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May 1, 2024
This review contains spoilers that talk about the ending of the movie and the theory surrounding it.
I won't go in too deep with this review and will just give my general opinion of it.
What lengths would you go to, to save someone you loved? This movie, Hello World, tells that with the story of Naomi and Ruri.
It's a touching movie where it resonated with me even though I don't have a partner/love of my life (lol). It's a nice concept on paper with some nice moments and probably could've been a bigger hit given much more screen time, better animation, and execution.
Story:
The story is really
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good but it's just lacking in the development aspect. In this I mean, Old Naomi. We get a fast flashback of what happened to him and a summary of what he's been studying and doing these past 10 years, trying to get into the ALLTALE System and go into the past. Overall, if he were given more development I would probably rate this more higher. But, other than that the story of Young Naomi and Ruri is pretty good, but just also needed more screen time in my opinion.
Pacing:
I already addressed this above, with the movie lacking in screen time. It just really needed more development for the characters, but unfortunately, the budget for it wasn't probably big enough.
Art:
For a 3D Anime Film made in 2019, it's pretty good. There were times when it felt like they ran out of budget and felt like they rendered the scenes using a different program (The bike chase scene lol), but I think that's just me. The background art is really good, with some scenes blending with the 3d aspect of it. If you were a new anime watcher I think you probably wouldn't have noticed it was 3D some of the times.
Characters:
Naomi and Ruri's love development story, though it was short, it was something I really enjoyed it, with me being a typical romance story enjoyer. I liked how Young Naomi understood and complied with Old Naomi, trying to help his (fake) wish come true of making a world where Ruri didn't get struck by the lightning and being happy with her, trying to see her smile just one more time.
Sound:
The OST for the movie is pretty alright, there wasn't anything particularly bad about it and I enjoyed the OST's. There were also times when I felt like moments could've been better given much more appropriate music and sound effects for the scenes and their voice acting. They hired amateur VAs which I don't mind because some movies do that to give a chance to new VAs but, I think this movie would've improved with proper voice acting for the MCs.
Personal Thoughts:
Frankly, if I were the Old Naomi, I would've also done the same with that desperation in mind, trying to save the love of my life. But, that plot twist got me. Because (According to a theory and my personal belief) it turns out that Naomi was the one that got struck by lightning and in the future, Ruri developed the ALLTALE System which she used to make a reality/simulation with the help of the past records making a world that instead of Naomi being struck by the lightning it was Ruri, so that she may save Naomi. But for the sync to occur he must be in a mental state where he saves someone. So, in the end, when he sacrifices himself for young Naomi, Ruri is finally able to sync his mind with his body. Easy, simple, and foreshadowed by the movie (Azu_303, 2021, Youtube Comment). With the 3D world being the simulation and at the end of the movie, where the real world is 2D.
I hope Naomi and Ruri (1st 3D Simulation) have a wonderful and happy life inside their new universe and also for Naomi and Ruri in the real (2D) world.
Overall, I really enjoyed the movie. The romance aspects of it are what I came for and it didn't disappoint me at all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 27, 2024
This is my first Review, yadiyadayada, all of that stuff so don't expect too much.
The plot is simple, the MC has been chasing this girl (FMC) for 2 years and all of a sudden one day realizes he's an average Joe who has no chance with the girl he's chasing and becomes a realist. He then confesses to her one more time seriously and gets flat-out rejected, he accepts it, moves on, becomes cold, and distances himself from FMC. This in turn, makes FMC lonely(?), anxious, and, confused about her feelings because she's so used to him interacting with her all the time, giving her
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all of his affection which has become a precious part of her life. This makes for some good drama on how the both of them feel about each other.
Art: It's alright. It's what you would expect of a typical LN being adapted into a manga, nothing special about it.
Pacing: My main complaint about the overall story is how confusing it was and how many things were happening all at once. But I think the story being confusing is because it was mostly the translations and the way that the manga adapted things from the LN and its horrible pacing. From what I've read from the TL notes, the manga skips off some stuff off the LN. ( I tried my best on trying to understand the story, which was already hard to do because of the confusing translations (I had to switch between different TL groups that did these just to understand what was going on). I also checked some episodes of the anime (Though I didn't watch the whole anime completely) and compared them to the chapters of the manga, some of which were very different. Like the one where he visits FMC's home and meets her little sister - In the anime MC and Ashida visit FMC, while in the manga it's just the MC visiting her.
Characters: Now, the characters aren't overall that bad, they're alright but at the same time the Manga goes over them too fast and there are just too many characters being introduced at once it made me so confused I had to reread it multiple times just to remember who they were. But, enough of that, and let's focus on the FMC and the MC. First of all, the FMC - Natsukawa. Now I think what's the redeemable thing about her character is how she develops in the last chapter. She faces forward to properly realize her feelings which he has for the MC and doesn't run away from things, which she does mainly in the earlier chapters when she was trying to invite the MC to her house and all that stuff. Next, The MC - Sajou. I don't know what to say about him. It's mostly a feeling of hate and understanding which I can't explain in words, but he does have some moments in the story which I liked. The part where he explains to his sister that he's helping out with the cultural festival of his own accord made me like him, but then there's just a part of me that just makes me hate him partially because of how he views himself, but that's just my personal opinion.
Overall, it's enjoyable enough if you try to understand it and read some of the proper chapter translations of it, but it can be confusing if you don't. I would've loved to see more of the story and how the MC and the FMC resolve their complicated feelings for each other, in which I don't know if the LN has gone that far. It's a short adaptation but okay enough to probably hook some of the readers to hop over to the LN.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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