Review of Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple

It has enough over the top action (and a particularly visually spectacular fight) to offset what is a pretty nonsense plot with a lead villain that just doesn't feel like he's all that different from the usual tropey schlock inherent to Shonen movies, even if he's got a prettier aesthetic than most. The central conceit of most of this movie is done to death as well, though it's executed well enough that I can look past it. The main villain of the next arc is introduced, but we only get a surface level treatment of him with one good scene. We get some more insightinto the background of our MC, which is interesting, but his breakdown here seems kind of forced and doesn't jive with events up till now. His development in this movie seems like it already should have happened. Anyway, it's cool, even if it's contrived, overly complicated in parts and overly simplistic in others.