Audience reviews
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xehnri
(2018) For an anime movie made in 2009, it has aged well. Both the art and sound gave an immersive experience. However, half-way through I found it hard to continue watching the movie because both main characters are unlikeable.
"SPOILERS AHEAD"
The female MC, Tula, made a very poor and thoughtless decision with overreaching consequences. For someone who is supposedly from the past and has an educated background, she neglected asking important questions. Meanwhile the male MC, Agito, seems to be motivated by infatuation throughout the movie and the life-changing decisions he made were not his own and were made for him by others.
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Nature vs. machine, yes it's THAT again, yes, it's THAT predictable. What's the problem? The message doesn't work because 1 - the characters are downright annoying in their attempt to force their own beliefs on others, and 2 - "nature" which we're "supposed" to side with is actually the greatest EVIL of all!
Why does the best friend's little sister have a rivalry with the female lead? It adds nothing to the plot and only makes her appear whiny and immature! Why did the Colonel sabotage the lunar project? For vanity? Personal belief? Hell if I know!
And the main male lead, oh boy, what an obnoxious bible-basher! - he will hunt you down until he converts you into a tree-hugger like him, and if you say "NO!" for the umpteenth time, he can only repeat "why not???" as if the concept that peop…
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Upon watching the first 20 minutes of this anime I was delighted by the world design and art. The opening sequence was for me a masterpiece of storytelling. However, after the initial introduction to the world and its characters, the movie went downhill exceedingly fast. While the quality of animation kept up with the beginning, it lacked cohesiveness, and seemed to push for an ever grander scale of wonder that pushed the integrity of the artistic value way over the line.
As for characters, there are none, only empty voids giving shape to an ever increasingly erratic plot. There is no reason for writing to be this bad in a movie that had so much effort put in to the world design. It feels like they made specific plot points on a timeline but didn’t know how to connect them. Except for th…
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When I first watched this film I was mesmerized with just how beautiful the soundtrack and environments were. There are some stunning visuals in this movie and each music score is made for specific scenes, unlike a lot of anime which just repeats the same music for scenes with the same emotion (sad scenes, fight scenes etc.).
This film does actually have some great characters with potential, but it's just sad that the creators of the film didn't develop them enough. The film focuses mostly on Toola and Agito while other characters either only have small moments when they are focused on or they are not focused on at all.
I thought that Agito was a likable character to start with, but when he became enhanced he seemed to lose his adorable personality. I found his moments with Cain to be…
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Origin: Spirits of the Past follows Agito in a world where humans and the forest no longer live peacefully. In Agitos attempt to get extra water for his father he is caught by the forest and in his attempts to escape he stumbles across, Tula a girl put to sleep inside of experimental coffins in which people from the past can awake in the present day. Throughout this series you see humans struggle against the forest or so they thought. This is a heart warming story of preservation of humans, the earth, and a love story of two kids from another time. I personally think this series is fantastic with a great art style for the time. Along with a great story and characters to grip you into the story. There are very few minor things I didn't really like I'm not sure it really held up with time. I…
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Honestly, let me start by saying i'm a little biased against mecha anime but that doesn't mean I dislike all of them - I found Innocent Venus to be quite enjoyable. I didn't really like Giniro no Kami no Agito though, although i'm not entirely sure why. It just felt quite dry and bland with not much character development.
STORY- The plot doesn't sound too bad, actually. Maybe it was due to the plot execution?
ART - It was okay. Above average, I guess.
SOUND - Let me first say that the only reason I watched this was because I really liked the ending song "KOKIA-Ai no Melody". Ehh... but other than that, the OST is so-so. Nothing memorable, but not bad either. I do like the vocal OST before the ED though.
