Audience reviews
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Lecus01
As a fan of the original Atlus RPG, I found Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Birth to be a solid, visually decent adaptation of the game's initial months. While it successfully captures the melancholic atmosphere of Tatsumi Port Island, it makes some very distinct narrative choices—some that work, and some that don't—all while struggling to compress a massive RPG into a 1-hour-and-38-minute runtime.
The film covers the beginning of the Dark Hour investigation up to Fuuka's rescue. For veteran fans, the script and plot alterations are highly noticeable. While some changes genuinely improve the narrative flow, others take away from the original charm. The biggest letdown is the absolute absence of Social Links; we don't even get a brief montage of Makoto interacting with secondary character…
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For someone who has played the game and then watches this anime, it becomes clear that they are cutting out a lot of the parts where you typically spend time with friends, other people, and doing various activities in the game. This is because the movie primarily focuses on what truly matters to the plot and storyline. What I'm trying to say is that, as an anime for fans, they are doing good fan service but for someone who has zero knowledge of Persona 3 and is coming to watch this movie, it might seem average or even bad. The story moves very fast, and there's not much character development for those who have never seen or played Persona 3 before, making it hard to understand what the characters are doing beyond the Dark Hour and their tasks inside Tartarus. The only significant character…
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Being the first quarter of the story, things were bound to move pretty slowly, but you can definitely tell they tried to rush through a lot of stuff. We speed through a lot of the monthly events with little regard for anything else. Makoto's character is interesting in this, a lot more emo than I thought they would do, but if done right I can see it developing well over the 4 movies. Despite its rushed pacing and lack of standout moments, "Spring of Birth" sets the stage for potential character development, particularly with Makoto's intriguing portrayal. While it may not be anything extraordinary on its own, it leaves room for optimism about the series' future installments. Really wasn't anything special, but I'm here to see if it gets better.
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This is an old title but I've just recently watched and I wanted to write something. This movie is based on the cult game Persona 3, and as such follows the event of the game.
This first movie follows the first "arc" of the game, until a certain rescue happens. First thing you notice when the movie begins is the art, it's definitely movie quality and still holds up greatly in 2021, it's clear that a lot of money was put into it. Action scenes are really good looking but most of the time you'll only see people walking or talking, which is expected but dissappointing notheless.
The story is pretty average, you have typical teenagers with super powers that go to school by day and fight to protect the world at night, more emphasis could be put in how they balance their daily life with the task…
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Spring of Birth is the first in the series of anime films that adapt the story of Persona 3. I was worried when I initally watched it, about how they were going to take an overarching video game story, and split it up into four 90 minute movies. The end result isn't perfect; this first movie definitely has pacing issues. Specifically, it feels akin to a drawn out "set-up" prologue that just explains the world and what the hell things like the dark hour and shadows are. Which is basically what it is--this first movie adapts the first portion of the game's story, up to the point when Fuuka joins the SEES. In an attempt to turn what would've been "exposition - the movie" into an a movie that can stand by itself, they put focus onto both the development of Makoto (the protaganist), an an unusu…
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For someone who's already played the source material and knows all the story beats, this movie is an absolute joy to watch. Its gorgeous art direction and animation is a breath of fresh air from the animated adaptations of the game's sequels, and it's genuinely fun to watch these PS2-era cutscenes transformed into such beautiful and compelling animated scenes.
The pacing sucks though. It really is one event jumbled after another. Put in more exact terms, it feels more like two separate narrative arcs mushed together into a full-length runtime than anything particularly cohesive--(It's the sort of thing that makes you go, "Wait, that wasn't the climax? This flick's still going?")--not to mention how the film's time constraints butchered the setting exposition beyond recognition. It seems t…
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This presents the world the story will be set in... and that's it. No character development, not even presentation. No plot. No nothing. It's just some scenes put one after the other. Not even good scenes either.
The world the story (which doesn't exist in this movie) will be set in, is one with a 'pocket' of time (reminiscent of tales from the fairy, I would guess), and with some gifted youths that are able to use the 'persona', which it's a reminiscent of avatars (like in some ancient indian or egyptian mythologies). That was the only interesting aspect of this waste of time.
