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REVIEW: Scarlet Anime Film Review [2026-02-10]




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Nobody14



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 12:37 pm Reply with quote
About as different in tone from the previous review as possible huh? Well, it’s always nice to get a wider range of perspectives on a work. Especially one like this.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 1:37 pm Reply with quote
I love how Scarlet's name is italicized like the title of her movie throughout the review.

In all seriousness, even in the trailer the dance sequences looked out-of-place.
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Themaster20000



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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 1:54 pm Reply with quote
His films have been a huge mixed bag ever since he decided to write the screenplays for them. He really needs to work with someone to bounce ideas with when it comes to the writing.
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Richard Eisenbeis
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 5:34 pm Reply with quote
Nobody14 wrote:
About as different in tone from the previous review as possible huh? Well, it’s always nice to get a wider range of perspectives on a work. Especially one like this.


Fun fact: I've never read the other review. (I don't read other people's reviews in general for something I am going to review so that I'm not inadvertently biased by them.) So I went in totally fresh.

MFrontier wrote:
I love how Scarlet's name is italicized like the title of her movie throughout the review.


It's one of those fun little things built into the ANN code. It automatically links the film name to the encyclopedia and italicizes it throughout the article--which is helpful a lot of the time but not so much in this case. I can turn it off completely but then it won't link to the encyclopedia.

But since you brought it up, now that I think about it, I should be able to put in some garbage html code to trick the system. I'll try it.
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LuluTheOtaku



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2026 2:55 am Reply with quote
Nice review! I took my GF to see Scarlet earlier this week. She's never seen any of Hosoda's other works but she enjoyed this movie; so did I. I've not really enjoyed Hosoda's films since Wolf Children so my expectations for this movie were low. But I really enjoyed the duality between the two leads and I was very impressed with the animation/style (I don't think the trailers did it justice). Agree about the extended dance numbers/song choices too, they took me out a bit while watching.
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dm
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2026 9:31 pm Reply with quote
This film was visually stunning throughout. Hosoda knows how to put images on the screen.

Character development and thematic consistency, maybe not so much. Like RIchard the reviewer, I could have done with shorter dance scenes (though the earlier one in the land of the dead had a nice surrounding story — “the gods don’t listen to our words, so we send them our dance.”).

I’m not quite convinced by Scarlet’s evolution as a character, though I think the ideas behind it are interesting and not trite.
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