Psychic School Wars Download ((NEW)) In Hindi
Seronica Barnes
From the director behind Gunslinger Girl comes a visually striking movie about saving the world and young love.
The future of the world is in trouble. But can it be affected by something as simple as cellphones? Perhaps the world would be a better place if you could communicate without actually speaking if you just knew what others were thinking. But no one has psychic talentsor do they?
When transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku appears things take a turn for the weird. Students start missing school and the student council bans the use and possession of cellphones on school property. Behind the scenes, Kyogoku begins changing students awakening their psychic abilities with the hope that maybe he can prevent the future disaster on Earth. But if he can't, he'll have to take everyone he awakened back to his future. Kenji Seki, an absent-minded and clumsy boy, and his friends get caught in the middle of Kyogoku's plans. They can either stop him, or join him but only if they have the power.
I still remember when I first saw a trailer for the 2012 anime film "Psychic School Wars." I think it was in 2011... at the time, it was a Japanese trailer with no English title. The entire video title and description on Youtube were in Japanese kanji, I couldn't read a word of it. It wouldn't be until much later that I would hear the film refered to as "Nerawareta Gakuen." This was a shifting time for anime in the Western world: licensing anime for online streaming, sometimes within weeks or even days of the Japanese broadcast, was becoming a new and viable business, slowly replacing DVDs and illegal pirated streams. So videos like this would somehow get recommended to non-Japanese speakers.And I instantly fell in love. The movie looked colorful and glossy, like a Makoto Shinkai film, but with cuter characters, and a legitimate budget towards its animation. The story and music suggested a dramatic tale of romance between friends in high school, with an interloper from another dimension. I wanted to see it so bad! After about a year of not even hearing an official English title, I gave up hope and assumed the movie would be lost among a sea of niche anime, even if this was by far the most beautiful of them all. The only news I ever heard about the movie was from a handful of people who saw it, confirming that it wasn't good. But what would they know?It wasn't until about 2016 that Funimation would give a surprise announcement of a Bluray release, using... an English dub from a UK studio, which was released sometime earlier? I suspect there was some special deal involved to releasing this, possibly a priority for Studio Sunrise and a requirement for Funimation to release some other title. Whatever the case, I could finally sit down and watch it. And I can confirm... it wasn't very good.It turns out "Psychic School Wars" is based on a popular Japanese sci-fi novel, and it was already adapted several times into live-action, although this would be the first animated version. This version takes place in the modern day, where a group of friends in high-school hang out, slowly realizing their first crushes among them and trying to live through the embaressment of expressing or surpressing their feelings. One day, a new transfer student appears, and quietly begins offering the power to read minds, causing even further havoc among these impressionable teenagers. At one point, cell phones are banned, a rule managed by the student council as an inferior means of communication.There is a complex story with interesting ideas here, but boy, it is NOT told well. Even at the best of times, it's confusing. I don't care how beautiful it looks, it isn't worth it if the story is bad. Rather, a bad story might be tolerable, but this is downright awful! But something can be salvaged here. Have you ever heard the saying "so bad, it's good?" At one point, one of the lead heroines is grabbed from swim class, and put on trial by a class full of mind-readers for not joining their side. Soaking wet and stranded on a desk in the middle of the room, her internal cries are heard by one of the lead heroes, also in swim class. He immediately rushes to the classrom in nothing but his swimcap and speedo. When demanded for an explaination or to forfit his phone, he whips out his cell phone from his crotch and throws it to them. While distracted (and disgusted), he picks up the girl from the desk and carries her to safety. When this scene played out, I laughed. I fell out of my chair and rolled on the floor. "Psychic School Wars" is not supposed to be a comedy, but during strange scenes like these, it can be one of the funniest films of its decade. And if watching with a group of friends, pointing out every confusing writing or directorial decision, it's a riot. That is how this movie should be watched.It's a shame the story isn't better. The visuals really do stand out. Maybe too much. The pink and blue world and character designs look too cute, too pretty, and glissen with sunlight and dewdrops. The animation is fluid and expressive, but sometimes so much so that it can be distracting. It's like everything was candy-coated or shaped in glass, coming straight from a factory. Granted, if all anime could look like this, I would be the happiest man alive. But It does prevent it from being the best animation has to offer. The English dub does make the story easier to watch (and since the story does hinge on dramatic confessions of love, the acting is important, for better or for wrose). The music, however, is notably lazy, relying on old classical music on piano for its important scenes a bit too often.Really, there are several elements here that should make "Psychic School Wars" one of the worst anime films ever made. But I had too much fun watching it at its expense. And the visuals are so impressive, it would be worth adding to your collection just to mute the audio and have pretty pictures playing the background of your living room. At the time of this writing, the story was adapted to live-action a total of six times. Maybe we'll see another anime adaption that does the story justice... or at least can be understood.
