That was hmm… Okay? I guess.
Here in Sri Lanka, people don’t really know anything about anime. Most people my age have never even heard of it. Hell, I didn’t know much about it until a new came to our school who introduced me to it. So seeing a national TV channel broadcasting an anime is not just out of the ordinary. It was baffling. The main downside is it’s dubbed. Sinhala dubs suck. Like big time. The voice actors here are bad at best. Okay, they don’t have a best. The translators are even worse. They have no idea how to capture the emotion of a story. The voice actors have no idea how to relay that emotion either. So it’s a total fuck up.
Even then, I wanted to watch Bubble because I was honestly amazed that the channel even considered showing an anime. I was excited.
As for the movie itself. Well… it sucked. It sucked big time. The plot wasn’t too interesting. The logic was all over the place. The world-building was pretty much nonexistent, even considering this is one of those fantasy-setting stories. Exposition dumps were awful. And the characters. Oh, man. They were soo bad. It felt as if everyone except the two main characters were stupid for some reason. The show didn’t do anything to flush the cast. They were just stepping stones.
There are so many shows and movies that try to do what this failed at but much much better. Take Vivy or Belle for example. They might not have been the best. But they were really enjoyable and didn’t make me question the fundamental premise they were built upon. Here, I was always like.
A bubble… A bubble… Why?? How does that even make sense?? So people can get in but not out? What??
Behind all the soap and bubbles. This is what? A sports anime? Parkour? Oh well, as someone who hates media related to sports. This wasn’t fun. Even the romance… I’m disappointed.
If I were to compare this to Belle. At least that movie had a great closure and a great cast of characters I cared about. It did a good job. This… This! The characters felt like empty husks. They didn’t feel real at all. The writing was just oh so bad.