[Movie] Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji 「オオカミ少女と黒王子」

WOLF GIRL AND BLACK PRINCE 

Romaji: Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji 

Japanese: オオカミ少女と黒王子 

Genre: Teen-Romance, Romantic-Comedy

Directed by: Ryuichi Hiroki 

Written by: Ayuko Hatta, Yukiko Manabe

Release date: May 28, 2016 (Japan)

Producer: Shinzo Matsuhashi, Naoaki Kitajima
Duration: 1 hour 56 min.

Hi there!! Sorry for disappearing for a very very very long time... I just entered college and suddenly I got so busy since I got no single day without assignments. I took art major, and the assignments really use up a lot of time and energy (and money, too). I'm going to show you some of my assignments someday soon in a post as a proof that I gone for something advantageous and not just lazying around, 'kay? I'll do the post asap! So, some of you guys might be asking, why even in the middle of my rushing activities, I still have time to watch some movies?! Well, but really, I just managed to watch movies during few days before the mid exam (which makes my lecturers lessen the assignments a little so we can breathe peacefully for a while lol). 

The movie I just watched, as you already know from the title and that big poster above, is titled as "Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji" which means "Wolf Girl and Black Prince" in English. It's adaptated from a shoujo manga written by Ayuko Hatta, and also has an anime series published during final quarter of 2014 by TYO Animation in Japan. I don't read the manga nor watch the anime, so I can't give a comparation of them with the live action. The movie tells story about Erika Shinohara, a high school student who desperately wants to fit in a clique so she won't be lonely. However, her clique consists of girls who have boyfriends, and she has to tell lies about her having a boyfriend too. She even took a photo of a random guy as a "proof" that she isn't lying. Unfortunately, the guy she took photo of, Sata Kyouya, turns out to be the most popular boy in her school. Erika asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend, which he agrees to under one condition: that she become his "Wolf Girl" by acting like a pet to him.

To be very honest, I actually watched this movie because the main actor is Yamazaki Kento (acts as Sata Kyoya). Yamazaki Kento is my favorite Japanese actor of all time!! He's cute, and he appears as main actor, everywhere. Literally everywhere. Well, now is his rising time. Some people don't like it that he's everywhere, they say it's boring to see same faces over and over again in different movies. But I don't! I love it that his face is everywhere! Fumi Nikaido (acts as Erika Shinohara) is really cute, too! I don't really know about Erika's personality in the manga, but I think Fumi is too innocent to role as Erika lol, because somehow Erika (in the manga/anime) has a face that shows strong/emphatic personality. But it's okay since she's cute! Overall, the actors/actresses in the live action really resembles the original character, and it's really great.

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My favorite part of the movie is when Kyouya realizes his feelings to Erika, that he told his friend, Kamiya, that it's not everyday you can find the person who really cares about you and really think about your feelings. And also that funny part when Kyouya deletes all contact numbers of 300 girls in Kamiya's cellphone xD and last but not least, that moment when Kyouya finally approached Erika, put a necklace on her neck and kissed her but can't tell "I love you" without getting embarassed! That's soooo cute!❤

Overall, I really like this movie! The story isn't too complicated but still have its own interesting intrigue. Plus, it has Yamazaki Kento in it!

Rate: 8/10

[Movie] Ore Monogatari!!「俺物語!!」

MY LOVE STORY!! 

Romaji: Ore Monogatari!! 

Japanese: 俺物語!! 

Genre: Teen-Romance, Romantic-Comedy

Directed by: Hayato Kawai 

Written by: Kazune Kawahara, Aruko, Akiko Nogi

Release date: October 31, 2015 (Japan)

Production house: Nikkatsu, Django Film

Duration: 1 hour 45 min.

Hi guys! So today I'm back again with another movie review. Since I watch animes, I watch live-actions too! It's so great to see your favorite 2D characters become alive! Ore Monogatari!! is one of my all-time favorite anime. I don't read the manga though. The anime series is 24 episodes long. It tells about a love story of Gouda Takeo, a high school student who is very tall and muscular, but doesn't have much luck with girls as every girl she likes ends up falling for his best friend, Sunakawa Makoto. This all changes when a petite shy girl, Yamato Rinko falls in love with him!

