Orange: Mirai

Man it is a must watch if you have watched orange series .....without watching it the experience of orange series is incomplete .........and suwa is a very very great person !!

This film taught me, a writer, the value of pleasantly shocking your audience with an unexpected sequel. I didn't initially think the series needed one, but this film was so good I didn't care that was wrong. Though I admit the story is a little slow to start and can seem repetitive at first, make sure to watch it all the way through, because the ending is worth it. It totally blew me away. It's the only movie I've ever watched that was better than the book (which is also very good). (Bonus points for cleanliness, too. Other than the obviously mature topics present in the rest of the Orange series, there's no profanity, innuendo, etc. Anime at its finest.) Just don't forget the tissues, because it's a major tearjerker.

I don't think that I've seen an anime this bad in my life! Like where do I even begin? 95% of the movie was just a recap of what had happened in the orange anime, first five-ish minutes being the fast recap and then like 44 minutes of a long recap with only the last 7 minutes being stuff that was actually new.

It was excruciating to watch, because Naho cried in almost every scene for no apparent reason, sometimes she was joined by someone, and if she wasn't crying then there would be an awfully long shot of all 6 of them just smiling, then there would be a shot of every character smiling individually and then there would be another shot of them smiling/crying all together, because apparently those are all the emotions a character can have in that amine.

The three background characters were straight up 1 dimensional, because they had no distinct character traits whatsoever. Naho and Suwa were 2 dimensional because they at least had personalities, they were bad, but still better than nothing I guess.

The only real believable character in my opinion was Kekaru because at least he acted rationally and how a human could theoretically act in the given situation, unlike Naho, who cried whenever she was in a slightly inconvenient position. I honestly can't stretch enough how infuriating it was for me to watch her break down every time she was embarassed or a little happy. How she got TWO guys to fall in love with her is beyond me. Literally the only reason I'm giving this movie 2 stars and not its well deserved 1 is because of Kekeru's character growth.

Tl;dr the movie was too awful to describe, filled with cardboard cutout characters. You will get much more satisfaction if you read the synopsis, trust me.

There's only one other review for this movie and it's very negative. I think this movie is an interesting addition to the series, which is great. But it does fall short on pretty much everything.

If you didn't watch the series first, this movie has huge spoilers and will be awful anyway. It's only worth watching if you know the series and want some more of it.

If you don't know the series, I'd give it 1 star. I'm giving it 7 just because it does a nice recap (brings back good memories) and it's a continuation that I wanted to see, but a very bleak one. It could have been much better developed. So I'm only giving it 7 starts due to the merits of the series, that makes this still movie relevant, even if disappointing and underwhelming

The movie was unnecessary. Literaly two thirds of it are scenes from the original anime. They could just had made a bonus episode.