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Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Scherzo of Deep Night 2022
The Sword Art Online: Progressive duology is essentially a repackaging of the same story. For the anime's 10th anniversary, this is meant to be an expansion of the events that occur in the first few floors that were either glossed over or skipped entirely previously. As far as I can tell, for good reason too, given the tedium of the storyline. Across Progressive, we cover the emotional rapport between Asuna and a new character made for the two films, Mito. Once…
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Inu-Oh 2021
A culmination of song and dance can be enchanting, even more so in a film, presenting both in musical form. Musicals, when crafted with heart, complement the cinematic fantasia well. Masaaki Yuasa's Inu-oh captures the fresh spirit of historical interpretation, and while there is some sacrifice, it is granularly joyous. The marriage between Japanese Noh and rock opera reinvents the presentation of musical theatre in animation, visually justifying the grand scale of each and every successive performance. Inu-oh follows the titular Inu-oh, a…
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The Stranger by the Shore 2020
A bizarrely paced, underdramatized attempt at supposed representation in media. The film's intentions are unclear, aside from its obsession with sex. Characters deliver tone-deaf dialogue, and Shun's entire personality turned about-face on no basis. There's no possible scenario where his anticipated but abrupt change of heart would work as a development. It starts the second act with a bizarre introduction to a time-skip; Mio gives us the gist of his three years in less than three minutes. The general tempo…
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish 2020
Pure drama films must commit to contextual background information, which is necessary for characterization when a story isn't interested in subverting tropes. Formulaic conveniences assemble a series of incidents that loosely resemble a legitimate depiction of relationships. It struggles to establish an emotional link between characters, and often, even genuine sympathy feels a bit oversimplified. One could argue it's a commercialized tactic to attract wider audiences with a straightforward message, so only a demerit, depending on the viewer's standards. In…
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