Audience reviews
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CodeBlazeFate
*MILD SPOILERS AHEAD*
For a little while, I`ve had this craving for more mech shows. Mecha is probably my favorite type of Sci-fi, and if done well, can lead to a stellar experience such as with Code Geass or the Macross Franchise. A mech anime isn`t so easy to truly and utterly screw up since even with clunky CGI, both this, and the two seasons of Aldnoah.Zero offer some cool mech fights that can really exite many viewers, which makes those anime so hard to truly F up in the enjoyment factor, even if certain stories like the one for both seasons of Aldnoah.Zero divulge into an utter mess. Funnily enough, the man behind parts of Aldnoah.Zero was also a part of this movie; Expelled From Paradise. Well, enough rambling. Is this movie worthy of paradise, does it deserve to be thrown into the…
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In an idealized version of The Matrix world- humanity lives in a state of blissful ignorance of the physical. Technology has advanced to such a point where the collective consciousness of humanity has been placed onto a space station orbiting the ruined Earth, after a destructive event renders most of it uninhabitable and desolate. Adults and children alike's DNA was examined and coded into a virtual world known as Deva- where they are immortal, suffer from no maladies, no war, no hunger- a true paradise with only their imagination restraining the infinite capabilities for the cyberized denizens.
This paradise is not alone, however. Humans still exist on the Earth- those left behind who did not have the ability or means to have their consciousness transported offworld. Being completely r…
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[Spoiler Warning]
Gen Urobuchi is a writer I like, but even with that thrown out there he’s very repetitive in his writing. At times, he creates fascinating worlds, and characters, but then make them speak by info dumping, and reiterating the same topics as if viewers missed them the first time. They speak like plot devices instead of like people. So Gen Urobuchi opted to create a world that was formerly filled with humans, and now are just data. Here is story written in that kind of world. A world without consistency, nor intelligent life forms. Just a strings of badly written events.
The opening sequence of the film is confusing. We’re shown a beach, our main character in a swimsuit relaxing, someone hacks the beach, our protagonist throws her drink, and stops this hacking by being nak…
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_Trigun_ meets _Ghost in the Shell_ when a transhumanist space society dispatches a special agent to the post-apocalyptic desert Earth to locate and deal with a hacker that keeps annoying their citizens with a broadcast about space colonization. The agent discovers life as a computer upload leaves her unequipped to deal with the drawbacks of flesh but eventually she and her partner find the hacker and discover his true mission. The first plot twist I did not expect, and while the second was immediately predictable from the first, it was still fun to watch play out.
Much better than expected; the fanservice is more limited than feared, the end sequence with the mecha battle is one of the funner mecha battles I've seen in a while, and it's hard to not like a story in which the 'evil AI' win…
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Disclaimer: I don't watch many anime movies. Therefore, I have to compare this with other things.
This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I didn't like this movie too much. There are definitely positives, though. Everything in the world has positives and negatives.
First, the positives. The art was fantastic. Seriously. The environments were beautiful, colorful, and chock-full of atmosphere. The space station designs were amazing, the virtual space where the main character reports to her superiors are appropriately awe-inspiring.
The soundtrack and voice acting were great as well. The actors played their parts to the tee, giving their characters life they never would have had otherwise. The song during the credit sequence was beautiful, and the action sequences were accompanied…
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I thoroughly enjoyed Rakuen Tsuihou, as well as Gen Urobuchi's other works, namely Psycho-Pass, Madoka, and Gargantia.
As an introductory aside, I want to start by strongly disagreeing with people who highlight Urobuchi's tendency to kill off character ("the Urobutcher") or his aptitude for plot twists as his main appeal. They are not. What draws me -- and I believe many other viewers -- to Urobuchi's works is their philosophical undercurrents; everything in his films and shows touch upon some aspect of society, humanity, or morality, and the story is often a sidekick (although an exciting one). For example, Psycho-Pass is focused on the impact on having a benevolent, all-knowing, but tyrannical autocracy on society; while Gargantia revolves around reflections of a soldier faced with peac…
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I don't remember last time I had this much difficulty picking between 10 and 9. On one hand, based Urobuchi does SF the way I like it and writes a compelling story with great characters. On the other hand, lackluster direction decides we need unnecessary fanservice for some reason, and what's worse, the idea also permeates the very character design itself when it comes to our protagonist. Going with iconic Kugumiya Rie for her stroke me as a strange choice, and I'm still not sure how much it fits, but I guess it fits well enough. It's hard to be objective there knowing all her previous roles and having it color the casting choice.
