Audience reviews
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GTORI
Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi is an extremely underwhelming experience. The uninspiring narrative, plain characters, and absolute spam of clichés all culminate in sheer mundanity. After 90 minutes of watching absolutely nothing happen, the movie ends in an incredibly abrupt manner—just to really drive home the fact that it completely wasted the viewer's time. Plot-wise, it's predictable enough to make you feel like a prophet, while simultaneously managing to get you as emotionally attached to the story as Buddha is to worldly desires.
I usually praise shows when the dialogue feels realistic, but in this movie, the trick to its realism is sheer awkwardness—not in an entertaining way, but in an... odd way. If I wanted to watch people feeling awkward, I'd just go make small talk with a gas s…
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Honestly I didn't like it, I thought when I was half way through the movie I was going to get caught up in the story and they just made me angry with what happened to Tsuneo. Personally I hate characters with “tsundere” personalities and I really tried to empathize with the main character, but I failed, I hated her until I saw that there were changes in her, I think the only character I liked was Tsuneo's friend, he was the only one that never made me angry and I liked that he proved to be a good friend despite his questionable personality. Despite hating the characters, I must admit that Bones never disappoints me in terms of character design and drawing style.
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I consider myself a very patient person. It takes a lot to get under my skin. Even when I watch bad anime, I still enjoy riffing on the flaws.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish managed to irritate me. Trying to finish it was like waiting at the end of a school day, watching the clock tick tick tick… I constantly paused to take in the frustrating decisions the characters made, then brace myself for more melodrama. The protagonist, Tsuneo, is a lot like me. Maybe that's why I had such a strong reaction to it. We're both 22-year-old guys planning to study abroad, working a part-time job to save money. Except, he's much more patient and resilient to psychological abuse than I am.
His tormenter is named Josee. A slightly older woman with a disability that prevents her from walking. You might assu…
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This anime is mainly a melodrama with romance. The focus of the anime is romance. But Josee, the main heroine, is nothing but a bitch to the protagonist who physically and verbally abuses him, and she never does anything nice for him. She also never apologizes for being an asshole to him, and yet the protagonist always keeps going back to her even after they fight over her disgusting treatment and dismissal of him.
The protagonist, Tsuneo, keeps doing nice things for Josee while she gives nothing in return, and yet the only thing the anime does to "redeem" her is make everything in her life start going wrong as if that will magically make you forget about how throughout the whole movie she pushed the protagonist around, hit him, bit him, insulted his job, and called him a servant 24/7.
W…
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While this is going to be a mostly negative review, I have to disagree a little with the other negative reviews here. The premise for this film has enough to carry the film and the characters have enough depth to fill out the 1.5 hours. Josee is struggling with having confidence, control, and autonomy, while Tsuneo is pushing himself to reach dreams that would make most people burn out if they tried to do anything similar. Tsuneo is balancing his high workload with social life and keeping his dream alive, Josee is dealing with an overbearing grandmother who is against Josee having any autonomy or freedom. It is clear that this film has set up plenty of themes and conflicts to explore. The issue I have with the film is that it chooses to ignore its characters to follow unnecessary plot twis…
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Shortest Spoiler free Review I could Manage:
Novel adapted into an anime movie will suffer tragic losses, there is a lot of picking and choosing what is relevant and what isn't to crafting the shorter version of the story, Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi doesn't deliver, and I wanted it to badly.
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-doesn't even address the stigma of being disabled especially in Japan which I thought it was going to so on me I guess.
-Josee is quite unlikeable throughout the whole thing, no one likes a bitter protagonist, the main dude (forgot his name) is a push over, the power balance felt off, she was mean to him for no reason and didn't soften or show growth.
-Very cheap, and I mean, very, cheap plot devices, I rolled my eyes when the tackiest most predictable thing happened, for no reason other than…
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I was a little excited when I found out about this movie, since it have a great score and it's on top 100 anime on this site, so I decided to watch it with my friends.
I already watched most of the top anime movies so I was in search of even more great movies and me finding about this anime was a perfect fit for this situation.
