http://www.animenews...lion-yen/.81916
Number 1 at the box office.
515 million yen.
These numbers don't lie. The movie is on track to beat RTN. Only time will tell if it actually does.
Just to clarify, I am not saying that the Last is a good movie because it is making money. I am just saying that it is an illusion to think that majority of the japanese fandom hate the movie when it is actually making money.
I understand but like you said, this is just one sample group. What about other sample groups?
and how do you know the reviews are "100% honest"? either way, we cant use some reviews on yahoo to judge the whole Naruto fandom's opinion on the movie. If the success of the movie was so bad and if majority of the naruto fans hated the movie, there will be no way SP will be able to hide that.
This whole stuff is just like with Twilight. People bash the hell out of it but that never stopped it from getting popular among some people to the point that it made so much money. I just think this is a case where people who disliked the movie are a vocal minority.
If you want to focus on these Yahoo reviews, more power to you. This is all I'll say on this matter.
Hello false marketing *ding ding* many people from Japan informed us on this like Ramen who is from here , several Japanese fans on tumblr who came out to express this issue as well as @megi also 2ch I believe is the largest/most popular fan site in there with general Naruto fans people are no happy in there with this kitten Yahoo Jp is only icing on the cake .
Also here :
Hamorebi from tumblr- he lives in Japan- posted this as few days ago, so you might have seen this already. Strangely, he thinks the animation wasn't as good as everyone else says it is, but that's probably just his opinion.
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It’s negative because of how underwhelming the movie was compared to what SP had advertised and because of how clusertkitten the whole plot was. Too many discrepancies with the manga and random out-of-the-blue “facts” were made up. The characterizations for several of the characters were very off, and I blame SP for not knowing what they were doing and Kishimoto for pretty much not caring at all. For such a hyped movie to come right after the ending of one of the biggest manga in the world caused there to be a lot of backlash. The characters do things that feel out of character, or make them look like terrible people. Despite it being the “Last”, the animation wasn’t done as well as it couldn’t have been.
There are also outside factors about why people thought it was bad, such as SP’s marketing and the fact that there couldn’t be any refunds. There were of course enjoyable aspects of the movie, but as many of the fans are saying, the good parts were tarnished by the overwhelming bad parts. Think of it this way: you know it’s bad when SP has to do damage control.
Anyways, instead of this movie, I recommend getting Guardians of the Galaxy or maybe taking a nap.
He also said this yesterday:
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What fandom won’t speak up when something happening in the canon doesn’t suit well with them? Why would we close our eyes? I think the Western fandom (and actually the West has a whole) has this very unhealthy perception of Eastern countries and peoples (in this case Japan). And the fact that they believe they can speak for us and our problems is quite ridiculous. They have no propriety. I don’t care if they’re “learning” about it, or live there, or whatever, they honestly have no propriety to talk for a Japanese person. Do you know the movie/book “Memoirs of a Geisha”? I laugh. Many westerners like to erase our traditions and make up facts about it in any ways they want.
Mostly, I think the NH is accepted, if not the logic behind it. And overall, more criticism on Naruto than any other character in the movie. Really,