Audience reviews
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Siluetta
Beautiful chaos. Interesting, dark, but uneven. A great concept that didn't quite live up to its own weight. King of Thorns is an adaptation of Yuji Iwahara's manga, aiming to condense a long, complex story into a single film. The result? A lot of disorder, but also a few truly atmospheric moments.
Animation & Art Style
A huge plus here. 🔥
The scenery is impressive, overgrown ruins, post-apocalyptic nature, dark tunnels and biological horror-style monsters. The combination of 2D and 3D worked surprisingly well.
Sound & Music
The soundtrack is atmospheric and, at times, builds tension really well. Especially in the first half of the film, you can hear the horror and thriller influences. The voice acting is fine, although at times the dramatic scenes sound a little too theatrical.
Enjoy…
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Here you will have to pay close attention or watch it more than once because the plot at a certain point is a bit confusing but very well crafted, each character has a lore that will make sense in the end and he is not there for nothing, he is not just a puppet, you can feel empathy for the main characters, the plot twists are very good and very well placed throughout the story taking you by surprise on certain occasions, the plot makes you believe that the story is going in one direction and ends up going completely in the opposite direction, the animation is very well crafted and it pays attention to the details so pay attention, if you like a more heady anime you will definitely like this one, the protagonist is scared at first and you may even think that something bad will end up happe…
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This review is written in English and Spanish!
ENG
I watched the whole movie thinking that it could be VERY interesting if it gets a visual novel adaptation like Spike Chunsoft's style, that you have to discover the plot and the past of the characters little by little in the castle or experimental facilities.
The plot is interesting and is what saves it all, half a stoner, yes, but interesting despite everything.
The characters are the weakest: A lady in danger, a plot-resolving gym guy, a schizo storyteller, a little boy who catches up with the adults and the rest of the cast that I didn't even learn their names(?
There are no good interactions between them, so thats why I think that my previous idea could reinforce this part a lot.
And for the animation, the bad thing is that they…
Read at the sourceKamuiX1999
Solid anime sci-fi/horror film with very good animation, likeable characters and genuine thrills. The first half is top-notch stuff, with a phenomenal set-up and an even better follow through, but the second half gets a bit bogged down in nonsensical exposition and an attempt to make the film more profound than it needed to be, resulting in some convoluted and muddled plot threads.
To clarify though, things never get too confusing not to be able to follow, but the first two-thirds of the film are so straight-forward and well executed that I didn't feel like it needed to go in the direction it did. This would have been better off as a "dumb" genre flick instead of trying to be intellectual, and considering no one is complaining about anime classics like Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D b…
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Somehow this show ended up on the free movies section on Xfinity several years ago and I probably would not have seen it even now had it not randomly appeared on there back in the day.
I first saw the movie and then bought the manga. Some reviewers who had read the manga first were upset because it completely changes the final act which is an understandable criticism. Had I read the manga first as well, I probably would've had some sourness too. I usually despise when animes do this because I know the only reason they do it is because the anime is not long enough to cover the whole story so they make up their own ending. It drives me nuts.
However, this is one of the rare times where after looking at both versions, I am ok with both endings though I do prefer manga version more. The movi…
Read at the sourceAndre_Alexander
Spoiler free article: A short description that's just a bit longer than normal synopsis to give you rough idea what to expect from this anime. Conclusion for TL;DR at the end of the articles.
Reading time: 3 minutes read
Review:
I'm interested in this anime because I'm curious as for what the japanese thinks the world will react if a global pandemic happened. The premises are good enough, the analogy to sleeping beauty are also quite intriguing, the story started well, with a lot of mysteries waiting to be solved, I sat comfortably enjoying this movie, however it didn't last long, the sudden step up in pacing aren't followed with enough explanations or clues, it's getting worse overtime, then plot holes started to popped out like weeds in early spring times, literally everywhere, for ex…
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Notes to Self:
TL;DR: The plot is very interesting, the only problem is the way they executed it. Characters were too naive and the ending 30min felt rushed, main characters died with no shock factor. Would have been better in a 13 episode series but works well in a film format. Interesting reference "Miracles don't happen without wishes" ties into the plot...