Now let's get into it-
This movie from the first 10 minutes was bad, everything, except for the art style was so bad I couldn't even comprehend the entire thing.
The story was a poor excuse for a clicheich type of thing that you usually see in american based style of movies, therefore being a very poor choice to combine the simplistic western style type with a story for an anime. I see that anime movies start to do the same with other stories, especially those…
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE.
The concept of having a handicapped one step by step gaining the recognition from others is not something new to anime fan, but hardly all of them are good enough to be watched with pleasure. Even “Koe no katachi”, one of the best amongst the genre, still receives conflicting opinions as it digs real deep into a sensitive and thorny problem that modern societies are witnessing – discrimination and despising ones with impairments.
I’m not going to compare “Koe no katachi” to “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish’, but as it comes to movies about this topic, the former had somewhat set a way too high standard, which really blurred several other films coming thereafter.
However, I have to admit that somehow Josee caught my attention from its very first trailer, and th…
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Recently, the anime community has been going on and on about a new movie made by Bones. There was no doubt it would have fantastic art and animation, and the fact that it was a dramatic slice of life related to disability and the growth of university students instantly made me interested. However, was the hype really worth the hour and a half watch time? Personally, I don’t think it was.
The plot itself is fine, nothing special really. Like I mentioned previously, the plot is literally just that of a standard drama series, which is completely fine, but it doesn't try and do anything special (or even go simple). This can still work, but I'll explain that part later.
That being said, even besides that, it did have a few plot twists going on, but in my opinion, they were very predictable. Fo…
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Review | Written analysis.
This movie fails in every way, it fails as a drama, fails as an inspirational movie, fails overall. The soundtrack is one of the most fundamental and basic aspects when directing a film of this type, but I feel that the soundtrack on this occasion was abused and poorly used at times, for example, in the first dramatic scene, where the girl falls down the slope a soundtrack sounds not according to the drama that the scene deserves, speaking of said scene, we are only told that someone pushed her, but how could this happen? Who was? We are not even shown a silhouette of who or how he did it, which I find incredibly forced and flattering with respect to the plot. Then the way in which the relationship is built in principle does not conv…
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"Grandma, the outside is not scary at all."
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish may have had a slightly bumpy start, but it knows its own strengths and uses it to build its momentum. At its apex, this film shines in all its beauty and fills you up with all sorts of emotions. What you will witness from this anime is the clear result of a passionate team that knows how to delicately craft a story that is able to stand out among the crowd of modern anime.
Josee's story contains several tropes, including cliche ones, but it is able to execute them when time is appropriate and the result is of praise. The main characters, Josee and Tsuneo, got to meet each other through a coincidence, which is nothing special but certainly not bad. Their relationship went off to a rocky beginning, however, when bot…
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Mediocre story, dull progression , one dimensional characters, zero emotions, over-dramatic premise = Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
I have been waiting for this movie for quite sometime, because the Korean Live Action of this is one of my All Time Favourite. I haven't read the original source material on which one followed the source faithfully but this anime adaptation is abysmal to say the least.
Story : Mundane story, with tons of events and drama with out any substance to it. I thought the story might delve on the issue of person going through disability and might touch on it a bit more. But this was all about our characters having little shenanigans for getting other's attention. If you thought synopsis on MAL was monotonous, I'm afraid movie is even more lacklustre.
Characters :…
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(No spoilers)
This is my favorite anime movie of all time from what I've seen so far, the themes and the emotion put into this made this movie so lifeful.
Story 10/10 - Such a wonderful story, I loved it from start to finish! This movie is truly inspirational and meaningful, as the themes of this story are never giving up your dream and growing up. The events that the main duo and everybody else go through are done to an almost perfect extent.. The romance is bliss, it wasn't forced nor was it cringe, it had a perfectly natural flow, and it was truly a treat to see. The atmosphere and tone here are consistent and impeccable, it made the movie, like I said, feel more lifeful. The narrative from start to finish was absolutely stunning and immersive.
Art - The movie had good art, though to…
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Overall i`ts a good movie.
I love how they`re make Tsuneo become a caregiver for Josee, which is not in the LA version.
