DRAGON QUEST YOUR STORY MOVIE
There were a couple of twists that caught me off guard, but I don’t know whether to applaud the movie for some brief moments of originality or criticise it for being dense and incomprehensible.
Dragon Quest: Your Story never feels like a truly unique tale, only a unique patchwork of other, already told stories. The plot itself has a number of fairly common fantasy story elements (a couple timeskips, a prison break, it even borrows the barrel escape from The Hobbit) and suffers for them. It dives headfirst into a number of typical anime tropes (the over the top embarrassment surrounding expressions of affection for example), but it does so with such energy and enthusiasm that even though you may (and probably will) cringe, it won’t feel too out of touch with the movie’s tone. I felt the greatest strength, and also weakness, of the movie was its relentless earnestness. A small problem, but hardly a dealbreaker. I myself watched the English audio with subtitles (apologies to the purists), and for anyone else who does the same you’ll notice a disconnect between the English voiceover and the English subtitles. The movie itself is an overall pleasant watch, with lovingly rendered animation (though I think everyone will agree that the hands are weirdly big) and enthusiastic voice acting. So I had a little bit of familiarity with the history and typical style that Dragon Quest: Your Story would be drawing inspiration from. Personally I’ve never played a Dragon Quest game, but I’ve played my fair share of Final Fantasy and other miscellaneous games within the medium.
DRAGON QUEST YOUR STORY SERIES
At the top of my suggested list was Dragon Quest: Your Story, and the Netflix trailer was intriguing enough to overcome my initial misgivings about it being a Netflix anime, which in my experience have been mostly swing and misses.įor those that may not be aware, Dragon Quest is a series of JRPGs (Japanese Role Playing Game), similar to the popular Final Fantasy series. So last night I decided to try watching something besides Brooklyn 99 reruns.