures. It's just that without even having glanced at the source material, even I could immediately tell that things were being cut out, to a dramatically bad effect. To say that the pace was breakneck is an understatement. The progression was so quick that by the end, not only did I find myself barely able to keep up with changes in the characters' feelings, but I didn't even remember their names.

Now, the pace itself aside, there were very problematic relationships involved in this movie. Removing all respectful filters, I'll say the following: the four characters in this shitty, messy love polygon just can't get their fucking shit together. Whether it be through unrequited incest, second confessions following a previous rejection, or straight up lying about NOT liking someone when confessed to, the characters here just don't seem to want to do anything useful. It was frustrating to watch, and all I could do was pray that something mildly tolerable would occur at the end.

Nothing happened.

Though the production may have been passable, the story and characters were simply bad, and nothing can fix that. It might be my inherent bias against unironically incestual plots in anime, but this shit was just bad.