Introduction
Above Earth, invisible to humans, float the Heavens—a collection of floating island kingdoms supported by the magic of their godlike inhabitants. The mysterious power source known as Akuto enables this magic to exist, but this is quickly running out. In response to this energy crisis, most of the kingdoms in the Heavens agree to use the minimum amount of Akuto required to sustain themselves, except for the Magical Kingdom. The leader of this kingdom, the Magical King Munto, believes that Akuto can be replenished if he travels to Earth and meets a mysterious girl shown to him by a seer. While Munto sets off on the dangerous journey, the other kingdoms attempt to destroy the Magical Kingdom and acquire the remaining Akuto for themselves.
On Earth, Yumemi Hidaka is dealing with her own problems. She can see floating islands in the sky that nobody else can. While her best friend Ichiko Ono believes her, Yumemi wonders if she is going insane. When Munto suddenly appears before her, Yumemi dismisses him as a mere delusion. She is more concerned about her 13-year-old friend Suzume Imamura, who is attempting to elope with her delinquent boyfriend. As the Magical Kingdom nears the point where it will fall from the sky, Munto's quest to save both the Heavens and Earth grows increasingly desperate.
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Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Starfleeting
For Kyoto Animation's first outing, it's an impressive one. The story itself may be cliche and full of exposition but the art is really good. The pacing isn't as good and the ending feels a bit rushed despite all the time it took getting there but the animation and direction and ideas present make it an interesting watch overall. Got a few Cardcaptor vibes from the story but that's never really a bad thing.
(Also, for the English dub it was pretty hilarious to have Goku's original dub voice coming out of a Vegeta look alike.)
I keep being told to enter a longer review but that's pretty much all I got to say on it. An impressive debut even if the material doesn't feel entirely original. I'll still be going on to watch the next part.
Read at the sourceHanbeiCat
This anime was a part of my childhood, and so I decided to watch this movie for nostalgia.
It was such a disappointment.
Story 3/10
The story is there are some pillars falling from the sky and that is causing Munto's kingdom to fall. His world resides in an alternate dimension. However, there is only one girl on earth who can see Munto's dimension as well as the flying pillars, and she is the only one who can "save the world." Munto has to convince her to cross over into his dimension and help him.
This premise is incredibly interesting in theory but this movie does not do justice for the plot. In fact, there is quite a bit of filler in this movie. There's an entire side plot about a girl who wants to get married to this guy that has nothing to do with the story, there's interesting c…
Read at the sourceTrashier
Munto is the first work of Kyoto Animation, Mundo is the king of a magical kingdom that floats in the sky thanks to a magical power called Akuto. One day when the Akuto is reaching is end, Mundo descendes to earth searching for a girl that have the power to restore the link between the Earth and the magical kingdom.
Story: 6 out of 10
They have an interesting setting but unfortunately they lost time with meaningless actions that didn't make any contribution to the story.
Art: 7 out of 10
At first i really didn't like the art but that's because i already saw many animes until today (2017). After checking some animes that i used to watch and having in mind that this anime is from 2013 i start linking more the art and i think that they did a good job.
Sound: 5 out of 10
Unfortunately i…
Read at the sourceyesterdaz
I watched Munto a few years ago (the subbed version). I decided to rewatch it recently and saw a dubbed version had come out. To be honest, I spend the next half an hour looking for the subbed version. Except I couldn't (still can't as I write this review).
It may just be nostalgia, but I remember liking the subbed version SO MUCH more. The dubbed version is like a fanmade version. It is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E. I think other reviewers were a bit harsh. The plot was decent (though it would have been better if it had been longer). Really, the thing that ruins it is the dubbed voices. It reminds me of watching the Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged Series except there is nothing funny about it at all.
There isn't anything remarkable about this movie, but it isn't bad either. I'm planning on re-watching the sequel…
Read at the sourceAbs0
Story: Cliched fanfiction-level shit. I could talk about the shitty underage romance subplot (a loner encounters a 13 yo girl and they fall in love...in the river), or how fucking socially retarded Munto is: appears out of nowhere and demands a girl give him her "power", when she doesn't even know who he is or what he's talking about. Tells her to "believe in herself", and she actually says "I believe in myself" when all she did was touch Munto. That was literally all she had to do. "Believe in yourself" is literally the most overused line in the history of shitty fanfiction. I would give a 0 for the story if I could.
Character designs: Terrible. All the girls have fuckhuge bug eyes and Munto looks like a skinny 12 year old...remember this guy is supposed to be the king of the Magic King…
Read at the sourceXai16
I was surfing through google images and stumbled upon a picture of Munto. I Loved his design but I couldn't get any of my friends to identify him so after months of staring at his picture and looking for ANY tag that would help me id him, I finally found out about his anime. After reading a bit of the plot, I'd honesty have to say that I was more intersted in seeing this design in action than the actual story but I gave it a chance. From the pictures I saw, I saw promise but after seeing the anime, I was bored senseless.
The plot, though somewhat interesting, wasn't as riveting as I hoped. You have two people from two dimensions parallel to each other and it's near imposible to cross over but the girl has to cross over to save the other dimension. These are the beginings of a good plot,…
Read at the sourceangelsreview
This is one of those interesting looking shows from Kyoto animation. This story seems a bit forced in the beginning. The story actually revolves around Yumemi Hidaka instead of Munto so I’m not really all that sure why the show is named after Munto. It should have been called magical girl or destiny girl, which would be closer to it I think.
I don’t really understand why there is a storyline within a story line. It seems like it confuses it. Fortunately, it makes up for it by the same feeling of Air and Clannad. This has the same feeling as them where if revolves around the world of a young girl who doesn’t know where her place is. She tries to find out, but turns out there are powers she has that can save the world. Kyoto has this way of having a rather dreamy and other worldly show. Now…
Read at the sourceTheUltimateKalie
The art style in this anime was amazing! I love it so much! But the same can't be said for the plot. Don't get me wrong. The first episodes of this anime were good and made me want to see the end but the ending was horrible.
The main character in this series sees islands in the sky but wishes she didn't because everyone damns that as abnormal or weird. So, she carries around an umbrella so she can't see them anymore.
One day, she is walking to school when a strange man with red hair comes out of nowhere and demands that she give her powers to him. She says no and thinks she dreaming and he vanishes.
Later on, he keeps popping out of nowhere and demands she helps him. She does later and the day is saved! Yay!
This show was a good growing up story and had great character development but ther…
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