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sonicfirex
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Man...what a waste...I figure one of the prerequisites of any show is actually caring about the characters...maybe that's just me
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slickwataris
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I'm sure they'll get around to it one of these days maybe next year around the same time. Overall it was a little dissappointed it was hard to distinguish the relationships between the kids. Were they groups of friends or not? |
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darkhunter
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Winner - 2005 Tokyo Anime Fair Best Short Film - 2005 Fantasia Film Festival Best Short Film Nomination - 2005 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival I think an ova like this requires an adequate taste that probably doesn't appeal to mass mainstream Narutard. 
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BlaqNumbr9
 Posts: 155 Location: Bowing before the Master... |
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I gotta say, I liked it. I loved the animation style and it lent a nice amount of creepiness. Unlike some, I liked the ending. Overall, I would buy it. But then again, I buy everything.
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Romuska
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Boring! It's only 25 minutes long. No build up, no creepyness and the ending is one of the most rediculous endings I've seen in years. Haven't these people ever heard of Engergizer batteries?!
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8462 Location: Penguinopolis |
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Far too short (I was expecting a 90-120 min. movie), too caught up in it's style of animation to make its story enjoyable, no character development, and a host of other problems force me to look at this as sort of an Animatrix-type short, in which it is more of an experimental short that is supposed to explore an idea (that is, this strange hide and seek game and the main character's quest to find his sister) in a small space of time. In that, however, it also fails to endear itself, because it culminates too quickly, leaving very few scenes from which to derive an understanding of the characters' conflicts (if any). It seems to me to be a good story idea, but not a good story itself.
In short, it was a lame excuse to experiment with computer graphics. |
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Hunter Sopko
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Hey, think about it. Children are the ultimate renewable energy source!
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Necros Antiquor
 Posts: 571 Location: Funny in a car crash sort of way |
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You should've put some spoiler tags there for the people who missed it, you know. In response, spoiler[they're demons, demons with names like blood-taker and liver-taker. Do you think they're the kind of people who would stroll into 7-11 and pick up a pack of batteries, or pay to have an eletric meter installed so they can pay monthly? No, they're demons! They'd find one of the most twisted ways to create light and suffering at the same time! Now why they need to light up an empty city, that needs explanation], though if you look at the production sketches (under Other Work, thumbnail #8), there are apparently adults in the city that were dropped from the final version of the film. (I got that link from one of the clues in the Kakurenbo contest.)[/spoiler] |
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DJetcetera
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It would definitely be a winner if it was an ongoing series...Agh, some of the best animes are WAY too short.
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ACDragonMaster
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Sheesh people are spoiled by all the movies that're getting ever longer nowadays. There is such thing as a short story, y'know. Kakurenbo did quite a lot within the small time it had. Maybe you have to think a bit to get it, maybe not, but why not just take it for what it is?
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Dezember
Posts: 26 Location: Seattle, Wa |
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I was lying on the couch in my bedroom (yes, I have a couch in my room. Weird? Probably. Should you be scared of my room? Most definitely) messing with my hurt foot (which is either sprained or broken
 ) while watching it. So I kind of missed the point. I thought it was okay because I was recording it for my sister along with everything else. Then, right in the middle of Samurai Champloo my VCR just stops, makes a weird sound, and flashes "ERROR 1" I'm like "Oh my God,"  "my sister is gonna kill me! And I missed something good!!!"  So I quickly got up to check it out, only to get back down just as quickly because of my foot. This is almost as bad as the time I got hit in the face during a soccer game, it was both embarrassing and painful and I lost a tooth Anyways, will it be replaying on Thursday?
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10425 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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I like the show, but I must agree, its biggest weakness is the lack of character development. Turning it into a 90-minute movie length feature would allow for more character development. -t |
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Keonyn
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I enjoyed it really and like the mysteriousness of it all and the fact it left the ending open for a degree of interpretation. I do agree though it should have been longer and could have been so much better if it were at least an hour or hour and a half. But still, I enjoyed it and actually purchased it on its release date.
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Samurai-with-glasses
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Also, the dub isn't too good. Most of them are alright (albeit some kids, which I'd like to hear their voices, never give a single noise) but the girl's "scary voice" is simply lame. I never heard the sub so... Indeed, I'm utterly surprised that Kakurenbo takes only a single time slot in AS. Even then, they should've done better in creating a coherent story--after all, looking at Champloo's episode 1, try to imagine that as the only thing that was ever created of Champloo, and you can still watch and enjoy the characters and story. The graphics are beautiful, though. Really, potential wasted.
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RezSav
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I thought the movie was quite good, a little short but it was really more of an eye-candy exhibition. The story could be a little longer but then it'll just drag on and on and waste everyones time with symbolism that isn't relevant to the story, why give 90 mins to a story that only needed 30?
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