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duchessliz

  • California Foothills
  • Joined Jan 5, 2012
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I have wanted to see this movie since I first heard about it a year ago, and the wait was so very long...

It isn't exactly necessary to see the series to really get what's going on as the movie is from Yokozawa's perspective and he was a side character in the original series that formed an irritating love triangle ... I say irritating because I used to curse his character out every single time he came on screen and got in Takano and Onodera's way!  I didn't like him at all!

However ... I'm a yaoi / shounen-ai fan and there are so few anime in these genres that I'll take what I can get. I was more than willing to let Yokozawa attempt to win me over (even if I didn't think it was possible). I'm very happy to say though that my opinion of him changed.

You get a little look into his own suffering of having lost in the battle for the one he loved. You get to see him trying to move past it all when Kirishima comes and shakes his world up and you start to see all that stress, that anger, that pain begin to melt away. All the while Yokozawa is oblivious to the fact that he is beginning to fall in love with the man who pulled him out of his funk while we get to watch amused at how the sparks fly between the two.

The movie was only about an hour long but in that short amount of time I became a Yokozawa fan ... though to be more precise I actually became an avid fan of Yokozawa x Kirishima! xD So yes, the plot was very nicely put together (the fact that they were able to completely change my mind about a character that I once hated ... well that just goes to show how well done it was!). Animation wise it was the same as the original series. Nicely done. The characters are drawn in the same unique style as Sekaiichi and Junjou as they, of course, have the same creator. Soundtrack ... I have no complaints. Honestly, it wasn't my main focus. It wasn't spectacular but it wasn't horrendous either ... it did it's job. Characters ... I loved the characters! Never thought I'd say that about Yokozawa but there it is ... they did such a great job on his character! Kirishima probably could have had slightly more depth but I still loved his character despite that.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised! I really enjoyed this movie! It was short, sweet, and heartwarming! The only real problem I had by the end of it was that it made me miss the series all that much more ...

8/10 story
8/10 animation
7/10 sound
8/10 characters
8/10 overall

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