| I wanted to be optimistic. Hope it’s still better than Belle. https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/scarlet-anime-review-mamoru-hosoda-1235149140/ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/scarlet/anime-film/.228731 https://letterboxd.com/film/scarlet-2025/ |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| Unsurprising since Belle sucked ass too |
| "Another visually impressive but narratively forgettable baroque fantasy" Yeah... Looked like it from the trailers. I've been feeling like Hosoda has lost the plot, he has so many artists and fancy tech that he forgot how to tell a story. Mirai felt kinda confused, and Belle was an absolute mess. |
Shamsy said: Nah Belle was pretty decent. Unsurprising since Belle sucked ass too |
 |
| Japanese twitter has been absolutely savage about this movie. I wasn't interested in seeing it because I find modern Hosoda to be mediocre (especially compared to his earlier great works like his One Piece movie and Summer Wars), but now I'm curious from just how violently negative the reaction has been. |
| Japan hates it. I haven't liked his movies after Wolf Children. He's done. |
 |
| I'll be completely honest, I still really don't get what people find so bad about Belle. I watched it a while ago and thought it was just forgettable at worst. tr25a3 said: "Wolf Children" and "The Boy and the Beast" were both great, story wise and visually. How come everything they did after that turned out mediocre? I would say the biggest reason is that all of Hosoda's most praised movies were written by Satoko Okodera, but after Wolf Children, Hosoda started writing all of his movies himself. |
Reply to Kougeru
Japan hates it. I haven't liked his movies after Wolf Children. He's done.
Kougeru said: Japan hates it. I haven't liked his movies after Wolf Children. He's done. Came here to post this. Kinda funny, because I still remember the time when I considered Hosoda as a créme de la créme of this medium and not that self-proclaimed herald of mediocrity who he has become. |
Use your brain before using your keyboard!  |
| damn, it looked good, visuals and designs wise, more consistent than belle (given the more grounded setting). If its really bad like Belle then that sucks cus the animators and artists clearly know what they are doing |
Reply to Oongbuh
I'll be completely honest, I still really don't get what people find so bad about Belle. I watched it a while ago and thought it was just forgettable at worst.
I would say the biggest reason is that all of Hosoda's most praised movies were written by Satoko Okodera, but after Wolf Children, Hosoda started writing all of his movies himself.
tr25a3 said:
"Wolf Children" and "The Boy and the Beast" were both great, story wise and visually. How come everything they did after that turned out mediocre?
"Wolf Children" and "The Boy and the Beast" were both great, story wise and visually. How come everything they did after that turned out mediocre?
I would say the biggest reason is that all of Hosoda's most praised movies were written by Satoko Okodera, but after Wolf Children, Hosoda started writing all of his movies himself.
| @Oongbuh Its just a nonsensical movie all together, the plots and themes it explores are kinda rushed and genuinely stupid bad in its execution, like legit, its a bundle of random shit like Ready Player One (which is a worse movie than Belle, Belle isn't that bad) Belle was more of an excuse to make a musical movie to flex animation and vocal talent in several languages, but the plot of it its all over the place and doesn't understand what it wants to do with it's setting, somehow a serial doxxer is hailed as a honorable cyber police guy? with sponsors and all? |
| Yeah not just bad reviews but it's also a complete flop in terms of ticket sales. |
Reply to Chipp12
Yeah not just bad reviews but it's also a complete flop in terms of ticket sales.
| @Chipp12 well, Mamoru HOSODA doesn’t deserve an Oscar nomination then. |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| I watched the film, and I have to admit: if the reviews are bad, they’re absolutely deserved. There’s no real plot to speak of. Everything feels naïve, often downright ugly, drowned in uneven CGI. Sometimes the visuals are fine, but just as often they’re jarringly poor. It’s obvious the screenwriter thought in terms of isolated “scenes” rather than an actual story. He seems to create random situations just to force in a moment he had in mind, with zero regard for overall coherence. And the clichés… The clichés... At least it had the decency to make me laugh out loud during the main character’s final speech : the classic “good is good and evil is evil!” delivered with absolute sincerity. I honestly don’t know how Mamoru-san can get away with releasing something like this in 2025. It took him 4 years to make... EDIT : Forgot to say that the voice acting was horrible. Except for the grave diggers that showed up for 40 seconds. They had WONDERFUL Voices. |
Reply to EgatammaN
This just released at my country's local theatres today and after reading reviews from people here... I'm now torn whether should I still go or not.
