Night is Short Walk On Girl - Collectors Combi [Blu-ray]

good movie, good amount of special features.

Go see this Film if you love Tatami Galaxy or other Masaki Yasua's other works like Devilman Crybaby. It's funny and hysterical

Favourite movie so glad to finally have it on DVD

When I first watched NISWOG yes I was blown away for the first one third and thought I'd never seen such original and compelling anime. The second two thirds were not quite as good, as the story seemed to unravel somewhat, but still.. it was an amazing experience. So much so that I researched the thing and found that it was a follow on to Tatami Galaxy. Naturally I acquired TG, and so glad I did. TG beats NISWOG in every department in my opinion: graphics, music (opening, ending, incidental), characters, creativity in style, storyline.. you name it. The really big difference for me was that TG characters are much more subtly drawn and each conveys real personality, but are reduced somewhat to caricatures in NISWOG, contrary to the director's assertion that graphics have improved, in the 'making of' extra feature. The one exception to this superiority might be the extremely rapid delivery of some of the speech / subtitles in TG, so that to take it all in I had to watch the first time with one finger on the pause button of the remote. But I considered that a small price to pay. NISWOG is a movie, an hour and a half long or so, while TG is a series of 11 episodes each around 25 minutes long - so you get way more for your money with TG, along with better quality. As for those who say you can watch NISWOG without seeing TG first, well yes, you can.. in fact I did, but I came to learn that TG sets out the full story of life in Kyoto University while NISWOG seems more like a wild dream fantasy with little coherence to it unless you know TG first. As they say, NISWOG is good but the further upstream you swim, the sweeter the water.

First off, this movie is not for everyone, and there are plenty of things in the film that may be charming and likeable to one person and frustrating to others.This movie reuses characters and ideas from a show called The Tatami Galaxy, however you do not need to have seen that show to like this film. I had only seen one episode of Tatami and could still follow the 'plot' well enough.I say 'plot' in quotation marks because this film doesn't really have one, which may effect your enjoyment. It starts out as a pub crawl style film, with a black haired girl (or Otome, which means the same thing) exploring and drinking while a man known as Senpai stalks her to try and confess his love. Otome essentially pushes the plot wherever she feels like it.This film is very absurd and has a lot of strange characters that seem to be along for the ride. The film also kind of expects you to just accept what you see and move on, so characters will appear out of nowhere and act like they were there the whole time. I didn't find this film as laugh out loud funny as I'd heard it was, but it can still be amusing at points, if only because of its sudden shifts into random nonsense. Something important to note though is that the subtitles move quickly as the characters often relate large chunks of information in speedy monologues. This happens in Tatami too, though thankfully this film isn't as much of a constant bombardment on your senses like the show is. There is no dub, so if you can't read quickly and process the scenery at the same time then you might find yourself getting annoyed at the quick pace and lack of breathing room. But I suppose you can always just use the pause and rewind button!I mainly picked this up because the animation intrigued me, and yes it certainly delivers, especially towards the end of the film. The character designs have a charm to them that while animesque, is still very unique.On a more negative note, though I'm talking now about the product itself, I do not think the collectors version by 'All the Anime' is worth the extra money. I mainly bought this version because after the seeing the unique look of the animation I thought it would be interesting to see concept art in the art book. However, the book is very limited and contains only clean character studies, a few pics of the settings and a kind of run down of the film. This might sound like a lot, but its not really. The actual box and presentation of the dvds are very nice, but again not worth extra money. In comparison the art book 'All the Anime' released for Lupin the Third Part 4 contained much more character expressions and some rough concept sketches of settings, vehicles, weapons etc. I guess it depends if you just want a dvd that is more 'pretty' or not on your shelf.All in all, this film has a lot to like and has a lot of themes surrounding love and the connections between people, but if you prefer more straight-forward plotting that isn't constantly throwing information at you, then you probably won't like this, or at least won't return to it again after watching it once.

Arrived on time and great value!

Great art style, and an interesting story with interesting layering of character paths.

