Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Sleepy_ash____
I dont know why some people dislike this anime ... But I loved this . It has a really unique plot . Nice ending .(First of all I havent played ni no kuni games , maybe thats why my view of point is different that some others). This anime is on top of my anime list now . Fantasy lovers should probably watch this . Im not into fantasy a lot but this got me addicted
The characters are good , especially yu is nice . Im addicted to him . Their looks are really fine , the art is amazing . When I started watching it and saw the main characters at first I was like "This is gonna be good there are some hot guys" . And it actually turned out to be good .
The other thing is the plot is easy to understand , it wont leave u in confusion in parts in the middle and the ending totally made sense . ( Im…
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As an avid lover of the Ni no Kuni series, this movie was dreadfully disappointing. They did a great job at reusing some of the game's original soundtrack, and the movie itself was visually quite nice to look at (for the most part) but the actual plot was terrible. The only reason I sat through the whole thing was because of my love for the games, otherwise I would have dropped the film before the 30 minute mark. The storyline eventually became so haphazard that I put the film on 1.5 speed just to try to get it over with.
If you're someone who doesn't care much for following a coherent storyline and just want to see people run across cool landscapes, then feel free to watch the film. If you're hoping for a worthwhile addition to the video game series (or even a random good movie to spend…
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I can not believe people hate an anime movie because it uses 3d models. It is pathetic. I am an author, movie critic, scholar, and writer. I found this movie to be absolutely well done. The hardest part about any story is in its execution. This movie had a script that delivered. The characters were well planned. The Story was well thought out. Even the fight scenes were enjoyable.
Anything less than a 10 rating would be downplaying this timeless movie. It is a standalone classic. Not many films can be strong enough to stand alone in its performance.
All credit should go to the animators as well as the script writers.
Again, it sickens me because "anime fans" are so quick to hate on any studio that uses modern graphics. Do they not know that animation and 3d modelling is a masterful com…
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Story (6): It was a somewhat unique plot that touched on lives being parallel to each other in different dimensions and how the events in one can affect the other. The way it was implemented was rather mellow though and the world building was rather non-existent. However this movie was made to promote the game, which I have not played, but I am assuming that if you are a fan of the games then seeing the world in the movie was probably epic.
Art (6): I have 2 issues with the art. One, the cgi was horribly blended into the anime. Two, the art tried very hard to mimic Ghibli, since Ghibli was behind the animated scenes in the game, which left me comparing the two art styles and how Ghibli was superior. That being said the art itself was pretty good but when it tried to be an inferior clone I…
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I don't write reviews. Here we go (?)
Ni no Kuni (2019) is a cash grab. This nearly two-hour shambles of a feature length animated movie is, at best, a mediocre isekai. For those of you who are familiar with modern renditions of the isekai genre this should be off-putting as-is. If not please continue reading.
This is quite frankly an absolute monstrosity of an attempt at art. The story is non existant aside from some poorly executed tropes mixed in with your standard quid pro quo of two best friends fighting for the same cause on two different sides; the resolution of which is lackluster and abrupt to the point of rapidly removing the viewer from any semblance of suspension of disbelief that may remain after the first hour of drivelling nonsense.
The art is mediocre at best, awful a…
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I've never played the games, so they have no bearing on this review.
The only good thing about this film was the art style. The detail in the monsters was good, and the fight scenes are relatively easy to see (as opposed to lots of flashing lights constantly covering the screen).
Everything else was cliched and/or boring. The characters aren't fleshed out, and the choices they make often make no sense. After spending a brief time in a parallel world, Haru suddenly decides that murdering the world's counterpart will save the girl he likes in his world, and is completely convinced by this.
Beyond the 2-D characters making no sense, the story never explains how the parallel world works. OK, Yu can walk in the alt world, but suddenly both boys know how to outfight monsters and fighters?…
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This is one of the most uninspired movie I've ever seen.
Most characters are bland and forgettable. Haru`s actions on the other hand are completely unbelievable. Nobody is this dense. He also switches his mood in an instant.
Story is super predictable but it doesn't flow naturally. Everything happens because it needs to. Haru gets mad for no real reason, magic sword appears out of nowheres, and so on. Also those massive plot holes...
