Audience reviews
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grr_mal
I wish there was a genre or a tag to warn people about this type of content. I'd just call it nonsense, but as surprising as it is I realize now that just like in drawing, poetry, music or other mediums, anime also has people that would call any sort of nonsense an art. So I guess something like Dementia or Delirium or Surrealism could be more appropriate to not totally out those people. Still, there must be something to mark it as inappropriate for normal sane viewers.
A part of this nonsense is literally explained in-universe as a delirium from having a high fever. But that's only a really small part, so I'm not too sure why the author even bothered. I guess some other parts might be similarly explainable as alcohol intoxication, but that's more of a stretch.
If you do end up watching…
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I watched Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome, also known as The Night is Short, Walk on Girl. Here are my thoughts:
This movie is the spiritual sequel to The Tatami Galaxy (Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei), and I enjoyed this movie much more because it didn't have the awful whiny MC that made me dislike The Tatami Galaxy so much, although other familiar characters are present, such as Higuchi and Hanuki. The art style is also quite similar to The Tatami Galaxy – I appreciated it. The visuals are creative, unique, dynamic, and entertaining to admire; it is a nice satisfying visual feast. Overall this is a very 'artsy' movie that would be enjoyed by those who like avant-garde abstract experimental stuff. That said, the OST and voice acting are nothing special, in my opinion.
There isn't much of a coh…
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This is a review for both Tatami Galaxy and Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome, but I'll try to keep it more on Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome.
The thing many people love/hate about the works made by Masaaki Yuasa and Tomihiko Morimi (Tatami Galaxy and The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl) is the strange and "weird" style of these animes. I watched Tatami Galaxy for the first time when I was 16, the first two or three episodes were absolute nonsense to me -someone who had just started watching anime.
Two years later, I watch Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome, and I'm confused about everything for the first 20 minutes of the movie. As the story progresses, I find myself lost in its world and the chaotic state of people and things. I finish the movie and suddenly realize that I'm smiling. That's e…
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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl is one of many that help cement anime as a serious medium. The notion that anime is something for kids is a common one. The sentiment is found only because of the inevitable results that arise from the nature of the medium itself. Generic power-fantasies, "plot" shows, and just the whole escapist, self-indulgent nature that animation can cater to is why it is known as childish, though most do not realize that this is why. They hear the standpoint and envision rainbows and sunshine, turning to disturbance to convert the mind. This method only works for individuals who do think of anime in that way. Ones who believe in the way I described will not budge. It only reinforces their ideology, as by turning to disturbance rather than substance, you've only shown a…
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I happened to be on break from class when I and a friend went to local Nerd store in town. I usually go there to check out manga but happened to find a colletion edition blu ray of this movie for a nice price. Whether it actually was a nice price I don´t know but I was satisfied with the purchase. As this also happened to be my first introduction to Masaki Yuasa. (Except for devilman crybaby which did not appeal to me).
The best way to describe this movie is "Experience". This movie is like a roller coaster that you sit and ride on through a fantastical night of wonder. It is weird to say that a movie that lacks in plot and character happened to be one of my favorites ever, but I can´t stress enough on how this film made my heartbeat go up and down, a movie that leaves me in awe.
This is…
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Dreamlike , Bizarre , Frenetic , Absurd , Trance-like , Awe-inspiring , I could easily run out of adjectives to describe this movie but never do it justice.
There's a pub crawl , weird romance plot , multiple musical numbers and dance sequences , cowboys fighting politicians , so many individual stories connecting into one story about adolescence and anxiety , optimism , enjoying life and how everything in life intertwine with each other.
It's a movie in concept that would be too wild to ever succeed and be coherent but it triumphant in a mind-boggling way. The story is , to simply put , Is what I imagine having severe ADHD is like. It felt like the authors mind wondered from one strange thought to another , one dreamlike set piece to another , one strange situation to another , but in t…
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I will preface by stating I have never seen The Tatami Galaxy. This is also only the second work I have seen by Yuasa, Masaaki. I only watched it in the first place because a friend of mine suggested it. This movie has its place, this movie can even be called good. Though to me, a layman, casual anime watcher, this movie was not worth my time.
