| Don’t get me wrong, I liked the movie. But I prefer the manga over this one. I think it’s because the movie felt very slow paced for me, and things felt quite dragged out. The animation and direction was excellent, I almost shed a tear at some moments cause of how beautiful a shot or scene looked, so that would make up for the long dragged out things. Maybe it’s because with the manga, I can read through it fast, cause reading speed varies. But with the movie, I can’t “watch it faster”, can I? So yeah I thought the movie was nice but at the same it time I was getting bored at quite a few points, and I thought the voice acting in some scenes sounded awkward (maybe I’m just used to the over the top ones), so I would give this movie a 7 or 7.5 out of 10 and no more than that, does that mean I have bad taste? |
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| It just means that you have different preferences. “Good taste” is a myth, this stuff is so subjective. I gave this a 10/10 but I never read the manga, in fact I knew very little about it going in beyond “it’s about 4koma.” So my rating could be heavily swayed by my emotional reaction. I don’t really know what I’m trying to say with all my rambling here so I guess the tl;dr is: we’re all just dorks watching cartoons, like what you like, feel how you feel; art is naturally going to give different people different responses |
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| anyway, if it’s from csm author then I don’t really have any expectations from this to begin with. |
nishant0 said: anyway, if it’s from csm author then I don’t really have any expectations from this to begin with. Csm author is nice bro, that specific fan who hates on jjk for no reason (iykyk) isn’t. |
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nishant0 said:
anyway, if it’s from csm author then I don’t really have any expectations from this to begin with.
anyway, if it’s from csm author then I don’t really have any expectations from this to begin with.
Csm author is nice bro, that specific fan who hates on jjk for no reason (iykyk) isn’t.
| @someguy idk who you talking about but nah csm author is hack imo, I don’t really like any of his works. |
 This is how bro felt after posting this topic. |
No no this isn’t rage bait bro, I said I liked the movie but not as much as I thought I would. The movie, the original work and author, and the fans are pretty much goated, it’s just that my taste is a little different, sry if this seems like ragebait, I mean no harm, I’m just someguy on the internet✌️. |
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arya_p2004 said: I agree with you... I felt the same thing.. Tatsuki Fujimoto's Art can be adapted, with Look Back it is now sure.. I think it's the pacing of his work that basically hits differently and that is the tricky part to adapt into anime movie/series other than that yeah movie's Ost, artwork and every aspect was top notch... Yes yes, the music and art and animation were very good, but the pacing is tricky to pull off. But hatsoff to the team for their impressive work, it was incredible. |
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someguy said: But with the movie, I can’t “watch it faster”, can I? Actually, you can watch it faster! Just turn up the play speed on your video player! |
drobertbakerNov 8, 8:02 AM
| I have the opposite reaction, I actually felt the movie more impactful thanks to the animation, voice acting and the music. And i actually felt the movie quite short and fast, thats the reason why I wasnt that emotional, saw some ppl saying they cry but the movie didnt evoke that strong sentiment out of me. I got teary eyes tho. And no, you arent stupid if you dont like a title that is praised. |
| I didn't like it either, I read the manga and dropped the anime. |
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| Bro you have to save yourself asap... Like it as much as everyone else does or it will be too late. |
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| There's nothing wrong with not enjoying something that everyone else does, and vice versa. |
| ye im the same i did not get emotional or even cry unlike when i first time i read the manga but still the production is awesome |
| ...it was fine, overall; but the movie lacks climax. it's like it ended in the middle of the story |
drobertbaker said: someguy said: But with the movie, I can’t “watch it faster”, can I? Actually, you can watch it faster! Just turn up the play speed on your video player! I don’t think I want to do that lol, it would look funny and the animation wouldn’t impact as well as it did. |
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| nothing crazy. have a similar experience with people who think frieren is something amazing when it's also a 7/10 to me. |
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AyaazMahim said: It's literally a perfect adaptation imo and elevates the source material idk what you are talking about nah nah im not saying its a bad adaptation, im just saying that it felt a bit slow compared to manga, which makes sense cause i read the manga fast. |
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ryzxgum said: nothing crazy. have a similar experience with people who think frieren is something amazing when it's also a 7/10 to me. frieren is a 9 for me lol, prolly cause i like soft wholesome anime, and cause i went into it blind. the animation for look back was crazy tho, the scene where fujino skips and the low angle shot of her walking in the snow almost made me tear up. |
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someguy said: I would give this movie a 7 or 7.5 out of 10 Seems about right, I was swaying between 7 and 8, eventually gave it an 8 because I liked the yuri subtext. |
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ryzxgum said:
nothing crazy. have a similar experience with people who think frieren is something amazing when it's also a 7/10 to me.
nothing crazy. have a similar experience with people who think frieren is something amazing when it's also a 7/10 to me.
frieren is a 9 for me lol, prolly cause i like soft wholesome anime, and cause i went into it blind. the animation for look back was crazy tho, the scene where fujino skips and the low angle shot of her walking in the snow almost made me tear up.
