Promare

Studio Trigger tries their hand at reinventing Kanada-school animation from the ground up a la Spiderverse, and anime's resident antifa soldier Kazuki Nakashima throws in a bit of abolish ICE and billionaire dunking for good measure. Unlike anything else you'll see this year, unless you watch one of Imaishi's other works, in which case it's exactly like that.

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GOD, GALO IS SUCH A SUPREME HIMBO HUH

Imaishi and Trigger disregard restraint and go all-in on their idiosyncrasies, delivering a work that feels both like a distillation of everything that makes them them, and something that goes beyond an excuse for crazy fight scenes to become a pure audio-visual experience. Imaishi dares you to not look away for a second, dares you to accept the plot twists, and cheekily tries to see how long he can hold out the gay kiss. Excessive in the best way possible.

I probably don't need to explain exactly how asinine an idea it is when the society in a movie decides that the best way to fight fires is with giant kung-fu robots, but good god, I am embarrassed for even watching this.

This was the first time I have seen an anime on cinema and it was not a great experience. The intro part was cool, but then the "Futuristic Firefighters" thing did not work for me at all. There were some nice designs here and there, but overall it was so unnecessarily noisy I felt like "Could you please save the World a bit more calmly? These things I have are called ears and they are kinda sensitive. Thank you".

Promare feels less like an independent entity and more like incestuous self-parody. It's a regurgitation of all of Imaishi's past work. The characters are all archetypes (there's the hothead, there's the cool guy with glasses, there's the female lead). The story beats are indulgently cliche (here's the scene where they get a mech, here's the fight that will end with a single punch). Imaishi's previous works openly showed his influences. Now he's influenced by himself. It's Imaishi doing Imaishi.

Takes a piece of Gurren Lagann and focuses in and supercharges it with energy and metaphor and anger and delight and fucking amazing animation. Very much the kind of anime to watch if you want to come out of it feeling energized and ready to take on the world. Plus, the gay is very powerful with this one!

i was watching the new getter show resigned with the poor budget but then here's Promare, a getter descendant, looking simply amazing. Promare chucks any gravitas or fatalism its forefather had and embraces an intoxicating optimism

Trigger makes a 'Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann' movie, without having the rights to the series. Which is fine considering the studio was founded by the team that made said anime in the first place. So if you know 'Gurren Lagann' you know what to expect. Dudes with hearts of gold believing in themselves to fight bad guys in ridiculous over the top fight sequences. The story itself is fine, but the presentation... Good lord, epic doesn't even come close. Row, Row, fight the powah!

An uninspiring and exhausting film. This is what you get when you put all your points and effort into trying to be unique and having stylistic animation.

A manic, action packed visual treat.

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It felt like those anime movies that condense a full 24 episode series into 2 hours. The pacing, character development, and pretty much everything outside of the art and direction of the shots are awful. Character motives flip on a dime. Its hard to tell if it was trying to parody Trigger itself and anime or if it was just poorly written. Art is the anime equivalent of "Into the Spiderverse" though. Amazing designs and colorful fight scenes

Gurren Lagann lite.

Pretty but boring

Kind of a shame that animation this spectacular is in service of such a braindead shonen-trope plot.

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