An Enoshima high school is visited by a new exchange student with unearthly psychic powers, who seems to be taking over and controlling the student body one by one. At the same time a short chain of unrequited love affects several of the students unaffected by the psychic effects.
It's a new school year at the local Junior High School i Kamakura. The school year starts off with a new transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku who joins the 8th grade class. He has been ordered to join the school, and use his special gift of telepathy and take over their school. This boy who happens to be handsome, and be a charismatic person, gains popularity, and using his powers takes over the entire school, except for Seki. This begins a war to regain their freedom for their school and themselves.
Then we have the plot, a mishmash of the same tired tropes: We have the childhood friend suffering quietly for the dense protagonist, who is in love with the quiet, sensitive bishoujo, who fell in love at first sight with the mysterious transfer student. Then we have psychic powers, impending apocalypse, time traveling, all explained to be some sort of New Age, pseudo philosophical hogwash.
Psychic School Wars provides examples of:
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: It doesn't take long for the student council to find a rule allowing them to suspend students.
- Accidental Pervert: Early on, Natsuki nicknames Kenji "Mr Open Fly". It isn't the last time.
- Affectionate Nickname: When they were Kids, Kenji used to call Natsuki "Natsu" and Natsuki used to call Kenji "Ken-chan".
- Book Ends: The film starts with a gossip: "Have you heard? We have a new transfer student coming to school." then the scene shifts to Kyogoku arriving the present Earth. At the very end of the film, the same exact line was said, then Kenji (wearing the same outfit as Kyogoku from the beginning), was shown returning to the present time in the background, reuniting with Natsuki.
- Cherry Blossoms: They appear nearly everywhere.
- Chick Magnet: Kyogoku
- Class Representative: Kahori. She doesn't fit the stereotype though.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Natsuki to Kenji. A lot. She often belittles him and hits him several times over the course of the movie. At one point, she even draws blood from his nose when hitting him, and several times her hits prompt him to shout he's in pain. It's always played for laughs.
- Just Friends: Natsuki tells Kahori that she and Kenji are only neighbours and she has no feelings for him, but this isn't quite true.
- Magic Skirt: No matter how much Natsuki twirls, flips, or even does handstands, her skirt always stays where it belongs.
- Psychic Powers: A major part of the plot. Kyogoku is a psychic from a future where humans have evacuated Earth to live on the moon, and his mission is to awaken psychic powers in as many people as possible and bring them back home.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Played for laughs when Kenji turns up to save Natsuki from the student council in swimming trunks and his goggles shine as he walks in.
- Scenery Porn
- Spice Up the Subtitles: Although a more accurate translation of Natsuki's nickname for Kenji is "Mr Open Fly", some versions of the sub instead translate it as "Jack the Zipper"
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Kyogoku and Kahori
- The Stinger: Kenji returns to the present day after the credits.
- Time Travel: Kyogoku comes from the future. Kenji goes there too near the end of the film.
- Tsundere: Expect to hear Natsuki say "baka" a lot. It's even the last word in the film!
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Natsuki to Kenji.