The writing is definitely the worst thing about this movie.
There is no world building, nothing gets explained. I haven't played the games so I was completely lost. Those other races are completely unimportant. Who is that old man? What are his motivations?
I don't get it.
The animations were stiff and CGI straight up bad. When you see those faces you…
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felt like a mediocre version of 12 kingdoms, Fushigi Yuugi and other Isekai of the 1990 and early 2000s. with all the shortcomings that that time works where knowen for.
to know why I say this watch this video from Crunchyroll's official youtube channel "History of Isekai" https://youtu.be/siZ1Swh4LWk?t=280
the movie had all the makings of a great anime but it felt condensed forcing conclusions that would have felt more natural if given more time to develop and would have been better executed as a series rather than a movie.
I liked the ending and it did fell complete just wish that it was better passed.
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I really don't know how to start this review. Sorry it's so long.
tldr: This movie is not very good. If you think that this movie will be full of fun references to the games, it doesn't have much in that regard. I would not recommend unless you love the series that much.
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is one of my favorite games of all time. I love the characters, the world, the music, and of course the art. This movie however, does not encapsulate anything about the game series at all and leaves a lot to be desired. I know this movie is not an adaptation of the games, but it tries to add a lot of references to the games so I'm not sure I can count these as completely separate entities.
Spoilers ahead if you care.
First off I want to say that while earlier I did say that nothi…
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Story: 3
So, the initial premise was actually quite good: People in each world are connected in some way, so what happens in one world affects the ones they are connected to in the other. So when Kotona, a girl in our world, is about to die, it seems like the only way to save her is by killing Astrid, a princess in the other world. So the two main characters, Yu and Haru, go against each other to defend the girl they fell in love with.
The first act is pretty solid, introducing the cast, the two worlds and apparently the main conflict of the story set in trailers and whatnot. The problem starts when the second act begins and things escalate way too fast. In less than ten minutes of screentime, Haru and Yu go from best friends to enemies and go to freacking war against each other. It felt…
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And here I was thinking that I wouldn’t write anime reviews again because of the time that I consume doing so, then NiNoKuni appears on my Netflix. In first glace I wasn’t interested at all, the art style wasn’t appealing, the animation was just OK and the story shown in the trailer looked unoriginal, until I saw them going to a new world, and as an Isekai fan I immediately clicked on it to start watching. Well, at the end of the movie I regret it.
First of all, let’s mourn screenwriting. I would need a couple dozen hours just to talk about all the mistakes of logic, coherence or just ways that a scene could be improved, that’s the magnitude of lack of work in screenwriting, I like to believe that they gave the guy two weeks to work on a one-and-a-half-hour movie’s storyline, and that’s…
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So I loved the movie as a fan of Both ni no kuni games. The whole ending was fantastic lol. I found the whole thing there to be intriguing. If you played the first game it was a fantastic part and only they'd get why it was great.
But all the plot points where stupid on Haru's end. He literally made no sense. The damn girl called a dude in a wheelchair to help her and the dude actually ran.
Those are my issues. Movie was really good otherwise
The music was straight out of the 2 ni no Kuni titles so you know it was great. The Characters... tbh I liked everyone but Haru and his girlfriend. Because they're equally dumb. Why a dude in a wheelchair has the be the one with common sense being a real hero while they make bad decisions. Meh. Loved Astra though. She was a highlight. She wasn't any…
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I watched this on a whim. I thought the plot was quite interesting. I didn't see the twist coming, but I usually don't. Though it's labeled as a fantasy movie, the world building and magic system are pretty flat. We actually know almost nothing about them outside of what we need to know to understand the plot. The movie is more based around the characters' relationships to each other and their own selves than anything else. I found this movie somewhat entertaining, but somehow it just didn't get me feeling anything. I feel like this movie is one of those movies where the idea or theme is more important than the actual story.
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As someone who has played both Ni No Kuni's major games (Wrath of the White Witch and Revenant Kingdom) this movie does not correlate the game's storyline, it's an alternative storyline at best.
