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This is a decent anime movie for young and old. Based on some ideas of the 2 video Games "Nino Kuni". Although with some tweaks it could have a lower age rating and could have been enjoyed by even younger audiance aswell. But there is some war and blood so the 12 rating is understandable.

Story and Characters As I didn't play the 2 Video Games I can't tell if it's something from the games. The Story feels standalone but based on some ideas from the Nino Kuni Video Games. Love, Magic, Fantasy; although that most things aren't really explained it feels structurated like a game. Bit by bit you learn more about the world after the characters did something. But other then in a game you can't question more you are stuck by the "main story" which somewhat annoyed me from time to time. You get confronted with many questions about things you want to explore but can't as it's a movie and you have to follow with the story. The given plot twists are well done and understandable. Some you can forsee a little but nothing bad spoilers by the movie itself. The happy end of the movie ist enjoyable and doesn't leave one wondering why. It's a good end without a cliffhanger or anything.

Animation Effects, Characters, Backgrounds and all is pretty good. An up to date look which is fitting with the video games.

Music The music pieces are mostly matching scenes but I'm missing Ghibli feeling here (Joe Hisaishi) it is not the best of the best and I after watching it once can't really remember any song of the movie.

The characters are probably the most consistent part of the movie. They seem well developed and I started to care for them a bit by the end. The other writing really starts to fall apart, haphazardly throwing items and historical events at you in the third act then acting like you've been given enough context to care about them.

Ni no Kuni works very hard to recreate the Studio Ghibli aesthetic - bringing on some Ghibli staff and composer Joe Hisaishi - but the animation budget here is clearly not enough to hold the illusion for the movie's runtime. As it goes on, it starts to feel more like a mid-budget TV anime with flat shots and static animation.

Overall, it's an okay movie with not enough time or money to flesh out all of its ideas. There are worse ways to spend two hours.

I love the games, I love studio ghibli art, but this movie was pretty boring.. the very ending was interesting, but not enough to be worth the watch. It fell flat unfortunately..

This was an enjoyable film but I feel there was too much important info that is missing for the story. The movie tells of a city called Beladon, where many important events took place, but it never goes into detail about why these events took place. If this were a game, the events would have been given greater attention. The studio had to cram as much as they could into a nearly 2 hour film but it left too many unanswered questions.

High schooler Yuu and his friend Haru get involved in a case involving his childhood friend Kotona, which forces them to go back and forth between another world that is different but is somewhat similar to their world, Ni no Kuni. The real world and Ni no Kuni, when Kotona's life is in danger, what's the ultimate choice the three of them have to make in Ni no Kuni?

I have no exactly played any of the games so I have zero clue what this movie was about outside of 3 kids going to a different world. After a hooded figure comes to the real world. So the whole thing was new to me.

I found this movie overall pretty decent.

Watched this on Netflix earlier and overall it's just kinda okay. Very very ... okay. It is visually pretty and well done with bright colors and fluid animation overall. However it's plot sags in a bunch of places and feels rushed. Characters often come up with conclusions out of nowhere and there are moments where the characters exposit important information out of their ass that was never established anywhere in the plot. Also of note, I watched the English dub. And it is pretty subpar tbh. I'd put this on for your older kids as there is a bit of violence and some suggestive content (impalement, pole dancing with no nudity) but I think anyone over 14 might be left unsatisfied.

Ni no kuni isnt the best japanese animated film out there but for me it surved its welcome,film give us beautiful style of animation which in every shot looks clean and pretty enough to absorb it,story in a film will interest children of all ags including younger and older ones and it will also give them some valauble lessons for real life,however some parts of story were to messy to work and parts were characters travel between real life and stories were not so good connected to each other,and they become lost in some moments,ni no kuni is simply a film that will entertein children when you are doing something in house and cause of that they could learn some good life changing advices and messages

This movie follows in the footsteps of the video games, has an equal potential to tell a great, sometimes complicated story. It straight up throws away so many scenes that could've been made to both improve the bond between the characters and to strengthen the plot. Instead, they seem to take a shortcut on explaining or showing things by inserting a really lazy written dialogue - usually a size of a sentence at max, to simply let the character notify the others why she arrived late.

