Dance with Devils: Fortuna

Side note: I could not, for the life of me, find this English-subbed, so I watched the unsubbed one currently on Youtube. I feel like I’ve reached a new level of depravity by watching a movie based on an *otome* game without any context or English subs... Anyway... “Dance with Devils: Fortuna” is a 2017 film based on the *otome* game of the same franchise name. The film follows the female heroine Ritsuka, who lives her school life happily until she returns home to find it infiltrated by suspicious men, who turn out to be a group of mythical beings. I have a feeling that I putthis in my “Plan to Watch” list years ago... simply because I thought the theatrical poster looked pretty? (Not gonna lie, Rem looks pretty...) I don’t think I had any idea that this was based on an *otome* game. That being said, the story was very typical of what you see in an *otome* game: Pretty girl finds herself amongst a group of hot dudes, and she doesn’t know who to pick. The characters overall were.... despairingly boring. I think even if I watched the movie with subs, I would still think that the characters would be so void of personalities (and again, playing into the tropes found in most *otome* games). The art, as mentioned previously, was pretty good. Even the fight scenes weren’t bad at all. I also had no idea that there was a musical element to the franchise, and once the characters started singing... I couldn’t take them very seriously... Overall, I didn’t really enjoy this film at all.

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