Review of Saekano the Movie: Finale
NO SPOILER Lord, it ended, it finally ended! the long journey of my 7 years waiting for this anime to end, holy hell, this feels like a dream. My used to be favorite romance and my first romance anime i've discovered to be wholesome that is mature and full of context and out of placed jokes that is not even that funny but light that gives the show some light scene, also to mention that this show has its unnecessary fan service? hell yeah! Like what aki said its "fulfilling its otaku dream" as myself was a VN enjoyer, Manga enjoyer, and ofc,oh you guess it right, ANIME ENJOYER! as a saenai heroine no sodatekatta fan or saekano to be flatted (heh) I'm really enjoying this last bit of its arc, of course who doesnt? because this is the long awaited finally ended series is now getting its proper ending--which i hope others also do that-- is beautifully ended for saekano fans so it could be accepted! or maybe one of you is going (or was) a phase of grieving because of that but hey! atleast it ended.
So now im going to give an insight about how to raise a boring girlfriend, which is not so boring at all. This show, was one hell of a melodrama, why is it? why suddenly the ecchi fan service romance anime suddenly decided to give a movie and a proper ending to end with? first of all, from the start and the end, it's pretty obvious what is the answer. To raise a boring girlfriend. Now, now, we got atleast 3 tropes that we had to fight with the tsundere type, kuudere type, and the (probably) goudere type (Please note im not really sure how the dere types works but this will work). As all you know, all these 3 tropes have finally met its final bosses, the main character decision, in which the main character decision is to, well, embrace someone's love and make sure they went along with it, and as the movie progresses, goddamn if you're watching season 2 of saekano, you obviously knew and would justify the ending of this movie.
But I'll be honest with you, this movie is a really good ending to end it all, sure it got all that stuff for the ending, but hot damn, the buildup to make sure that some of the characters are justified to fulfill one ending is just underdeveloped. In-fact, this movie alone is actually not enough to bake a whole lot of content and made it into one so that viewers could eat what they cooked. I'd appreciate it if the whole movie is actually made into season 3 part 2 or something so that they could make more content and justify the ending for the sake of immersion and entertaining, but no, they made it into 2 hours of melodrama (which i dont understand mostly why). The main heroine (you knew it sooner) has developed into selfish, greedier, and much clingier even though she doesn't show it. The fact that she grew into like that, in which she literally played role as the MC housewife is totally not into my line of sight. Despite seems to be justified, we need more content of how it went through, actually this movie would be an 8/10 if it doesn't have that kind of unnecessary melodrama going around, but it isn't Saekano if it doesn't have unnecessary melodrama. Hence 7/10
I HAVE TO COMPLAINT ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK, WASNT THIS A MOVIE???? PUT MORE EFFORT, WILL YOU??? im sorry for screaming, but the lack of soundtrack makes me go crazy, with all of the recent stuff and information i have to acquire for the past 2 hours, i need to take a break and atleast listen to some of the ost. But no, they give us some generics put on J-drama instead and pull of some stuns of rocks i dont even know how it got approved. Overall 5/10 geez
I think thats all, for the art, damn for 2015 anime, they keep the key visual very consistent, the little detail of sway and some movement is actually satisfying for the eyes of viewer. I'd give it a solid 8/10
IN THE END, IT'S ENDED.
This is how i imagine Saekano will end, but i take this as a solid ending for all, an acceptable ending for everyone, is this a movie that will please the anime-watcher? no. Is this an anime that will please the saekano fans? For some reason, yes, but in the other hand no.
How'd you try it and give this last arc of saekano a try and comeback angrier/sadder, will you?
OVERALL
7/10
STORY
7/10
ART
8/10
OST
5/10
ANIMATION
8/10