Watched the syndication version. There was no reason for it to be centered on a rape case. But the ensemble design was really good and the characters that would be going to series were well-established. I thought the scene with the queer character at the funeral was really good, too, especially for the 80s.
I bet the person who pitched "Evil All Might" was so... unenthused and jaded about the annual anime film industrial complex. As was the person who filled out this scenario with stock annual anime film OCs who were in love with each other and essentially an escort mission. I wonder if they grew up watching the dumpster fire Naruto movies and aspired to make something just as boring. Who knows?
I just... What if this was a movie about Uraraka?…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
No payoff for any of the millions of questions raised during the previous five movies, and an incredibly blue balling resolution to the 02 kids tease in the first movie. The only things that get revealed are the identity of Hackmon and an undoing of a facet of the entire premise of the second half of the series. That facet hasn't been relevant since the fourth movie, but it was still a changed status quo.
It even had the audacity…
