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I quite enjoyed the movie. My review might be a little biased because I love Given, and also because I chose to watch the movie with an anime only.

I was a little disappointed by the end of the movie when they didn't announce who won the competition because that is one of the main transitions into the next parts. Some things were cut it felt a bit incomplete in regards to the character and story.

I already knew that they decided to change some things in the anime because in the manga stuff is kinda happening at the same time.

Story - 8
Like before ... they cut some stuff out or just moved it to a later scene. The story is mainly focused on the characters so I'll get to that later. I understand it's a movie so they can't include everything but there are just some things I feel really shouldn't've been cut.

Art - 9
No complaints. Very pretty. My only problem is the transition between 2D and 3D which was actually really good!

Sound - 9
Music and sound effects great as always in my opinion.

Character - 8
Because stuff was cut out or moved (probably not moved because it happened between this) it felt like the characters just weren't fully fleshed out. Something just didn't feel the same and I was left with a sense of disappointment and emptiness. This may be biased because this was my favourite part in the manga and everything but... the side characters were more present through this. I feel like Ugetsu's character just felt a bit incomplete(?). There was a reason I went from completely hating him to really liking him and wishing him the best that I felt wasn't represented well in the movie.

Enjoyment - 9
I watched this with a friend so I enjoyed it lots. Very amusing because they're anime only so that makes the enjoyment score a 9. But again, for the reasons I stated again, the fact that they cut some stuff just made me a little bit sad. I didn't end up crying, which surprised me.

Overall - 7
Overall, I was satisfied with the movie but yea, for the reasons stated above I put it as a 7. For me it didn't have the same charm the anime had, yet that didn't have a 1-2 hour time limit and instead had 5ish hours to introduce us to the characters.

Ah well, this may just be my personal thoughts on someone who was so utterly moved by this part in the manga and cried over it.