#DATE A LIVE EPISODE 1 ENGLISH DUB ANIL MOVIE#

#DATE A LIVE EPISODE 1 ENGLISH DUB ANIL MOVIE#

When I first heard a movie was being produced for Date a Live, I wasn't excited in the slightest. This review is not meant to target any other review but was intended to provide a more holistic analysis. I critique anime primarily on how the story is executed and how well-rounded the characters are. Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment did not put itself ahead of the pack.Īuthor's Disclaimer: Please remember, this is my own personal opinion. From a critical standpoint, however, I was pretty disappointed. So is this movie worth your time? Well if you’re reading this review and thinking about it, you’ve probably already enjoyed the first two seasons well enough so go right ahead.

My only major issue is that sometimes the 3D graphics looked a little odd and incompatible with the bright, well-illuminated background, but otherwise from that, no complaints on that front. I personally really like how Shidou changes his voice when he switches into his female counterpart. The animation is by Production IMS so it is definitely high quality. The movie could have just done well without her (although I’m sure the fans wouldn’t have liked that). She was completely a throwaway character in the movie who butts in randomly to challenge Tohka (as if we’ve never seen this happen in the previous seasons), and then removes herself from the picture once that is over. The only one character I was extremely disappointed with was Origami. All of this crammed into literally the last 20 to 30 minutes of the movie. In one moment, nobody but Shidou can see her, but all of a sudden in the next second everybody else can. When it’s finally her time to shine, she transitions into the plot inconsistently and poorly. But she’s just there with really no purpose for most of the movie – stalking around in the background, following the main characters around, with some hints here and there. One new character does come into the mix: Mayuri. Don’t get me wrong – the characters are definitely interesting – it’s just that they don’t really change at all. Since they are all now close friends, these dates don’t hold the same kind of meaning anymore, hence the little character development. In the first and second seasons, dates were used as a way to forge and deepen the relationships between Shidou and the rest of the main characters. Moving onto the characters themselves, there really isn’t any development at all. One thing that I kept asking was what the heck is the big-ball-of-doom doing there? The relationship between that and Mayuri’s presence is constantly hinted at during the “climax” battle, but it’s never fully explained and thus we end up taking it at face value. Nothing spectacular come out of these dates, and we learned nothing new about the characters that we did not already know.Īs for the climax itself, talk about messy, messy, messy. But having Shidou go on six dates for the first 45 minutes of the movie was really unnecessary and dragged the plot on and on. Something as simple as two people spending time together as a way to seal up the worst of the worst.ĭoes this happen once again in Mayuri Judgment? Certainly. Whenever a problem comes up in the form of a new character, tensions among various characters, or some kind of event, how do the characters resolve it? That’s right, a date. And to answer: well, let us boil down exactly what happened in the past two seasons. With asking a totally legitimate question.

“Formula? What the heck are you talking about? What formula is this?” you may ask. Where Date A Live goes wrong, however, is that, instead of coming up with something new, the writers choose to recycle the same generic formula once, twice, and now thrice. Using dates to save spirits from their misery is certainly a concept that you do not see often in the romance genre (except maybe The World God Only Knows? Just maybe?) and this was initially executed in a very interesting way. From the very first episode in Season 1, Date A Live was definitely unique in its set-up.

Date a live episode 1 english dub anil