Audience reviews
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DR570N3
A Ferrari Without an Engine: The Visual Definition of a Waste of Time
With a background of more than 11,000 episodes watched and hundreds of works completed, I believed I had already developed a “thick skin” for bad anime. I’ve seen works with poor animation, cliché plots, and forgettable stories. However, Nerawareta Gakuen achieved an unprecedented feat: it genuinely made me angry at the sheer waste of potential.
Let’s be fair with the only positive point: visually, the film is a masterpiece. The art direction, lighting, character design, and especially the landscapes are breathtaking. Sunrise Studio (famous for Gundam) delivered what feels like a luxury “Tech Demo,” created solely to showcase how well they can render light reflections and magnificent sunsets. If you watch the film mute…
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“Psychic School Wars” is what happens when you cut out a good 30% out of your script and lose its identity along the way.
I would divide this movie into two parts:
The first part could work as the first act. It actually does most things that the first act should. It establishes the characters of interest (Ryouichi, Kenji, Natsuki and Kahori) , their relationships and interactions, presents the status quo of the world, and introduces the catalyst of change. Is it done competently? Not even close. It’s like watching the first draft before it goes through an editor. Even this early the movie sets up plot points that are never explained despite being rather crucial for the overall plot. The movie has a runtime of about 100 minutes (without the credits) and yet it deems fit to waste the littl…
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If you want a wallpaper, you can use this movie. That's the only good thing about this movie.
Absolute trash, it lacks any structure, any proper plot. All characters are cliche and friendship solves everything at the end. Sometimes, you can't even tell wtf is going on plot wise.
MC has no idea what is going on but the moment his grandpa does some magic, suddnely he is the second coming.
They definitely used up all the budget in animation, because it certainly didn't go into the writing.
Also, one of the female MC keeps being abusive to the main MC because she loves him. And we are supposed to find this cute.
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I hate it when the writer and director thinks he is a genius and that he is the best by making his story Complex and confusing and that no one understands it. I am sad because the wonderful drawings and beautiful characters were wasted because of the bad plot. He thinks that his story is wonderful because he makes a lot of things Complex and confusing. Man, we can't read your thoughts. There are millions of possibilities that can be put in place of the important missing things. Also, what is the point of the story if you want me to figure out what the story is? Do you want me to write instead of you ? Just tell me what the damn story is and don't make me confused while I try to understand what happened. The sad thing is that I loved the characters and the world, so I am angry. However, if…
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Look, the idea was good and the story was not too bad, same with the visuals, but the implementation was below mid. It was straight up bad.
Firstly, the womans wer so DAMN SEXUALIZED. They all have bid chests and skin bodies. Talking about skin bodies, even the boys weren't save from them. After watching movies from a studio that doesn't sexualize its characters, this felt like trash to me.
Secondly, the story was confusing like nothing else. As I said previously, the idea was great and all, but eveything felt too sudden and random to a point that ten things were happening at the same time with too many things at the same time. It was okay to understand, but hard to follow.
Thirdly, don't even get me started on the characters loves. They felt unrealistic and bad. It seemed as if they…
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-CONTAINS NO SPOILERS-
Not good, not too bad.
The story is very confusing and maybe even makes sense (which I don't think it does haha), but for me it's not even worth trying to understand it completely. The positive points of this movie are basically animation and the romance of the protagonist Kenji and the character Natsuki.
The rest of the cast of characters aren't as endearing, especially Harukawa and Kyougoku (basically it's a less weird copy of Nagisa from Evangelion).
Another positive point is the art direction and the music direction that together is harmonious, in short animation has a quality worthy of a movie. In conclusion, I don't recommend it, but the movie is not all bad either.
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Even though the movie was stuffed with whole bunch of clichés. I generally found myself enjoying it. This anime has its issues and I would call it far from a master piece. But it also has its moments. Firstly the characters in this movie felt real and their emotions were genuine. Next were the was the art which I have got to say amazed me every time from small details such as the sand on the beach to the way that the characters looked. Overall I would recommend people to give it a try and I'm probably going to rewatch it sometime .
