The animation was stellar very beautiful,but Natsume was NOT a good main character time and time again she was very selfish. Now Reina was a bit bratty and mean sometimes,but her anger is definitely justified considering the situation. They we're stranded for days away from their families,unsure if they were ever gonna escape,Without necessary human commodities,eating the same thing and eventually starving. The movie seemed to be trying to gas light Reina as this selfish snobby brat,but I honestly wanted her to slap some sense into Natsume as much as that girl was moping around espically at the WORST times. Natsume would constantly do stupid things and not take responsibility and kosuke would just enable her. Kosuke would also only give comfort to no one else affected just Natsume and any time Reina would try to make Natsume take responsibility all of a sudden Reina's the bad guy,granted Reina was a bit agressive with the confrontation,but everything was indeed Natsume's fault along with Noppo. All three main characters are extremely selfish,from hiding the camera,to stalling when they don't have time,to putting everyone else in jeopardy to stay together. Noppo put everyone in danger and only cared about Natsume and Kosuke. Every other other character clearly cared about eachother except the main three and all three main characters openly showed and admitted they only cared about eachother. Which is terrible especially when trying to make the audience feel bad for them. Literally movie being like "Her parents fought a lot and she was comfortable here and so were the other two boys. So she STOLE her best friends DEAD GRANDPA'S camera and REFUSED to give it to him." Not only that ,but Natsume slaps Kosuke in the movie after he swims back to save her. IF ANYONE DESERVED TO GET SLAPPED IT WAS DEFINITELY NATSUME. She ADMITS her selfish behavior just minutes before slapping then fighting Kosuke. Kosuke is just as bad cause he's so blind by his feelings that he gives her a pass on mopping,stalling,putting everyone in jeopardy time and time again and then proceeds to protect her selfish actions when she gets called out. Noppo is probably the most selfish dragging all those other kids into the situation then saying "Natsume and Kosuke I just want them to live". The whole time the three main characters are barely acknowledging the sides charcters struggles. A lot especially from the beginning WAS Natsume's fault and it's extremely annoying how the movie trys to make it like it's NOT. Example : Noppo,Natsume,and Kosuke explore the building. Taishi walkie talkies them to hurry cause times running out,and what does Natsume do after hearing it? RUNS DEEPER INTO THE STRUCTURE AND FREEZES wasting time. Then the building collides with theirs and Taishi needs saving. Reina and Yuri go to help,but the building crashing and does more damage to the roof than they notice. Then Yuri needs saving, Natsume does end up saving Yuri ,but only while injuring both herself and Yuri in the process. Then when Reina confronts Natsume about everything that IS Natsume's fault,guess who comes to Natsume's unjustly defense? Kosuke. Kosuke then yells at Reina for expressing her frustration instead of comforting her,then goes on into the whole rest of the movie Coddling Natsume at every turn. Turly infuriating movie every other charcter is good expect for the main three.
I'm only giving this a 7 for the animation quality,but all three main characters were the definition of infuriating.
I'm only giving this a 7 for the animation quality,but all three main characters were the definition of infuriating.