La película llegó en tiempo, pero lamentablemente llegó rota la caja, incluso se rasgo la cubierta y la carátula, yo si aprecio mucho que se vea bien, decente, se que puede traer detalles, un dobles o algo así, pero está vez venía rota, por fortuna no se dañaron los discos, solo cambie la caja del Blu-ray. La película es excelente pero viene solo con subtítulos en ingles.

Based on the novel "Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome" by Tomihiko Morimi and directed by Masaaki Yuasa ("Lu over the Wall", "Devilman Crybaby") this comedy is about the strange and event-filled night shared by Senpai and his unaware crush Kohai. It is set in the same universe as "The Tatami Galaxy" by the same creation team but you do not need to have seen that film in order to watch this one. Much of the story centers around four acts: drinking games, the used-book market, the school fair, and the viral cold. The original novel is told as four stories in four seasons combined into a single night for the film.The movie has a lot to say about youth, love, writing, friendship & connections, wisdom, and time. At the same time it is also about fun hijinks and incredible dialogue animated in a brilliantly-solid colored almost cartoony (but distinctly anime) art style that isn't afraid to go off-model. It changes from minimalistic outlines to giant set pieces to frame skipping movements in ways that compliment the emotion and happenings of this highly enjoyable story.I first saw the movie in theaters and liked it so much I saw it twice and immediately pre-ordered it as soon as it became available. I think a major reason the comedy works so well is the perfectly timed/scored music and sound editing/mixing. The film is unusual in that it has four acts whereas most movies these days are told in three acts. I discussed this with a friend who thought it felt long (even though it is 93 minutes) because he was expecting it to end after the third and didn't realize it until I pointed it out.You can watch this film with pre-teen audiences who don't mind reading subtitles (the film is not rated but recommended for 13+) but there might be two sticking points: 1) the large amount of drinking in the first act and only the first act 2) references to erotica. I don't think either of these are actually large issues because 1) even in Disney films like "Beauty and the Beast", "Pinocchio", and "The Great Mouse Detective" there is a plenty of drinking 2) they likely just won't understand the erotica much like the adult jokes in Disney films that the kids think are funny but for the wrong reasons.I highly recommend this film even if you have not seen a lot of anime.

Je commencerai par dire qu’il est grandement préférable d’avoir d’abord vu la série originale avant de visionner cet anime car il y a beaucoup de correspondance et référence propre à la série originale qu’un néophyte risque de ne pas toujours comprendre, d’autant plus ardue, que ce film est uniquement en VOSTFR et ne bénéficie pas, comme sa série, d’une VF.Pour ce qui est du film en lui-même et bien il est important de dire que ce n’est heureusement pas une compression en une heure et demie de tous les épisodes, mais bien une histoire à part entière qui s’inscrit totalement dans une sorte de suite des aventures de notre héros frustré et attachant, on reste avec cette même bande de personnages tout aussi excentrique et quelque peu névrosés et prenant pour cadre cette fois, une nuit totalement folle tout en nous permettant de voir une nouvelle galerie de nouveaux personnages tout plus attachant les uns que les autres et n’ont rien à envier en matière de délire à leur prédécesseur.On est toujours dans cette folie créative qui caractérise son cinéaste et je dirais même que le film va encore plus loin dans les digressions et allégories à la fois visuels et narratives.À travers ces personnages c’est bien d’un japon qui reste encore marqué par des conventions sociales et ces contradictions symbolisées par nos personnages principaux essayant de trouver l’amour et de s’épanouir face à une société qui conditionne les individus.Un animé tellement riche et qui est : à la fois une suite, tout en étant bien plus encore et s’inscrit entièrement dans l’univers de ces créateurs.

原作では一年間の話を一夜に凝縮した内容なので、はじめは戸惑いますが慣れたら楽しめました。在学時代、身に覚えのあることばかりで、この胸の奥をかきむしられるようなモヤモヤが酒へといざなうのですね。嗚呼、ただ、ただ懐かしい。また登場するのが基本、変態と善人と変人ばかりなのがまたいい！　大学は自由で、しかも不毛で豊かな学生時代が続き、ふと気づくと終わってるのですなぁ～。画像、音響に問題なし、コンピュータソフトで観るぶんには不便を感じませんでした。