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Essedess
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To be fair... why the heck are you going to a Hatsune Miku film if you're not already into Hatsune Miku. This film was made for those kinds of people, so obviously they wouldn't waste time introducing the characters.
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FeherTamasex2f
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Essedess' comment doesn't really get what's the problem with this movie: it focuses on a highly specific sub-genre of Mikuism, just one particular electronic game, which isn't even the best known Miku game (that being Project Mirai).
Probably as much as 80% of the global Hatsune Miku / synthetic singer fan posse, who listen to Vocaloid music, watch / create MVs and play "mainstream" Miku games still have zero clue about Colorful Stage's story and so the movie remains undecipherable and not enjoyable for them! Anyhow, it's never a good idea to turn games into movies, because in the great pecking order of things, a movie / novel / manga occupies a higher tier compared to games and contains more essence. Thus good game adaptations can be derived from those, but not the other way around! (Even Kemono Friends s1 only kept the basic character designs but gutted the entire mobile game plot for a completely original storyline and it aired 2 months AFTER the game's server shut down.) |
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OrdepNM
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Still, we're talking about a movie called "Project SEKAI the Movie: Kowareta SEKAI to Utaenai MIKU", Project Sekai being a rhythm game with a visual novel component and a cast of original character and featuring Hatsune Miku and her fellow crypton Vocaloids, which has been running for 4 years with weekly updates and to the story. If you want to say "welp, I didn't know the above so I ended up quite overwhelmed by the cast I was unfamiliar with" that's fair, devoting 1/3rd of your review to complain about a 90 minutes movie not devoting what? 25 minutes to introduce the cast to the people who went to watch a Project Sekai movie without knowing the first thing about Project Sekai is certainly an interesting choice.
And I mean, they literally did that. PA Works also animated a "digest" of each units' origin story, which were uploaded on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiFNg5fXiX32dTZIlrl69RyKq0ddyoiwb&si=Ohl0JMqwIk2V-rTO Tough by digest I mean, each story is worth 2h30 of VN narrative, which they condensed into 5 minutes, so it's literally the footnotes, tough it should be enough to not be completely lost while watching the Project Sekai Movie. From my perspective, I actually appreciated how they kept the necessary knowledge of the now very long plot of the game to a minimum, since they don't expect all players to be up to date with every group's plotlines, so instead they went with a self contained original story, which can be enjoyed by as broad as possible of the game's fanbase as possible, but if you don't even know the character, there's only so much that can be done. |
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SciasSlash
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It's worth noting that theg ame is extremely popular in Japan, and probably aimed at a Japanese audience. It coming out in the west is just a 'well, we can,' thing.
I also think the title is a bit of a problem. The game's title in Japan is 'Project Sekai Colorful Stage Feat. Hatsune Miku,' making it clear that Miku is just a side element to the OCs. But the english title of the game is 'Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage,' which makes it seem like Miku is the main focus. |
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Joe Mello
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If a movie or TV show doesn't tell me in some way why I should care about a character, I'm not going to, and it sounds like I'm not going to care about most of the cast. Like Richard, I'm quite familiar with Hatsune Miku but know nothing about Colorful Stage. I imagine a lot of people who will be interested in the movie will be in a similar situation. Maybe it succeeds at being a Miku movie but it sounds like it fails at being a Colorful Stage movie. |
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The_Daytona_500
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Well I was completely lost watching Journey to Bloom so not really sure how that would in any way help. |
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Siegfriedl88
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I was pretty excited about it...i did buy a 300 dollar ipad to specifically play this game, which I've been at for over 2 years now,
I guess i can see how it could be confusing without knowing the back stories of all the groups, but not sure how they could recap the stories of all 5 groups in a movie format, there's a lot of intense stuff those individual characters go through. |
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OrdepNM
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OK you're quite familiar with Hatsune Miku... What does that actually mean? You're familiar with a character that has no set backstory, no set character traits, no set personality, no set goals or objectives, no set universe she inhabits and no set appearance besides an overall shape. For the purpose of watching a narrative experience based on an established narrative franchise that has Hatsune Miku in it, being "familiar like Richard" (aka playing an arcade style rhythm game, watching a concert with nothing but songs in it and using a music software) amounts to as little as googling Hatsune Miku 5 minutes before the movie started, on image search. If I go watch Dragon Ball Super: Brolly armed with my dragon ball knowledge of... How Goku looks like based on him being on Fortnite, do I get to complain extensively that they didn't cater to my non-existent level of franchise knowledge or should I just accept that going to a franchise movie and having to play catch up with the people who are invested in the franchise is a natural result of not knowing the first thing about the franchise? |
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