The art style is insanely unique and something worth commending but it isn't something I would want every anime to look like. At the very beginning I actually found it annoying and because of it, was hard to connect with the characters. So the first 30 minutes of the movie I was like, this art style is unique but at points hard to look at. I wouldn't say it is without detail because it has details, it was simply done and easy to understand. Somethi…
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Much akin to The Tatami Galaxy anime, I found this movie to be an absolute delight. Several human emotions are visually personified so simply and beautifully that it deserves the masterpiece tag. As a viewer, one is continually exposed to a feel good atmosphere (kind of relatable to drinking days back in college minus the anime histrionics). The young adult difficulties encountered in life are vividly portrayed, interspersed with several humorous settings, culminating with a great ending. I really don't want to say any more about this movie than to just watch it - a fine 90 minutes respite in the world of anime we so ever love
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This is a giant, hour-and-a-half metaphor of life. The clocks, the contrast between Rihaku and Kurokami no Otome, the struggle it feels to make that special girl notice you where you embarrass yourself billions of times, it's all here. I can't count how many times I felt so identified with the situations not because I've been through all of them, but because the feelings these situations project are the same I've experienced throughout my youth. Senpai's struggle in all the movie is the same struggle I've had, and I love how it's kind of ridiculed but at the same time giving it that deep, irrational depth everyone places onto feeling you are someone useful.
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After I finished watching this movie I felt like I missed something. It was by no means bad but the response to it all around seemed overwhelmingly positive. I didn’t want to be unfair to the movie before reviewing it so I whipped out a notepad++ to make thorough notes for it during a re-watch to make sure I didn’t miss anything. The result of that was pretty predictable, I still don’t think this movie is fantastic but I appreciate what it did right and can definitely see why people would adore it.
At its most basic, Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (from now on Mijikashi cause I don’t hate myself) is a bare bones story crafted for the purpose of conveying a few simple but wholesome and motivational messages. Love can’t be explained rationally, instead of trying to understand and explain i…
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This anime is distilled dream-stuff... if by distilled we mean it was guzzled by a fat, perverted pessimist and then pissed out under some sordid bridge of despair.
I did not care for Tatami Galaxy (despite its FANTASTIC ED), and I meh'd this piece. It did not merit hatred, rather only scoring as high as vague disappointment.
I believe there is an aquifer of common emotional imagery, a well of shared dreams. In this anime, the particular dream is one I've had myself: a bright evening, full of unknown adventure awaiting in the shadows and garish lights of the nighttime frolic. It's an evening ripe with possibilities and chance encounters with fascinating strangers. These are places I have seen myself during my excursions into the dream realm, and Masaaki Yuasa seems to know his way around…
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A lot can happen in a night, a night where time moves so fast.
For someone, it might just be a night of humiliation. For someone else, it could be a night that ended gloriously with your dreams come true. For many, it can be a night of adventure. Reality works in some contorted ways. This is further exemplified by the fantastic, reality-bending visuals employed by director Masaaki Yuasa and his team over at Science Saru. The visuals are chaotic, imaginative, and bursting with life everywhere. Everything moves wonderfully and the wonderful designs lend themselves over to both this and the ability to simply expand as they please. Flowers, hallucinations, flames spewing from blazing hot meals, everything is a sheer spectacle that is incredibly difficult to do justice towards.
Of equal spec…
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The Night is Short is a movie of contradiction: its events are chaotic but organized, held in closed groups which all intermingle; the night is short, yet spans an eternity. And at the very center of it all, one raven-haired maiden leads the way.
This girl - a free-spirited and optimistic woman in her early twenties - serves as the movie’s driving force and a foil to everyone around her. Stumbling from party to party, she unites groups of people which at first glance seem to have no connection, but are all related in one way or another. She brings joy to those glooming over a distant future and the time rushing by simply through appreciating the present and what is - not what could be. And no matter what opportunity presents itself to her, she seizes it, thus preventing the festive train…
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When you go into a movie holding unreasonably high expectations, it is rare for those expectations to be met. Even though I tried not to, I held unreasonably high expectations for this movie, and though it did not meet them, I'm glad to say that it is still a solid movie in its own right that stands above many other feature length anime films that I've seen.
