Audience reviews
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NEEDY_SPY
The concept of parallel worlds and different versions of love was honestly really interesting, and that’s what pulled me in. It had a lot of potential to be something emotional and memorable.
But for me, the story didn’t really land. It felt a bit overcomplicated and tried too hard to be smart instead of just telling a strong, simple story. Because of that, I couldn’t fully connect with the characters or their emotions.
Some moments were nice, but overall it felt just alright. Not bad, just not as impactful as it could have been. I think the writer kind of overcooked the idea.
Maybe it’s also because I’m getting older, but I’ve started to prefer stories that focus more on emotional depth rather than complex concepts.
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Sci-fi and Romance can be complicated genres to mesh together as either of them aren’t intrinsically conducive to the other’s progression prospects unless the writing allows them to naturally bounce off each other. Finding a necessary balance is crucial as downplaying any one aspect would diminish the overall believability factor, but KimiAi is a special case where everything is minimized. Teenage romances don’t particularly appeal to me, and while it can be argued that the film transpires over the entirety of human life, I’m inclined to stick to my initial term as the romance is established and contained in an adolescent form. It is difficult to sympathize with the leads’ situation as there’s never any satisfactory chemistry built between them, attributed to several plot conveniences and…
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This is the best anime movie of 2022 hands down.
This is the sister film of "To every you I've loved before" (Which you should watch first as they are interconnected but they can be watched in any order)
Starting off this anime is about the concept of Parallel universes and how that affects a human over the course of their life (entirely fictional not based off irl) And the romance between Shiori and Kuyomi. This anime starting off is so wholesome at times, the type of anime that you would imagine somebody rolling around and kicking their feet too. The bonding Between the two main characters Kuyomi and Shiori is just breathtaking to watch, don't be surprised if you find yourself smiling through the first part of this movie as they develop its super wholesome.
However this movie does H…
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TLDR: If you could ignore the sci-fi elements, and some cheesy plot, this is really a good one. The voice acting and visual is okay, and the emotion is well conveyed.
This review could be biased, since i get a really heartmelting impression off the movie.
First of all, i wanna clarify that i'm already committed onto ignoring every sci-fi element in the movie from the beginning, since i presumed the elements itself would be of a cliche (and that's what actually happened). I expected the movie to be just, a drama, though i still expect it to be good.
I believe commentary regarding the sci-fi mechanism have already posted somewhere in this forum. I won't talk about that. This will be about anything else.
The movie has an alright visual, maybe a bit enhanced because it was made as a movie…
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For the full review of both movies, I’ve published it in Boku Ai since I watched that one first. This is just a really short review & small-talk about Kimi Ai ONLY. For full evaluation and more in-depth review visit my Boku Ai review!
"Kimi wo Aishita Hitori no Boku e," the red movie in the parallel worlds saga, offers a compelling exploration of love that defies the constraints of fate and time. In this emotionally charged narrative, the film follows the journey of Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Satou, childhood friends whose bond evolves into a profound connection that withstands the challenges presented by parallel worlds.
This movie should be more to the mystic side of love instead of the Sci-Fi theme - although concepts of Sci-Fi are still the main theme. One of the reasons why it’s more…
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A peaceful life that can affect anyone, as well as its unexpected turns that can completely change it.
From the very beginning of the story to the end, every detail and stage is clearly and friendly presented.
The theme of love, devotion and the pursuit of happiness not of one's own but that of a loved one personally appealed to me very much in the character presented.
In addition, the division into two films, the plot of which is intertwined, is somewhat unusual, giving us the feeling of actually watching different possible events.
Yea, it's very similar to Steins Gate. I highly recommend watching it.
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I like this type of anime where the story unfolds slowly and you get the answers of the questions that you asked while watching. Also this anime is full of hidden clues.So try to remember every seen. Trust me, it will help you to fill the story & to better understand it.
The art style was very good, the character building was on point, the story telling is good. The science explanation was understandable.
Those who love science fiction & love romance anime with cute couple then this is the one.
