Review of Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Future

So who was pissed off with the Kyoukai no Kanata anime series ending? Ok before LA gets into the meat of this movie, LA might as well say what LA thought about Kyoukai no Kanata anime series, it was a decent effort from Kyoto Animation, but having the anime want to be a shounen anime, but became a more generic moe-moe romance anime, the characters were quirky, typical of Kyoto Animation and another thing typical was the brilliantly beautiful animation done by them, but the biggest letdown was it's ending as LA stated above and just how open-ended they left it. Kyoukai no Kanata Movie: I'll BeHere - Mirai-hen however amends this.

Kyoukai no Kanata Movie: I'll Be Here - Mirai-hen left off one year after the anime series did and there are two huge plotlines for this movie, Plot A being Mirai Kuriyama voiced by Risa Taneda and Akihito Kanbara voiced by KENN mainly concerning Mirai's memories and Akihito's dilemma of Mirai's memories and how it can make Mirai "happy", and Plot B is that a new form of monsters that are attacking Hiroomi Nase voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki, area since Izumi voiced by Ayako Kawasumi (his older sister) has gone missing and a mysterious cloaked being controlling those shadow monsters, quite easily Plot A & B will merge together and it's when Plot A & B merged together is when the movie REALLY starts moving things. Plot A by all means felt lot a like the typical episode from the anime series, what with the callbacks to the anime series, the character's running gags along with the slice of life school life and the comedy in general coming into Plot A, LA does understand why Plot A is like this, a sorta refresher even after watching the anime series and to concentrate on Akihito's dilemma for Mirai and bring it into more detail for the climax later on. LA can excuse Plot A for this. Plot B doesn't have much screentime for the first quarter of the movie mainly because of Plot A, but still Plot B does peep in once or twice to bring up this plot point, once Plot B comes along, well bring in the shounen supernatural aspects that Kyoukai no Kanata lacked in both the anime series and the movie itself. Really LA's favourite part of the movie comes in once Plot A & B merges together into one huge goal in which Plot A & B will BOTH get resolved into one big "problem" that affects the major players of the movie, from Mirai, Akihito, Hiroomi and Izumi. The merged plot definitely helped with tying loose ends from the anime series in nearly all aspects from the great battles, dense character development and progression emotionally and even if the near the conclusion, it gets lotus-eater machine mindfucked but still, even the conclusion ended on a satisfying note.

The character development for this movie really starts to actually look into our major players of Kyoukai no Kanata and that is one of this movie strengths, not only "plot-wise", but emotionally we see each of the character's development even further detailed from the anime series, again from Mirai's memories and Akihito dilemma about Mirai's memories, to Hiroomi trying to protect everyone but at the same time want to reconcile with Izumi, sure the minor characters like Mitsuki Nase, Ayaka Shindou, Sakura Inami and Shizuku Ninomiya get their screentime be it for fight scenes or exposition or character emotion wringing out moments, but they are nothing but supporting characters who gets slight developments as for concerning the more main characters. The one little problem LA found was the "big bad" of this movie who hardly gets a "big battle" and the Big Bad essentially tells his plans and then just.........fucks off. Wait WHAT???. LA KNOWS but still the big climax to the movie was still good even without this big bad and LA didn't even realize who the big bad was until his flashback for him in the anime series arrived and really LA didn't mind as the big bad had such a short screentime LA forgot even in the anime series.

The animation, well once again done by Kyoto Animation, is just beautiful and gorgeous for the most part and default thing to talk about, but even the battle scenes have some dynamically fluid moments and just sakuga battle scenes, there isn't much LA can say about the animation cept typically beautiful and sakuga KyoAni.

The voice acting, well this is kinda where LA needs to say that although broad and excellent vocal talent we have, the movie has alot of "angst" for the majority of the movie and this goes into most of the seiyuu's and yes, they go into angst alot of the time, if not that then they go into the typical character archetype we saw in the anime series and if not that, then they go full out "shouting at top of your lungs" courtesy of Risa Taneda and Ayako Kawasumi who trumps this and is where LA will easily isolate Risa Taneda as LA's favourite voice actor in this movie and she goes through ALL of the things (angst, typical archetype and SHOUTING CRAZY)...just damn Risa, that was good.

LA found Kyoukai no Kanata anime series as indifferent, it was "fine", it had it's faults and it's strengths but what made the anime series "indifferent" was that aggravating ending, again LA will state at the start of this review, Kyoukai no Kanata Movie: I'll Be Here - Mirai-hen amended this all the way, sure even this movie had it's problems with it's constant angst, minor characters who become nothing but that, a big bad who is nothing but a catalyst to kickstart the climax but do nothing other than that and that mindfuckery near the conclusion, but still the movie by all means redeemed the "sins of father" and what Kyoukai no Kanata anime series was missing and the movie balanced out doing "shounen supernatural" and "KyoAni slice of life moe" and best of all.......CONCLUDED THE STORY from the anime series!...yes can LA talk about this, most anime movies just brings in a "movie-only character" and brought them in only for them to be dumped and forgotten, Ao no Exorcist Movie, Bleach's first movie, and even though it was good movies Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace and Psycho Pass Movie did it too. Kyoukai no Kanata Movie: I'll Be Here - Mirai-hen is one of few rare movies that CONCLUDES the story of an anime series. What can LA say but if your a Kyoukai no Kanata fan, it's a no brainer that you should watch this movie ASAP especially if you wanted to see Kyoukai no Kanata's story resolved and finished. LA SHOULD have watched Kyoukai no Kanata Movie: I'll Be Here - Mirai-hen MUCH SOONER...