I like this Takeo character so much. He's really my type lol. Despite his looks (well tbh his look doesn't matter to me. he's cute and all his boldness is breathtaking), he's a really good guy. He's polite, kind, modest. He would help anyone who might need his help, do anything he's still capable of for sake of other people. But most of people in this movie just don't get it! Such dumbheads. There's a scene when Takeo helps a kid drowning in a river. But everyone (including the kid and the kid's mom) sees him as kind of monster who came from nowhere. Then Suna, his best friend came and help Takeo. Suddenly everyone get dazzled by Suna's "heroic action" and Suna get all the thanks. Suna tries to tell that it's Takeo who helps the kid, but well, as I told you before, most of people in this movie are just dumbheads. This kind of scene happens a lot in the anime. It's pathetic, isn't it? When people only sees you by the looks and not by your actions :(

I like the main casts. They're perfect for the movie. Although I hoped for a cuter Rinko, but Mei Nagano is cute enough to play as Rinko. I thought they will make her hair brown like in the anime too, but well, you can see that black hair. Her acts are soooo cuteeee!! He acted so well that I can't see that it's only acting. I think Ryohei Suzuki makes a perfect Takeo, too! His facial expressions really resembles Takeo in anime. Love the parts when he screams "SUKI DAAAAA" (Japanese, means: I like him/her) in mind, it's so hilarious! Last but not least, Kentarō Sakaguchi is a perfect Suna, too. I like his calmness. He acts really cool and just don't realize it. As for the character, I like how Suna loves his best friend sincerely! Both of Takeo and Suna are good guys. Really good that I'm afraid there's no guy in the world might be as good as them lol.

The best part of the movie (in my opinion, ofc) is when Takeo and Rinko goes to a 'date' because Rinko asked Takeo to accompany her looking for a birthday gift for Suna. They went to a shopping center. They make a really cute couple together (they weren't couple yet on that date, tho)!! They also went to a Purikura and took photos together, the photos turned out really cuteeeeee!! This is one of my thousands reason of wanting to go to Japan: Purikura!! xD

Overall, I'm satisfied with this live-action movie. Actually, I expected this movie to be full of stories about Takeo and Rinko being couple, but no. The movie ends when they become couple. Great. But that doesn't really matter because this live-action is very, very good. A good live-action movie really matters to me as a person who watches anime. It sucks when a live-action movie of our favorite anime series doesn't turn out good. But this, is worth watching over and over again :)

Rate: 8/10

[Movie] Ao Haru Ride「アオハライド」

Ao Haru Ride (アオハライド) Live Action Movie is based from a shoujo manga with the same title written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka. The title of this film “Aoharaido”, is a term coined by encompassing the terms “Aoharu (youth)” and “Ride” (Riding on Youth). It is a story about reuniting with the first love from the middle school days and trying to once again fall in love in high school. Sakisaka Io started serializing this in 2011 and became a blockbuster hit with 470,000 copies currently sold. There were 10 companies, including television stations and movie companies that tried to get the rights to turn this into a live action.

Ao Haru Ride tells a love story between Yoshioka Futaba and Mabuchi Kou. They knew each other since junior high school and got separated when Kou's parents divorced and Kou have to follow her mother to Nagasaki. They're reunited in senior high school, but Kou has changed, and Futaba kept trying to look for the old Kou she loved. But as time flies, she started to accept the new Kou. I love the story so much. The romance is soooooooooo cute and too sweet. I read the manga and watched the anime. The manga ends on the 49th chapter and the anime consists of 12 episodes, 1 OAD, and 1 OVA (kind of bonus episodes). 

The appearance of some characters in the movie are different to the anime/manga but I think it's all okay. And just like any other live action movies, there are some missing parts and differences in respect of the limited duration. For example, the encounter of Touma and Futaba (FYI, Touma become Futaba's boyfriend shortly after Kou rejected Futaba's feelings). In manga/anime, they firstly met in a library. Futaba accidentally bump into Touma, and (accidentally) touched his thing...(lol). But in the movie, they firstly met when Touma approached Futaba in a camp for class leaders to help her.

Some parts that I personally think should've been included in the movie are: 1) the friendship between Futaba, Shuuko, and Yuuri should be shown more intense, 2) the Futaba-Touma relationship!! Their relationship in the manga is sooooooo cute since Touma loved Futaba so much. But in the movie it's not as sweet as in the manga, but well. At least they kissed! 3) More cute scenes of Futaba-Kou!! 

I'm not sure if I'm in #TeamKou or #TeamTouma, they both are really cute! They both loved Futaba so much and they treat Futaba very nice. I envy Futaba so muccchhhhhh! But obviously, Futaba is in love with Kou and so otherwise, conflicts solved, and then happily ever after. So I think I'm in #TeamKou (lol, the urge to support the winner team). But I still love you too, Touma!! 

Plus, I like how the casts are chosen nicely. Chiba Yudai perfectly match Touma's image. He's soooo cute!! His smile melts my heart all the time. Touma-Futaba kiss scene is also make me so happy I don't know why. It's just... It's so cute!! It's so cute, how Touma wants Futaba to look at him and not at Kou ❤ also, Fujimoto Izumi (Makita Yuuri) and Shinkawa Yua (Murao Shuuko) are cute too! This movie is perfect for those who loves romance movie. Yes, this movie is for you girls!! FYI, if you like this movie too, there's also a live action movie titled "Strobe Edge" which is also based on a manga by Sakisaka Io.

The soundtrack of this movie is Kirari by Ikimono Gakari. The music is sooo good, I loved it since the first time I listen to it in the trailer. You really need  to listen to it! Here's the trailer if you haven't watch it:

Rate

Story: 4/5

Cast: 5/5

Directing: 4/5

Music: 5/5

"I have never loved anyone else besides you."

