Should I Watch Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days?
note: I'm LA
So Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days having a movie was a kinda surprise for LA as not many slice of life cute girls anime series gets one.
Before LA starts with LA's usual spiel about anime original movies and their repetitive flaws they have...well Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days can't exactly be subjected to it. One, because it's a slice of life cute girls anime taken to a 50 minute movie thus they have nothing to recap and even then recapping slice of life events from the anime series is redundant (and thankfully Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days doesn't do this), second is that it doesn't introduce new "movie-only" characters because there is NO point in adding new characters to Kiniro Mosaic as the four girl ensemble of the main cast ARE the main cast and thirdly and finally, the story is more about the backstory of how Youko, Aya and Shinobu became friends eliminating any "movie original storyline" ploy. So what can LA critique from Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days?
Well the only thing of interest, the plot of course!.
Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days frame the movie out to be about Shinobu and and the gang getting ready for the cultural festival where Shinobu is the scriptwriter for a play with Youko, Alice, Aya and Karen helping her however this movie instead is mainly focused on Ayaya. Ayaya herself has some niggling worries about her friendship with Shinobu and her thinking she is an inadequate friend to Shinobu, as Shinobu was friends with Youko since childhood and both Karen and Alice for being blonde (her words not LA). The majority of the movie actually lies in how Youko, Ayaya and Shinobu became friends and Ayaya helping Youko and Shinobu go to their preferred school. The only problem is that since this is a past event besides being the bulk of the movie, there are some predictable instances concerning Ayaya's decisions with this backstory but nonetheless it did help flesh out as to WHY Ayaya sticks with Shinobu and Youko and are friends in the first place, as in LA's eyes, Ayaya was probably the least fleshed out (or to be more precise, the most normal) character from the four ensemble main cast and this movie helped her immensely.
In terms of animation done once again by Studio Gokumi, it has the same style and quality as it's anime series counterparts from chibi facial expressions and watercolored/pastel-ish coloring for backgrounding and the character designs are moefied cute girls expected from Gokumi.
As for voice acting, well LA might need to tell a bit of history with Nao Touyama for Kiniro Mosaic, as Nao Touyama voicing Karen at first for LA was annoying in the anime series (mind you this was BEFORE Nao Touyama was even in LA's radar AT ALL, besides her funny Engrish, LA basically ignored but noticed Karen at least. LA was more focused on Risa Taneda at the time), but yeah since LA had become a Nao Touyama fanboy, yes.....Nao Touyama was great in this and probably delivered some of the best lines in the movie, however LA is still giving the best voice actor for this movie to Risa Taneda as this movie was all about Ayaya and she carried this entire movie thus Ayay- *ahem* Risa Taneda definitely deserved this. Other than that, a great voice cast from the likes of Yumi Uchiyama, Yukari Tamura and Satomi Sato.
Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days is a nice entry into Kiniro Mosaic with the expected moe fluff and slice of life elements the anime series has. Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days however adds that touch of heartwarming moments to an already growing friendship of girls and does it well...no yuri. Be it if your a Kiniro Mosaic fan or just wants to relax with some moe fluff then Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days pretty much got you covered.
So Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days having a movie was a kinda surprise for LA as not many slice of life cute girls anime series gets one.
Before LA starts with LA's usual spiel about anime original movies and their repetitive flaws they have...well Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days can't exactly be subjected to it. One, because it's a slice of life cute girls anime taken to a 50 minute movie thus they have nothing to recap and even then recapping slice of life events from the anime series is redundant (and thankfully Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days doesn't do this), second is that it doesn't introduce new "movie-only" characters because there is NO point in adding new characters to Kiniro Mosaic as the four girl ensemble of the main cast ARE the main cast and thirdly and finally, the story is more about the backstory of how Youko, Aya and Shinobu became friends eliminating any "movie original storyline" ploy. So what can LA critique from Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days?
Well the only thing of interest, the plot of course!.
Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days frame the movie out to be about Shinobu and and the gang getting ready for the cultural festival where Shinobu is the scriptwriter for a play with Youko, Alice, Aya and Karen helping her however this movie instead is mainly focused on Ayaya. Ayaya herself has some niggling worries about her friendship with Shinobu and her thinking she is an inadequate friend to Shinobu, as Shinobu was friends with Youko since childhood and both Karen and Alice for being blonde (her words not LA). The majority of the movie actually lies in how Youko, Ayaya and Shinobu became friends and Ayaya helping Youko and Shinobu go to their preferred school. The only problem is that since this is a past event besides being the bulk of the movie, there are some predictable instances concerning Ayaya's decisions with this backstory but nonetheless it did help flesh out as to WHY Ayaya sticks with Shinobu and Youko and are friends in the first place, as in LA's eyes, Ayaya was probably the least fleshed out (or to be more precise, the most normal) character from the four ensemble main cast and this movie helped her immensely.
In terms of animation done once again by Studio Gokumi, it has the same style and quality as it's anime series counterparts from chibi facial expressions and watercolored/pastel-ish coloring for backgrounding and the character designs are moefied cute girls expected from Gokumi.
As for voice acting, well LA might need to tell a bit of history with Nao Touyama for Kiniro Mosaic, as Nao Touyama voicing Karen at first for LA was annoying in the anime series (mind you this was BEFORE Nao Touyama was even in LA's radar AT ALL, besides her funny Engrish, LA basically ignored but noticed Karen at least. LA was more focused on Risa Taneda at the time), but yeah since LA had become a Nao Touyama fanboy, yes.....Nao Touyama was great in this and probably delivered some of the best lines in the movie, however LA is still giving the best voice actor for this movie to Risa Taneda as this movie was all about Ayaya and she carried this entire movie thus Ayay- *ahem* Risa Taneda definitely deserved this. Other than that, a great voice cast from the likes of Yumi Uchiyama, Yukari Tamura and Satomi Sato.
Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days is a nice entry into Kiniro Mosaic with the expected moe fluff and slice of life elements the anime series has. Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days however adds that touch of heartwarming moments to an already growing friendship of girls and does it well...no yuri. Be it if your a Kiniro Mosaic fan or just wants to relax with some moe fluff then Kiniro Mosaic: Pretty Days pretty much got you covered.
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