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5.9/10
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Spirits come out when kids leave a school for the day.Spirits come out when kids leave a school for the day.Spirits come out when kids leave a school for the day.
Hozumi Gôda
- Schubert
- (voice)
Mariya Ise
- Principal (Girl)
- (voice)
Akari Kiyama
- Ghost
- (voice)
Jûrôta Kosugi
- Pinia
- (voice)
Minako Kotobuki
- Mutsuko
- (voice)
Yûki Kuroda
- Sony
- (voice)
Dai Matsumoto
- Beethoven
- (voice)
Heath Pennington
- Mutsuko
- (English version)
- (voice)
- (as Heather Pennington)
Hiroshi Shimozaki
- Mr. Fly
- (voice)
Hiromasa Taguchi
- Goth
- (voice)
Haruka Tomatsu
- Mako
- (voice)
Sakiko Uran
- Miko
- (voice)
Kôichi Yamadera
- Kunstlijk
- (voice)
Hiroshi Yanaka
- Mozart
- (voice)
Yûsaku Yara
- Michael
- (voice)
Shôzô Îzuka
- Shaburi
- (voice)
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A Little Less Messy and This would be on par with the good Pixar/Disney Cartoon films there
This is a surprisingly good film. Despite the mediocre quality of the visual animation it didn't affect the entertainment value of the movie not so much.
Initially my biggest fear was seeing this cartoon sourcing or stealing ideas from all other existing cartoon films as I noticed some of the creatures had characteristics 'borrowed' from the Madagascar Penguins, Powerpuff Girls and so forth. Fortunately, it had enough ideas, interesting elements and sense of humour (which was sometimes very lame in my opinion) to sustain itself.
It is a commendable effort from an unknown anime production house. The major flaw that I see is that the progression of the plot is not clean cut. Never mind the visual quality as of course I don't expect a film such as this to be of the same standard with blockbuster Disney/Pixar cartoons. But I feel the animators had squeezed in too many big actions at a very fast pace - even the dialogues got mixed up and confusing for the audience at times. As a matter in fact, the whole movie looked like a very messy party. Whether this was the intention or otherwise, I feel they had slightly ignored the importance to keep things a little less messy, and allow more focus on the plot that matters, which would have made this movie easier to follow and hence more memorable.
Initially my biggest fear was seeing this cartoon sourcing or stealing ideas from all other existing cartoon films as I noticed some of the creatures had characteristics 'borrowed' from the Madagascar Penguins, Powerpuff Girls and so forth. Fortunately, it had enough ideas, interesting elements and sense of humour (which was sometimes very lame in my opinion) to sustain itself.
It is a commendable effort from an unknown anime production house. The major flaw that I see is that the progression of the plot is not clean cut. Never mind the visual quality as of course I don't expect a film such as this to be of the same standard with blockbuster Disney/Pixar cartoons. But I feel the animators had squeezed in too many big actions at a very fast pace - even the dialogues got mixed up and confusing for the audience at times. As a matter in fact, the whole movie looked like a very messy party. Whether this was the intention or otherwise, I feel they had slightly ignored the importance to keep things a little less messy, and allow more focus on the plot that matters, which would have made this movie easier to follow and hence more memorable.
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- maximkong
- Dec 9, 2012
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- 放課後ミッドナイターズ
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- Gross worldwide
- $155,202
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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