Movie-Per-Day Self-Challenge (Update 6)

Time for another update! I have 8 new movies to talk about this time around, making it 45 total days that I've done this daily movie thing. On that subject, I've decided that I'll stop this at 60 days/movies. I think that's a good place to stop and I'd like to focus more on my manga reading and trying to finish a bunch of stagnate anime entries on my list. In other news, I'm officially 35 years old! My birthday was over the weekend and I had a nice day of playing board games with friends. Good stuff! Anyway, here are my movie impressions for this batch: Saint☆Oniisan (Movie): (20 May 2019) To start things off with this batch, we have a story about Buddha and Jesus taking a vacation in the human world, living in a Japanese apartment together. This was a rather nice little "movie" which I enjoyed quite a bit and gave an 8, but I didn't end up ranking it in my standalone movie rankings because it felt much more like a part of a larger series than a standalone movie. Even the movie itself kind of just felt like a bunch of short segments lumped together. That's probably the only real negative I have about this. It just kind of felt like, why is this a movie?? I'd like to explore the series a bit more, though, when I have a chance. Parol no Miraijima: (21 May 2019) And now I've watched the fourth and final Anime Mirai 2014 piece and I have to say, this is easily my least favorite of the bunch. I have it a 5, but it was really close to getting a 4. The main characters looked like really bad furry-bait and the villain was just stupid. I suppose this was mainly meant to appeal to kids, and that was probably one of the things that saved it from being a 4. Blah. Mirai no Mirai: (22 May 2019) While I'd heard Mirai come up many times since it'd came out, I never heard a lot about actual plot. It turned out to be rather touching and I liked it quite a bit. I ended up giving it a low-level 9-score with it currently ranking at #23 on my standalone anime movie list. I'm not all that sure as to why its average score is as low as it is on MAL (7.49 at the moment), but I really liked it. Oh well. Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space: (23 May 2019) Now I did NOT like this one! Man, this felt like such pretentious try-hard hipster bullshit. Maybe the visuals were a lot more interesting back in the day (it originally came out in 2002), but they just did nothing for me now. The main animation looked like something that a single good Flash animator could produce and the CGI parts just looked like ass. Then the story was mostly incoherent, and then when it came around to make sense it all felt pointless. When things "came together" it didn't provide any kind of cool feeling and the damn thing dragged so badly that its hour and a half runtime felt twice as long.... Ugh. It got a 3-score from me.... Pop in Q: (24 May 2019) This was a nice little movie! I mean, I "only" gave it a 7, but it was a pretty fun little ride. I'm not sure why this one scores as low as it does. I read the 3-score review on the page, but they mostly just called it cliche and that's about the extent of their criticism. Meh. I thought it was a nice kids movie. I'd really like to see a sequel that expands on the stinger "the adventure continues" ending. But with the movie being about two and a half years old, that probably isn't likely. Oh well. Toaru Hikuushi e no Tsuioku (The Princess and the Pilot): (25 May 2019) I feel like my 7-score here might be a LITTLE generous. But, it is a movie very focused on military air combat which doesn't appeal all that much to me. It did have its moments, though. While the lead characters came off as pretty damn bland at first, they did grow on me by the end. Glass no Hana to Kowasu Sekai (Garakowa -Restore the World-): (26 May 2019) Oh boy.... Here's another stinker.... This movie was an absolute mess. It had a few decent points, but it just couldn't really get its act together. I felt that it either should have been half as long to just throw out its ideas in a nice quick way without so much random junk, or it should have been at least double the length, maybe even done as a 12-episode TV series instead of an hour long movie. It could have easily been expanded to that length. I mean, I could have seen just the one or two minute part of Duel seeing that girl in the first digital world being expanded into an episode all its own, with the big stinger-ending being the reveal that it is all a computer-world and the girl being taken over by the virus and such... So yeah, I gave it a 4. Even though I wasn't a HUGE fan of Flip Flappers, that was a very solid series and pretty much is the kind of show Garakowa could have been. Colorful (Movie): (27 May 2019) Well, time to end strong with a movie that I genuinely loved! This got a high-level 9 from me and currently ranks as my #15 favorite standalone anime movie. While it took me a bit to get a feel for the characters, the main plot point of someone being reincarnated into a recent suicide death caused a situation which kept me very engaged in what was going on in an otherwise very mundane story. I mean, thinking back on it, the set up essentially amounts to a basic "amnesia" cliche, but it was executed in such an interesting way. I really cared about the characters by the end and had a sense for who they were as people. It was a very lovely and heartfelt coming of age story which is another anime movie that I'll be happy to add to my Blu-ray collection.