Audience reviews
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SobbleBoy27
The story, characters, music, and animation were all phenomenal. Everything was supported by this wonderful world that had so many interesting avenues of exploring humanity and the living experience.
There are several moments of gorgeous animation that made me feel like the movie was made yesterday. It's a 2014 movie, which is quite early in Japanese CGI animation's history, but the animation is so unbelievably perfect that you can't notice its age. It's incredible how good this movie looks.
There's a solid portion of the movie devoted to explaining the world, but I found it all to be very interesting. The social commentary on late-stage capitalism was poetic.
I loved every character that showed up. Every character had a unique story and some cool moments during various battle scenes…
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Have you ever listened to the song Digital World, by Amaranthe? How about the Nightcore version? That song literally encapsulates this anime movie.
This is a CGI anime movie about an immortal digital being becoming real, and the pains of having a physical body.
Story:
A digital girl gets a living body to find out whose screwing with digital heaven but is then immediately turned from always online to offline mode getting trapped on earth to solve a hacker issue and she meet a cool bro along the way. The story is serviceable nothing special. But the fact that this story is far more relevant now a decade later is quite funny.
Characters:
There's basically just two characters and you not only watch them grow together but also development of the female lead is amazing. She goes from basicall…
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I think one of the biggest hurdles for people getting into this is that it's a 3D animated movie compared to a traditional 2D anime but that has never really bothered me so I finally decided to give it a try.
The story isn't overly unique, think The Matrix mixed with Elysium. Humanity stretched Earth to its very limit with overpopulation and global warming, so much so numerous different plans were made for the continuation of mankind. One of these was a giant orbital space station where humans would be scanned onto a huge computer system and live in a virtual world. This however created a cast system between these digital humans who see themselves as the next step in evolution, where they can experience anything they want in the virtual world whilst the humans on the surface are strugglin…
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Hey.
---Short review without spoilers---
If you hate 3D animation in animes then don't watch. If you like something new and interesting then do watch.
3D boobs>2D boobs. :D
If you like mechas then watch it. Actually don't know. This was my 1st mecha anime. (Not fan of big robots).
Not an anime to watch half sleeping like most decent/good animes. It's not One Piece where you can half watch half not. (^_^) It seems like this anime is love OR hate relationship for some reason. People with not so open minded, rated it low and people who can see more, rated higher. Get roasted who rated it low. :D
I read reviews and it feels like some of them don't see bigger picture. (Mentioning more in spoiler section).
The story might be little bit "not smooth" but it's because it's a movie and not a se…
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Nice anime. Not that it shines with art, music or a twisted plot. All these are of high quality, but not at all at an outstanding level. What makes "Rakuen Tsuihou" special is the presence of common sense in both the characters' behavior and the development of the plot. It may not be possible to agree with all the ideas, but intellectually, this anime will not keep you gritting your teeth waiting for the end of the story. What also pleases are adequate, adult heroes who have reasonable motivations and behavior appropriate to situations. The "incarnated" heroine experiences all the unexpected effects of having a body, including fatigue, illness, and the inability to cope with the three goons in the real world. Of course, it was not without exaggeration of her naivety, honesty, kawaii and th…
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I don't understand all the media hate on this film. I think people watch a review online and base that as their assumption.
The story, art, characters, are all likable and surprisingly well produced for being 3d generated.
I personally believe that 3d modeling is an absolute haven of new frontiers for anime when executed right.
This film does well in also showcasing it's talented story design. It begins slow and then begins to show depths into not just the main situation, but the characters themselves.
I will always remember this film for its poetic theme about freedom and social slavery.
The fight scenes were entertaining, the characters became favorites, and the story was such a twist. I gave this studio film a 10 review. Here is my address. Click on my profile. Fight meh.
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*Disclaimer*
Just personal scratch.
Advised, possible spoilers.
Opinion & Informal
Art: 7/10 I gave this a 7 for "good" as good for CGI. This film was primarily CGI. I didn't really notice if there were any traditionally drawn sections. So, CGI character models and backgrounds/environment. There weren't that many, or any, expansive shots showing off the nature/environment. There was a brief moment where the night sky was shown which looked pretty good as well as that moment when Angela saw the "potential beauty" of earth while high up in the atmosphere. Those two moments were pretty much the only impact-shots in the film. In fact, those were sorta nice to look at. Only sorta. The overall art and detail was about above-average for a CGI film. The rendering didn't produce any clipping or th…
Read at the sourceMagicalDragonair
Story:
Expelled from Paradise is an example of an interesting premise on paper, but poorly executed. I honestly couldn't recall the story from memory. Most of the story is sidelined while we focus on the two protagonists.
