okay so a while ago i was checking anime news network you know doing the usual looking for new
releases any changes that are being made that i need to be aware of any updates on when the
world and haram's new episodes are coming out i'm really down bad anyways i see a news report
about a well-animated character on my screen the animated movie is called belle i first thought wow
and then i thought nothing more of it and then i moved on with my day fast forward to december 28th
my butt is now sitting in a movie theater with my sister watching this animated movie belle bell is
the highly successful movie by studio chizu that earned 6.53 billion in the japanese box office and
earned 3.3 million at american box offices as well being the author's highest earning movie
to date which isn't surprising the movie has some of the best animation i've ever seen with music
that rivals some of the best disney movies this is coming from someone that watches seasonal animes
so keep that in mind green assault it's able to hide 3d elements that most animes seriously are
too lazy to do if you love great visuals like demon slayer or doraro then this is much better
but sadly if you're looking for a comprehensive story then this is not the anime for you which
is disappointing the story is pretty vanilla it follows a similar story to a classic tale
of disney but alters it the anime way with i'm just gonna say it weak female characters dead
absent parents emotional flashbacks monologues for exposition poorly made villains that don't
capitalize on their potential and more if clicked on this video then you probably want to know
how did i end up talking about it is bell worth it and what is it about before i talk about the movie
keep in mind that this is going to be a heavily spoiled video so if you don't want to be spoiled
then this is your chance to click away most of you probably don't care so let's get into it review
so the story starts out with a incredible percussion solo similar to a high school
football game or a really big sporting event right wow narration of the virtual world plays then bell
our main protagonist starts to sing the opening song you this is performed by the voice lead coho
nakamura the underground group millennium parade provide the instrumental audios as well
this is just an amazing track to explain the escapism feeling of being in you and show how
big of a celebrity belle is here then suzu wakes up this being her and irl and they really want to
show and highlight how clinically depressed she is with her constantly constantly constantly always
walking alone looking very sad when she's in real life when she gets to school she visually shows
how much she wished she looked like her classmate ruka and how much she's interested in her other
classmate schnobu with these two being the most respected and attractive students at the school
on the way home she goes into her sad anime backstory because it's anime showing that her
mom was the most important person in her life and since her dad was always at work her mom
teaching her everything being her best friend including giving her her passion for singing
and music but she died trying to save a dumb kid who got caught into a raging river storm
and of course people online are openly criticizing this decision which is just hella rude and
weird and like shouldn't that be the first response to try and help someone in need i
just since then she refused to sing and say with me she's depressed as she's walking home alone
the girls try to invite her to a karaoke party oh peer pressure she leaves and then the moment she
tries to sing a song she vomits accurate but gross you didn't have to show me this i would have just
believed you while she's crying her best friend hiro gives her invitation to you this being her
origin story with her putting in her gamer tag and inserting a group picture for her profile picture
like every guy on tinder the u generator is assuming it's either the most attractive girl
or the least attractive girl the u generator just simply combines all the features and gives her her
avatar then the full dive technology puts her in then the second song whisper and gale of song play
with her getting mixed results from the crowd which is pretty normal if you're doing a street
performance most people have bad taste in music so yeah makes sense she wakes up with one follower
albeit this moment gave her confidence and made her feel pretty good throughout the day and when
she comes back to check her phone after school she has over 22 million followers bell becomes
the angel of the server the movie's version of a v tuber superstar with the best friend
being our manager producer costume designer pr team everything basically she obviously
is freaking out by how much attention she's now getting but is reminded no one knows who she is
and that being good for her seems like this is why i kind of thought hero was an [ __ ] but
yay reinforcing negative connotations wait is it connotations hold on conversations
connotations yeah okay uh connotations okay i need a feeling a word invokes additional
literal or primary meaning okay then we meet her non-blood-related mothers who have been looking
after her since her mother died who are trying to get her to be happy but with them not knowing what
happiness is themselves we get this little awkward uh moment shinobu trying to talk to her but her
leaving him belle then goes to perform her concert but then our b dragon character crashes the party
