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i have to speak my truth
im fully aware that im the only person in the entire world that watched this movie and was really disappointed by it. i dont expect anyone to agree with me, but i need to say it out loud anyway.
ive been looking forward to watching this movie for a Very Long Time b.c i love matsuyama kenichi as an actor and as a man; ditto goes for ashida mana... but for some reason, i decided to read the manga first before watching the movie. this was a mistake, as it always is. never consume the original media before watching an adaptation. why haven't i learned that lesson yet 😫
so yeah that's what i did, and it actually made me /more/ excited to watch the movie b.c i knew the leads were perfectly cast. they would do a great job of portraying the personalities depicted in the manga, and this movie would ruin my life... but the movie did not give those characters the personalities depicted in the manga, and my life is worse for it ☠️
it's obvious that the producers tried its best to distance itself from this source material in order to tell a more wholesome story, and no one disagrees with that approach. however, i don't think that drastically altering the personalities of our leads was necessary. the fantasies daikichi has in the beginning are prime examples of how egregiously different movie!daikichi is from manga!daikichi, and it really diminished my interest in the film as an adaptation. by this point, i couldn't even enjoy it as its own media either, which was unfortunate.
this is the bulk of my dissatisfaction, but i also strongly disagree with how the disparate, slice-of-life plot points from the manga were spliced together for the adaptation. it was great for Vibes but not for plot.
to end this review on an overwhelmingly positive note, i love how every movie from this era of jpn film evokes so much nostalgia. the grainy-ness and desaturation do a lot to abstract the plot, which helps the viewer focus on the emotion. that was clearly the movie's goal, and the comment section proves the extent to which it succeeded
ive been looking forward to watching this movie for a Very Long Time b.c i love matsuyama kenichi as an actor and as a man; ditto goes for ashida mana... but for some reason, i decided to read the manga first before watching the movie. this was a mistake, as it always is. never consume the original media before watching an adaptation. why haven't i learned that lesson yet 😫
so yeah that's what i did, and it actually made me /more/ excited to watch the movie b.c i knew the leads were perfectly cast. they would do a great job of portraying the personalities depicted in the manga, and this movie would ruin my life... but the movie did not give those characters the personalities depicted in the manga, and my life is worse for it ☠️
it's obvious that the producers tried its best to distance itself from this source material in order to tell a more wholesome story, and no one disagrees with that approach. however, i don't think that drastically altering the personalities of our leads was necessary. the fantasies daikichi has in the beginning are prime examples of how egregiously different movie!daikichi is from manga!daikichi, and it really diminished my interest in the film as an adaptation. by this point, i couldn't even enjoy it as its own media either, which was unfortunate.
this is the bulk of my dissatisfaction, but i also strongly disagree with how the disparate, slice-of-life plot points from the manga were spliced together for the adaptation. it was great for Vibes but not for plot.
to end this review on an overwhelmingly positive note, i love how every movie from this era of jpn film evokes so much nostalgia. the grainy-ness and desaturation do a lot to abstract the plot, which helps the viewer focus on the emotion. that was clearly the movie's goal, and the comment section proves the extent to which it succeeded
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