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I usually don't write reviews for movies but after seeing this movie a wave of emotions came after me and I realized that if i don't spend 50-60 hours writing and editing a multi-paragraph review on this movie my life will never be the same. This is the greatest movie of all time, a cultural revolution, a bringer of renaissance in the shounen genre, and an intellectual masterpiece of the modern era. As a Gintama fan, let me explain why.

PLOT:

Deep plot. Gintoki and his friends team to defeat the big bad villain and save the world on an epic, grand scale. After a ... few seconds of swords clashing and clanging, the plot ends, roll credits. If you haven’t seen Naruto Shippuden before, this was a very creative and original direction the movie took. Many plot twists, plot reveals, and plot devices that will shock you to your core. Move aside Gintama S4, this movie is the new king.

CHARACTERS:

Emotional, interesting, and funny. The excellent writing of these characters in previous seasons was put to such good use in this innovative, groundbreaking save the world plot. Touching flashback used in the beginning in case you forgot who the characters were, very thoughtful of Bandai Namco. Unfortunately, after the flashback ended, I had difficulties remembering the characters, so they should’ve sprinkled more flashbacks throughout the movie to help the fans out with memory issues. Very surprising twists done with the characters as well that you would not see coming a mile away in your standard shounen with excellent foreshadowing to back it up.

ART & ANIMATION:

Easily surpasses ep 19 of demon slayer. Massive improvement from S2-S4. No discrepancies in character design or animation present at all during the entire movie. Personally, I wish a little CGI was used because the smooth animation was eerily human. The direction in the final fight and the final fight in general made more sense than a Pre-K class. If this final fight was a person, it could easily explain college-level math to a toddler. The choreography and direction of fights in general was better than ever before. The new artstyle fits perfectly and is leagues better than the old one.

SOUND:

Wadachi by SPYAIR and Douraku Shinjou by DOES made me fully erect, 10/10 there. Sadly, the final fight had a little too many sound effects and music tracks playing. My ear canals have never felt so overstimulated in my life than when I was listening to that final fight. If you want to go through an enactment of a freight train crashing into your living room, I would strongly recommend watching the final fight because that’s what it sounded like. Hopefully the Blu Ray release cuts down on the amount of sound used.

COMEDY:

This movie is comedic on many levels. One of the most ingenious jokes in the movie was the mangaka self-inserting himself as a gorilla and saying he is too lazy to write the backstory of an important main character amongst other things he didn't feel including in the conclusion, and it was beautiful. This man Sorachi made millions off of openly admitting he won’t cover plot holes because he didn’t feel like it, and he got his movie to the #1 spot on MAL, which is probably the funniest part about this movie by far. You will never experience comedy like this ever again. Whatever you think is impossible, this movie makes it possible, like a true shounen.

ENJOYMENT:

Sorachi made me a masochist.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Shounen anime with friendship, never giving up, and saving the world. Sadly, there aren't too many of those out there.

To sum up, this was definitely worth the 7+ month wait and completely delivered the hype as a Gintama fan. 7/10 only because Gintoki did not kiss Takasugi once in the movie. The chemistry was there, Sorachi, you should’ve gone for it. One thing I definitely agree with the other 10/10 reviews is that this movie will put you to tears, and I gotta say, many of the plot decisions done by Sorachi in this movie did that to me.

TLDR: Sorachi straight up trolled his audience in this movie and got away with it. This the greatest ending of all time.

If you made it this far then hopefully you can tell there is sarcasm present because this movie was a little disappointing imo. This movie is everything Gintama would’ve parodied back in its’ S1-S4 days aside from the comedy and insert songs. If you like the movie, that is great, I’m just putting my perspective in as a Gintama fan disappointed with the direction Sorachi took. Thanks for reading.

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