CARACTER - Maybe because it was due to the lack of character development, but I didn'…
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heres a shitty review.
fuckijn ell, i tried to like it. especially with the intro. great song and visual and it felt good. i was enthralled. not 100% perfect mind you but certainly an astonishing intro. then the opening sequence thing. also good at showing some world but its lacking in places. for example it could establish towns customs and worlds lore visually (since post-apocalyptic setting and by nature very different) and does some but not much. instead it goes for a more character driven/development way. i could of handled this if the characters weren't also shit. they're stupid (both in actions and as characters knowing things they shouldn't know), unlikable and not developed enough. characterization was thrown out the window (except that 'main character throws an important personal…
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"We cannot command nature except by obeying her."-Sir Francis Bacon
There is a time and space when the world changed overnight, all that was left were a few survivors, ruins and over these,governing as a mighty shadow,was the forest. It obeys no one, but needs to be obeyed,it isn't the same nature we knew,it is chaotic,destructive and belligerent. However, even in these harsh conditions, man learned to adapt, trying to co-exist even with this hostile nature. After a harsh struggle,man finally reached an agreement with the forest. They may reconstruct a town to live over the ruins,in exchange of a few of them being possessed by the forest, sharing the mind of forest,turning with time into a tree themselves, reuniting with the nature.
Amid this pre-existed rules, comes a strange girl,named T…
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This is a brief yet well told story. The synopsis is a bit of a spoiler, but it's pretty much right on. Agito is an adventurous/curious boy right from the start, and it's easy to accept him as the hero of this tale. This isn't your typical action/adventure anime. It pretty much is a circle of life themed story with fun and well developed characters.
The usual post apocalyptic theme for a lot of anime is the heart of this story. Unlike nuclear destruction or demonic plague, it was onset by rampant genetically modified plant life. It's very easy to follow how the destruction occurred, and the future world of mankind has a certain kind of magical charm. The scenery is spectacular, and the characters are colorful and fun to watch. This is accompanied by wonderful music that fits well in the s…
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So much promise...
Story - 9
Although the story is something that has been told, and retold countless times and in various different ways, Origin: Spirits of the Past took a unique approach set in a distant future with memories of yet another future we haven't seen yet.
Art - 10
Perhaps the most compelling feature of the film, it was definitely what made me want to watch it. The world in this movie is simply gorgeous and the characters designs are great as well. The highlights would definitely be the forest scenes that mesmerizing and beautiful.
Sound - 9
The movie actually opens up with an amazing song that only promises more stupendous music to follow suit. Luckily, it doesn't let down. The score for this film is great and perhaps the second best part of the movie. I would not mind b…
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Day 1: Origin: Spirits of the past
Take two of Miyazaki’s greatest classics, "Valley of the Wind" and "Princess Mononoke". Put them in a blender with choice elements of "Titan A.E". and "Ferngully: The last rainforest" pulse a couple of times, strain and call it a film. That is pretty much about what Gin-iro no kami no Agito or Origin Spirits of the Past is.
I have heard that every so often an anime company will try their hand at making a story that is reflective of the works of Studio Ghibli. This is I’m sorry to say is apparently Gonzo’s attempt as well as Gonzo’s first attempt at making a theatrical film.
It’s hard to find the words for how to describe this film and how I feel about it. I had wanted to like this film and do like it…sort of. Unfortunately this film is also a great…
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Gin-iro no kami no Agito
Story: In the past, Man was doing genetic experiments on the Moon with plants, one day something went wrong, due to a genetic error, these plants gained life and a tremendous power destroying half the Moon, attacking then the Heart with a destructive power, ending the civilization as it was known.
Now 300 years in the future the forest is alive and is dangerous to the humans, it controls the existing water in the planet, but the humans managed to coexist with the forest, except one faction that believes the forest should not have such power and must be controlled or destroyed.
Agito is the son of one of the "Neutral city" creators and one day while trying to steal some water
accidentally ended in some sort of civilization ruins where he finds Toola on a timeless s…
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I wouldn't say this movie is bad, but it also isn't good ether. The story is about how plants basically destroyed civilization and there's a conflict between man/machine and nature. The movie focuses on Agito who finds a girl named Tula who says that she's from the past. The problem with Tula is that the story makes it sound like she's a bad person (at first anyway) because she decides to go with Shunack, whose suppose to be this movie's main villain, to bring Earth back to it's original form (You know, our world). Also none of the supporting characters don't really help Agito in bringing back Tula. They just sit in the village and wait for the moment of truth. If I was the one making this film, I would at least have Cain and Minka help out Agito a little bit. If you want to see a great mo…
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To be honest this is my first review of an anime on this site. And you may be wondering why?? Why now write one for this anime??? Well to keep it simple it was how disgusted I was at this anime.
First off I am going to go over the things I liked about it.
