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I just watched this film at the Aniplex showing at the downtown independent. There was no reason for this movie to exist other than as a cash grab. The movie added nothing to the series except tacking on that menma was apparently a loner? Way to tack on the typical pseudo character development cliche onto a character that still remains completely shallow. This movie wasted its opportunities of having character development in all sectors. They turn popo into a running gag instead of developing him (granted they did 2 good scenes showing off his character)and Jintan remains just as shallow as menma. They act all ... "buddy like" but we don't even see much bonding. Outside of the shack we see them split off into pairs, never venturing off together outside of 1 shrine; as if to say if there wasn't this dead girl we wouldn't even be friends. To top all of that off they leave anaru where she left off in the series because"friendship", if they were gonna go that route why bother teasing us with a few scenes of her anyway?, really faulty logic there. It really does pain me to write this because i really enjoyed the series but this movie was such a huge let down and was made for the wrong reasons.