Audience reviews
11 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Daisuke_RX93
Take this "review" with caution, english is not my mother language so i feel i can't make a proper review, take this like a bunch of opinions of a friend of yours.
So, long story short, i think this is more enjoyable if you aren't a fan of the series, paradoxically if you are a fan of the .hack// series i think this will leave you with a bittersweet aftertaste. The story is basically about friendship and take place after years of all the main series (Sign, G.U, tasogare, ecc) we know, so aside the avatar's design of the main heroine and some events mentioned this is totally unrelated to other series.
The cgi is actually good when they are in "The World", at the same time is pretty bad when the story take place in the real world.
The first half was pretty boring in my opinion, it focus a…
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So I finally got around to seeing the last animated .Hack feature and I gotta say it was pretty good.
Story//
So the story of the //The Movie is very much fanservice for fans of .Hack, locations, character designs and even music tries to evoke a sense of nostalgia for long time fans. For new comers the plot is pretty basic, Sora our main lead is adverse against technology until she's backed into playing the new version of //The World where she is given a chance to save the virtual world and to solve the mystery of its comatosed victims.
Art//
Probably one of the best things about the movie is seeing locations and characters from the old series revamped into a more current engine so everything looks more sleek and shiny. Even the new characters look great and feel like they would fit in…
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SENOMUNI is basically the fifth version of the same story, after SIGN, TWILIGHT, ROOTS and QUANTUM. At this point they only keep making more just to support the videogame franchise and not because it has anything new to show us in terms of context. Having followed the franchise through the years I can appreciate how it keeps trying to flavor the exact same premise and correct past mistakes. At the same time, WOOPS, it keeps making newer ones so it never manages to get something overall better than the rest.
So what new minor improvements this version has compared to the older ones? Basically it is up to date with the current gadgets.
- It feels more natural (and cool) to see the game being played as a cell-phone application instead of a PC one. PCs are dying baby; everything is turning mo…
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First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
The usual jam with .hack franchise. New characters, MMO world, people get stuck and lose consciousness, finding the cause, solving it. It was good enough story, enjoyable, had fair amount of action and pacing felt right for the most part.
✦Art&Sound
Art is like watching some Anime MMORPG story cutscenes, awkward at times but overall felt quite good. Game menus and such things were a great touch for an MMO anime.
Music&OST I love as usually in hack franchise. Not Kajiura this time, but KOKIA is as well superb Artist. ✦Character
I don't have to say much regarding characters. There were plainer ones and more interesting ones. Main cast was oddly plain, whilst bunch of…
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I normally don't write reviews for things but after watching this I definitely needed to vent.
Pros.
So first, it's not the worst thing I've ever seen I guess? The aesthetic was interesting in that it used two different styles for real and game worlds. The animation on the faces was fluid and detailed, especially on Kite.
There were also a few fun moments when Sora starts playing the game and learns the controls.
Cons. So now the bad stuff.
The biggest issue is that this movie feels incredibly far removed from the rest of the series. Sure, there's the callback character designs to Kite, Balmung and Orca, Aura's in it and they play the "note" twice, but there isn't much tying this entry to the rest of the franchise.
Everyone seems to have forgotten the events of G.U. and the origina…
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hack// is a famous franchise of animes and games centered in an online game. I myself have never watched or played any of those before I watched this movie. .hack//Beyond The World is set on 2024 and our protagonist is a young girl named Yuuki Sora. Now, there is an online game called "The World" and almost everyone plays this game. Yuuki Sora however doesn't want to play an online game, even though all her classmates, including her two bestfriends Kakeru Tanaka and Tomohiko Okano, continuously urge her to play this game. Even her grandpa (and his secret girlfriend lol) secretly plays this game. Now The World is a virtual reality online game that they play through an app downloaded to phones and with the help of a "face mount display" (sunglasses) that users wear they are able to experienc…
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This will be a short review. The main point I'd like to make is that this .hack movie has an intriguing package but in the end is unsatisfactory.
Story: I won't spoil anything but I want to say that the story is intriguing in the beginning, while the actual cause of the problems in The World this time to me is disappointing.
Art: Good, even if I'm not a big fan of this type of CG in movie animations, landscapes and characters (real and in The World) are well done.
Sound: Fair, nothing special, just OK.
Character: Good, personalities are well characterized and I've empathized with the protagonists.
Enjoyment: Fair, the plot is engaging, the rhythm is well paced and the fights exciting, except for the "last mission" maybe.
Overall: I think it's a fair movie, you can watch it if bored o…
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This is the first time I make a review. Maybe I will make a mistake and I think my review will be a short one.. But I'll give my best!
after I watch this anime I don't really understand what its means. Then I watch again for the second time.
the story isn't really complicated. I like the story because that make me touched. A girl who have a courage to do something for the one she love. or I should say she HAS to do that to save the one she love!
the art is great. it made the character and the other things looks more natural, just like an ordinary film (3D objects).
the sound is good. themes and ending theme was a great music.
the characteristic of character was display by the action the character do or take.
I really enjoy when I watch this movie. Its looks like I'm really in it and…
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Warning: This review comes from a fan of the series. Actual enjoyment of the movie may vary from person to person. I'm a bit biased on this review, you are warned.
Just like all of the series' setting, the story took place in a virtual reality world called "The World", developed by a gaming company named CC Corp set in fictitious Japan in real world. Even though actual events in the movie happened in the virtual world, these events too have its effects on the real world namely people falling into some sort of coma which has been an issue from the story since the original game back on the PlayStation 2, and other disturbances in the supposed real world in matters electronics.
However, this particular movie release hasn't really strayed far from the "tried-and-tested" formula the franchis…
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I'm sorry for keeping this review short, but there's not just that much to be said about .hack//The Movie. It's just a pile of wasted potential, and if this combined with .hack//Link are really supposed to be a swan song for the .hack// franchise, it really makes me sad.
For some reason this movie has thus far received some surprisingly positive feedback at least in MAL, so I'll try and explain why I didn't like it as thoroughly as I can.
Story & Character
.hack//The Movie takes place after all the current movies, games and animes, and has a totally new cast of characters, but also a familiar face in the form of Aura, who changes her age constantly for no apparent reason. I have nothing against new characters, but they are not developed very well during the film. Most of them are just a…
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Well I just finished this movie and decided to do a review of it. Note that some of it is my own opinion - take it as you will.
The story takes place in the year 2024 where computers and technology are evrything. It centers around a girl named Sora Yuki, a normal middel school girl who is rather out of the loop from the rest of her friends and classmates. However, this all changes once she starts to play the online game known as "The World". On her fist experience in the game, she gets involved in an incident and thus begins her journey.
Story 8: The story is a bit plain with the use of recurring anime themes ; such as love triangles, commentaries/jokes on generation gaps and the famous: one who saves "The World"(sorry, couldnt resist). But I like these types of stories so maybe thats wh…
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