Fuuka is one of my favourite P3 characters, and her bullying issues as well as Makoto's character arch too, fit extremely well with Persona 3's blatant symbolism surrounding teenage sucide (Persona users need to "shoot themselves" in the head with their evokers to summon their personas). Not only do I adore the way they adapted Makoto's "silent protaganist" character, I also think the atmophere of the movie works extremely well. Honestly, despite this being an unpopular opinion, this is my personal favourite film in the Persona 3 film series. The end result, while not perfect, works well enough, and results in a deeply entertaining adapation it sets up the world of Persona 3 itself, and the base premise, while wrapping up it's own internal conflicts, so that things to normality for the protaganists for the sequel. The two intertwine, and form a pretty decent overarching narrative that gets resolved by the movie's end. They set up Fuuka's bully issues with Natsuki, as well as the overgrowing issue that Makoto struggles to (or rather just can't) feel emotions, as the throughlines of the movie. In an attempt to turn what would've been "exposition - the movie" into an a movie that can stand by itself, they put focus onto both the development of Makoto (the protaganist), an an unusually apathetic guy who doesn't care if he lives or die, and the substory in Persona 3 surrounding Fuuka's bullying problems. Which is basically what it is-this first movie adapts the first portion of the game's story, up to the point when Fuuka joins the SEES.
Specifically, it feels akin to a drawn out "set-up" prologue that just explains the world and what the hell things like the dark hour and shadows are.
The end result isn't perfect this first movie definitely has pacing issues. I was worried when I initally watched it, about how they were going to take an overarching video game movie, and split it up into four 90 minute movies. Spring of Birth is the first in the series of anime films that adapt the story of Persona 3.
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