I discovered this series from a clip on YouTube that's taken from the movie. The style was so unique that it picked my interest.
After watching some of the series, I decided to watch this movie and got disappointed.
The thing is, this movie is rushed and extreme underdeveloped. To fully realize this story you need more time to built these characters, show their backgrounds and develop their relationships. This is something the series does right, even though there's a lot of filler and pointless sidetracking, but that's another review.
Another thing that felt lacking here are the mecha battles. In fact, it's almost absent in this movie
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Nov 27, 2023
At first it seemed like your general high school drama and I couldn't get past the first episode.
Months later I tried again and things started to get interesting with the characters acting normal with the most weird stuff happening with them, alongside some nonsense explanations and got my hopes up they would explain what was really going on. But the problem with this anime it's that it's so... boring. Past episode 8 there's yet again another weird thing with one of the characters and despite getting no actual explanation on what is going on, I started to assume it's some allegory for teenage insecurities, as the ... 
Nov 27, 2023
Inuyashiki
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Overall, it's an interesting premise with an unusual protagonist that turns itself into an unecessary drama. Inuyashiki is a pretty unlikable character that is too kind for his own sake and understandably so. However, there is very little growth to his character, he cries for the most part of this story which becomes really annoying.
The villain is just as deep as a puddle, there isn't much justification for his sadistics impulses. The final showdown is kinda predictable and the reason why both of them turned into super machines is a bit bland as well. Personally I expected a whole lot more from this due to it's ... |
