Audience reviews
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Drakestalker
This standalone movie takes some ideas from Wolf Children, some ideas from The Boy and the Beast, and puts them together into a coming-of-age love story type deal. The result is nowhere near as good as either, but it's also not too shabby. It's a pretty mundane story about prejudice and love's power to transcend societal barriers. It wasn't the worst hour and a half of my life, but certainly not the best, either. You might want to give this a try. Then again, you might not.
It was produced by TMS Entertainment, the same studio behind Megalo Box, D.Gray-man, Baki, Dr. Stone, ReLIFE, Rent-a-Girlfriend, and many others. The technical production value, while not awe-inspiring, at the very least leaves little to be desired.
Read at the sourceAkryku
I'll admit it: I was lured into watching this movie by seeing a clip of Shino doing Kabuki in women's clothes and looking absolutely breath-taking. That scene, to my infiinite dismay, was however not really important and also not very long.
Anyway, this movie is about the Fuse, dog human hybrids who consume the essence of humans to survive (this is exclusively done by killing the human in question) and a hunter girl named Hamaji coming to the big city to hunt Fuse with her big brother.
Of course, she befriends and falls in love with a Fuse and doesn't even realize it for the longest time.
The story is a bit lack luster when it comes to the love story. Shino and Hamaji meet each other four times in total and while there is the potential of friendship and even love I just didn't buy it.
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This is kind of a bittersweet review for me. Sweet because I loved the art and wanted to love the story. Bitter because this movie is is dreadful and not worth watching. With a premise similar to the likes of Tokyo Ghoul its unfortunate this lacks all the moral gray area. Newsflash: the Fuse ARE the bad guys, they kill and eat people's souls there's no way around it. There's a tiny mention against this in a single line at the very end but honestly, I'm not even sure I understood it correctly. This is the sort of thing that I feel HAS to have been told better in the Manga. While I understand self-defense and all that, it doesn't change that Shino's body count is over 30, and if we count what happens at the end as his fault probably several hundred. I'm not even opposed to having the bad guy…
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This movie was a very enjoyable watch, though it comes with a few (but important problems). The world building was spectacular, but the character relationships were lacking.
Story: 7/10
The premise of the story was simple and easy to follow. Though the idea of a misunderstood and feared species is not exactly original. The story is character driven and focuses on romance. The romance was somewhat forced and there were little to no relationship development between the main characters. The ending may seem abrupt (though to me it was okay). The story of about the "fuse" was nice, nothing new, but I liked it.
Art: 10/10
The art was easily the best part of the movie. Scenes felt very lively and the backgrounds very beautiful. The colours were vibrant and the style matched the atmosphere and m…
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This is a great film; I really enjoyed it. Definitely worth the watch. Many people are confused about the ending, I was too, but I thought about it and wanted to share my view.
I believe many others like myself are left confused near the end of the film, how Shino tells Hamaji to connect with her forever but ends up leaving her to go elsewhere. While it may appear contradictory, it does come to make sense.
Throughout the film, Shino struggles to embrace his identity. He tries very hard to remain human, but as a fuse, he faces immense difficulties restraining his animalistic nature. Being neither a human nor animal, Shino is unable to reach an equilibrium as he fixates himself into fitting in a single term, let it be 'man' or 'beast'.
After having defeated the final boss so to speak…
Read at the sourceThorNN-heim7
First things first: When I started watching the movie the plot seemed diffuse and didn't make much sense, and that's ok as you can use it to strengthen the story later on, but that just didn't happen.
To sum up my experience of this movie I would say that it didn't really go anywhere. The heroine stayed a crybaby and not much happened except for that she started dressing more like a girl at the end.
I'm assuming there was supposed to be love in this story, but it just doesn't make sense to me. As another reviewer said, Hamaji and Shino met only 4 times during the whole thing and nothing really went on. He borrowed her gun, he bought her a kimono, he invited her to a play and asked her to kill him, she chased him down in the castle and gave him a letter, done.
The characters had little per…
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_Fuse_ is an odd duck. Overall, I endorse Theron Martin's ANN review of it.
The main appeal of the movie is its gorgeous depiction of Tokugawa Edo: the vast city with its teeming throngs and characters, lovingly depicted from the spear carriers of daimyos to the firefighting bridges and their tactics of pulling down buildings to halt fires to the popularity of woodblock prints to grandstanding actors playing to their crowds even to less pleasant aspects like teeth-blackening (which is often omitted because let's face it who wants to see pretty actresses with black teeth?). There are many little touches I enjoyed a great deal, like the cat looking in astonishment at Hamaji walking on a fence like a cat or the conversation between Hamaji and her friend while a craftsman makes colorful banne…
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I was literally in a pool of emotions watching this movie.