I had a gut feeling when I saw the trailer that this might gonna get messy but I thought that "At least the visuals and sounds will make up for it like Belle" but after reading one of the reviews that the visuals also poor... Damn.
But I THINK I might still go, I watched Uchiage Hanabi at the theater back then and I'm one of the 0,0001% that thinks it wasn't that bad (Because I overthink the plot and make my own speculations/interpretations on that movie)
Soo yeah, I probably still gonna go.
But I had to agree the last 2 movies of Mamoru Hosoda was mediocre, Mirai is one hell of a mixed bag I couldn't even come with my own interpretations but visuals is still great, Belle literally has no meaningful plot but the OST and visuals made it quite worthwhile.
Now this... I'm really torn after I read that the visuals on this is poor.
I had a gut feeling when I saw the trailer that this might gonna get messy but I thought that "At least the visuals and sounds will make up for it like Belle" but after reading one of the reviews that the visuals also poor... Damn.
But I THINK I might still go, I watched Uchiage Hanabi at the theater back then and I'm one of the 0,0001% that thinks it wasn't that bad (Because I overthink the plot and make my own speculations/interpretations on that movie)
Soo yeah, I probably still gonna go.
But I had to agree the last 2 movies of Mamoru Hosoda was mediocre, Mirai is one hell of a mixed bag I couldn't even come with my own interpretations but visuals is still great, Belle literally has no meaningful plot but the OST and visuals made it quite worthwhile.
Now this... I'm really torn after I read that the visuals on this is poor.
| @EgatammaN I just watched this on IMAX and thought the visuals were pretty good on IMAX. The fights and scenery were very big. Due to the CG style of animation it's not very detailed I guess? Overall I'm in agreement though, the story and premise didn't make sense to me and distracted me from the enjoying the movie. The sound effects were pretty sweet, and I thought the storyboarding/directing was good as well. It executed things well but the story and characters themselves are lacking. |
| Feels like most people shitting on this movie are just CGI-haters in general. I watched the trailer again yesterday and I think the movie looks great. Character-designs are fantastic. Music is superb. I'm not expecting a masterful story, but let's not pretend like other anime-movies have told great stories in recent times. |
| If you haven't watched "Fantastic Children", don't talk about "best anime". Thank you. |
Reply to tr25a3
"Wolf Children" and "The Boy and the Beast" were both great, story wise and visually. How come everything they did after that turned out mediocre?
From the trailer it looks like this is mostly CGI?
From the trailer it looks like this is mostly CGI?
| @tr25a3 it’s because he’s lost his fastball. It happens to the best. Notice how directors like Ridley Scott or writers like Neal Stephenson just can’t seem to produce great things anymore? Everyone has a time limit, and Hosuda simply hit his. |
More topics from this board
» German screening 2026-02-24DevOpsElfMage - Dec 18, 2025 |
0 |
by DevOpsElfMage
»»
Dec 18, 2025 2:08 AM |
|
Poll: » Hateshinaki Scarlet Episode 1 DiscussionAndiuxy - Nov 22, 2025 |
3 |
by bucciest
»»
Dec 13, 2025 9:22 PM |
|
» Hateshinaki Scarlet in Polish cinemasLittleStar - Nov 4, 2025 |
1 |
by J2C
»»
Nov 4, 2025 12:08 PM |
|
» Teaser and DateOvergrownRover - Apr 28, 2025 |
16 |
by VKDOOM
»»
Oct 15, 2025 8:09 PM |
|
» New trailerOld_School_Akira - Oct 9, 2025 |
3 |
by SoloNecromancer
»»
Oct 10, 2025 10:03 AM |