Ni no Kuni

Movie (1 ep x 106 min)
OLM
2019
3.346 out of 5 from 2,117 votes
Rank #9,599

Two average teens go on a magical quest to save the life of their friend and her counterpart from another world. But love complicates their journey.

Source: Netflix

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So in case any of you guys want to watch this, it is available on Netflix.  This review may contain some spoilers but overall, there isn't much risk reading this.  Anyways... Story So i heard that this anime movie was originally a video game.  The concept and idea is actually really good. So basically there are two highschoolers, Yuu and Haru.  Haru has this girlfriend, Kotona, who is also great friends with Yuu.  Kotona gets involved in an accident, then somehow Yuu and Haru stumble on a magical parellel world, much like their own, and guess what that world is called? NINOKUNI! The world is filled with dopple-gangers from their original world.  They try to find Kotona, and they found her, sike.  It is actually her dopple-ganger, this world's "Kotona" (I forgot her name sorry) is a princess.  Anyways, stuff leads to other things and now Yuu and Haru have to make a choice (and i can't tell you without giving spoilers).  Yes, there is an ultimate plot twist at the end.   That is the summary.  Now, that sounds pretty good, right?  The trailer for NinoKuni is reALLy misleading.  If i had just watched the movie without the trailer, maybe i wouldn't have been disappointed BUT I DID.  Honestly, i feel like the trailer is better then the movie.  I may be exaggerating a little when i say the trailer is really misleading but in the movie, they don't even make the "big choice".  The trailer was so good, it got me hyped because i thought the movie would be an emotional roller coaster- Keep in mind that maybe it just wasn't the anime for me, so you guys could still really enjoy it! Link for the trailer --> [CLICK HERE] So heads up, this trailer is an english dub, don't worry the japanese dub is available in the movie.  i couldn't find the actual video but we do what we can.   Animation To me, the animation wasn't anything special but overall, the art was quite nice.  The style of the characters isn't really my cup of tea.  But like, the animation wasn't bad or anything.  Don't have much to say on that.  The character design was really unique (for all the creatures and stuff). Sound i hardly ever pay attention to the music but i rewatched the trailer and it was fairly good.  The sound, as in the audio, was not unique or anything but you could hear every word clearly so yay. Characters One thing that really bothered me in ninokuni is that everyone was so OVERPOWERED.  Like the fight scenes weren't that fun to watch because everyone was busting out moves that was so OP...  This could be a spoiler--> Some point in the movie, an old man who was trying to come back to ninokuni pops out of nowhere (literally so random but oh so convient for our dear MC yuu) hands him the ultimate op sword.  All the other characters were like 'omg the sword that appeared in the legends *le gasp*'.  The sword was never mentioned before but the movie mentions it at a convinient moment like its supposed to mean something to us.  Mc: Yuu. So overpowered i couldnt-  Other mc: Haru, this dude was my favourite but he was so dumb, no offense.  He came to a conclusion (in about the middle of the movie)  with all the evidence pointing the other way.  Yuu tried to convince him to see the most obvious facts ever but he just ignored it? why bruh.  At the end, he comes to another conclusion, which is actually pretty smart.  But the ending speech from him seemed so rush and how he got to the ending conclusion was also very rushed.   Princess Kotone (this isn't her real name, i forgot it, i'm so sorry) and all the other characters didn't contributr to the story as much i hoped they would but they weren't bad or anything. Old man: honestly, his character was quite pointless to me.  As if his only use was to pop out to give the mc the op sword and, keep in mind he had been trying for YEARS to come back to ninokuni, he just decided to go back to our world as if all those years trying to come back to his home was nothing... Summary: Overpowerd and no depth. Overall I didn't hate this movie, i was just so disappointed.  There was so much hype built up in the trailer, that just seeing the movie was disappointing.  The whole plot seemed so cheap at the end.  Like i said somewhere in the middle of my review -->  Just because i didn't enjoy it doesn't mean you wouldn't too.  Another thing i have considered is that maybe the movie was aimed at a much younger audience them me, since the scenes are too convienient and simple.   Edit: Someone mentioned that they did in fact talk about the sword before.  I didn't remember it at all because the movie was boring to say the least.  

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