-Mabuchi Kou-

[Movie] Parasyte「寄生獣」Part 1

Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, this movie was made based on worldwide best-selling manga Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki. I didn't read the manga, but I watched the anime series titled as Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu「寄生獣 セイの格率」(Parasyte -the maxim-) which was 24 episodes long. It was one of my favorite anime series because the story has deep lessons for humans, to appreciate each other and also respect any kind of existences. Plus, I like Migi. His (or its?) personality and especially his voice! His seiyuu (voice actor) is Aya Hirano which surprisingly also the voice actor of so many girl anime character and the voices she made is very different. 

Based on the anime, the story tells about an worm-like alien invasion on earth which they tries to eat human's brain to take over the body by entering through ears or noses. They're called as parasytes. One parasyte tried to get into Shinichi's ears, but failed since he was wearing an earphone. It entered his body into his arm instead, took over the right hand and named as Migi (in Japanese, it means 'right'). Having mind and personality each other, they agreed to work together to survive while battling other parasytes since they keep devour humans as food.

In the movie, the main concept is the same, but there are some missing part that I expected to be included. There are a lot of differences between the anime and the movie. But since I know it's because the limited duration, I tolerated and I was kind of enjoy the movie. Here are some differences I found while watching the movie *I'm comparing the movie with the anime version because I don't read the manga*:

• In the anime, Shinichi wears glasses in the beginning and made a total makeover in the end of episode 7.
  In the movie, Shinichi never wears glasses, and didn't make any makeover.
• In the anime, Shinichi live with both his mother and father.
  In the movie, it seems like his father died a long ago and her mother have to role as a single parent. 
• In the anime, Shinichi's mother died during a trip with her husband by a random parasyte.
  In the movie, Shinichi's mother died on her way home by A in order of revenge. 
• In the anime, Satomi and Shinichi liked each other but they become a couple near the ending of the series.
  In the movie, it seems like they're already go together as boyfriend and girlfriend.

Kimishima Kana & Uda Mamoru

• In the anime, the first parasyte Shinichi met is formed as a dog.
  In the movie, the first parasyte Shinichi met is a butcher. 
• In the anime, there is a girl who can feel the presence of parasytes like parasytes do each other. Because of that, she's interested in Shinichi but she get killed by parasyte in episode 12.
  In the movie, she is a total absence.
• In the anime, Shinichi met a person with a parasyte took over his mouth named as Uda Mamoru which helped him to revenge to the parasyte killed Shinichi's mother.
  In the movie, Uda Mamoru never existed.
• In the anime, Shimada featured as an average-height, expression-less boy.
  In the movie, he's featured as a tall boy who smiles almost all the time.
• In the anime, Shimada's disguise in school discovered by Satomi's friend. She made an appointment with him, and tried to fight back using kind of an alcohol until Shinichi saved her.
  In the movie, his disguise discovered in front of all art-class students. The one who tried to fight back using alcohol is Satomi, Shimada got uncontrollable, and her friend get killed. 
• In the anime, Shinichi killed Shimada by throwing a rock in a high speed using Migi's help.
  In the movie, Migi turned into a bow and Shinichi killed Shimada using an arrow. 

There are a lot more differences to tell, but some aren't too significant, so I think the differences I told above is enough. Actually, there's one more difference for me. I personally think that Migi in anime is a lot wiser than the Migi in the movie. In the anime, Migi always guide Shinichi neatly, full of considerations. But Migi in the movie is too rush and kind of childish. In my opinion, that might ruin Migi's image to the people who watched the movie and didn't read the manga or watch the anime version. It's only my personal thought, anyway.

Although the story is a bit too rush, I like the movie a lot since the director can fit the half of the anime series into a movie by including important parts of the story. The visual effect is excellent! I can't see any flaw of the graphic of the parasytes. I wonder how the animators make their face changes so nicely. Migi looks so cute, too!

Ai Hashimoto (right) as Murano Satomi (left)

Plus, I like the actress who play as Murano Satomi. She's so beautifuuuulll! At first I was confused. I was like 'who the hell is this beautiful girl' until I realized she's Satomi. Since the anime genred as seinen, the girls aren't cute or anything. Well, it's all because she's too beautiful to play as Satomi. But she played Satomi very well: soft-hearted yet so playful girl. 

Last but not least, at the ending of the movie when Shinichi fight A (in his mother's form), Shinichi was unguarded once. A took advantage by attacking, but her mother prevent A's action. It was really touching, although after that Shinichi had to kill her mother's body.

Rate

Story: 3/5

Cast: 4/5

Directing: 4/5

Visual Effect: 5/5

"If the human population were to be halved, would the number of forests being burned off also be halved? 
If the human population became 1/100 of what it is today, would the waste product also become 1/100 of what it is today?" 
-Tamiya Ryouko-