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A pretty good film. Despite a few points i don't like, it's overall a pretty good experience. The animation itself especially, is really good.

If i have to point out one i like best best and part i don't like of this film for me,

Best:
Is definitely the characters (minus Piripappa which I'll explain later in worst part). I thought it'll just the usual cliché where you can pretty much guess who's protagonist or antagonist. But i was left surprised with how each actually has a their own part to play.

Don't like:
Is the drive (?) or i guess problem (?) of some of the characters notably our ... FL Sarah and Piripappa.

[SPOILER ALERT ON THIS PART]
Sarah's problem and how the story handled it was pretty good until like, 3/4 way of the film because they made the misunderstanding of her thinking that Naranbaya (ML) already has a "beautiful" wife as her climax problem resolutions. This problem wouldn't really feel that "😐" had ML, at the very first meeting, can already figured out what's the situation is. But FL, even with a lot more clues showed, did not connect the dot until ML says it outright. And you can't make an excuse that "ML was supposed to be the most intelligent man in the kingdom" if you carefully watch how things were actually set.
Most intelligent man in water kingdom > marry our FL AND GO to the gold kingdom
Naranbaya > Marry the fairest woman in gold kingdom that is SENT TO the water kingdom.

And then, there's Piripappa. Shown to be our mastermind antagonist yet ended up amicable. He's in support of the war and are implied to influence the sultan for it.... But why..? There was no answer to that.


All in all, it's a pretty good ride.

Overall 6/10

Story 6/10: takes place after A la mode, so berry is included in this 2 chapter story. Brings back the nostalgia, and the story is just your usual daily mews activity of fighting the chimera. It's nice, but at the same time it's focusing on Ichigo and Aoyama too much. I'm guessing this will be a prologue to the new anime or they're planning on a sequel or something. And i know 2 chapters can't cover much, but it still made me dissatisfied since i was expecting it for the mews as a group - focused story.

Art 9/10: the art is nice as usual. ... It definitely have that differences with the old art, but the modern touches actually looks nice since i can't really enjoy old shoujo art anymore.

Character 5/10: as i said before, berry is included here. Since i didn't like her in A la mode, i was expecting that this might change my mind a bit. Turns out, i was wrong. Since It's pretty much ichigo + aoyama focused, the other characters didn't shine much.. (except for Purin and Mint... And a bit of Tasuku?) Let alone able to fix my impression.. The aliens act as usual, which is a plus. But yeah.. the other characters didn't have much impressions here.

Enjoyment 6/10: despite all that, i still kinda enjoys it regardless. Perhaps i just miss this series so much or maybe i tried to not think too much about other things.

Overal 6/10. Kinda lower than the og series, but higher than A la mode. It could've been a 7, but i read it while expecting something else. So... Can't be helped