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Stark700 · 2016-01-19, 00:24

Original movie titled 'File(N):Project PQ'. Studio will be Toei Animation.

Staff:
Director: Naoki Miyahara
Original Character Design: Kohaku Kuroboshi
Chief Animation Director: Takayuki Urakami

Cast includes Shiori Izawa, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Ari Ozawa, Asami Seto, and Atsumi Tanezaki

Plot Summary/Premise:

Quote:

The story begins the day before the graduation ceremony. Five middle school girls each are preoccupied with their real everyday lives. These girls meet each other in a fantasy world after being sent there through a sudden occurrence. There, they learn about the impending crisis that this world is facing. The way to avert this crisis is for the five to collaborate and bring their five hearts together as one through dance. However, the five cannot come to love the world, and cannot tell their true feelings to one another, so their hearts are unable to unite. The time limit is fast approaching. Can the dance of the five girls save the world? And will they be able to graudate?

Stark700 · 2016-03-11, 04:16

Site updated. It's going by the title Popin Q now.

http://www.popin-q.com/

New key visual

Preview is out

Ii_chan · 2016-03-13, 02:55

character design looks cute.
and save the world with dance? lol. ridiculous premise again and I've looking forward that.

Stark700 · 2016-06-16, 05:23

xizro345 · 2017-06-02, 13:45

Extreme old thread, but the BD came out today, and I finally had a chance to see it...

Spoiler for Some plot spoilers:

The story is problematic: they tried to cram too much in the allotted time, and the chemistry between the characters suffers a lot as a result. At the end of the movie I was still wondering why the characters decided to do certain things considered they interacted very little, looking at the big picture.
Doesn't help that the movie doesn't seem to understand what it wants to be. Musical? Some sort of sentai-inspired battle? Exploring certain young girls issues? Certain events simply "happen" for no reason and aren't really explained properly. The plot moves too fast as well and makes little sense.
Technically the movie is well done, even the CG parts are good (mostly the dancing parts), the BGMs are good and most of the performance of the VAs are spot on. Too bad about the rest.

Also, the movie seems to set up a sequel or sorts

Spoiler for Movie ending:

I'm not sure this part was shown during the theatrical release or not, but as of now the tease does nothing to make look forward a continuation of the story.

In short, the movie is a mess. It's a mish-mash of different things, doesn't know what to do with its premise and most of the characters lack any sort of chemistry. I was actually interested in the premise but I was extremely disappointed by the end result.

Julio C · 2017-06-03, 01:25

Glad to hear your review. I guess I won't blind buy this at all. Sounds like crap to me.

xizro345 · 2017-06-03, 02:14

I forgot to add that this would have worked better as a multi-part OVA or a short TV series. There's simply too much stuff crammed in. A shame because as I said the production values are good.
Now maybe I'm too harsh on it and I expect people to have less issues with the movie as I had and actually enjoy it for what it is.

2016-03-11, 04:16	Link #2
Stark700 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Somewhere on Earth	Site updated. It's going by the title Popin Q now. http://www.popin-q.com/ New key visual Preview is out <p>No iframe support, please <a href="http://youtu.be/JJ3C7ryLubk">watch on YouTube</a>.</p> __________________

2016-06-16, 05:23	Link #4
Stark700 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Somewhere on Earth	<p>No iframe support, please <a href="http://youtu.be/OL_cKZ5WgUQ">watch on YouTube</a>.</p> __________________

2017-06-02, 13:45	Link #5
xizro345 King's Justice Join Date: Apr 2004	Extreme old thread, but the BD came out today, and I finally had a chance to see it... Spoiler for Some plot spoilers: Part of the story read as " Five middle school girls each are preoccupied with their real everyday lives. These girls meet each other in a fantasy world after being sent there through a sudden occurrence. There, they learn about the impending crisis that this world is facing." We get to see all the the five main characters have some sort of "issue" before graduating, but they're not really important as they get solved (too much) quickly during the 90ish movie. There's a sort of "villain" but she's paper thin and basically does nothing. The story is problematic: they tried to cram too much in the allotted time, and the chemistry between the characters suffers a lot as a result. At the end of the movie I was still wondering why the characters decided to do certain things considered they interacted very little, looking at the big picture. Doesn't help that the movie doesn't seem to understand what it wants to be. Musical? Some sort of sentai-inspired battle? Exploring certain young girls issues? Certain events simply "happen" for no reason and aren't really explained properly. The plot moves too fast as well and makes little sense. Technically the movie is well done, even the CG parts are good (mostly the dancing parts), the BGMs are good and most of the performance of the VAs are spot on. Too bad about the rest. Also, the movie seems to set up a sequel or sorts Spoiler for Movie ending: All the main characters "accidentally" end up in the same high school in a post-credits scene, along with the morally ambigous character of the movie, and there is a sequence of "future events" that show them fighting. I'm not sure this part was shown during the theatrical release or not, but as of now the tease does nothing to make look forward a continuation of the story. In short, the movie is a mess. It's a mish-mash of different things, doesn't know what to do with its premise and most of the characters lack any sort of chemistry. I was actually interested in the premise but I was extremely disappointed by the end result.

2016-03-13, 02:55	Link #3
Ii_chan Silent Ghost Join Date: Apr 2014	character design looks cute. and save the world with dance? lol. ridiculous premise again and I've looking forward that.

2017-06-03, 01:25	Link #6
Julio C Bury My Shell Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Ventura	Glad to hear your review. I guess I won't blind buy this at all. Sounds like crap to me.

2017-06-03, 02:14	Link #7
xizro345 King's Justice Join Date: Apr 2004	I forgot to add that this would have worked better as a multi-part OVA or a short TV series. There's simply too much stuff crammed in. A shame because as I said the production values are good. Now maybe I'm too harsh on it and I expect people to have less issues with the movie as I had and actually enjoy it for what it is.