![]() Studio 8bit, while doing a mediocre job by anime film standards, still has a far more visually appealing product that the original, which is the long and short of it all.Taku Iwasaki returns as the composer of the music for the film and it was far superior to his work on the show. At the very least, we got to see characters in a variety of fashionable uniforms outside of their school attire, which was thankfully absent throughout the film. The fights and overall magic were pretty bad as well. The artstyle is as bad as ever though, and the CGI is both horrible and prevalent. For one, they fixed the lighting issue to a decent extent, now I don't have to squint to avoid my eyes being set on fire from the needlessly bright lighting effects. It feels like a short filler arc of the show, though thankfully issues carried from the show are largely subdued.Visually, the movie is passable. ![]() It still suffers from flat characterization, holes and leaps in logic, pacing issues, and a major switch from one major object being a threat to another, with the first object being ignored entirely after the halfway mark, among other problems. ![]() Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is one of the more popular Light Novel series to have come out within the past decade or so, spawning an anime adaptation by Studio Madhouse in 2014. That anime was also a gigantic piece of shit.Thankfully, this movie isn't so bad.That isn't to say this was a good or even passable film, however. ![]()
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