{"id":8606,"date":"2020-10-11T03:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T10:35:30","slug":"sundry-anime-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/sundry-anime-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundry Anime Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/30778\/Fairy_Tail_Movie_2__Dragon_Cry\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gekijouban: FAIRY TAIL &#8211; DRAGON CRY<\/a><br \/>\nThe improved animation (compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairy_Tail_(season_9)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the parent series<\/a>) is offset by the worse character artwork and massive pacing hit watching it where it supposedly takes place (post-episode 285) causes. Content-wise it&#8217;s effectively a generic battle shounen filler movie.<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/36885\/Saenai_Heroine_no_Sodatekata_Fine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine<\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saekano:_How_to_Raise_a_Boring_Girlfriend\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">franchise<\/a>&#8216;s conclusion begins by almost entirely sidelining the harem aspects to focus on Megumi and how her comments regarding the game mirror her real-life relationship with Aki&#8230; only to have the entire thing derailed by a completely unrelated dramatic development about a third of the way through which inexplicably <em>reintroduces<\/em> the harem elements. They had a natural ending right there only to go and water down and delay it via contrived drama. Why?<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/39576\/Goblin_Slayer__Goblins_Crown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Goblin Slayer -Goblin&#8217;s crowN-<\/a><br \/>\nIt starts out with a 25-minute recap of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/goblin-slayer\/\" title=\"Goblin Slayer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the first season<\/a> (focusing on the violence and rape; which is an odd choice considering the initial reaction to that season was mostly split between &#8216;the first episode is nothing like the rest of the series&#8217; and &#8216;the series is nothing but rape&#8217;). Such baffling production decisions. As for the new content, the quality level ends up slightly worse the prequel&#8230; assuming you go in expecting a double-length TV episode rather than a movie. If you go in actually expecting a movie it will probably end up mostly disappointing.<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/39584\/Human_Lost__Ningen_Shikkaku\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">HUMAN LOST<\/a><br \/>\nWhile inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Longer_Human\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">No Longer Human<\/a> and including some of its major plot points, this movie changes far too much to be considered an adaptation (so best to just forget about that if you haven&#8217;t already). It&#8217;s an action-drama now and a gorgeous work of desolation and futility&#8230; though I feel the giant monster and final fight in the &#8216;void&#8217; were overkill.<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/41468\/Burn_the_Witch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BURN \u2720HE WITCH<\/a><br \/>\nTaking place in the same universe as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bleach_(manga)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bleach<\/a>, being set in a completely different location (one with more of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Potter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a> vibe to it), this movie focuses entirely on the franchise&#8217;s magic system rather than item-based or physical combat. It starts off well enough with crisp artwork, fluid combat animation, and mostly decent characters. The problem is with one particular character: Balgo. He&#8217;s awful and has no reason to exist beyond being awful and causing some of the most contrived plot developments I&#8217;ve recently had the misfortune of being exposed to.<\/ul>\n<ul><a href=\"https:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/39569\/Sora_no_Aosa_wo_Shiru_Hito_yo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo<\/a><br \/>\nWhile the movie works decently enough as a music-themed relationship drama for about 3\/4ths of its runtime (leavened by ample comic relief), the vaguely <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anohana:_The_Flower_We_Saw_That_Day\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Anohana<\/a>-like supernatural elements don&#8217;t really add anything. It doesn&#8217;t have much of an ending either, with events being resolved in the most arbitrary manner possible and an epilogue taking the form of still images embedded in the credit roll.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gekijouban: FAIRY TAIL &#8211; DRAGON CRY The improved animation (compared to the parent series) is offset by the worse character artwork and massive pacing hit watching it where it supposedly takes place (post-episode 285) causes. Content-wise it&#8217;s effectively a generic battle shounen filler movie. Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine The franchise&#8216;s conclusion begins by almost entirely sidelining the harem aspects to focus on Megumi and how her comments regarding the game mirror her real-life relationship with Aki&#8230; only to have the entire thing derailed by a completely unrelated dramatic development about a third of the way through which inexplicably reintroduces the harem elements. They had a natural ending right there only to go and water down and delay it via contrived drama. Why? Goblin Slayer -Goblin&#8217;s crowN- It starts out with a 25-minute recap of the first season (focusing on the violence and rape; which is an odd choice considering the initial reaction to that season was mostly split between &#8216;the first episode is nothing like the rest of the series&#8217; and &#8216;the series is nothing but rape&#8217;). Such baffling production decisions. As for the new content, the quality level ends up slightly worse the prequel&#8230; assuming you go in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,455,489,467,16],"tags":[172,203,205,180,174,173,193,176,487,28,187,488,228,175,181,192,189,64,227,62,30],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-spring","category-2019-autumn","category-2020-autumn","category-2020-winter","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-anime-original","tag-battle-shounen","tag-comedy","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-comic-relief","tag-crunchyroll","tag-drama","tag-fairy-tail","tag-fantasy","tag-funimation","tag-goblin-slayer","tag-harem","tag-incomplete-source","tag-ln-adaptation","tag-movie","tag-music","tag-romance","tag-saekano","tag-science-fiction","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}