P.S.: Be careful with the translation too: it can turn this bland piece of waste into one even duller.
Read at the sourceRobot420
Probably the most disappointing anime i've ever seen. There are a lot of great shots here, the art is nice and there are some really well put together scenes. Makoto's awakening and the first run through of Tartarus being good examples. I also love the characterisation of the Makoto. He's still a pretty silent mc but they found a way to make it work unlike P5A, turning him this anti-social edge-lord that fits P3's darker tone.
However the pacing is off which kills a lot of enjoyment for me. Too much stuff happens too quickly and we don't get to spend nearly enough time getting to know the characters.
The calendar is a terrible example of adapting gameplay elements. It messes with the flow of the film leading to a bunch of disjointed events rather than flowing scenes. A shame considering h…
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Hey a game that LA "kinda" played!
Little bit of detail about LA and Persona 3, so LA kinda played the game more specifically Persona 3 FES (worse vers. LA knows) for a while and by a while, LA meaning up to where Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Birth ended at, the biggest problem is, LA doesn't know where LA is afterwards and so LA thought to jog LA's memories of Persona 3 with the series of movies of Persona 3 and for Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Birth, it was kinda a nostalgia trip to say the least and ALREADY wanting for LA to go back to the game.
Persona 3 the Movie looks at one Makoto Yuki voiced by Akira Ishida who gets recruited into the SEES when his Persona awakens to fight the Shadow at the Dark Hour. Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Birth looks at some of the more major…
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First of all I want to point out that I played the video games before see the film.
This adaptation is very poor for me. The background of persona is interesting and the universe very powerfull in the game but on the screen one feels absolutely nothing. The animation is pathetic with many fixed-time moments and one feels too much the fact that the story is taken from the video game without adapting to the format. For example scenes in the velvet room or the calendar indicating which day is.
To this is added an OST of elevator which totally prevented me from entering the film.
Very disappointed
Read at the sourceGinkamaru
Persona 3 The movie 1: Spring Of Birth, Feelings of disbelief and very hapy when first saw the news. Why? This anime is adaptation from the game in PS2 which i really like.
A touching story and also one of J-Rpg produced by atlus, which produces many interesting and entertaining games, The game itself is titled : "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3"
My review, this anime also have very good story such as the game, also have interesting character and action. In 4 movie we can feel the protagonist Has many options to choose the way of life to be taken.
Sory for bad review and bad translate :D
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“The first card, numbered 0, is The Fool. It represents the beginning and suggests infinite possibilities.”
Adapting source material, especially from a game that can take literally a hundred or more hours to play, will always be an uphill battle. There is plenty of consideration of how much to leave in and how much to take. As I will discuss in my review of Spring of Birth, this can be a tough tightrope to walk, especially for millions of fans who eagerly anticipated it.
Before I begin, I will state my bias first. I am a HUGE fan of this franchise and absolutely adore Persona 3. I have beaten the game in its entirety and hold it very close to my heart. However, this is an adaption of a game that has 15+ hours of cutscenes and story. This movie only covers the first couple months of the…
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Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Birth is based on the Atlus game Persona 3, more specifically it is focused on the first 3 months events. The story of Persona 3 revolves around an young man who returns to his hometown after several years, discovers that there are unusual events and through a series of events gains access to people's power.
I played the game and i liked the movie but not as much as i like the game, i i'll try to give the good features in the movie, here the game was better and why.
Story: 8 out of 10
A good aspect about the movie is that they keep the story equal to the game with a little few changes to it, the main characters and the main events are all there and he can get a better point of view at the MC mind.