That's half the issue, the other half is jarring use of CG for character animation, which has inconsistent quality, so even though it sometimes looks actually r…
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One of the few animes recently from Japan that can still have a decent show with a good story now of days. It is a good movie with a good story and one of the better quality animations as compared to other sci fic story animations and 3D animations.
Just like many other reviews, it might contain spoilers and opinions about the movie after having watched it therefore this review is more suitable for people who had watched the movie or wanted to be spoilt. I would not talk too much about it's story summaries since it might had been said a lot of times by other people in other reviews, so I will just try to keep it simple. Also, I would not make comparison to Gen Urobuchi's other works and just review on the movie itself.
Generally the movie's idea and philosophy is about a robot AI becom…
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Now here´s the deal.. Would you rather stick a 5 meter rod up your ass in front of a great deal of people or having to sit trough Expelled from paradiso? - I guess thats pretty obvious depending on your experience and knowledge about anime.
Theres a factor that every now and then anime seem to step on and that is the pretentious factor, its a word used by many and understood by.. well.. few.
The first thing that comes to mind after saying something is "pretentious" is the name "Gen Urobochi" HA! you know that guy that did Fate/zero, Psycho Pass or even took part on Phantom.. Well to not mention the "self aclaimed" deconstruction that is madoka wich is the best of the mahou shoujo deconstruction after Tutu, Utena, Yunna. Well it isnt a coincidence that every title (urobochi titles) I menti…
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Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise (Final Thoughts):
It's a decent movie! Before I begin my FIRST REVIEW EVER, let me explain my reasons for watching this movie.
I wanted to watch this movie for 3 reasons. One is that the screenplay was written by Urobuchi (or Urobutcher if you prefer). Two is that I heard that the main female character is voiced by Rie Kugimiya (one of my favorite voice actors!). If you don't know her, she voiced a crap-ton of tsunderes (Taiga from Toradora, Shana from Shakugan no Shana, Louise from Zero no Tsukaima, etc etc). The third and final reason why I wanted to watch this movie is through Animenz's piano cover of one of the soundtracks of this movie (he's a great pianist, youtube him!).
So, without further ado, let's begin!
Pros:
-Great fight scenes!
-Great ma…
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Plot: Rushes some bits in a fashion that would make anyone think "damn that was too easy". As soon as the plot twist passed, everything was easily predicted up to the end. Urobuchi throws in some philosophy regarding the nature and definition of what it is to be human, but is not particularly deep or view changing.
Art: Nicely detailed, although some parts were grossly oversimplified in the process of rendering it as cel-shaded. The characters were well rendered; imitating the look of traditional animation with CG is no easy feat, as Mekakucity actor's amazing flop demonstrates.
Animation: Very good CG, but the deliberate use of 6fps for the main animation was a poor decision in my opinion. While they were able to imitate the feel of animation, throwing away the strongest point of CG an…
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First of all, This is my first review on anime section so please bear with me.
I don't know why a lot says it sucks. Maybe because it's there preferences . I would not argue with that. This review will not be review I think its between a review and an after realization about this movie. However there are strong points that this movie hits me so let's dig to the main topic
STORY - 9
"What is Freedom?". can we say that in this generation we have freedom. In the era were technology advances so fast. Are the machine are the slaves or us? Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise shows me both dark and good side of relationship between humans and machines. Second. "What is Friendship" Well i know it's one of the basic formula in almost every anime. But this shows me a much clearer concept of se…
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Gen Urobuchi, now in glorious 3D!..CGI, featuring... Toei? Doesn't sound too appealing, does it?
Back in March 2012 word was out that a new movie by Nitroplus, and almost consecutively Gen Urobuchi, was in the works, but few months ago it was actually revealed that this movie was in production ever since late 2009, that's 5 whole years in production, question is: was it worth it?
If you've come here expecting another Urobutcher hit you'll be most displeased, certainly the message present in most of his works is present here as well, it just lacks the execution to make it significant, it's but a thought in the sea of words this movie sports.
The movie doesn't hold back as it skips right to the best part – the beach scene. As if our kinpatsu heroine's shameful display of skin wasn't distr…
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This was a travesty. An absolute insult to any mecha fan or Urobutcher fan. It's hard to believe great talent, be it writing or VA or w/e, were all roped in for this mess. All at a high budget too.
