Towa no Quon 02 is an improvement over the first movie, which is good to see. The animation budget went down a bit, but everything else is more interesting than the first movie.
The characters are less annoying, Quon is less perfect, the main side characters are better fleshed out, the lead female is much less of an idiot. Overall it’s a good movie spent, and proves to be a good antidote for all of the optimism that was present in the first movie. This puts it at least above Break Blade, where all of the movies just looked too much like each other. This movie instead is about a supernatural murder mystery. It’s actually well built up and the movie has a clear structure. That helps too.
Having said that though… the culprit behind the murders turned out to be one heck of an emo. The acting for the culprit was very bland, one sided and done to death. And overall, this movie still hasn’t really solved the way in which most of the characters are just too one-sided. This movie fulfilled its purpose in building up well, but it’s not there yet. The next number of movies need to continue this upward trend.
| Storytelling: | 8/10 – Nothing bad, but also nothing to really stand out. Solid build-up at least. |
| Characters: | 7/10 – Too many one-sided character and the main bad guy in particular was one heck of an emo. The main character got better, though. |
| Production-Values: | 8/10 – Much less eye candy compared to the first movie, but still there is plenty of movement. |
| Setting: | 8/10 – Solid concept and this movie built up well. It’s not used as well as how it could have been, though. |
I think you just broke your own record for shortest review yet.
Cool, I loved the first movie even if the story was not wholly new which perhaps takes a bit away I thought it was executed and paced great, not to mention loved the main group so I can’t wait to see this since it sounds like it builds on it nicely.
I’m not surprised the criminal is an emo as his appearance in the trailer gave me that impression LOL.
The first movie was gorgeously animated IMO (and I loved the art style of the character and setting designs and how the action was animated) so even if this one’s a step down I can live with that, especially if it’s due to the content of the ep, so I’m still looking forward to seeing the visuals since you also mentioned there’s still plenty of movement. One of my favorite parts of the first movie was the soundtrack from Kenji Kawai, can’t wait to hear more of it.
Since it’s better and worse in some ways I think I’ll enjoy part 2, thanks for the review 🙂
I just watched this an I have to say that Quon is a pretty obnoxious main character. The rest of the cast is a lot more interesting than the first movie, but like you said he is SO one-sided. His crazed need to save that kid was so annoying.
I do hope the movies keep getting better like this one and I really hope Quon will get a little bit more realistic in the next few movies. I understand that he really wants to save the awakened people but I thought it was handled really poorly in this movie.
Oh and also this review doesn’t show up in the Index at all just to let you know =]