It was funny, sad and heartwarming.
The artwork was gorgeous, and the colors really draw you in 10/10
The ending song was also amazing 10/10
Each character has their own amazing quality that you can't help but admire about them, but there wasn't enough back story about most to really understand 9/10 The storyline was well-written, but again, there were missing pieces. I still admired it enough for an 8/10
I do praise the artwork, the pastel colors really brought out another side to "Edo" than I've seen in any other anime so far.
What really drew me into this anime however, was the storyline.
I've always had a soft spot for the whole gray haired, light eyed boy anime types. The fact that they end up being half wolf or a…
Read at the sourceMerelyPlayers
‘Fuse: Memoirs of the Hunter Girl’ is the fantastical brain-child of Masayuki Miyaji – an assistant director on Spirited Away - yet is also a work inherently dependent on many other historical writers and creators, most notably the author Takizawa Bakin. A recent anime TV series adaptation of his most famous work, the epic Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, was highly derivative of – and, in my opinion, somewhat insulting to – the source material. Fuse, on the other hand, seems very playful, reverent and effective in its adaptation of the same novel’s premise. Not only does the film pay it homage, it also directly references it and even features both Takizawa as a minor character and his granddaughter Meido as a member of the supporting cast. Aptly, it is through Meido – an aspiring writer herself -…
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Everybody knows that dogs are a man’s best friend, am I right?
They are cute, intelligent, affectionate, and loyal until the very end. Now what does that have to do with the movie Fuse: Memoirs of the Hunter Girl?
Fuse (pronounced “foo say”) is the story of an energetic hunter girl named Hamaji who moves from the mountains to the bustling city of Edo after the death of her grandfather. Hamaji is taken in by her older brother, who is also a hunter himself. Shortly after arriving, Hamaji is greeted with a rather gruesome site of bleeding dog’s heads put out on display for the entire town to see. Taken aback by the display, she lashes out in horror. The citizens tease her a bit and then explain that they are fuse; half dog and half human menaces that terrorize and murder the human residents…
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Story:8/10
Fuse Teppou Musume no Torimonochou begins with young wild girl from the mountains known as Hamaji. She was taught to become one with her prey at its last moments. She makes her way to Edo because her older brother wanted to use her skills. When she first arrives she meets a interesting fellow.
Art:8/10
The art was rather amazing catching my eye with the cover. The problem was that I noticed some faults in some of the scenes. Like, how was that building there? There were also some breath taking scenes that could make you lose your breath.
Sound:7/10
This the only area i felt it was lacking. After awhile some of the crisp environment sounds seemed to dwindle in power. It seemed to rely heavily on the voice acting which was really well done. The voice actors tone seems to matu…
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For those who are impatient, my simple review would have me say that i found it a mixed bag. I really wanted to write two separate reviews for this -an unbiased one and a personal one- but that's quite tedious and im not sure MAL would allow it. Anyways, i'll try to keep this short and simple.
Going into the film, i really really wanted to like it - I really did. And that's likely why i felt a bit disappointed. The simple plot of the story sees our lone heroine move into edo to live with her brother and to help him hunt down the fuse (human/dog hybrids). Her search leads her to meet with Shino.
My unbiased review would have me say that the story is fairly simplistic (no major plot twist) and maybe even enjoyable. In other words, if i were to take it at face value, there's nothing really…
Read at the sourceMermaidGalaxies
I had a lot of fun watching this movie, it kinda reminded me of Princess Mononoke. :')
(No spoilers.)
Story: 9/10
(Read the actual plot on MAL for more info)
Hamaji, a young girl hunter living alone, gets a letter from her brother living in edo, to come and help him with hunting, Hamaji goes to edo to help her brother out and ends up meeting Shino, a very beautiful guy with shiny silver hair, and she runs into him a few more times later on trough out the story. In this movie there are 'Fuse' part human, part dog creatures that eat the orbs from humans, when beheaded they die. (Okay, I suck at explaing things and I don't want to just copy and paste the plot from MAL because that would be stupid.) but anyways, the story dose sound a little cliche, sure. You probably think 'Oh, another InuYa…
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