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Apr 7, 2021 10:28 PM

#51

Rob7

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LOL what a mess.

The "Ghibli" visual is nice... when there is not the horrible CGI to spoil it.

I dont know about the game, but it is clear how the story is rushed in the movie, with out of place expositions pulled from the ass (in special the villain revelation: i'm their leader, but also your brother, but not dead, but i had i life, but you took all from me etc lol wtf).

These flaws spoil most of the movie, but not enough to drop it.

And MY GWAD, how the princess VA is TERRIBLE. I never paid much attention to VA work, but this was the first time i despise a VA that is not doing dub for another languange.

6/10 for general enjoyment but bad execution

Apr 14, 2021 9:21 PM

#52

Eris-w-

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I actively try to avoid rating a series low and instead consider it dropped, but it's spoiler:

Don't highlight if you don't want to read a spoiler: Yu is what's-his-name? From the other world? The chosen one? They tried to be clever with this, but to me it's just silly. End spoiler.

So disrespectful to a character I thought I was supposed to care about that I don't like this film, can't recommend it, whatever.

It also doesn't star the VG cast of Ni No Kuni as far as I can tell. 4 I guess because the animation is pretty at times and the villain looks like a monster from Retro Power Rangers. 4/10

May 19, 2021 7:52 AM

#53

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May 19, 2021 7:52 AM

#54

KtElite

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Story in my opinion feel rush. But the part I hate the most is that there's no justice toward the villain character at all even though he become the bad guy because of the country. The art in not bad but some are bad like the some of the CGI. Also the last fight scene is stupid in my opinion.
5/10
The story is good but it was rushed and the way they introduced the villain is dumb and in my opinion the villain deserve some justice for what they country did to him.

KtEliteMay 19, 2021 7:56 AM

Jul 8, 2021 5:52 AM

#55

Unkrowned

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Felt like a budget ghibli movie with an end thats quite ridiculous imo, like how can Haru be Yu while behave like totally different people who just happen to like the same girl. I still quite enjoyed this movie (except Haru who was pretty irritating to watch making me wanna smack him so hard so his braincells start working)

Oct 9, 2021 11:14 PM

#56

laaala

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Havent played the game or whatnut but this movie was disappointing. It feels like the story is written by a 5 year old ngl, animation is inconsistent aswell, and that cgi dear god.

Yu plot twist was pretty good, literally the only good thing about this movie.

Overall a 5 for me, a guilty pleasure isekai kind of show id say

Jan 4, 2022 4:55 PM

#57

removed-user

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Better story than A Silent Voice. And that's all what matters to me.

Jan 8, 2022 8:49 PM

#58

kamajifanboy

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This is not a masterpiece, but not a bad way to escape to another world for a couple hours on a lazy Saturday afternoon. The animation was well done, the scene design was very interesting, although the CG parts were a bit jarring and didn't match well.

The story itself is probably fine for early middle school viewers, but viewers older than that will complain about plot logic. Stein's Gate it ain't nor is it trying to be.

I won't ever watch it again, already I'm starting to forget plot points since the story seemed highly generic. So if you want a light fantasy isekai but you want to watch a standalone a NOT invest hours and hours in bingeing a 13-ep series, this might do the trick.

Apr 18, 2022 11:07 PM

#59

CrazyButNot4U

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The only thing I could say is that this animation is quite average for this day and age, thankfully, Netflix added a Dubbed Audio in their DB for this movie. So it was somewhat enjoyable, oh, wait. I should use the word "bearable". Scratch that. The animation is good enough and the character designs are what I really like, there's no sexualization intended in these animation. I really love the conclusion!

9/10!!!

P.S. It really felt rushed but what's important to me at this moment is that this movie delivered the real, hidden message within this story.

CrazyButNot4UApr 18, 2022 11:34 PM

It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines
and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it,
is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service.

Jun 16, 2022 5:56 AM

#60

tofei

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Been meaning to watch this on Netflix 2 years ago before the start of the pandemic but even with the stay at home study/work schemes I still haven't bothered to sit on it until now.

I liked the Ghibli character design, the world-building could have been better or I just find it lacking altogether, the plot was weak and too cliché for me from start to finish. Overall completely forgettable after I watched it, 6/10.

You see there's no need to wonder where your god is,
Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy.

Jul 16, 2022 2:12 AM

#61

ALisAnimeLover

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I actually watched this because I was interested in the game (the new game, Cross-Worlds, at least; I don't really know much about the game series itself). I kinda had expectations (not that high, but not low either) because I knew the game was in collab with Studio Ghibli. Aaaand, I ended up hating the movie.

Yu is just a typical isekai character who had plot armor and had a plot-convenience powers and wit. Haru is a POS who moves before he thinks + his actions and beliefs don't make sense (he believes that the other world is just a dream... so why does he believe that saving Astrid hurt Kotona, and that killing Astrid would save Kotona?). Kotona is just a plot-convenience character to start the story and end the story. The antagonist had to literally narrate his backstory because the movie couldn't bother showing it (though ngl, I liked his backstory). Saki is just there for Yu to decipher what's happening (I'd love it if it showed how important Saki was to Yu given she's his adoptive mother/sister, but it never showed any of that. The grandpa was just there to give Yu to get his plot armor (or rather weapon) -- tbf, the players say that the grandpa is a character from the first game, but sadly it's just a thing only the players will know, so it ended up not making sense (okay, I understand he could travel through worlds, but why does he have the sword which was lost? Just because?). Everyone else are just NPCs.

The animation looked like it was made in the early 2000s. The experimental 2D+3D parts was interesting, though it didn't blend well enough. The height of the animation (imo) is the part when Astrid was dancing in the lake.

The plot wasn't paced well. I admit, it was interesting in the beginning when they were isekai'ed and when they returned to the real world. But after that... it went downhill. From Haru's bad life decisions (again for the Nth time), to the conveniency of Haru and Yu suddenly learning how to fight and lead an army, and again, from the antagonist just narrating his story because the movie couldn't bother to show it. It didn't even have actual lore-building except for saying the two worlds mirror each other - which is probably due to the movie lacking time and expecting the watchers to know about the game?

The ending plot-twist was interesting... but it didn't make sense of the whole lore where the other world mirrors the real world. The two main characters are foils to each other, so, like... what? And there was never a build-up towards that; only a hint in the middle during the fighting scene (when the king had them fight NPCs). And sadly, we were never shown about their friendship either, except for the beginning of their friendship and their coordination during the fighting scene. It didn't feel like they were friends at all, it felt more like they were simply love rivals doing what they can to save their loved one and having different approaches to it.

If the point of the movie was to promote the game series, it certainly did bad job at it. And yes, the movie crushed my interest in the game and the game series.

Sep 22, 2022 2:09 AM

#62

Narknit

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Feels very much like a game and beautiful art. Some clichés, but still a good watch.

Mar 2, 9:24 PM

#63

Loufi34

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Aug 2021

Watching with my gf and she like this

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