Metacritic-Rezensionen

Put simply, Mind Game is a mind-blowing experience.

The exhilarating Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy Mind Game plays out like a hallucinogen-fueled shaggy-dog joke that only ends after twenty-year-old horndog Nishi (Kôji Imada) discovers that the world does not revolve around him.

Brain-teasing, wildly unpredictable animated feature.

A sometimes enthralling, sometimes exhausting tour de force.

All scrunched together into a dense marathon of optical-cranial overload, this mental puzzle-box arrives three decades too late for what would have been an inevitable midnight movie run, but undoubtedly there are American otakus popping this one into multi-region DVD players right now amid the glorbeling of bong hits.

A virtuoso experiment in animation that combines traditional anime aesthetics style with a variety of Western animation styles.