Characters:
The film stars the protagonist whose most notable feature is her name, Balzac. At the beginning of the movie, the movie makes it *very* clear this character is underaged while showing her bare breasts (she's listed as 20 on the site, it's complicated). Kajiwara makes it clear her character design is made for a "lolita look". Balzac's personality consists of whining, complaining, and more whining while in her skimpy outfit. Boob giggles don't count as personality.
The character Kajiwara has a dry personality as well but at least shows some human characteris…
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It seems that the majority of reviews, it seems that a lot of people still has yet to fully accept the use of 3DCG in anime, but that was from a review of 4 years ago. Maybe everyone is more tolerant by then.
Now then, from a reviewer who watched this movie in 2017, heres the updated review from an open minded person who isn't picky about shows or philosophical themes.
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Story:
No one likes to read long text, so i'll get straight to the point. It's WALL-E with deeper themes. Anyone remember WALL-E? Yeah. Basically, Earth got fucked and humanity retreated to a space-base called (pronounced: Diva).
One day, DEVA gets attacked by a transmission from Earth. Of course, everyone is living the chill life! Why would they return to the living hell that is Earth? With this in mind, everyone…
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In the story, when the main character is in trouble, we watch the movie with sweat in his hand, whether have a catching hand or does not have a catching hand. We can't take eyes off from the movie. In this sense, «Expelled from Paradise» didn't make my hands hot and sweat. But not all movies can be perfect. When you have a sweat in your hand while watching movie, you may be disappointed after ending. However, even a movie that you saw without any expectation might keep thinking about it later. For me, «Expelled from Paradise» was a latter one.
Indeed, the story is simple and easy to understand. That is all. Directing is passable, and apart from the sensational costumes of female characters(hentai or whatever), discriminative scenes are hard to find. I think it's a very ordinary SF movie.…
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[This review will NOT contain spoilers]
Expelled from Paradise is a movie that at first I was not sure what to expect from but I ended up liking it and having some good memories from it. Made by Gen Urobuchi, this story focus on another paradigm of society. The movie explores the meaning of humanity and personal reality. What is right, and what is wrong. What true freedom really is.
[ Story | 7-8 ]
The story by itself is intriguing. Humanity has left the Earth because some sort of apocalypse happened and most of the Earth was turned into a desert, making each day a survival test. Humanity had created an “Arc” in which they now live as digital entities. Their genetic code is converted into data after birth and they live in a Matrix-like society. Is this the paradise they are led to believ…
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This is a fairly average show from Toei with some great animation. Weird, right?
Apparently Gen Urobuchi wrote the script to this show, but it doesn't have any of his usual hallmarks of bodybagging the entire cast.
This show has dialogue.
The plot follows the main character of Angela Balzac, a security officer in the employ of whatever place she works for. Angela has gigantic breasts. They are probably the most well animated breasts I have seen as well. In a world concerned with jiggle physics, especially in video games, Angela's breasts are not given far too much bounce. In fact they're just about right. Why am I mentioning this? It's because I definitely was not watching this show for the plot. Actually the joke is that you watch it for the plot, but I don't care.
As part of her secu…
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I'm writing this review because I went in with low expectations. I was bored and browsing Netflix and saw this on there and just watched it cause I had nothing better to do. I was surprised when I finished it and found that I had actually enjoyed it. Who would have thought.
If you've seen any of the other reviews for this show you'll see that there are some people who hate this show, and others who really enjoyed it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so I won't bash on theirs. I'll just give you my own.
There are a lot of things that this show does right and a lot it does wrong. I'm not gonna bore you with a list of everything so I'm just gonna name off some highlights.
The characters we're very in depth for a movie and got flushed out very well. Everyone had motives and you c…
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Expelled From Paradise is known for being the first serious attemp of a (almost) full CGI anime movie. And even if it could be far better, it delivers.
