POSITIVES
It has an appealing setting and general premise of this world that’s filled with Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, the Little Mermaid angle, and parkour.
As an anime movie, I love the colorful visuals, sleek animation, and the cool character designs.
The parkour sequences are one of the main reasons to see this movie, as it provides the most exciting action for this story.
This movie shines with its chase camera that gives us an exhilarating experience following those action beats.
There are some excellent montage scenes, but the third act overall is a wonderful spectacle that only this movie could give you.
NEGATIVES
Oh those familiar tropes and typical archetypes that just makes this anime feel so unoriginal.
It even has your typical idealized audience surrogate male protagonist and the cute manic pixie dream girl. Try harder movie!
Somehow the narrative is heavily filled with so much exposition and at the same time shows us some highly illogical, physics defying, impossible unexplainable things.
Messaging and commentary doesn't really stick the landing and comes off kinda superficial in what it’s trying to say.
Weird how it opens like it's a TV show. I had to double check to make sure that this was still a movie I was watching.
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