The story is very mediocre, very predictable (I knew the villain the moment I saw him) and does not follow the game's logic. It's like, trying to be Ni No Kuni, but it is not.
The 2D animation is good(as you expect when you consider it's heavily inspired by Ghibli's work), but the CGI is very bad.
The sound is good, many soundtracks are from the original games, and most of the time fit well.
The characters... are complicated. I enjoyed them at the beginning, they made me want to continue watching to see how they end up, but it seems they became less and less important at the end.
I felt it lacks a…
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Its another isekai, and not a good one given this was inspired from the game
The animation is passable but, most of the characters were either unlikable due to being incredibly stupid, or barely even relevant to the plot, along with that the movie refuses to explain things like how Yu is crippled in the city world but isn’t in the fantasy world, along with that he is linked with his friend so he should’ve also been crippled, or why they were even transported in the first place since the villain could’ve easily killed the king and everyone else, he already was in the process of murdering the princess so what was the point of bringing them there?
The villain was barely even featured in the plot at all so there was no feeling of threat
There is almost no build up to the plot twists, and the s…
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This is a Studio Ghibli movie in all but name, and the closest we'll get to one now that they've closed down. Based on a game that Ghibli made a while back and realized into a movie by OLM with the help of some Ghibli veterans, you get a taste here of what the studio would have continued to put out if they stayed open past Mr. Miyazaki's retirement. The result is not bad, but it is almost aggressively mediocre. I think if this is the kind of thing the Studio would have put out without Miyazaki at the helm, maybe it wouldn't have been worth it to sully the name that brought us actual 10/10 masterpieces like Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind. It does make you long for those days waiting to see what Studio Ghibli would cook up next, though. There is…
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What we have here is Level-5's attempt at making a movie, and on the surface, it looks promising. Ni no Kuni is a game series that got started in the early 2010s, and it was famous for one thing: It was the first video game that Studio Ghibli worked on. No, really. Level-5 actually brought Ghibli on to animate various cutscenes and had Joe Hisaishi make the music for it. Needless to say, everyone who played it really liked it. I've been wanting to play the game myself for years, but it was on the PS3, which I could never afford. It did get re-released on the Switch, so I wasted no time buying it, but I never got to sit down and play it yet. Getting back on track, Ni no Kuni eventually went on to get a sequel game and, as of last year, a movie with an original story. When I heard about the…
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Continuation of a previous reviewer (because I thought it was hilarious)
3: After saving a princess from another world (whom had a dagger in her stomach just like your girlfriend from your original world), you learn that she has a malignant tumor that may kill her within the next 3 months. Your best friend tries to reason with you by saying that the princess in the other world must be in danger because their lives are linked in theory. In response you:
A) Use the 3mo of time to test the theory before jumping to conclusions
B) Agree with you friend and go back to the other world to save the princess
C) Suddenly go into a fit of rage and vow to murder the princess
If your answer was C, You'll love this movie. If not then be ready to facepalm so many times that your face becomes a hand.…
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Am I the only one who strongly disliked this movie. The 2d animation was good but the CGI was downright awful. Models looked worse than videogames from two generations ago. It's hard to get into specific details without giving away spoilers but the world history and logic created in the games are completely shattered in this movie. The timeline is all mixed up. The story is often predictable. I think as a stand-alone movie it would be ok for someone who hasn't played the games but as someone whos put 30+ hours into Ni No Kuni 1 and 2 each this movie feels like an insult that hurts my perspective on the series as a whole.
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1: You are being chased by a guy with a dagger through the streets. You call your friend but he doesn't pick up. What do you do?
A: Call the cops to come and help?
B: Call an adult to come and help?
C: Call your other friend who is in a wheelchair to come and help?
If your answer is C, then you will probably love this movie. If it isn't then you will probably enjoy watching this show to laugh at other dumb things the characters did.
2: You find your stabbed girlfriend on the streets in the arms of your best friend (not in that way, get your minds out of the gutter). Your girlfriend is losing blood and your friend who can't walk (because he is a cripple but is still trying to carry her and save her) is holding her too tightly. What do you do?
A: Rush over and help carry her?
B: Call an amb…
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