Let's start talking about the story. Do you know about that times when you made a very good job on school or at work, but your teacher/boss tells you that what you did it is not enough? That it needs further development? That explains perfectly, IMO what happens with the story of this anime. It has lot of wonderful themes, like its peculiar approach to "what makes us human?", but when it has to develop the interesting idea it setted, the movie skips to another theme and let that unfinished. For example, near to the end of the film, some people who were sended by DEVA die, and I started to question myself, can that be considered murder if k…
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*MILD SPOILERS AHEAD*
For a little while, I`ve had this craving for more mech shows. Mecha is probably my favorite type of Sci-fi, and if done well, can lead to a stellar experience such as with Code Geass or the Macross Franchise. A mech anime isn`t so easy to truly and utterly screw up since even with clunky CGI, both this, and the two seasons of Aldnoah.Zero offer some cool mech fights that can really exite many viewers, which makes those anime so hard to truly F up in the enjoyment factor, even if certain stories like the one for both seasons of Aldnoah.Zero divulge into an utter mess. Funnily enough, the man behind parts of Aldnoah.Zero was also a part of this movie; Expelled From Paradise. Well, enough rambling. Is this movie worthy of paradise, does it deserve to be thrown into the…
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In an idealized version of The Matrix world- humanity lives in a state of blissful ignorance of the physical. Technology has advanced to such a point where the collective consciousness of humanity has been placed onto a space station orbiting the ruined Earth, after a destructive event renders most of it uninhabitable and desolate. Adults and children alike's DNA was examined and coded into a virtual world known as Deva- where they are immortal, suffer from no maladies, no war, no hunger- a true paradise with only their imagination restraining the infinite capabilities for the cyberized denizens.
This paradise is not alone, however. Humans still exist on the Earth- those left behind who did not have the ability or means to have their consciousness transported offworld. Being completely r…
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[Spoiler Warning]
Gen Urobuchi is a writer I like, but even with that thrown out there he’s very repetitive in his writing. At times, he creates fascinating worlds, and characters, but then make them speak by info dumping, and reiterating the same topics as if viewers missed them the first time. They speak like plot devices instead of like people. So Gen Urobuchi opted to create a world that was formerly filled with humans, and now are just data. Here is story written in that kind of world. A world without consistency, nor intelligent life forms. Just a strings of badly written events.
The opening sequence of the film is confusing. We’re shown a beach, our main character in a swimsuit relaxing, someone hacks the beach, our protagonist throws her drink, and stops this hacking by being nak…
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I just finished this today and it was amazing. Well, it was really confusing in the beginning but i didn't expect what will come. Good story , indeed.
*Story
Especially the story. i didn't expect to be this good. I guess it was a simple story from every apocalypse story. For unknown reason , the population of humanity has been removed into a paradise that's in the space and well, that paradise isn't truly a paradise but it was just a virtual world. Their body isn't real so they can live forever, i mean, not a flesh human body. just a virtual body. And someday , there was a hacker that hacked that place. in the beginning i don't even know what was the hacker trying to do. it was just saying somthing like announcing something. And of course there was someone who fight that hacker, but that…
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This movie should be a drinking game, every time they say Angela Balzac take a shot. I mean this film has a very serious tone but not even Dingo the witty side kick had anything good to say, in fact the whole script was monotonous and cliche. Along with boring, never ending periods of dialogue the sole reason why this movie was so tedious was because of the bitchy main protagonist Angela who again and again manages to piss everyone off except Dingo.
Those seemingly minor problems set aside, I think this movie was fantastic as far as most other things are considered especially the fighting scenes and sound track along with them. I can say I enjoyed watching Expelled From Paradise but to put my feelings for it shortly would be wasted potential. Swap out Angela with someone we would care ab…
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Expelled from Paradise is rather straight-forward in its premise as it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where much of humanity has integrated itself into a virtual world and an agent named Angela is tasked with seeking out the whereabouts of a mysterious hacker who is hijacking the virtual world she is part of. Manifesting within reality in a living form, Angela is assisted by a normal human named Dingo to track the hacker's whereabouts, where her perceptions on living as a human become challenged throughout her mission as she interacts with Dingo and learns of the true motives of the hacker she is seeking out.
To a great extent, the movie dabbles into a number of common sci-fi and action anime tropes in exploring Angela's adventure. Elements such as a post-apocalyptic future, a se…
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