Gekijô-ban Purojekuto Sekai Kowareta Sekai to Utaenai Miku

Hatsune Miku is an icon sadly this movie is not too friendly for people who are not familiar with the video game it comes from.

I say this because there are around 4 or 5 different groups each of them has around 5 artists in them, the movie jumps back and forth between them constantly and it doesn't explain very well who they're, what they do... (You can guess though) Why each of them has a variant of Miku and other Vocaloids.

Later on after investigating a bit i understood that these are recurring characters of a popular video game, so if you're not familiar with this then you'll be confused with these groups

Because of this i think the story wasn't very good, it felt like a bunch of things where happening just for the sake of it.

The animation itself is really good specially in the dancing & singing sequences.

Soundtrack is good but they left the catchy songs towards the end.

There's one thing to dislike in the Spanish subtitles: At least for the North America release the majority of subtitles are hard to read on colorful scenes because the text blends with it.

I thought just coming up to this movie just knowing "Hatsune Miku sings and it's popular" was enough to enjoy it but it was an overall confusing experience for me.

I want to preface this with saying that I used to be a HUGE project sekai fan, being player rank 150, reading all the base stories and even beating master 34s and 35s. I was OBSESSED with the game for the course of a year or two, but eventually it fizzled out. When the movie was announced, I was really excited for what it was gonna be like. Turns out, I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I was going to (despite me having context behind all the characters).

I happened to love the art a lot in the movie, everything looked so stunning and that aspect was really cool. Also the music was, while I didn't really like the ending songs for each unit, except for l/n, really good! I especially loved the gunjo sanka orchestral rendition. There were also a lot of cool vocaloid references that I took notice to and thought they were really neat!

Now for the neutral parts: A lot of the dialogue felt like they were talking, but weren't really getting anywhere? It felt like banter a lot of the time. The comedy moments also felt in the same vain, where they were amusing and entertaining, but weren't really funny or something I would laugh at. The dialogue just felt meh to me.

Now for the negatives: The movies pace felt as slow as a snail in the first to third quarter. I kept thinking to myself "whats the conflict?", being bored out of my mind sometimes. There was 0 threat of anything, which made everything uninteresting. UNTIL the third act, which had a VERY BIG EVENT that was really dramatic, to the point where it was kinda funny and a little stupid (iykyk). And then immediately after that, the stakes get lighter, then they solve the problem and everything gos back to normal.

I think the biggest issue the movie has through is trying to focus on so many characters at once, bouncing back between so many at once. It felt like I truly had no time to bask in any of the ideas the story was presenting (only being exacerbated with the slow as hell pace and dialogue that didnt move anything forward). In the second act though, the problem got even BIGGER, as the conflict was widened up to all of japan and there was a montage of a bunch of characters struggling, and it felt like I could not truly submerge myself with any of the characters or ideas at hand.

OVERALL: it wasn't an awful or an even bad movie, It just feels like I walked out of the theatre empty handed. No ideas, plot-points, or new characters really stuck or made a mark on me do to it just being uninteresting, boring and hard to digest.

It's been a while since I discovered Hatsune Miku's music, and when I found out that there was a game franchise based on the same Sonic products as the character, I almost fell over backwards. And when I found out that they were going to make a movie based on the games... This movie was made by a not very well-known studio, P. A. Works, and it's about a group of teenagers who discover Miku as a program on their cell phones, and start making music as a way to show their passion for her. The movie is very cute, with strangely memorable songs, and excellent animation, by the way. It doesn't have a wonderful, deep or emotional story, but you can see that the team loves Hatsune Miku and tried hard to do the best they could for the fans. I highly recommend watching it, especially if you like 2D anime singers and musical comedies. The fact that it's barely out and has a 9.6 on IMDb (subject to change) is proof of that.

It was alright. You gotta play the game to get most of the movie but overall it's fine. The message of the movie is kinda generic too since the whole "believe in yourself/don't give up" thing has been overdone. Also my first time watching anime so I might not understand some common tropes. Overall as a person from the outside looking in I give it a 6/10. The animation is beautiful and I think the characters were well designed. As I said the storyline is somewhat lacking and the dialogue feels repetitive in some aspects. I feel if they fix some of these mistakes like the lack of introduction for things like the Sekai and characters they could make a promising sequel.

Ok so, let me start this off by saying:

I loved the animation and the music. I loved the references and this honestly felt like a love letter to fans of Miku and general enjoyers of concerts. The plot wasn't anything groundbreaking, but it was easy to follow, and although the ultimate threat was a little underwhelming, it was okay!

However (I dont know if I'm alone on this opinion, i was complaining to my family about it and i was the bad guy), the characters were poorly done, in my opinion. None of them really stuck out. To be clear, I do play the original game. I have been playing off and on for years now, faintly paying attention to characters and eventually coming to the conclusion that not all of them are just basic characters, so it disappointed me to see the characters handled like this. It felt more like they were blank slates than anything? Half the time, they were just repeating the same thing as each other. The other half the time, they're all doing the exact same thing. I don't know if I'm wording this correctly, but most of the characters felt blank. Ichika, Tsukasa, Emu, Kanade, and Mafuyu were the only ones who I felt stuck out from the crowd, and even they were very drowned out. I left the movie not feeling anything strong towards anyone involved and I believe it's because the characters are so underbaked.

I don't believe this to be a runtime problem, since most of these issues took place during the movie and easily could've been fixed by a switch of lines or a simple switch of position or reaction. Instead of having everyone react with shocked faces at something at the exact same time, maybe have someone react a little slower or be a little calmer than the rest. I dunno, just stuff that leans into their general characters more than whatever scraps we were given.

ANYWAYS! Final point of my yap session: Cool movie !! Don't go if you don't like concerts and if you want to see real character, but do go if you like good animation and music !!