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Download the true love never ends8/22/2023 And said inter title doesn't even interrupt the flow of the storytelling. Just like in the show, every ~10 minutes you get an inter title, with a one-panel comic punchline on it and a brightly coloured background, with the title of the movie layered on top. There is one obvious narrative choice that betrays the non-movie nature of this movie: the inter titles. THAT is the biggest sin this movie has committed: the story didn't progress. My biggest issue with this arc lies in the fact that the movie created a problem that didn't exist in the first three seasons, only to resolve it and come back to where we left the whole cast at the end of season 3. Only one character has been developed (which they badly needed, so props for that) but that is it. This movie follows the classical narrative structure in three acts, but where it fails to me is in its third: I don't feel like I witnessed much progression for any situation that was left pending in Season 3. If you have watched a narrative arc unfold in a show, you know what to expect. It's there to showcase what the series has best to offer to its audience, be it in animation, character design, story, music, pacing, character alchemy or whatever have you. I am sure I was mislead by the promotional material showcasing this story as a standalone movie, because an anime movie to me is a mothership for a series. And this narrative arc is far from good enough to support that betrayal of expectations. It's a collection of 4 episodes from a "Season 3.5" put back to back, and released together as a movie.
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