with justice the police coming to get him the thing i didn't like about this is like it's never
really clear are they like the actual police admin like what are they also i didn't like the idea of
unveiling being the big bad punishment of you and also the beasts didn't really break any rules
up to this point like sure he's really angry like like sure he's an angry child but up until now
he's played by the rules concert is crashed and he leaves with belle having to cancel
hiro being pissed that he ruined the concert is like they should go unveil him and the two get to
work on tracking his identity they honestly could have kept going on with her day like i think most
people would but they end up narrowing it down to three people each not likely seeming like the
beast when belle goes back to you she meets the beast in the castle which goes like this
who are you leave or i'll bite off your head let me come back some high school girl drama starts
and uh that's when we go talk to the boys with her telling her childhood friend that he hasn't to
worry about her anymore the beast ends up saving her from justice then we hear lend me your voice
and if this doesn't scream beauty and the beast nothing will the three people we thought were the
beasts are all disproven bell is now interrogated by justice who like i said isn't really made clear
is he like the admins the owner police the bots help her escape and we find out that the popular
girl actually liked the dorky kid huh who would have thought isn't that crazy guys well i'll
be darn isn't that crazy guys the popular girl like the dorky kid all high school oh adorable
the two hang out and we ultimately get this cute scene and this confession of being belle i
guess yeah i don't really know what this was b's castle gets then bombed which is kind of legal
well if it's not illegal since it's online maybe it's just a form of harassment
and bell comes out of hiding trying to find the identity of the beast we find out who the beast
is it's one half of a pair of brothers who are being mistreated by their aggressive father and
they just so happen to be streaming this event live for one person to watch it but this stream
ends up being kinda like a skype call so they're able to actually accept the call and talk to them
afterwards and ryu being the bees feeling pitied lets out a pretty compelling speech about how he
feels about hearing a false promise so to show him her resolve she ends up getting unveiled
conquering her fear and singing the closing songs of the movie seeing her resolve the
brothers contact her but the dad shuts down the stream after knowing he's in trouble and belle
goes to get them when she goes to get them she confronts the dad and he ends up just backing
down and they all get a happy ending the end so critiques so this show knows their audience that
being teenage girls like the scenarios just don't make sense if you're an adult with the ultimate
conclusion just having me baffled so you're telling me you all know this man beats his kids
or is just really really aggressive and you're just allowing her to go there alone on a train
to confront this stranger online who's a known aggressive adult male who doesn't have a great
history with women that being either his wife is dead or left them whatever you want to say
she's not there no more with let me see here one two three four five adults letting her go alone
i counted five i'm not even counting her dad here that would make six he kind of got told
last minute he wasn't freaking out he should have but he trusted his daughter or whatever i went
okay sure okay but these five adults contribution is driving her to the train station instead of
actually either stopping her or going with her to make sure she'd be okay the [ __ ] like i would
think the boyfriend here would go but of course he doesn't he's letting a middle schooler take
his girl then the confrontation itself with her just standing here and him ultimately not going
through with it yay but him simply just running away like this this is the ending this is our
big bag antagonist this is like the last thing i thought was going to happen but in the worst
way still moving forward like they hug it out but don't actually explain what happened to the boys
because they're not with her and the police were called but they couldn't actually act on anything
they're like trust us it all worked out like is the dad going to like is he like is the dad
reforming is he going anger management classes is he like is he getting like a therapist like
nothing is explained sure you can say oh it's so beautiful but it doesn't make any sense it does it
make it make sense to me please number two okay so let's start with this the idea of unveiling being
the big deterrent for digital crimes it's it's not so bell and all the people in you are supposed
to be really afraid and this idea of them being scared to be unveiled because their lives and you
are so great and how they wouldn't when people are in the server to know how lame they actually are
like this idea is just so stupid even if unveiled they can still play the freaking game or be on you
but now it's just public knowledge to more degree in the modern view of esports and gaming we all
know the top players know what they look like heck people post their freaking achievements online all
the time heck tracking ips have been around for two decades at this point then i guess the other
part of this is the whole idea of tracking people and sending out their private information but they
