Okay, that was a good movie. A very very good movie. The best garden of sinners by a margin. It made sense. It had good characters. It made me care. It’s what I wanted from this series. This felt like an amazing payoff to all the tidbits we collected in the past four movies. I think this is the only movie that I didn’t feel like it dragged on. And this is the longest one so far at two hours too, so that’s saying something.
This still had certain parts that could’ve been better, like the antagonists. They could’ve been a little more than just husks of whatever the fuck they were. This seems to be a running trend in the nasuverse. They aren’t bad villains, but they feel so one-dimensional. As if they only believe in one perspective and disregard everything else. This is different to the antagonists of the previous couple of movies. Neither Fujino nor Kiriye were like this. Araya is just… bad.
Let’s not forget the transitions. They made me go; OHHHH I see what you did there, multiple times. As they got more and more prominent as the show went on, it didn’t feel like it was being overused. The cuts were a part of the story itself. Like memento. This felt very experimental and it paid off.