But you need to watch the 2nd part(prequel) to understand it fully. Don't skip the 1st part.
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Sigh. What can I say..
I am quite disappointed by this movie. So many timeskips and unclear messages.. When I finished watching it I was just left confused.
I felt that the plot is really messy. We are thrown back and forth constantly. You may think that something is going to happen but no! Another timeskip! Another reality! Great!
The VA's for the characters made me laugh by how monotonne their voice was even in emotional moments. The character is screaming and crying but their voice is steady lmaoo
The animation is simple but pleasant. I think that this was my favorite part of it all.
Dunno what to say more. I am just left confused and I don't know how to feel about this movie.
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This is a master piece. There is many hidden details that you won't realize before you finished both movie. But after you finished all of it it hits hard. Insanely hard. The Voice Acting may not be good but the plot/story makes up for it. Also you may prob have realized this but the movie uses first impression to change how you feel about the ending at each movie. The charater is also pretty good. Not gona spoil anything but i suggest watching this 1 before the blue 1. It got a bitter sweet ending. Yall will love it to the bottom of your heart.
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Well so I’m in the population that watched this one first.
The story is quite dear and emotional. It’s similar to Steins;gate in the execution, motivation, and even animation. This was what I think the story aimed to be. However, it fell kinda flat for me. The biggest problem is the length. There’s honestly not a whole lot to the story, so the pace of this movie dragged so much. I was bored for a solid chunk of this movie. The voice acting was bland with low energy and emotion. There’s still good moments, but different problems saturated out the good parts. 6/10
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The idea of two worlds seems attractive to me, so I will give two reviews within this review, one only having seen this movie, and the other after having seen the other movie, both without spoilers; I want to clarify that I will do the reviews from a more emotional view and less critical point.
First Review: At the moment it is only a movie
The idea of a multiverse is something that is being seen a lot in the movie industry, although it is not new, it is probably in its best moment. This movie talks about a world of possibilities,even though it's not that it focuses so much on that, it talks more about a person who is so focused on a goal, that he practically forgets his own desires, all to fulfill a promise and also "redeem" himself.. It's beautiful, it feels like something is missi…
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This movie will make you angry pfff
(This whole text was written for friend, so it’s very emotional. I’m sharing it here cuz I found it funny.
P.S. I watched blue one first, then this one and I’ll leave recommendations about the orders of watching, below)
So honestly? Disgusting movie that only give anger. Ahah But maybe that's just me. The MC is miserable, pathetic and obsessed, so i didn’t empathize to him. The fact that you can compare the two from different universes is making it kinda easy, like gladly there’s better version of him somewhere. Actually, as a whole, both movies as one make it really pretty and tragic story. The two met and that fact alone ruined them, and those who love them, enter life. The only happy ending is for them to never appear in each others lifes...
YEH, YO…
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Honestly, the voice acting is one of the main detractors of this movie. It makes everything freaking boring. Bro is supposed to be crying and screaming yet it feels like he's having a regular conversation.
I'd rather watch fireworks again, than rewatch this dogshit. At least fireworks made me laugh at how bad the dub was, and it gave us a good song out of it.
Also I think the whole step bro shit was lame, like bruh you can still date her even if your parents marry. Shit is so unnecessary, like you can't be that dumb bruh.
I did the dumb move of watching the other movie first, and I found it pretty boring. Had I watched this first, I likely woulda liked this series more. Oh well...
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It's a perfect series.after i watched both movies in this series,I was overwhelming bythe emotions about the 3 main characters Koyomi,Kazune & shiori.