Could anyone really blame me for holding such high expectations? The Night is Short, Walk on Girl is a film from Masaaki Yuasa, one of the anime industry's most creative and prolific figures, based on a novel by the author of the Tatami Galaxy, which was adapted into one of the best anime series ever made (by Yuasa himself, mind you). I don't think that you should decide a film's merits by comparing it to other works, but the compari…
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Once in a while, there pops up a work of fiction that is not burdened by boundaries set by industry and media consumers nowadays. A work that isn't afraid to offer something extraordinary and to play with possibilities of the platform it stands on. A piece of expressionistic art which portrays it's rich content in the most unconventional of manners. Experimental creation which embraces charm and creativity with all it's being.
There also pops up a person who has guts and inspiration to make all of this happen, and in the last decade of anime industry, that usually happens to be Masaaki Yuasa, who keeps transcending the medium with his talent over and over again. The man behind Mind Game, Ping Pong The Animation, Kaiba and Tatami Galaxy arrived to save the anime again by adapting yet anoth…
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7 years after the first time Masaaki Yuasa adapted Morimi Tomihiko's work comes their second dance. Does it work this time aswell? In short: HELL YES.
Night is short, walk on girl is set in tatami universe. There are no direct references just some Easter eggs but the world works on the same logic as Tatami Galaxy. Except this time it's set in Kyoto which means it's much more magical.
Our Raven haired maiden begins her journey through night and our Senpai follows while trying to "coincidentally" bump into her. The movie is split into parts that are all connected via it's main theme. The fate. We have two main characters who are completely different in terms of their views on fate. One just follows while the other makes his own. That is however not the single focus on the movie as it ta…
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I'm not a good writer.
Yeah, this is not a good way to start a review, but I don't care - I'm actually quite postive that this is going to get lost in between all the other thousand reviews around here. My english is also not that good - it's not my main language - , but I try my best.
You're - If there's someone other than me reading this - probably wondering: "What the hell does it have to do with Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome?"
Well, it's quite simple: It's about trying your best.
We have a black-haired girl walking on and letting life lead her way. And then there is this boy. He tries his best to talk to her so keeps stalking her and doing what would look like "coincidences" - Even though he sucks at doing this. And this is it, that's what the movie is about. It's an overly used for…
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This movie is a beautiful mess.
Going into "The Night is Short...", a movie that has the same staff as The Tatami Galaxy, the same distinctive artstyle as The Tatami Galaxy, starring a pair of nameless protagonists (Senpai and The Black-Haired Maiden) as per The Tatami Galaxy, is adapted from a novel by Tomohiko Morimi (of The Tatami Galaxy), shares the same fictional universe as The Tatami Galaxy (featuring several of its characters), and features a theme song by Asian Kung-Fu Generation for good measure, you'd be forgiven for expecting this movie to be The Tatami Galaxy 2.0 (and if you haven't seen The Tatami Galaxy... what the hell are you doing here? Go watch The Tatami Galaxy). For all it shares with its predecessor, though, The Night is Short is unmistakeably its own movie, taking t…
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Note: I got to see this at a special premiere screening in my city, with Masaaki Yuasa himself in attendance! He's a very lovely guy. I hope that hasn't biased my review too much.
This film is closely intertwined with The Tatami Galaxy, a previous Yuasa-directed work. Their original novels were written by the same author, they share a setting in Kyoto and apparently take place in the same universe - many characters from TG pop up here and there in NiS, if not always in the way you expect them to. It's not strictly a sequel, but you'll get much more out of the film if you've seen Tatami, so that's something to consider.
Night is Short, much like Tatami Galaxy, is a bit of a difficult sell plot-wise - it focuses mostly on a college student only named Senpai whose only goal is to win the he…
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"Yoru wa Mijikashi, Arukeyo Otome" (or "The Night is Short, Walk On, Young Maiden") is a film by director Masaaki Yuasa based on the similarly titled novel by author Tomihiko Morimi. If you are at all familiar with Yuasa's previous works as well as Morimi's adapations (including the Yuasa adaptation of "Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei"), there's a good chance you'll know exactly what you're getting into by watching this film.
To put it simply: this movie is an utter, frenetic delight.
The story, without spoiling too much, is a perfect match for the big screen. Covering the events of a single lively night in the imaginative world of Morimi's Kyoto, it's not often you see so much happen in such a short amount of time. Fans of "Yojouhan" will be familiar with the unforgiving speed of the dialogue, b…
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