Notes while watching:
Spoilers****
plot seems interesting, the film begins with a lot
of promise an outbreak
leading to a seemingly worldwide apocalypse. Little too many unnecessary flashbacks.
characters are so naive, e.g Kasumi is screaming her head
off to the developer yet he says nothing and dies.
They could have both lived if he told her to shut up
considering the creatures sense based on sound, surely
moving away fro…
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I must admit, at the start of this movie I was very excited. The plot held mystery and intrigue in spades and I very much wanted to see where the story led. It only took about 30 minutes for all of my hopes to slowly dissipate as... everything went wrong, slowly but surely. Amid a story with so much potential, the film kept adding twists and turns and plot in the most befuddling ways possible, turning it into a jumbled mess near the end that was comparable to watching a train wreck in slow motion.
The animation was, to be fair, certainly good enough. Nothing jawdropping, nothing eye-wateringly bad (except for certain CG parts near the end). What was unacceptable to me, though, was the absolutely awful cast of characters. In the English dub, the small child character was grating to the po…
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So perhaps I am the only one, but I found this quite good. I'll touch on a few points as to why;
First, I have not read the manga so I have no point of reference in that regard. So from that standpoint this is a really good standalone movie that is done very well in a lot of ways, and I think it is unfair to compare the two as written material versus any kind of visual adaptation are often very different for a variety of reasons not the least of which is that many things that can come across great in a novel (or manga, as the case may be) do not do so well when translated into a visual format like a movie so many times changes do have to be made.
Second, I actually liked that there was a mix of the traditional anime style and the CGI monsters. Other animes have pulled this off in spectac…
Read at the sourceHecateFR32
I read the manga and did not like it that much because i found it too convoluted and it didn't make any sense. The character development suffered because of this and i was unable to feel the same emotional attachment that i do in the movie. The movie, whilst deviating from the manga, served to slightly make up for it and was much more simplified. The art style for action scenes kind of took away from the overall experience but this may be because i myself am not a huge fan of CG. Overall, i found myself being more immersed and invested in the movie than the manga because i found that it was more of a cohesive plot than the manga and it was much more simplified. I would watch it again once in a blue moon to enjoy the nostalgia i suppose but not avidly as this is only a 7 for me. The ending…
Read at the sourceDesolatePsyche
First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
So, there is a disease that poses threat to mankind, select few gets sent to 100 years "cryo" sleep with hope that when they wake, cure will be found. That's the premise, and that's where it will all go bad.
It's a psychological action/thriller survival horror with a spice of philosophy and adventure Anime. Hard to say much about it without spoiling, so I will only tell few general reactions and thoughts I had.
I found the story my cup of tea. Meaning that it was "edgy" enough for me and feeling of "thought provocation" was great. I found a start a bit boring yet intriguing, then after everyone went for a sleep, I thought "eh, now rest of the movie will be their ad…
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This anime turned out to be surprisingly good.
It is two hour long movie about the world where a strange diseases arrives in human worlds, and slowly turns people into stone. Somebody tries to invent a countermeasure for it, but things do not really go as expected.
I have not read the manga, but from anime perspective alone it is a very solid horror/action movie, that becomes more dream-like and surreal as it goes on. Music is great, and shines in situations where the anime doesn't try to make characters talk. I would say it resembled me Gyo, in its atmosphere.
Detailed breakdown below.
Story: 6/10
The story has weak points when the anime stops action and lets character interact with each other. Character interaction is a bit awkward and is not that believable. IT also spends plenty of…
Read at the sourceKuromizue
When i started to watch Ibara no Ou i didn't really have any expectations expect the fact that i probably going to like it. In the beginning everything was there a killer virus that turns everyone into stone and people who are put to cold sleep to wait a cure and suddenly when they wake up everything has gone haywire. The story started really great at the beginning but at some point in the halfway it didn't really go the way i was expecting and that somewhat turned me off. The story about how everything happened was for me somehow really rushed off. Still i watched it to the end and it was very good entertainment for the whole time of 1,5h even thou it could've done better. It really started good and to the end it just kinda dropped little.