It feels like there would've been enough story to make a two and a half hour movie, but everything that wasn't strictly related to the main plot was just cut off entirely. I did not get to bond with any of the characters in this movie, and the ending would've actually been an amazing twist if they'd shown a bit more passion and time to introduce even the two main characters to the audience.

Story aside, audio was great and visuals were okay. Only reason why I just have to rate the visuals down from what could've been great, is the fact that even that feels so rushed. Animation part is gorgeous and has very notable touch of Studio Ghibli - yet doesn't really hit the same level of detail - especially in motion.

What gives the visuals a huge negative hit are the CGI that is used in the majority of bigger fighting scenes. It is also used as an effect at some points, but I did not find it that disturbing - although I would've preferred those effects to be animated instead. During fighting scenes, you can see how the movement and visual part of the characters stands out as being notably different to those that are animated on the foreground. It's kind of giving this movie a tiny hint of probably unintended humor, as looking at the two CGI characters fighting on the background with the world's laziest and most repetitive movement patterns around really made me laugh. I wouldn't have minded the lazy moves if it would've been animated like the rest of the movie. It would've fit in - as for the CGI rendered characters stand out way too much and kind of force you to pay attention. Needless to say, the CGI parts feel very, very lazy and rushed.

Budget probably wasn't where the studio hoped it to be, but because of that I really hate to see another movie based on a video game fail. I'm a guy who watches even mediocre movies repeatedly over the years - this I would not watch again, not even to show it to someone else.

This movie has a lot of potentials to become a good anime movie with the same level as StudioGhibli movie. Too many plot holes will make viewers not understand the story and it will confusing. This movie doesn't send clear messages. Until the end of the movie, it's not clear how Yuu ends up in the real world and how he is there. Also, the background story of Yuu's character is not clear, it will be nice if there is part of the movie explain that. The plot is too fast to understand. Besides that, this movie still enjoyable to watch, it's visually pleasing and I really love it. The animation have the same level as StudioGhibli but not the storyline. I wish they will make part 2 for this movie.

The anime movie Ni no Kuni, now out on Netflix, is based on the video games of the same name. It isn't based on the story of the first one but takes place within the games' chronology. In it, two high school friends find themselves transported from our world into the magical world of Ni no Kuni.

Admittedly, this is kind of a basic fantasy story structure in sort of a basic fantasy land, but it is a well handled film. Everything about this is generally fun. I rather liked the mechanics of the connections between our world and Ni no Kuni. The dynamic between and motivations behind the two leads are strong. I particularly liked Yuu, the wheelchair-bound one who is brave, intelligent, and cool headed.

If you're familiar, the first Ni no Kuni game included animation from Studio Ghibli. In fact, the director Yoshiyuki Momose was animator for the studio. Now, this doesn't have quite the level of detail of Ghibli or the games, but it still all looks pretty nice.

Be forewarned that there is a moment with an adult character talking about a seventeen year-old's attractiveness that gets uncomfortable. It is over and done with very quickly.

Overall, I'm glad I saw this on a whim. It's a nice little time waster and a bit of a feel good film.

The movie is very nostalgic of the game and is graet for fans of both games. If you are going for just the movie then you will find it boring to that if not a person who has played the games.

The guy who directed and designed the characters once worked as an animator for Ghibli and Netflix used this in the description of the anime to get me to see it. But the story was ridiculous, the animation was at most mediocre and at worst bad 3D CGI and in the end I got to know that it is all based on a video game. The entire thing is a disjointed mess that tries to connect magical realms with emotional symbolism and therefore messed both up. And the acting was abysmal most of the time, too.