The bad thing is that because is just a movie, the suppor…
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This is probably exactly what you were expecting but also were hoping for it not to be. A typical, albeit high budget, video game adaptation that dilutes the strength of the original story without giving us a new angle that's worthy of the time investment. I like Persona 3 more than 4 as a lot of people probably know about me by now, and I'm not really interested in direct adaptations of games I've already played. Obviously the original format is probably going to better because there's so much more space, but since I'm playing a Shin Megami Tensei game right now and plan to hit the entire franchise's English output I thought I'd at least try and see if I could get back some of that magic of t…
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Persona 3 the Movie: Spring of Birth is a movie tie-in that is based on the 2006 JRPG video game, Persona 3. It has three other sequels which come after this, and the movie was set in the same story as the Persona 3 video game storyline with only a few tweaks to help differentiate both the movie and the game AND to avoid any repetitions from the story that could ruin the experience of the audience of this movie.
And before you continue on to read my review, let me get you a warning that the following you're about to read here are SPOILERS related to the Persona 3 game. If you haven't bought the copy of Persona 3 or you didn't play Persona 3 before, BUY IT! I MEAN, RIGHT NOW! But I'll recommend you to buy Persona 3: FES and it is currently available now through PSN! And for those who don't…
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Anime without pathetic girls? Check.
No high-school squealing fan servies? Check.
Action through out the whole anime? Check.
Likable characters? Check.
Modern/decent artworks? Check.
If the above are your type, then this is definitely YOUR anime to watch! Even though it is a movie, don't be put off. It is quite awesome in case you are wondering. There are little or close to none romance in this anime. So those action/comedy fans will definitely enjoy this.
This anime is engulfed in mystery, suspense and action, making it a must watch for all watchers out there who are tired of watching slice-of-life animes.
When I first found this anime, I immediately thought that it will be another anime with a weak MC that TRIED to develop throughout the anime but still resulted in being weak+1.…
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Persona 3 the Movie 1: Spring of Rebirth follows the story of Makoto Yuuki, a boy who is able to witness strange events during the period known as the Dark Hour. During this time, there are some people who are aware of this are able to move while others cannot. The story follows a group of people who can move during this time as they try to discover what is the cause behind it. The only problem is that there are some odd cuts that kind of mess up the pacing and would have been better if it was just flat out introduced in the beginning instead of in the middle of a battle. The way they do it make it sometimes look like the main character not a new power out of nowhere. Characters take the time to compare their experiences as well instead of just writing off some battles as past experiences.…
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I played Persona 3 FES at a time when I started losing interest in gaming. From the opening intro, right till the end of its short post credit scene Persona 3 rejuvenated my interest in video games. While Persona 2: Eternal Punishment made me a fan of the Persona series it was Persona 3 that made me into a Shin Megami Tensei addict. Persona 3 FES was heavy on the exploration of death, the lore setup in the world was fascinating, the music was good, and finally the gameplay (while repetitive in design) kept me hooked for around the 84 hours it took me to beat it. Regardless if it’s in film, or in a tv series format anything based around video games generally end up being down right awful at worst, and just barely average at best. The amount of watchable video game adaptations can be counted…
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This is my first time writing a review so I do apologise if I get some things wrong or forget some things.
Now for the actual review. I'll just write this at the start. Unless you've played the game, this movie is not worth it. My reasons are below.
To be honest, I'm probably a big persona fan. Persona 3 was the first game i played in the series and i liked it so much i played it and then directly after that I played it again just because I liked it so much. You can thus imagine my excitement and glee when i found out that Persona 3 had a movie as well. I decided to watch this movie with a friend in hopes of getting him to play the game as well. Boy was I wrong. I'll go through the good bits first.
Art (8). The animation and character design was very well done. The fight scenes were flu…
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Disclaimer: I have only ever played the very beginning of Persona 3, and have never played any Megami Tensei/Shin Megami Tensei other than that and a brief outing in the original Super Famicom SMT game. This means that this review is from the perspective of a complete outsider, and does not factor in everything that would contribute to the enjoyment of someone who is already a fan.
To put it bluntly, I went into this film with very high expectations. The Persona sub-series seems to be almost universally beloved in my online friend-circle, and frankly, after years of waiting (I own no Sony consoles besides my (now broken) PSP), I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. What I found here was technically a disappointment, but only because of my artificially raised expectations.
The story…
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