ThTheHentaiKing
September 7, 2018
Not Recommended
*Disclaimer* Just personal scratch. Advised, possible spoilers. Opinion & Informal Art: 5/10 I know SHAFT can put out some really nice looking stuff, but for a movie...I'm not so sure about what this music video was able present to me. What this short MV was able to convey to me in its 4 minute duration is that SHAFT basically made a movie with television-production quality. To me, it just looked like they made a movie-length television series with television series art quality and television series animation quality. Realistic proportions and anatomy. Cute-realistic style. Unrealistic eye sizes, especially for the presented male MC. Scenery, water, and objects looked realistic. Lookspretty good in general though.
Animation: 5/10 Common SHAFT stuff was showcased in this MV: Impact-scene head-tilts, closeups, awestruck faces. SHAFT really likes to impact-scene facial expressions and closeups; got a lot of that in this MV. There were also clear shortcuts taken on some of the movements and motions that were showcased in this, skipping frames, cut shots (from what I was only able to see in this MV alone, I am unaware of what certain transitions may have actually been in the film).
Characters: 5/10 MV. Showcased the characters with only visual introduction.
Plot: N/A. Music video.
Development N/A. Music video.
Music: 6/10 This part's subjective to the listener. I personally thought it was okay. It wasn't too catchy. Although I've listened to her quite a bit, I don't particularly like DAOKO because her recent albums sound so flat-lined. I just think she hasn't really added any flair to her recent releases because she doesn't really go beyond her usual style: I wouldn't say monotone, but she pretty much sounds the "same" in a lot of her releases. The only thing she really mixes is the speed in which she drops bars.
Conclusion: N/A. Music video.
Overall: 4/10 Everything was about average but I decided to give this a 4 because for a music video this sort of failed. It literally just took clips of the film and added a song over it. This can pretty much be done by anyone. In fact, there's even a few fan-made tribute videos that, too, take clips of the film and play this exact same song over it. Low quality advertising that basically took all the impact-scenes from the film to make it look pretty and used a fairly (fairly) well known singer to add even more hype to the product. "Wow! take a gander at all these impact-scenes with awestruck and wide-eyed characters as well as this sorta popular singer! Haha! Watch our film please!" It's sort of concerning when this music video has a significantly higher community score than the actual film.