Once Origins starts It gives you the appeal of an anime that was well done and had a lot of work put into it. The art has stunning visuals and is mainly the reason I continued to watch through out the story. It captures you into their world right from the start. Unfortunately I noticed that as the movie went on the art degraded getting closer and closer to the end. Being the strong point of the movie I was very disappointed by this since the art started as a 10 and slowly drifted to a 7.
Another thing that was quite strong was the sound…
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Story: Honestly, good animes aren't based on art but story - how their tale enthralls and awes viewers with a the story that lingers long after the end. This story was indeed interesting with the plant-apocalypse, robots and superhuman hybrids. Wait what!? Really!? And a volcano weapon!? It's like Saturday cartoons all over again but this time there's a twist! It's prettier.
Art: The art is beautiful almost comparable to a Miyazaki film. The cg/anime hybrid was worked in well. Unfortunately the art begins to degrade as the movie goes on. In the beginning, they do a great job immersing the viewer in a fantastic new world but towards the end you almost always see lots of desert, metal walls, or tons and tons of green blurs (forest).
Sound: The music for the movie is great. But like the ar…
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Having heard great things about Origin from various sources, I jumped at the chance to purchase the DVD cheaply on Amazon. When it arrived, I was excited, the blurb on the case leading me to remember the hype when it was first released; 'dreamily beautiful,' 'breath-taking,' 'almost painfully beautiful,' one couldn't blame me for expecting a lot from the film, and I couldn't help but expect a lot, with Neo's feature on the film in mind which compared the film to Ghost in the Shell: Innocence! Now, I'm not an enviromentalist by any means, so I do admit I was skeptical when I read a lot about the film being heavily involved in such themes, but what the Hell, I thought, a great film will always be great even if I don't agree with its agenda; the Battleship Potemkin was voted the greatest film…
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Overall: 7
I meant to write a review that is more positive than this, but it didn't turn out that way unfortunately. Try to remember that despite its many shortcomings, I enjoy watching this movie. It is available for free on the Funimation site and it's certainly worth watching for that price.
Story: 6
The plot feels rushed and unnatural. It had some interesting concepts, but they were underdeveloped. The resolution is poorly fleshed out and unconvincing given how entrenched everyone seems to be in their ideological positions. There are a few clips during the credits, which are worth watching, but they don't improve the believability. The movie feels like it wants to say something, but ultimately any message is mired by underdeveloped and conflicting information.
Art: 10
Very impressive…
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Like some bastard child of Akira and Princess Mononoke, Origin is one of the strangest movies I've seen in a while...
STORY - Origin's (I'm going with the English title because it's easier) central theme is the age old man versus nature. What I found particularly interesting though, is the semi-lack of advanced technology and the steampunk-like environment of the movie's present day, even if the conflict was initially caused by the usual advanced bio-experimentation we're all used to. Further intriguing is the fact that the audience is not automatically expected to side with nature in this movie (as is usually the case); because the people of the post-apocalyptic world are essentially dependent on the mercy of the quasi-intelligent forest, it seems almost as if nature is oppressing humani…
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“Gin'iro no Kami no Agito”, or “Origin ~Spirits of the Past~” is a great a great anime movie. Similar in some respects to “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”, “Gin'iro no Kami no Agito” tells another story of a vengeful forest that has slowly taken over Earth.
The storyline was really good and characters were likeable. I also enjoyed the soundtrack, I felt that each piece aptly portrayed the scenes for which it was played. The Opening and Ending themes were both really good. The story was entertaining and at the same time, fulfilling. The idea of having some villagers becoming one with the forest and gaining ‘superpowers’ was creative, especially the cost they eventually paid for doing so. Although this wasn’t a Hayao Miy…
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After reading the synopsis, you would probably think this movie was something for Studio Ghibli to create. And the truth is, it's not just obviously inspired by Miyazaki's [early] works—it feels more like the creators were moved by Laputa, Nausicaa, and Princess Mononoke so much they tried their best to outright rehash their story and some of the characters here. Which, admittedly, was a decision that both made the movie as good as it was, and ironically, hurt it the most.
The similarities are in fact so intense it would be easy to confuse with the aforementioned movies. We have here a remarkably comprehensive reproduction of Miyazaki-specific clichés, from the brave and selfless protagonist down to a confrontation between natural and industrial civilization (with the usual "we should emb…
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