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And so, my reviews of the Break Blade series of movies end. OK, I'll start with the final verdict. Break Blade Movie 6: Doukoku no Toride completes the transition of the series into standard mecha/shounen territory. We get the final boss fights, heroic deaths, miraculous survivals, endless cliches, and the screams of determination. It is like the people behind the series actually hate anyone that expects their intelligence not to be insulted. Oh, of course all the logic behind the mechas was completely forgotten. Because it has to be "big" now.

I will say it now: Break Blade Movie 6: Doukoku no Toride has bad writing. Whereas the first three movies were surprisingly good despite the constraints of the shounen/mecha genre, here the easy way out was taken. Character development? Hah, what a joke. People acting with military logic? Naah, we need to help our hero more! And of course, the cliche "final boss" and "secret weapon". Ugh. The only thing I can say positive about it is that the first three movies kinda hinted that this was inevitable, so it can't be the worst possible writing out of all options.

Of course, what is shounen/mecha without the art floundering in the tropes of the genre? Production I.G should be ashamed of themselves considering how well they execute most of the time. The backgrounds are still great, and the concept of the art is nice. The choice of making the mechas look military rather than flashy is a good one overall, and the combat does have a few moments of awesome, but really, this is possibly the worst showing of the lot. The sound is now dominated by the combat "sensibility" of the genre, and while the effects and surround use are good, the soundtrack nice, the endless screams just can't make me say it is more than just "above average".

Break Blade Movie 6: Doukoku no Toride is the worst of the lot. I suppose that if you saw the first five then you have to see it, but if you haven't... well, don't.