PROMARE Movie Review!

I guess if synthwave were an anime it'd probably be it. Hey everybody welcome back to the channel Gio here and today we're going to be talking about the movie Promare done by or co-produced I should say by Studio Trigger and X-Flag and of course put out by Toho Animation. This came out in May of 2019 and it is a film directed by the team the epic team I should add Hiroyuki Imaishi and of course written by Kazuki Nakashima. Now if you know your production individuals and staff in the anime world you know that these guys just produced top quality series such as Good and Lagan and Kill la Kill. It has a very distinct and familiar style if you're used to shows like that. Very similar character models with mechanical designs and overall world and the color palette. It's all very similar to those previous works but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And of course I have to mention that one of the best music composers from Japan of course Hiroyuki Sawano is working in the score of this film. If you don't know who Sawano is just check out his line of work and the series that he composed and movies and stuff and you'll find stuff that you've loved. Trust me on that one. So I do have to say Promare right out of the gate it just looks so stylish so clean and gorgeous that I fell in love with the movie from the very first frames. I joked about it at the beginning of this video how it's very synthwave inspired and yeah throughout the whole movie the visual designs the color of the flames and then the backgrounds when characters are in holding cells with the line work in the cells and all that stuff it just kept reminding me of synthwave from the music and all that style all that vibe neo-noir neon colors all that stuff which I really love I'm a huge fan of the whole synthwave thing you're probably wondering just what the heck is the movie about well let me tell you that 30 years prior to the start of the movie earth suffered a great disaster known as the great world blaze where fires just formed massive spontaneous human combustions and small parentheses here I chuckled wholeheartedly because I kept thinking okay this is uh synthwave beats fire force so yay uh yeah the great world blaze killed half the world's population and certain humans that survived this event developed pyrokinetic abilities and they became known as the burnish however the world doesn't view them lightly because there was such mass destruction and they're discriminated upon the people are very racist towards them and it doesn't help that a sect of the burnish forms sort of a terrorist group called the mad burnish now in present time the character of gallo lives in the city of promopolis and is a member of the firefighting group known as burning rescue who respond to incidents involving the terrorist sect mad burnish so that in a nutshell is promare but it is so much more than that what soon follows is a really fantastic sci-fi epic story about these characters that one that when it comes to the burnish they are mistreated and several of them are locked up and they face discrimination and racism which really it will resonate with a lot of viewers and with our current world problems and world issues when it comes to that stuff but you also have a very optimistic bombastic spontaneous character in gallo and he wants to do good he wants to be the best that he can be and he wants to save people when he comes across the mad burnish he finds worthy opponents and that soon escalates into them trying to liberate their former comrades and burnish citizens if you will or burnish people and yeah it what starts out as a simple story which is unusual for studio trigger if you've seen their previous works it soon goes cosmic in scale with talks of parallel universes and what exactly the burnish is and their superpower because it's not the way it's stylized it's it looks it doesn't look like a regular flame it's very pinkish pinkish violet and and sort of greenish colored and there's a reasoning for that to separate it from regular flames i guess and yeah if you're not ready the film will assault you with countless exposition dumps about the nature of the burnish the nature of the world and the perilous state it is in which you soon find out thanks to the villain of the film and one has to wonder if he's truly a villain yes he does commit villainous acts i'm not saying he's a saint but his reasoning is not out of pure malice if you will which i thought was great it's fun to have a character like that which he can cross the line between good or bad or like neutral good or chaotic evil or however you want to do the whole diagram thing i thought that was pretty clever i thought that was uh pretty fun to see characters like that and with the main characters of gallo and leo uh the two of them at the beginning and if you see the posters and stuff you think there's gonna be this heated rivalry but it sort of took another another turn which i really appreciated and and and i thought the film was better for it if they would have kept these two characters at odds throughout the entire film it wouldn't have been as special in my opinion but definitely the movie uh has some very kick-ass action it goes into very gore vibes with its uh mechanical designs because yeah there are mechanical or i should say mecha robots in this that uh will delight some fans the character work for the most part the the film focuses on a select handful of characters and in the limited time because i do believe it was close to two hours you do get some development uh some of them are more tropey and the character beats are very stereotypical with a film like this there's a intro scene and soon after you learn what both sides of the argument are really all about and then you find and then the combat escalates uh our heroes are pinned down you know it follows that mechanic but it does so in a very stylish way where you're not gonna care and you're just gonna have a fun time because the action's intense the choreography on this thing is insane all the fights uh literally gallo boards this uh robotic suit because he's a rescuer emt firefighter or whatever and it's used for rescuing people but he's going to use it to fight he's fighting the uh mad burnish and they're running across buildings and he's using sort of like this staff reminiscent of ancient japan and their firefighters and all that stuff which i thought was really dynamic and it catches your eye especially with the music and the synthwave vibe and all that stuff meanwhile the character of leo is sort of your atypical uh co-lead or antagonist he's very different and when you find out his plight when you find out why he's doing the things he's doing you sympathize for him when you find out who the actual uh villain of the film is that's what i meant earlier where yeah he's doing horrible things but it all comes from a necessity to save the world if you will from impending doom so uh yeah i i wholeheartedly recommended i enjoyed premiere in all its glitz and glamours some of the supporting cast barely get any screen time or barely get any character development which was a shame because they looked pretty interesting but they're just there to fill a specific role but at the end of the day it doesn't matter it's a fun story that in honor of all of studio triggers works it keeps escalating to a point where the world opens up and it just gets crazy bonkers but in a good way in like epic sorts of ways i cannot recommend this film enough if you get a chance do pick up the blu-ray do watch the film it is worth your time if you've seen promare let me know down below let me know what you thought of it because i thought it was pretty wild and crazy in all the best ways thank you everybody for tuning in thank you so much for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of what we can geek them i thank you so much as always you can follow me on your favorite social media platform facebook twitter instagram all that fun stuff we can keep the conversation going over there as well also before i go remember to hit the little bell icon so you know when new videos pop up and you don't miss another uh video here at a week in geekdom all right i have got to go i've rambled far too long i will catch all of you on our next review