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Overall 8/10
If you're not a Pokemon fan, then don't jump into the series watching the movies, because generally they're not first-time friendly
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The plot of Diancie movie wasn't so amazing, but as the first XY series movie, it was good, but not more. Compared to Hoopa movie, it was better though.
Plot 6
The plot was ultimately rather cliche/overused as far as Pokemon movies go. But in this movie, it's the characters (that includes pokemon) that make it enjoyable.
Art 9
As part of the movies, it has more budget for effects, so the already good XY art was amplified to be better temporarily
Sound 8
I'm not sure I remember ... much about the BGM. gotta check the movie again.
Character 10
the main characters chemistry and the joy of life that is Diancies SUPER CUTE VOICE (jp original voice) IS A MIRACLE OF LIFE AND OMFG SHE'S SO DAMN CUTE I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED THE DIANCIE DISTRIBUTION EVENT

Yeha. This movie is all about Diancie as the title suggests and she's just SO CUTE that I can't stop typing in caps. I enjoyed this movie mainly because of Diancie's overall overflowing cuteness and voice and surprisingly cute appearance~~

Enjoyment 8
Diancie ftw

AWESOME AGAIN, YUGIOH ANIME! *Mild basic unavoidable spoilers from ep1 below~
We've finally come out of the dark ages of Pokemon BestWishes and Yugioh Zexal (the latter of which they claim is pronounced "Zearu" but that's just BS)
and here we are with great stuff like Pokemon XY&Z and YUGIOH ARC V !!!(pronounced arc-five for some reason,but whatever, it's great!)
But we're talking about Yugioh Arc-V's amazing comeback, so let's go into depth!~~ I'm only putting overall rating details for now-other stuff will come with the later show progression
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Overall 9/10:
I was one of the many fans that was about to drop the Yugioh anime series for ... good (and thus the new cards) thanks to the several-steps-down-from-epic-series that Zexal anime was, but Arc-V came out and I saw Yuya's design and thought "hey look we got a yugioh protagonist who has good looking hair and a gravity-defying jacket again!"
and then I also thought
"Ok, I'll give ya one more chance Konami, but if this sucks too I'm shaving myself bald and going to train as a Himalayan monk and forget about the material world" so then I endured about 20+ initial episodes on and off but Arc-V didn't strike me as anything special, in fact it only felt like a slightly better Zexal (being the same Studio Gallop). But then it started to show promise. Akaba Reiji (the 'Kaiba' rival counterposition of Yuya) showed me that there were unusual things about the world of Arc-V, and other mysterious people who looked like Yuya started to appear and then it was LIke WHAT WE HAVE DIFFERENT REALITIES. Stuff like that. Point is, it started to get good, we cast off several characters that weren't gonna be important early on in the show and made for a new season (you know it's good when the third opening theme is just that awesome)
and by season 3 of Arc-V, it was guranteed Arc-V was on the path to glory in both its merch sales and anime tv ratings!
This is in a way Zexal done right. But it's injustice to compare to Zexal. Arc-V is up there in the high leagues with 5D's in performance and loveable characters (and SOME FAMILIAR CHARACTERS FOR OLDER FANS Yes but you have to watch past season 3 for that great fanservice explosion)

Looking back, and reflecting on Yuya's 'smile' which he uses to hide his weakness of being depressed all the time from his Father's disappearance, it's a pretty big step up in reality for Yugioh! series with characters! Or rather just a step back up to the high level playing field that I thought ended
for good with 5D's series as the peak (not the dub crap, no one watches that)

Very real ptsd if I say so myself; tho admittedly I can only appreciate it now that I've gotten hooked back onto Yugioh series again.
And there goes my wallet and all the money in it as I buy all those cards again....
I'll update review again when the series airing is over (plz don't end)