Order i watched this parallel movies,
1~ to every you, I've loved before
2~ to me, the one who loved you
I really recommend this series! Believe me at frist my fav anime movie series was Makoto shinkai's universe which contains
-Garden of words
-5cm per second -WeatherIng with you
-Your name,
but after i watched these two It became thy second!❤️
"If there are 100 of you in this world,there also 100 of me.the 100 of me must love the 100 of you.no matter wich world is...I'll always love you there"
From - 'to all of you that i loved' movie
Shortly - "a Well prepared parallel world concept combined with literary romance"
if you enjoyed…
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Moving towards the next stage of the romance genre, it revolves around Romance from different, parallel worlds. Yes, actually these are 2 different films but have a connection between the events in the story. Because the genre of this film is Sci-Fi, so you are required to understand it and require critical thinking, of course so that you are not confused or fail to understand the plot/events while watching.
A work depicting two boys with the same name falling in love with a girl in their respective worlds, and set in a world where people can travel between (parallel) worlds. Kimi Ai and Boku Ai are stories that stand alone, but the settings of the two worlds allow them to be connected to one another.
Here we have the option to choose which one we will see first.
Timeline orders: Kimi Ai…
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Criminally underrated! I guess most anime fans nowadays like to watch shows with bimbos and stupid unrealistic over romanticized moments. Therefore actual good anime like these get drastically overlooked.
First thing that I want to mention is please, you NEED to watch both movies. You can pick whichever you want to watch first but again please watch the other before you rage on about how it doesn't make sense. Personally I watch "To Every You That I Loved" first, but I will treat both movies as one and I'd say it doesn't really matter which order you decide to go. That said with how the anime is constructed it's really hard to keep this review spoiler free but I'll try my best not to go too deep into important plot points.
These movies do require some thinking on your part to understand,…
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I guess you could say this has spoilers in it but it's not anything big, anyone that reads this won't understand what happens in the entire movie or fully understand the plot.
Well this was disappointing, I was expecting this movie to be at least somewhat good but it didn't live up to my expectations. This isn't even movie quality it looks like a regular anime episode but worse. The voice acting in this movie was just bad, it's like the voice actors just put no emotion into playing these characters. Everything else is fine in this movie up until the main character gets a different hair color in a different world and then we get a time-lapse of his life in this parallel world which came out of nowhere, no narration or explaining what is about to happen the music came on and it just started…
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TLDR: Watch it only if you are digging some cheesy and wistful romance. For some deep, well-thought-out plot…avoid it.
The most important requirement for a series dealing with time, space, and related sci-fi elements is that its in-universe laws/principles stay consistent and the plot holes remain minimum, ideally absent. Some series manage to explain such complex phenomena relatively well ( Steins:Gate ) while the rest focus more on other aspects and only use the sci-fi elements as an underlying base to save themselves the trouble of explaining each and every “law” ( Erased ). Kimi wo aishita tries to go with the former route by framing and explaining laws for parallel shifts/inter-dimensional travel, but fails at it horrendously.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Kimi wo aishita’s plot holes become…
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It was an ambitious concept of multiple ending, but felt average to me. I have seen both movies, this being the second.
It technically is the sadder ending, but it ain't that type of ending that will make you shed tears.
The story for both movies differ in terms of love interest and which parent MC choose to stay with after they get divorced.
Story -
MC stays with Father, a research scientist, falls in love with the daughter of his father's colleague (step-mom). Due to a stupid misunderstanding and tragic accident, the girl dies and MC is determined to find a solution to revive her. This movie is more technical in explaining the theories of dimension travel as majority of it takes place inside the research institute in contrast to the other movie that shows his outside life.
Voice Act…
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Short non-objective and biased review.
Well, well, well...
This was actually surprisingly good, I honestly didn't have my hopes up after watching 'Boku ga Aishita Subete no Kimi e' before watching this movie, which wasn't a good idea, but without going into spoilers, I can recommend watching Kimi wo Aishita Hitori no Boku e first.
'Kimi wo Aishita Hitori no Boku e' starts off at a good phase and it didn't slow down once in my opinion, sadly going into details with this movie isn't very easy without spoiling.
The two movies really go well together, even though it might not have been needed to make it into two movies, this one (Kimi wo Aishita Hitori no Boku e) was great.
The main character feels real, and their journey felt satisfying to follow. Their reaction feels genuine and the way…
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