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Story: 3
Art: 1
Sound: 4
Characters: 2
Enjoyment: 10

The Story is not good. It's not trying to be good, though, it's trying to be a parody, in which it is one of the best parodies of BL, harem, and general school life love stories I've ever seen. The art is horrific and I could do better with paint flip art in a couple of hours(no I couldn't but it looks good if I say I could), and that fact makes the show simply outstanding. I recognise all the tropes as a general fujoshi and a (shamefully so) lover of school life yaoi, and it makes a damn good ... job making the whole concept of those kinds of love stories absolutely ridiculous. Top notch meme satire, I'd gladly learn to read Japanese just to get a better taste of it through the dating sim it's based on.

And tbh, the voice acting isn't that bad, it's even got some top notch VA's, but the syncing is, like, gone because of the general lack of mouth movements as a result of the horrendous art.

10/10 would totally watch again.

(this is a reposted review since I hadn't finished watching when I first posted it)

This is a story that tries to be a lot of things, but ends up being just a few.

Story: 7
Explaining a synopsis of the story would spoil the whole film, because it's, unfortunately, incredibly easy to guess what will happen, mainly because this isn't an entirely new concept. One would think that a story that is so simple to understand is simple in itself, but it does try to be complicated. It uses the whole concept of telling a story based on vital information that is not known to the viewer, which can be interesting. In this case, though, it just makes the first 15 ... minutes of the movie generally boring.
Despite this I don't dislike the story, I have a bit of a biased love for these kinds of meta-things and so it is still quite enjoyable. Sure, it's got a deus ex machina that is just so out of place, and it feels like the only reason it exists is to make the characters say the movie title, but it's possible to ignore it and still enjoy the film.

Art: 9
I don't have much to say here. It looks very modern, but it's got a twist that makes it memorable. It's no Jojo or Samurai Champloo when it comes to recognisable originality but it's not bad because of that.

Sound: 6
(I watched this in japanese, there's no point watching it in english and the swedish dub is voiced by some weeb pop star who sings kinda awfully so I don't want to watch it at all)
Here is where a lot of people will probably disagree with me...
The shoujo-like opening/montage is out of place and made me pull up my phone to surf twitter due to being boring, and the background music is literally just background music, no originality or recognisability to it whatsoever. I didn't remember any of the music when the movie was over.
The voice actors aren't bad, but it's very obvious that, especially the main characters, aren't voiced by people with a lot of experience. This is nitpicking and if this was a western animation I wouldn't complain. I also understand there's not as much money invested in movies as there are in anime-series, but this just annoys me slightly throughout the movie.

Character: 5
I don't care about the characters in this story at all. No effort is made for me to want to care about their lives because there's so much effort made in trying to confuse me with the story, there's just no place for giving the characters personality and development. Unfortunately, the story is built so that towards the end of the movie I'm supposed to care about the main characters, and that just makes the lack of character development all too clear.

Enjoyment: 8
I find it on par with other things I've rated 8, and I do rate based on how much I enjoyed watching the animation. I liked it, I didn't have an urge to shut the movie down despite the low res, and you know, it still has its moments. It's overrated but it isn't bad. The art is definitely part of why I liked it, but the story is still engaging despite its predictability.

Overall: 8
Yeah, it's not bad. For a movie, where there's so little time to develop both story and characters it didn't do bad, although it could've definitely prioritised differently. I rate sound an 8, but the music is still fitting to the story and pulls you in, it's your very normal background music and it fits very well.

I went into this anime expecting something shounen-ish, with fighting scenes, character development, a pointless harem and an obvious goal.

10 episodes in the only thing I got was a pointless harem.

That's when I started to get bored. Because it was using the "Groundhog Day" base of storyline it had a lot to live up to in order to not be another All You Need Is Kill or something similar, and at first I thought it had it. "Hey, this could be pretty good!" I thought, and then I started setting some expectations to the anime.

But am I the only one who actually wants to ... know why Honda or Volvo or whatever actually is in that vidya-respawn-ringa-fantasy world to begin with? Even if it is long run, I would like to know the reason for why I'm still watching the anime.

Spoilers ahead down here

Fuck his harem, fuck that white flying whale that had no reason to appear other than as a plot device to give Suzuki or Volkswagen or whatever another hurdle that actually didn't do anything other than make the season 5 eps longer, fuck the shitty shoujo love story ending and fuck that it needs a season two but never gave me a good cliffhanger.

overall, SAO is actually better. Fight me.