Lets begin with our main heroine, Balzac, whose name is hilarious, has no redeeming features beyond her stupid funny name. She is the embodiment of every cliched terrible tsundere character rolled in and condensed into one terrible package of fanservice. She is unlikeable, she makes poor and questionable decisions, and she barely contributes to the plot, of which there is very little of. She whines so much in this I wished that somehow, in Butcher tradition, shed be silenced in one way or another (It didn't happen). She's nothing but a useless fanservice girl. Alongside Balzac is generic bounty…
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Gen Urobuchi is usually referred to as the "Christopher Nolan of Anime".
This claim is, to be fair, a bit flawed, as one is a script writer and the other is a producer, but when these two are put under comparison, many can see some similarities.
For the oneiromantic science fiction thriller "Inception", there is Psycho-Pass, a criminal-investigation science fiction thriller. For the infamous sequel of the Dark Knight Trilogy, "The Dark Knight", there is a prequel of a famous game with a similar taste of ending called Fate/Zero.
And, before and after the release of the movie, Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise is compared to the infamous sci-fi thriller that shook the world this November, Interstellar.
Before I begin the review, I'd like to mention that Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Pa…
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So Nolan's Interstellar was a good movie if you're into characters who speak dialogue meant to convey plot points and thought-provoking ideas rather than talk like actual human beings. It was a little overlong with a plot eerily similar to Gunbuster meets 2001: A Space Odyssey, terrible implementation of Hans Zimmer music, and Anne Hathaway's distressed female role being a little too obvious of a counterpoint to McConaughey's fatherly one. But the mixture of intense space sequences, Oscar-bait family drama, and really engaging things to say about humanity's future was well worth the IMAX price of fifteen dollars.
As such, I can probably be excused for being a little aggravated that I paid the same price to see a movie that tried to mimic Nolan's success, only to get a jumbled mess of half…
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This is not a review because I don't want to spend any time doing research on this "anime" movie, I just want to share with you why this movie is bad on so many levels after my second viewing, just to make the 2 hours I wasted on this thing worth something.
The first time I heard about this movie in 2012 I thought this is nothing but Toei wants to monetize on Urobuchi's fame after he wrote the massive hit Madoka, it's okay, this happens from time to time, as long as he got a competent team to help him refine the script as he is not a good screenwriter but a novel author first. Two years later I still want to see this movie just to follow Urobuchi's new career in anime and see if they can make 3D anything more than bearable. Turns out you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Let's start wit…
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--No spoilers here!---
Expelled from Paradise is the hit new movie everyone's been talking about, except that I had no idea that it even existed until yesterday. That being said, I went to go see it, and emerged pretty disappointed, especially since a video right before the movie had some dude promising me that this movie is at the apex of 3DCG animation and he thought it was pretty good. Unfortunately, this isn't the case.
Story - 6/10
The story was really lacking in any emotional impact or direction. It starts off with a young girl living in a digital utopia being sent down to a post-cataclysmic desert Earth to chase down a hacker with the help of her assistant dude. Around halfway through, the story has an identity crisis and halfheartedly tries to delve into the ideas of humanity and…
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Plot:
Expelled From Paradise follows Angela, a girl in her twenties, who was raised in a Matrix-like computer system on a space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth. But after a hacker from the devastated planet below breaks into the system, she is tasked with finding and stopping the hacker in the real world. To do this, she is transferred into a clone body, given a mech, and told to meet up with Dingo, an agent living on Earth.
Thus begins her fish-out-of-water tale as she not only finds herself in a strange land she knows nothing about but also has to deal with a life trapped in a body that, unlike her digital one, requires food and rest. Together, Dingo and Angela travel across the frontier-like ruined Earth, trying to solve the mystery of the hacker’s identity and his true goals.
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Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise, is Gen Urobuctcher's (sorry, couldn't resist the bad jokes) new original animated film that explores the meaning of humanity and personal reality. The movie offers a few interesting twists and introduces some extremely intriguing ideas about sci-fi and humanity itself.
This movie is about our cute female protagonist, Balzac Angela (voiced by Kugimiya Rie so end of review, 10/10 :P ) sent from Deva, a new world created based on data after a certain apocalypse in earth that turned the whole world into a never-ending desert (portrayed as the wild west), to stop a certain someone or something who was recently hacking into the Deva system to convey a certain message that contradict's Deva's values. Angela, along with our male protagonist "dandyman" Zari…
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