Read at the sourcekarlyn__kei
Story: 9
Honestly, I really loved this movie. It had me immersed from the first minute to the last, and while I can understand why some people dislike it over its "lack of logic," I don't agree. For the first half, or even first 3/4 of the film, it seems rather realistic, almost as if it could be an alternate reality to our own. Undeniably, it takes an unanticipated twist at that point--and one that I felt personally bumped my overall enjoyment of the film from an 8 to a 10--there was no doubt in my mind that the change of pace was, for my taste, a positive. With that said, I'm going to keep this review spoiler free, so that's about as far as my review of the story itself goes--I decided on a 9 for this section, just because the very beginning starts off a bit too slow for me, despite it b…
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So my opinions is based on the anime only: Overall, I felt robbed of 2 hours. If you do not mind having some sort of twisted development that leads kinda away from what seems like an obvious plot, then you can watch it. I HATE HOLES in logic, even if its ANIME FANTASY LOGIC, I enjoy tightly constructed story lines.
The art was decent, good enough action scenes, but the main character, honestly I sometimes question why almost half the anime world is made of main characters like this one. (weak, self righteous, adds nothing immediately to crew but somehow manages to survive past more capable characters) I also was more interested in HOW humanity would have cured the disease or WHO plotted it to be a bio terrorism weapon, not like oh let me show one character who seems to be in charge of thi…
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King of thorn is a sci-fi fantasy type thriller in which this killer parasite tries to destroy the earth. It involves a few characters, and a plot that at times, really makes no sense. Especially when it gets towards the last 20 minutes, you're like " what the hell? explain that again please?" I have never read the manga, and i really don't plan on it. I try to stay away from a lot of anime movies unless they belong to a show. But this movie i found pretty good, i mean i liked it, it had very good music which seemed to fit the story well as the music was kind of suspenseful. The art was good, nothing to rave about but like a movie there is only so much you can do. It has a time length so don't expect to fall in love with any of the characters. But i think overall the movie deserves to be w…
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Have some mixed thoughts on this one. King of Thorn depicts a survival/ horror like story where several people put under cryogenic sleep due to being infected by a virus awaken to discover the institution they are at is covered in spiked thorns and swarming with violent monsters. On the plotting end, the series is effective for the most part in slowly building up its mystery surrounding what exactly is going on when Kasumi and the others awaken at the institution. Hints are scattered throughout the movie concerning what happened with some characters having hidden motives for their actions, some good and others are not so much. Some characters are fleshed out in exploring their pasts with their past traumas having a role to play in later events of the series, especially in the case of Kasum…
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This is an absolute abomination of the author's original work. Wow . . . I mean, just, wow. Don't get me wrong, my rating has nothing to do with the animation, or even the plot, since it is a good plot, but it's just NOT "King of Thorn." They should have either done A) justice to the original manga or B) made a totally different movie with different characters. Don't ravage such a fantastic story as "King of Thorn," just don't DO it!
It felt like, mmmm, like I started in the author's world, and then halfway through mad scriptwriters took over and threw in every stupid plot twist they could possibly imagine, all while stealing ideas from Studio Ghibli. The manga series has a discernible thread that actually makes sense. Fear plays a huge role in the way Medusa works, and Alice is a crucial…
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I was really excited when I heard there was going to be a King of Thorn movie. I'm a fan of the manga. As a fan, I am disappointed with the movie. I enjoyed it, it hit all the major plot points, but it left out a lot and the overall feel and excitement wasn't the same.
The movie starts off with a long drawn out sequence of explaining the Medusa Virus and taking the patients to the island. This didn't bother me all that much, as exposition is necessary, but I preferred how it was done it the comics - naturally brought up throughout the series. It moves into quick, sudden action that pulls you through the few slower, dialogue based scenes.
The story - 9
Naturally, as a fan of the Manga - I like the story. The anime did leave out a few things, Details on Alice, left out a character, and so…
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I’ve always been fascinated with survival type of stories and the same reason why I’ve been in love with “Resident Evil franchise”. Not only it always comes with the too much thrill of staying alive while fighting monsters or staying sane amidst the confusion but it always has that mysterious and twisted plot that will reveal at the end of the story.
The story was about a set of people who were bewildered by what they saw around them after waking up in a supposed long sleep. They didn’t had enough time to think because they had to stay alive from the mysterious monsters that lurked around the facility they were kept. Not only they had to survive but they also had to figure out what happened to the world while they were asleep and just how long they’ve been sleeping.
This movie exceeded…
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