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REVIEW: The Imaginary Anime Film Review

You mean to tell me an adaptation of a “checks” 220 page children’s novel doesn’t look to do much to challenge/appeal to an adult audience? Who could have possibly seen that coming?

The score makes little sense to me. This akin to you walking into a restaurant, ordering the chicken nuggets off the kids section of menu only to later complain to the wait staff about how small, relatively bland, and simplistic your meal was.

Kid’s can be challenged too you might argue. Sure they can. For that adaptation wise you’ll want to look to at least the young adult and older section instead.

You know the book Charley and the Chocolate Factory with it’s now several adaptations and spin-offs right? That’s more what you should have expected.

In children’s novels there’s often little gray or nuance. It's clear cut whose good and whose bad. More often than not the good are rewarded while the bad are punished. This is how it goes with the aforementioned example and others like it.

Hikaru Suzuhara wrote:

You mean to tell me an adaptation of a “checks” 220 page children’s novel doesn’t look to do much to challenge/appeal to an adult audience? Who could have possibly seen that coming? The score makes little sense to me. This akin to you walking into a restaurant, ordering the chicken nuggets off the kids section of menu only to later complain to the wait staff about how small, relatively bland, and simplistic your meal was. Kid’s can be challenged too you might argue. Sure they can. For that adaptation wise you’ll want to look to at least the young adult and older section instead. You know the book Charley and the Chocolate Factory with it’s now several adaptations and spin-offs right? That’s more what you should have expected. In children’s novels there’s often little gray or nuance. It's clear cut whose good and whose bad. More often than not the good are rewarded while the bad are punished. This is how it goes with the aforementioned example and others like it.

My guy, you realize a review is someone else's opinion, right? Also, the film looks and feels ostensibly less inspired than anything Ghibli have put out. If rebranding into uninspired adaptations is what they were going for, then it's a great movie for these expectations, yes.