| @someguy i liked it when it was more soft and wholesome too, that's why the earlier parts of the show are my favourite. but then they started having more fights, the whole tournament arc bored me. so the second half is where i lost interest but early stuff like where we meet lil fern at heiter's place made me tear up and even when frieren takes the gang to look at the meteors, the series just peaked too early for me lol. |
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ryzxgum said: @someguy i liked it when it was more soft and wholesome too, that's why the earlier parts of the show are my favourite. but then they started having more fights, the whole tournament arc bored me. so the second half is where i lost interest but early stuff like where we meet lil fern at heiter's place made me tear up and even when frieren takes the gang to look at the meteors, the series just peaked too early for me lol. Ah I see, I went into the series blind so I enjoyed it throughout, and I liked the fights to, cause after all I’m a hardcore action fan. |
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Aldidaz said: Mal forums are a miserable place... reading these comments How so? I don’t feel miserable lol. |
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Aldidaz said:
Mal forums are a miserable place... reading these comments
Mal forums are a miserable place... reading these comments
How so? I don’t feel miserable lol.
someguy said: How so? It's a coping mechanism, some people call others miserable to make themselves feel less miserable. |
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| Maybe you felt it slow because you have consummed and enjoyed mostly fast-paced stories , the junk-food of this or other media and it made you desensitized to paying attention to or enjoying anything other than fast-paced "action". I don't say that there is anything wrong with that, or that you are "stupid" but it shows how much differently two person can percieve the same thing because not for a moment I thought this movie slow , on the contrary, I become completely immersed in its story. |
IshitatesoNov 10, 1:43 AM
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Ishitateso said: Maybe you felt it slow because you have consummed and enjoyed mostly fast-paced stories , the junk-food of this or other media and it made you desensitized to paying attention to or enjoying anything other than fast-paced "action". I don't say that there is anything wrong with that, or that you are "stupid" but it shows how much differently two person can percieve the same thing because not for a moment I thought this movie slow , on the contrary, I become completely immersed in its story. I mean, some of my fav anime are quite slow paced, so I don’t rly have a problem with slow paced stuff, nor am I in it just for the “fast paced action”, I did pay attention to almost everything in the movie, the voice acting, the art, the animation, the references, the characters, so I think it’s prolly because I didn’t expect this movie in particular to be slow, because as I said, I read the manga quite fast. And on top of that I had rly high expectations for this, so maybe that has smth to do with it too. |
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Ishitateso said:
Maybe you felt it slow because you have consummed and enjoyed mostly fast-paced stories , the junk-food of this or other media and it made you desensitized to paying attention to or enjoying anything other than fast-paced "action". I don't say that there is anything wrong with that, or that you are "stupid" but it shows how much differently two person can percieve the same thing because not for a moment I thought this movie slow , on the contrary, I become completely immersed in its story.
Maybe you felt it slow because you have consummed and enjoyed mostly fast-paced stories , the junk-food of this or other media and it made you desensitized to paying attention to or enjoying anything other than fast-paced "action". I don't say that there is anything wrong with that, or that you are "stupid" but it shows how much differently two person can percieve the same thing because not for a moment I thought this movie slow , on the contrary, I become completely immersed in its story.
I mean, some of my fav anime are quite slow paced, so I don’t rly have a problem with slow paced stuff, nor am I in it just for the “fast paced action”, I did pay attention to almost everything in the movie, the voice acting, the art, the animation, the references, the characters, so I think it’s prolly because I didn’t expect this movie in particular to be slow, because as I said, I read the manga quite fast. And on top of that I had rly high expectations for this, so maybe that has smth to do with it too.
| @someguy Then maybe you just have to be in a certain mood for it, or get it not in some mechanical sense interpreting some symbols and such but having some previous life experience that makes you able to connect to the heart of the story, feel and appreciate some of its aspects that could be hidden to someone who is younger. For me the essence of it was not about that somebody died in it and you have to be "sad" because of it, I have seen so many japanese and korean wannabe tearjerkers that I have become completely desentized to that kind of thing if the story doesn't offer much more than just that. What actually made me connected to their story was how they became the purpose and motivation for each others life, how they chased each other (at first without realising it), competed with each other, admired each other, completed each other, struggled to keep up with the pace of the other and didn't want to be left behind (the visual language of the anime showed it so beautifully) and in the process they relationship became something alike to "soul friends", the red threads of their fates became so entagled that even in an other life they couldn't become separated. Kyoumoto became not only in the artistic sense but a more profound way somebody who gave the "background" to Fujino's life, gave direction to her talent and made her realise it while in the same way Fujino gave purpose to Kyomoto's previously inert gift in drawing and made her come out of her shell. They had something so special beyond their shared interest, something that came from the time they spent together, from the inner motivation and meaning they gave to each other even if they were far away from the other, even after the death of one of them. It is one thing to understand those things I have described and an other one to become so deeply engrossed in feeling them that you completely forget about time, you just go with the flow of it and don't feel it slow or fast - it is just right... This movie was in a sense extremely similar to the chinese movie Soul Mate from 2016 which got readapted by the koreans in the 2023 movie Soulmate. I recommend you to watch those movies. |
IshitatesoNov 10, 7:17 AM
| 夏草や 兵どもが 夢の跡 |
| I thought the pacing was great, any shorter or longer and it wouldn't have worked for me. |
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Zarutaku said:
It's a coping mechanism, some people call others miserable to make themselves feel less miserable.
someguy said:
How so?
How so?
It's a coping mechanism, some people call others miserable to make themselves feel less miserable.
Not even talking about OP but the comments general...always so negative and for what. Nothing to cope here. Mal is a cursed place.
| As far as I can tell you're the one being negative here, MAL is a highly cultured place on the internet. |
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