Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress
伏 鉄砲娘の捕物帳In Kyokutei Bakin's classic Japanese epic novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden, eight samurai serve the Satomi clan during Japan's tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era. The Edo-era samurai are the reincarnations of the spirits that Princess Fuse mothered with a dog named Yatsufusa. In Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden, the female hunter Hamaji comes to her brother in order to hunt Fuse. Thus, the karmic cycle of retribution that began long ago with the Satomi family begins anew. (Source: ANN)
Reviews
tevin49 - 2013-09-15 23:07:59
The best way to shortly describe FUSE - Memoirs of the Hunter Girl is - mediocre. I can't say it was necessarily bad, but it wasn't good either.
I mean, the animation was good. I wouldn't call it great for a movie, but it most certainly did not fail at all. The designs were simple and easy to distinguish. The music wasn't anything I would like to lose my mind over, but it helped keep suspense. I really enjoyed it and I lived with the characters through the movie. Characters felt natural, courtesy of their voice actors, and although they were rather simple, they were likable, which is the most important thing.
So then what did it fail at?
It is not story (which was quite simple really - a supernatural, dramatic boy and a normal girl:the romance) per se it failed - it was the pacing.
Everything seems rushed, underdeveloped, as if the creators had had an idea but then got bored in the middle of it and decided to just feed it to the average cinema-goer and leave it at that. All the time they use foregone conclusions - something has barely started when it has already ended. The ending is a bit odd and frustrating too.
In the end, it sums up to a good 6/7 that could just never hit its target.