What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
18.5%
5
4Liked it!
18.5%
5
3It was OK
29.6%
8
2Disliked it
14.8%
4
1Hated it
18.5%
5
Average 3.0
27 votes
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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- It is really basic as far as story, characters, and themes are concerned. Still, it has nice visuals and it was an entertaining watch. |
| "I may be liberal arts to the core, but I am capable of thinking logically." |
| thats sweet simple story but good execution!!! |
| This was Mars of Destruction quality. |
| I thought it was like Princess Mononoke so I guess it was OK. 7/10 |
| You see there's no need to wonder where your god is, Coz he's right here! ...and he's fresh out of mercy. |
| It was interesting to watch.. I Like the ending song :) |
| lol is this some sort of a tv variety show , the ending theme was quite good but the mc was pussy |
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| Rushed, terrible MC development and character designs |
| The movie was very good until it lost the plot towards the middle, with the whole oni also have a good reason to fight. The oni had spiders for heaven's sake and they killed anyone including innocent people in the capital. Also Tendo didn't make a good MC, he was conflicted and didn't seem like a chosen one to wield the orochi. The orochi was too big for him. I'm surprised at Raiko to become friends with a guy that left him to die. 6/10. |
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| I thought Mizuha had a VA that recognizable on my hearing However, i was wrong. Its different than i thought. Lol. So, its a 7/10, then. Its goes like that just for the sake of my respect at their valuable historical theme on its approached of their story telling. Its sounds so good to me, about the whole origin story with the great war of oni and human, that started because of the greediness of one human. A nice twist of their storyline about the bad and good thing that quite surprised me in the first sequence. Its a good job, to be honest. So, yeah, its seems matched up on my personal enjoyment. A pretty good one to me. |
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| Really didn't like this one, one of the worst anime movies I've watched in recent times. Just reminded me of a bad Naruto filler arc. Also maybe if the "good guys" didn't want to be called Oni or be seen as the bad guys, maybe they shouldn't have dressed up as scary monsters and went attacking the nobles and terrorising the towns. I also don't know what the difference between the Oni and the "regular" people were. Like the monk dude recognised when an Oni came within the barrier, how did he know that? From what I could tell they were just regular dudes and he took their land, probably missed something important in the exposition dumps but who knows. Though on second thought, I guess they were magic users and could float and do other witch craft, I'd also be scared of them if I'm being completely honest. Don't know why they seemed to be the only ones able to do that, besides the monk I guess, but I would've thought of the monk being able to do magic as normal in this kind of movie. I fail to see why the monk transported the main character into the past or how the girl/Oni got out of the future as the Oni said they didn't have the power to bring people back into their world. I also wanna meet the dude who was in the big spider mask, as the other Oni's "battle armour" seemed to just be a mask, so who was riding in the big mecha-spider? Overall thought the main conflict of the main character dude not knowing what side to choose/trust kind of pointless when the one side was revealed to be the 'all evil dude who wants to conquer the world and become a god' at the end just so he can make up his mind and you know for a fact that he made the right choice. In my opinion it would've been better if the monk dude wasn't all evil and had a noble goal but was going about it the wrong way or something cheesy like that. Also time travel plots make my brain go ouchy, so I'm not even going to try and think about the ending as with every time travel plot, you just accept it. Even if the mc probably made the wrong choice in changing the past and inevitably changing the present as we saw in the ending. Hope he regrets it later when there's no Wi-Fi anymore (really wish they showed whether he had bars or not at the end scene). There were other things that I didn't get or thought were dumb but I'm too lazy to think about this movie for any longer. Feel like this movie was for people who are into Japanese folk-lore and history but I'm not knowledgeable on it so I probably didn't get some aspects of this film. If anybody comes across this post and wants to explain some things to me, go ahead, I welcome being enlightened. |
| This felt like an off brand knockoff of Anime. As if it had been made in China or Malaysia or something. The Animation wasn't awful but it just didn't look overly great at times. The character designs weren't to my taste, a little overly simple. Almost like they were designed for CG rather than 2D. The story is very basic and not the least bit original. We've seen countless versions of a tale like this and this one did nothing to really stand out. Still it felt to me as if portions of important background info or just general explanation for why things were happening just got straight up missed out. As if they had been left on the cutting room floor to help lower the running time. I do feel as though, even if the story is somewhat generic, that we needed more character building, world building and just a more steady progression of story. The whole film is really rushed. Like yes we know where it is ultimately going after awhile but similarly I wasn't invested because I didn't spend enough time with any of the characters and the world to really care about anything. Like why should Jun care so much for Raiko? he barely spent more than a day with him, It just didn't feel genuine at all. As @DancingTheBa says this really does feel like a Naruto Filler Arc. And in the same way that none of those really mattered I don't feel like this film does much either. Also agree about the convenient villain making any choice much easier for Jun. This is something that Princess Mononoke managed much better with it's "villain". Painting Gen-un as just straight up Evil doesn't make for much of a conversation come the end. Overall I thought the film was a missed opportunity, if only in the sense that a good film is there even if it wouldn't exactly be anything too special. With extra fleshing out of characters and the world, along with some changes here and there I think this could have been solid. And honestly I didn't hate it. It's not good but I didn't think it was terrible either. Mostly just mediocre and I don't feel like I wasted 98 minutes, I mean it's honestly hard to really waste 98 minutes on anything and feel like I truly regretted it. 5/10 from me, it was Mediocre. |
| The complaints about it looking "bad" are ridiculous, the animation is gorgeous and fluid without tainting it with ugly 3D, it's an achievement (and a testament to the skill of animators involved, like Hirotsugu Itoh and Hashimoto Shinji). Storywise it's more complicated than people give it credit for (and neither it's about man vs nature for god's sake), although it doesn't deliver on its themes as much as I'd like it to. So what are the themes? Well, it seems to me that the story is alluding to the conquer of the Ainu people and their lands by the Kyoto government back in those days. Even the monk makes a statement about his political goals and whatnot, and there're some passing notes about the aristocracy here and there. Now, I'm pretty disappointed that barely anything got explored further - the monk is defeated, everybody is happy? What about the lands? What about the other aristocrats? Eeeeh. Good idea tainted by imperfect execution. Returning to animation, I wish to reiterate that it was great, but the too complex camerawork was often unnecessary (e.g. those rotations), and might have worsened the experience for some. In any case, I don't regret watching the movie despite its flaws. |
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