Anime 31812 Kuroshitsuji Movie Book Of The Atlantic Reviews Filter Check 2

This review comes from someone who truly loves the Kuroshitsuji manga and its art, so bear that in mind. I'll try to keep it simple and honest.

(SOME SPOILERS AHEAD)

This arc is certainly one of the best in the manga, not only because it is action-packed, but also because Yana Toboso's art is impeccable. And unfortunately, this movie does not do it justice. The animation is sloppy and lazy, the zombies or Bizarre dolls do not walk, they apparently float pixel by pixel, the action scenes are very poorly animated, and the sad thing is that most of the movie happens in darkness.

The adaptation is odd ... because they decided to extend certain things (like Elizabeth's flashback which got boring), and then to skip others (the moment in Sebastian's cinematic record when he appears before the cultists, has a dialogue with Ciel and marks his eye while they boy's still in the cage, something I was very excited about seeing).

Now, the good thing I can point out about the movie was the voice acting. Ono Daisuke's demonic growls were fantastic, 10 year-old Ciel is adorably grumpy, and the same goes for the rest of the cast. They did a wonderful job and truly saved this movie, in my opinion.

So, in short, if you're in need of something average, watch the movie. But if you need some beautiful art accompanied by a better-paced story that does not extend what isn't important and focuses on what you really need to see, then please, go and read the manga! It is a much better experience.

Book of the Atlantic is adapted from one of the best if not THE best arc of the Kuroshitsuji manga. To make this review extremely short: If you do not like Kuroshitsuji or haven't watched/read any of it, this movie is definitely not for you, so you can give it a skip or put it on hold. If you have watched the show without reading that manga, you should read the manga, but if you refuse to for whatever reason, watch this movie. The characters are all at their best and it's a great, cinematic story. If you have read the manga, there's no reason ... to watch this movie. At all. Anyone who says that the art or animation is good is lying; it's a case where they practically used the manga as storyboards except all of the beautiful details and emotions of the artwork are removed, and the fight scenes looked better in my imagination.
Go reread this arc of the manga and it will be a much more fulfilling experience than watching this poorly made movie.

The so far last part is based on the manga that received an anime adaptation.

The description of this episode already tells the whole process of it. As a fragment of a season, this would be better, but since I practically have to rate the film individually, the rating is correspondingly more negative.



On the plot side, almost nothing happened in the whole movie. Just action, simple antagonists. The only surprising thing was the implementation of the undead, which should even compete with Hollywood. Apart from that, he was very weak in the area of ​​the plot.

If we go on ​​entertainment there was nothing to complain ... about, it is almost first class


The best part about this was the characters. Because you actually got to know something from Elizabeth, which makes her no longer seem like a pain in the ass but has a little depth. And saw more of Sebastian, Ciel, and Undertaker.



Conclusion


In the end, the film was quite entertaining and added something to the plot. But as a single film separated from the work, it was only slightly above average and did not come up to the level of Book of Circus.

Story - 4
Art - 8
Sound -7
Character -5
Enjoyment -7
Overall -6

tl;dr Lots of retconning and idk if it's different in the manga but I am kind of disappointed at the lost potential.


Okay so, overall. It was good. HOWEVER:

This movie seemed to have retconned a lot of stuff. I'm glad they didn't keep Elizabeth as the typical shounen love interest who is useless. It was an interesting touch, but it also felt a bit over the top that she's some super sword master all of a sudden. Sure, it was explained with a flashback but that's the problem. There is no build-up and it does not make sense.

Second, Ciel caring about protecting Elizabeth seemed ... odd as hell and also a retcon since his whole deal is he doesn't care how many chess pieces fall so that he can get his revenge. The fact that he cares to protect Elizabeth in the first place without any benefit to himself seems egregious.

Third, Sebastian's flashback to when he was summoned was kind of cute. That's the problem though, it seems counterintuitive to what the plot has been in the past...