[1988] Maria Kawamura - The Five Star Stories (CD Mini Single) - MartyMcflies v2 • 1.6K views • 87 likes
Found none of that soundtrack in the movie.
Stunning imagery, yet utterly lazy composition. Kinda sad such animation effort has been wasted on this generic kind of story about ~true love overcoming your superiors' will and even the mind control~ which, if you think about it, also would make no sense, had characters been driven by at least a smidgen of rational thinking.
This is even more stupid a loss if this was initially intended to just promote manga/game/whatever is was based on; i.e. if they knew from the start it's bound to become an unfinished stub.
A bit of every 80s cliche in here. It's as though they have been randomly picking the pieces of papers with overused cool tropes of the era from a hat, then glued it all together into one big hotchpotch in a fancy big-shouldered cauldron.
Because of the douchey introduction, very painful to watch if you pay attention to the story. For starters, the universe is introduced through several minutes long spoken summary. Not only that, the said summary is overly convoluted, cumbersome and confusing. I think I had to rewind every line 3 times or so to make sure I'm up to the lore. The Byzantine-Engrish names, titles, concepts, etc. All that is ultimately redundant for the purposes of that simple a story and only serves to somehow tie together all those cool things the animators wanted to show off, without caring much for a consistent storyline.
The entire fatima idea though... I have no words for how blissfully stupid it is. It has no rational seed in it whatsoever and, again, only serves to put together the motley crew of characters who would be seen acting utterly weird otherwise.