Read at the sourceThe_Namer
Talk about a misleading title. I went into this expecting a generic shonen action-fest, and instead got a slow-paced romantic drama. The artwork is gorgeous, done in a hyper-colourful Shinkai-esque style, and the animation is expressive. The story raises some interesting themes, but suffers from a lack of focus. The major characters feel oddly disconnected from the conflict unfolding at school (what passes for the psychic 'wars' in the title), and that side of it doesn't really develop or resolve in a satisfying way; it just gets dropped as the film shifts its focus elsewhere. This becomes an ongoing problem. The strongest part of the film is the first hour of build-up. Once it gets into the endgame, half-explained plot points get shotgunned around so much that it's hard to latch onto any…
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Hand down to the art, visual and music, those are well mastered in this movie,
Music is good, original, different from the usual kind you can find in most anime, made me think of the musics of Hyouka even if not as great at all (they sticked to 1 or 2 songs all the way in this movie),
Art is very well done, details and beautiful character design, the only point that "disapointed" me is that they lacked coherences in small details, the main part of the art and even the story is very good but the the small details about them lack coherences... for instance the story take place in Fujisawa / Enoshima, but besides the famous lighthouse from Enoshima all the other places are completely fictionnal, could have been great to use more the real places around the city to get more coherence, consi…
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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: 2 minutes read
Review:
I'm not sure where to start with this...the story is long but short, it's simple but also complex, it's truly something else, just not in a good way. They started very simple, with everyday life of junior high school students and their interactions, paced really well as if it's a slice of life anime, then the mystery started to unfold slowly, and here starts the confusion, the story getting even more complex by minutes but at the same time, the pacing of the story also multiplied by many times, a lot of things happened suddenly, without proper explanation, time…
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Some people will say that they didn't like it because it was cliche or because the story was badly explained. But this is why I loved this movie, without spoilers it's hard to explain but, it was cliche in not a bad way but it brought a very unique twist to it and the story was very interesting, touching and hard to understand.
I'm pretty sure you may feel frustrated because you didn't understand the story. Personally I didn't understand everything, but once I did it all came together and I simply loved it. I love to be mind blown by a story and this is why I liked it a lot.
Those who made this movie are not incompetent in their ability to explain a story, in fact they are super talented in making it somewhat mysterious until the end. Oh, how many movies are predictable, for this one it…
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Watching this movie is like masturbating to gay porn without being turned on but still proceeds to continue. The visuals are great, the sounds are amazing. But the story is like the taste of rice and rice alone. But why would you only eat rice at the first place? Confused? Boom.
Story : 1/10
When you finish your pizza box. You throw it into the bin. The bin is where this movie belongs alongside its story that represents the pizza crumbs that are still in the pizza box.
Art : 9/10
Sound : 9/10
Both the art and the sound resembles the pizza slices that had been luckily reserved. Not thrown into the bin.
Character : 1/10
Enjoyment : 1/10
Overall : 1/10
Time wasted. I'm out.
Read at the sourcekawaii123456
Meh I can't even recommend leaving this on for background entertainment as it's so muddled if you don't pay close attention you will be lost. You'll probably be lost anyway but that's not surprising. As there's 25 characters credited in a 105 minute movie.
The story line is fraught with cheap tricks and annoying shifts in focus. There's the continuous use of interrupting the characters while they are in the process of moving the plot forward. Tolerable in very small doses, but more than once or twice it becomes annoying and lets you know that the author is just trolling you. There's large swathes of exposition lapsing into pretentious mysticism that's meant to convey the background of the world and the rules of how things are working. Unfortunately it just makes it a talky confused muddle…
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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!
That's the question you'll be asking yourself if you so choose to watch this anime. That shit that I just watched was like a fever dream. Let's just start now while it's fresh in my mind.
[Story?]
To begin with, the story gets a 1/10. The pacing in this anime is ridiculous. Let me put it this way: this should have been a 24 episode anime, not a movie. There is just too much shit going on at the same time. By the end of the movie I was just fucking confused. Like, I understood everything that happened, but I wasn't invested in any of it because it all happened so fast. I guess i'll talk about the art now.