Bottom line: no actual connection to Ghibli films other than a random guy who worked in both places. I would call this sub mediocre, but because of the false advertising I will go as far as call it bad.

I played the first game and was wowed by its animation and art. When it came to the movie, I had no idea what I was getting into. Upon finishing it, I am somewhat unsatisfied, yet I hold on ill will toward the film.

In my opinion, a 100 minute movie was the wrong format for the story they attempted to tell. There were some really good ideas that weren't fleshed out enough. The final twist should've hit a lot stronger, yet for some reason it didn't. Even though 100 minutes was not enough time to fully develop all their ideas, it still could've worked if they scaled back the amount of themes they wanted to portray.

If you like anime or the Ni no Kuni games, give it a watch. It won't be something you fiercely defend and recommend to your friends, but it's good enough entertainment to get you through some downtime. The movie is very nice to look at, I'll give it that.

Kotona feels uneasy. She thinks she's being followed but instead of calling for help from a professional, she calls her friend, Yuu, who is in a wheelchair. He rushes to where she is but by the time he gets there she's been stabbed. Haru, the third leg of the tripod, shows up shortly. They're taking Kotona to the hospital when, suddenly, their surroundings evaporate and reform in another world. They appear to have been transported.

It's a medieval-style fantasy world. Before they notice anything else, they realize that Yuu can now walk! The boys are together but Kotona is nowhere in sight. They look around, wondering where she is, but they don't have to wonder for long. As soon as they see posters of the princess, they realize their friend is royalty in this realm.

The princess is under a dark spell, they learn. So, sneaking into the castle they go. She's lying on a bed, unconscious. That attacker's knife is still in her! They are able to remove it and, after robust argument, instead of being executed for royal trespassing, they get rewarded for healing the princess. Sadly, this Kotona seems to have no memory of them.

NK is a 2019 106-minute release that is rated 6.44 on MAL. People are drawn with old-style round eyes; they are simple but realistic. Backgrounds are stylized artistically beautiful. It finishes stronger than it starts with a couple good twists along the way. Yoshiyuki Momose (The Imaginary, Modest Heroes) is the Director, and Akihiro Hino the screenwriter.

Things turn dangerous and they manage to make a jump back to earth. When they return, however, their friend Kotona is dying. She has a tumor and the doctors only give her 3 months. Haru surmises that they're losing her because they saved the princess. Now he wants to jump back to the other world and /kill the princess/ in order to save his girlfriend! This causes a rift between the friends.

Yuu & Haru manage a handful of jumps during the course of the film. Out of fear of losing Kotona, Haru chooses the wrong course. He failed to see a day, or even an hour past his difficult choices. He also lied to himself in saying it was all "for Kotona." It was for himself. Kotona would never approve of his choices.

This end is satisfying. In all, this is a worthy film for kids and the young at heart.

〰🖍 IMHO

📣6.7 📝7 🎭7.5 💓5 🦋4 🎨7.6 🎵/🔊6.5 🔚8 ▪ 🌞4.8 ⚡5 😅1 😭4 😱3.8 😯3 🤢2 🤔3.5 💤2

Age 12+ There's talk about a girl, about to

Re-📺?

This one's in the good-to-pass-the-time category, but I may never pass this way again....

Here's a small sample of shows that are better:

Akame ga Kill! 8.6, Chaika The Coffin Princess 8.4, The Eminence in Shadow 8.8, Farming Life in Another World 7.7, Food Wars 8.2, Gate 7.9, Hakkenden 7.7, Here Comes Miss Modern 8, Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? 7.7 Land Of The Lustrous 8.1, Legend of Exorcism 8.8, Love Chunibyo And Other Delusions 8.4, Made in Abyss 9, Maid Sama 10, Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun 7.7, Parasyte the Maxim 8.9, Princess Principal 8.6, Princess Resurrection 7.6, Reincarnated as a Sword 8, School Live 7.5, Senryu Girl 7.5, Special A Class 8.2

Recommendations for kids:

10+ C🇨🇳 Accidentally in Love-6.5 B-level scripting, acting, and directing, but still fun/strangely relaxing to watch, Holes-8, Howl's Moving Castle-8.9, K🇰🇷 A Love So Beautiful-7, My Dog Skip-8, K🇰🇷 Part Time Idol-5.5 (suicide addressed), Paulie-7.4, Saiki-8, K🇰🇷Spark-6.4, K🇰🇷 Strongest Delivery Man-6.6

11+ Belle-8.5, K🇰🇷 Flower Boy Next Door-7, Girls Und Panzer-8.1 (1 each d@mn, he!!), Labyrinth-7, C🇨🇳 A Little Thing Called First Love-8.5, Love Chunibyo And Other Delusions-8.4, K🇰🇷 The Miracle-7.7, One Piece-7.5 there is scattered PG-13 language, Watership Down-8.5

12+ K🇰🇷 99 Days With the Superstar-7, Colourcloud Palace-8, Farming Life in Another World-7.7, Goonies l-8, Here Comes Miss Modern-7.8, Hotel del Luna 8.4, Jumanji-9, K🇰🇷 My ID is Gangnam Beauty-7.5 , C🇨🇳 Love Between Fairy & Devil-8.9, Piano In The Forest l-8, K🇰🇷 So I Married My Anti-fan-6.8, Your Lie In April-9

13+ K🇰🇷 Boys Over Flowers-8.3 ~ melodrama to the max; K🇰🇷Cinderella and the 4 Knights-5.6, K🇰🇷 Heirs-7.3, K🇰🇷 My Shy Boss-6.5, K🇰🇷 Playful kiss-7.3, Princess Resurrection-7.6, Senryu Girl-7.5, Special A Class-8.2

14+ My Runway-7.5 Princess Principal-8.6, Toradora-8.5,

I was not aware of the video game and watched without any background knowledge. Visually the movie is great and gives the feel of Ghibli Studio. The plot was also interesting in the first half but then movie went somewhere else and the war scenes/drama was just Ok.

Ni No Kuni is about these two boys that are really good friends and there friend gets murdered. The two friends gets thrown into a parallel universe and they save a princess and after that many crazy things happened.

Ni No Kuni was a solid film. There was some problems with the film but over all I thought it was good and enjoyed most of the film. The things I didn't like was the end because I thought it just took a turn that didn't really seem likely to happen. I just wasn't a fan of it. They were also just really excepting about all of these crazy things happening. I got from that was they just wanted to shave some time off. I just thought that was a little lazy. Besides that, I thought it was solid. I thought the characters were good. They were fun to be with and I never really found myself getting annoyed at there wording or actions. In fact, when I was watching the film I was thinking they have said some wise words. That is good they didn't have annoying characters. I enjoyed the story besides the end like I said. I thought the whole word was amazing. It fascinated me. I have never played the games so I wasn't really familiar with the world.

Overall, Ni No Kuni was a good film I would recommend for people who like more outgoing films.

4 minutes of story dragged out for 2 hours. Abhorrent jokes about 17-year old girls being valid for plucking, then boys screaming about who has the bigger sword - then nothing of the Ni no Kuni world, no exploration of the realm, no adventure, no substance. Just formula jammering, formula villain, formula formula, then the end. Avoid at all cost if you are a fan of Ni no Kuni. Avoid at all cost if you aren't.

Pros

• Looks great, especially if you like Ghibli films
• Its a medieval fantasy with some novelty
• Kept me guessing for the most part
• It was generally positive and cute
• There was plenty of movie left after the climax, which I always appreciate. I liked getting to see everyone in their new lives for bit.

Cons (all relatively minor)

• The cgi used for the armadillo monsters or whatever looked really out of place. Everything should just be a cartoon, adding 3D things onto a cartoon doesn't look right.

• Some occasional anime cringe, like yelling goofy stuff when fighting
• There we're some serious leaps of logic that conveniently worked out.