don't want people to know tracking ips has been around for about two decades now and is illegal
to basically do if the person doesn't consent to it but in the montage they just show it here they
just do it these are popular users and we see what they look like do they know they're being tracked
i don't think they do because these high school girls don't go into it because knowing these girls
they didn't really ask permission unveiling is a real invasion of someone's privacy and in general
is illegal the admins could simply just ban the beast if they have a problem with them if he broke
terms of service that no one reads or if they just simply don't like him if nintendo doesn't want you
posting videos on youtube about their game they can simply say you can't use it that that's within
their terms of service rights to do the girls tracking the beast and trying to do that in
general is illegal the idea of unveiling someone is just wrong to do but even if they did it
as long as you're not doing something illegal it's not that big of a deal although i didn't
like this idea next is bells and beast chemistry every time on the screen the beast just leaves a
negative interaction with belle constantly just screaming at her or making her afraid of him
like i sympathize with why he's so angry all the time but i didn't see a positive
connection till the end all in all it was a real one-sided relationship with her trying
to be his friend or be a friend with imma say it the movie spent a lot of time with the idea
of belle and beast and building this idea around the beast with which as a character he's not that
great and i'm just gonna say it i'm just gonna say it the dialogue was trash i know people are
gonna dislike what i might take here right and they think i'm just simply hating on this movie
but but i'm not i simply want you to think about this and be honest here when we make friends there
is a reason behind it there is a connection and opening dialogue that gets the two on even playing
grounds something they have in common you see what i'm saying here personally i've had to move
a decent amount of time growing up not really being able to stay in one place for too long
having to be in different schools all the time and i've had to make a lot of friends
and when you do something so often you start to see some common trends very little dialogue
gives them an understanding to grow as friends let alone be lovers like push that idea to the side
most animes can't get away with this because everyone knows each other it's like a community
with them being childhood friends of some sort are all in the same class because they're always high
school students crazy so this is probably why the theme of building a relationship
dialogue from scratch might have been difficult they don't have that connection from all the years
ago in other animes you don't see these opening dialogue scenes of connection because everyone
knows each other it wasn't needed here you're making a new connection to a random stranger
you need that little connection to say we can be friends need that dialogue this show doesn't
happen this anime doesn't have it the dialogue scenes where they do talk suck i'm sorry to say
raiding how do i feel about this anime where would i rate adele to me is a 3.5 out of 5 or
a 7.5 out of 10. if you want to go by that scale the movie is good and i ultimately loved watching
it for what it was the animation was amazing the music reminded me a lot of carol on tuesday
and other projects similar that have japanese and english vocals it was a different take on
the beauty and the beast fairy tale it made it fit more into the modern world
characters to me weren't fleshed out though with some of them just fitting in the needs of the
story like boat boy over here was only there to give ruka a love interest or shinobu so shinobu
could be with shuzu scot-free even though he has no actual other character or interest or likes or
anything of value besides being the love interest of suzu i thought hiro was an ass the first time
watching this movie but i watched it a second time and she seemed like less of an ass because there
are a couple dialogue scenes where she actually was being a good friend instead of being an ass
the adult characters all suck except for suzu's dad who i can kind of understand where his thought
process might have been like his daughter hasn't tried interacting with him for about 10 years
sure he has late hours at work but he's actively trying to make time for his child
to be with his kid justin is a shitty villain or antagonist once i saw his big deterrent being
unveiling people and him just being this cocky [ __ ] the ending just felt anticlimactic like
now that people don't care about being unveiled why should they care about you his character just
felt like really stinky disappointment like if they actively commit a crime they don't
get tossed out of freaking you the police or government don't get involved like there's no
there's no actual punishment for these crimes for in this game it's just really weird if you want to
watch this movie watch it for the songs i would re-watch it over and over again just for that
hearing them was amazing story is passable but not the selling point of the movie the songwriting
is really on display with you swarms of song and gales of song being the best songs while a million
miles away and leaving your voice being the best moments for the actual movie and i'll make sure
to leave the links for the artist down below so go check them out and give me your opinion