The seiyuu of Josee is my favorite, the accent she has really fit on the Josee character. Visual and art from studio bones is goddamn good and also the music from E ve gives me a goosebumps on the cinema. some people tell me that the pace story of this movie is too fast but that`s acceptable for me. and the most important things is the ending, it`s feel like a cure for my dissapointed on the LA version LOL
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[tl;dr is at the bottom of the review]
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish is a movie that tells a story heavily focused on Josee (the disabled girl shown on the poster) and Tsuneo (the boy who walks besides Josee shown on the poster). When you saw this movie's poster for the first time, you might be thinking that this movie will tell one hell of a sad story. You're not wrong, but you're not completely right either if you think like that. My suggestion if you ever wanted to watch this movie, do not take your expectations too highly. I've heard a lot of positive things about this movie before, and that obviously made me expecting things highly from this movie. The movie did not live up to my expectations, but it did have it's own redeemable quality to be called "good".
Now, let's get to the re…
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Will be a controversial one but i don't think josee deserves a good rating. It lacks in character development and the build up is extremely rushed that it loses its essential. All the climax and supposed-to-be emotional moment feel so bland because the lack in character introduction
Story suppose to be great, i mean - a broken dream and hopeless disabled person and its struggle to achieving their dream is supposed to be sad, right? but sadly its not executed well. The movie feels so bland with side characters that are not giving any significant contribution to the story. All the emotional moment came with little to no backstory that makes the audience doesn't feel the same sadness as the character feels
The art is nothing too amazing, either. The animation in this movie is very advertise…
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This movie sounded amazing. Evan Call's soundtracks really elevated some of the more emotional and dramatic scenes, and Eve never ceases to amaze me with how good their songs are. Studio Bones absolutely nailed the animation too; from super detailed (and really cute!) characters to beautiful scenery shots, they certainly brought their A game here. 9/10 for both Art and Sound, for sure.
Unfortunately, the positives kinda stop there. What followed from an enthralling premise and a breathtaking first half-hour was a runaway train towards narrative disaster. I really wish I could tear into how poorly executed its dramatic lows were, but I want this review to be as spoiler-free as possible so I can hopefully warn potential watchers on what to expect.
Story - 2/10
It's your run-of-the-mill ro…
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Let me begin by saying I've been waiting for this movie for a little more than 4 months, so although there is bound to be some bias in this review I will try to keep it as balanced as possible and write as if the anticipation was less. I will also try my best to include as little spoilers as possible, but if you have yet watched the trailer, you might get spoiled in the smaller parts
Plot - 10/10
As you might have read in the synopsis, Josee met Tsuneo by a chance encounter (check out trailer if you want to know what happened) and decides that despite her disabilities, she wants to see the outside world. If you have seen the trailer beforehand, you will know that both of them sneaked out when her grandmother took her naps, and they explored the world Josee had never seen or had not seen f…
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I just came back from the theatres and I want to say that this movie is really good. Watched this with the bros and we enjoyed it. It has a great soundtrack, beautiful art and the story is pretty good. Corona ain't stopping me from watching this but remember social distance and wear your mask.
As you go into the movie you will start to fall in love with the characters. You got the girl in wheelchair, josee(best girl) . Black hair kind dude,tsuneo and the other few side characters. Well designed and the VA they chose for the characters did a good job.
The art is beautiful 9 to 10/10. Thank you for blessing my eyes.
Story is probably the weakest part I think but its still pretty good. It's something abit different and they don't waste your time on dumb shit and executes it really well.…
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I watched this in theater recently and decided to write a review, will keep it simple for those who's curious about this movie.
In summary, this romance drama is pretty standard as it goes, so if you expect something new or something compelling then you won't find it here. Animated movie formats in general are fast paced due to its short run time; relying on common tropes, character archetypes and melodrama to convey the story quickly and efficiently; it simply can't be fleshed out like a TV-series, and this movie is no different. Of course, this isn't a bad thing - what I want to address here is to know your expectations before watching this (and pretty much anything else). I personally watched this because I want a light-hearted casual show with nice interactions between the main duo. A…
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