[Art!]
The art was by far the best part of this anime. If nothing else, this anime would make for great wallpaper fodder. Stunning visuals up until the mou…
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Warning, very personal criticisms. Please don't get angry.
I've watched very little anime and most of my time watching said anime is rewatching anime that I've already watched because they mean a lot to me. Things I've watched I would say that they were very easy to follow. I'm a very emotional guy but I love to look for romance when finding new things to watch. But with watching much romance, for me, I get a very bad emotional baggage (which I enjoy because I feel like I grow as a person when struggling with it) where I think about the emotional coaster the anime has gotten me into. The anime Nerawareta Gakuen was very hard to follow for me. Throughout watching the anime, I couldn't relate or get emotionally attached to any of the characters. Nothing in the plot made sense. I understand…
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Oh boy...this movie was a sit to get through...
Alright before LA starts thrashing this movie, LA might as well get what it did RIGHT before tearing into this one. There will be mild spoilers ahead you have been warned! So this movie has time travelers and psychics involved and what they do with it as iffy of subject it is for time travel to pull off of...LA will be at least a bit lenient and say that Nerawareta Gakuen did...."ok" but even then it has some problems but that a bit later. The voice acting wasn't that bad all thing considering with Kana Hanazawa doing her typical nice girl scthick down to a T to the straight-forward violent tsundere of Mayu Watanabe as Natsuki AAAAAAAND that's it.
Well let's get down to one of the strength's weaknesses LA pointed out, that of time travelers…
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At first, I found this a slow-paced anime that was heavy on the typical Japanese nostalgia (cherry blossoms, high school, etc), but at around halfway when the actual plot kicks in, it starts to become compelling in spite of itself. If you are looking for an actual psychic war, this will disappoint, but in an odd way its slow pace and reticence about the details makes it a lot more watchable than if it was explicit and explained everything. It's more of a healing anime than anything, something you watch to relax and enjoy the gentle points being made.
Unfortunately the downsides of the anime are many and prevalent. The art is good, but tries to evoke nostalgia too much and resembles a Thomas Kinkade painting will all the emphasis placed on multicolored light. Towards the end, too many thin…
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Rather than saying "Psychic School Wars", let's start off instead with "The Mysterious Life of Kenji Seki". The title of the anime is definitely relevant, however it's only REAL purpose is to start your journey into the many hidden meanings throughout this anime. It doesn't require a high intelligence to understand it, but it does require a little bit of inquisitive problem solving. Story wise of course. The word "feel" is important in this story AND in this review.
The art work and the fluid motion of it is truly amazing. You literally feel that something is in motion every second and it really expresses itself with it. The music, voice acting, and all the subtle little noises and sound effects are top notch. You could close your eyes and still enjoy the show. It's not the best I've expe…
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Well… There’s really pretty fascinating stuffs in this… But it no doubt frustrates you, even if you like the movie, and I can’t really figure it out, why this anime is getting good scores, because it’s really uneven, it’s really good…. And really bad at times…. Tons of 8/10, tons of 7/10, what anime did u guys watched today?? I mean, maybe my experience was ruined because, I did watched till the end…and I realised, something went wrong… I was about to make this an 8…. BUT no, I didn’t!!
When I watched the trailer I was like, omg, the animation, it really tops the level of the anime. And then after that, I went crazy and mad after watching this
I was hoping a good expectation, but did u guys even know what just happened af…
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I want my time back.
Wow this movie is only about beautiful color, but to the point that is annoying, I mean the color palette is beautiful, the scenery, the photography of the movie is very cute, but when every single shoot is the same then is loose the impact very soon. I can tell immediately that the director like Sunrises, ray of sunlight throught the windows and the beach, ahhh and don’t forget the trains, or sakuras, sakuras in every single shoot.
Animation/ Sound ( 9/10)…. Like I wrote before, is the only good thing about the movie, the scenery and the cute animation.
Plot (1/10 ) : Nonexistence, inconsistent, very boring and full of WTF , yeah at the end anything make sense. I have no idea how I manage to end this movie.
Characters (1/10) : They barely show any development,…
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