The first movie was amazing. A beautiful take on how opposing cultures/perspectives/backgrounds can come together and produce something breathtaking. Unfortunately, halfway through the second one, that was thrown out the window.
The one thing I can't stand about the second movie is how they took the concept of death so lightly and just let it be. As if they used death as a convenient way to advance the plot. It's frustrating as hell. The first movie was great, but the second was just so skewed. As a shoujo movie, it's all it's meant to be, and I embrace that element of it, it's great, but
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