lokieternal

Love, sweet love/ REVENGE. There is a bit of a twist in this whole love bit that I mention in my journal. It may look like I'm babbling out of my ass and just saying whatever fell out, but seriously - that kind of stuff happens in real life. This is why people go insane.

the other part of the story - aka the back drop of LOVE/REVENGE of Saya and Fumi (I know its fumito, but I really like fumi better) is explained through the conversations of the new characters ie that 'the youth of today are being stifled' WE HAZ HACKERZ ! So there is a lot of censorship, a lot of unnecessary curfew laws and a bunch of kids using the internet in order to attempt to sort things out and share information. In short, they are making fun of china.

Both of these seem like solid concepts. They may have even worked out if we had taken another port key. Alas, it did not. Bluntly - the ending was to easy and unsatisfactory. So the first half of the movie, I found interesting, even if I did figure to many 'mystery plot points' out early on.

 Needless to say I didn't like this very much.

Characters:

the loli hacker got on my nerves for more than one reason and I eventually realized it was because she has a bit more emotional maturity for her age grouping and is TOO CLINGY. These two do not make a whole lot of sense when grouped together.  Normally someone like her would have been jelous of saya. I'm not even going to talk about the typing with her feet, Im going to pretend it never happened. and wait, WHY IS SHE THERE!? are her parents alive? Do they care where she is? What is up with her!? At any rate is seems the only reason loli foot hacker is there is to set the stage for GENIOUS HACKER GIRL.

Hacker boy and his friend the getaway driver are relatively rambunctious kids who jumped in because they wanted to actively make a difference in their society - as they state a couple of times. They, unlike the loli girl give us a plane reason as to why they are there, even if we really don't know much about them.

GENIOUS HACKER GIRL: well, she started it didn't she? Then through the power of the revelation that she was being a spineless, pathetic, weakling, she jumped back in to help END it. Also she has a more fleshed out background, is able to get saya to relate to her and she has the ability to state things saya can't quite vocalize. Their backgrounds are almost similar, but varied enough to not feel like this is an overly cheap shot. Though this girl does have a tendency to give up easily she is able to pull herself back up with prompting, she is also relatively maternal in nature.

These characters, though not seeming to - serve the function to remind saya that not everyone she comes across is a pathetic piece of shit money / power driven bastard who will use you or get all weirdly infatuated with you. Can you imagine what saya would think of the human race if it were not for these people?

Animation: almost made it worth watching, however the awful ending negates this

Sound: there was one part that I really liked, in the fight scene with Mr Ninja guy turned zoanoid.

Overall: So we have a group of 'dissidents' with a horribly obvious car. Again we have established distinct separate personalities and like the tv show, they do have a profound impact on Saya. Unfortunately in the end, these things didn't matter as too much was left unsaid and too much left open. There are too many unanswered questions. ALSO, and this is my largest issue with this movie - it just looks like CHRONUS corp took over under a different name in order to conduct more research on zoanoids, but instead of Guyver fighting them, it’s an aberration of its own species that happens to look exactly like a human girl in a school girl uniform. She doesn’t even get her own bio armor or fan service driven transformation sequence. I didn't really enjoy this.