To Me, The One Who Loved You (and the other Movie) Review

You might be puzzled why I put it in the Korean Section. I'll try to organize this if more of my content will come from Anime. Hehe. Anyway, there are two new animes available at Crunchyroll Premium, and it is 

"To the only me who loved you" and "To every you I loved before"

Here's the Plot that came from Wikipedia

To Every You I've Loved Before

A world where it has been established that people routinely swing between slightly different parallel worlds... Koyomi Takasaki, who lives with his mother following his parents' divorce, enrolls in a local university prep school. Due to the atmosphere concentrated on studies and his social awkwardness, Koyomi is unable to make friends. One day, he is suddenly approached by his classmate Kazune Takigawa, who tells him that she has traveled from the 85th world where she and Koyomi are lovers.

To the Only Me Who Loved You

A world where it has been established that people routinely swing between slightly different parallel worlds... Koyomi Hidaka, who lives with his father following his parents' divorce, meets a girl named Shiori Satou at the research institute where his father works. They both have a little crush on each other, but everything changes when their parents remarry. Koyomi and Shiori, convinced that they will never be together, try to jump into another world where they won't be step-siblings... There's no meaning in a world without her.

Now to start the review.... Spoilers ahead!

I liked the concept in theory. It seems really intriguing to observe how the various lives develop and how the connection solidifies in the end, but the way these films' endings are written kind of wrecks it. For instance, I saw "To Every You I've Loved Before" first, and I certainly didn't know the significance of the ghost of Shiori that you saw at the opening of the film. And that absolutely matches your assumption about the motivation behind these films.

You would now need to view the second half to completely comprehend what transpired. And that might absolutely work because both films contain some emotionally charged scenes. The issue, though, was that the film decided to reveal the story of the second movie to me at the conclusion. And for me, that's what completely wrecked the entire experience. There was essentially no surprise when I was watching "To Me, The One Who Loved You" right now. Shiori was going to perish, I could already see it, and I knew Koyomi would become rather fixated on trying to save her. And I was aware that the Kazune of this universe would be emotionally scarred by this.

The point is that, after watching the second film, I didn't really feel as though I had learned anything. The second movie's identity diffusion explanation, in which Kazune from the 0th world was unable to voluntarily shift back to the 0th world, was likewise poor. There are simply too many unanswered questions and very poor explanations. comparable to what happened to the Kazune from the 0th world?

In order to further explain a key story point, it should be noted that Kazune from the 13th world shifted with the Kazune from 0; hence, the 0 Kazune theoretically couldn't fully recover because 13 spent and made decisions in her body and it was not precisely the same as before the change. Now though she no longer has a value of 0, it's still close enough, as Koyomi says. Because the requirements for a perfect 0 would be that she lived a regular life without shifting or being shifted into, and made all of her decisions independently and without influence, Kazune from the 0 world is no longer able to exist. 

Koyomi adds that Ryo and he are probably not 0s either because Kazune the 13th disrupted their universe and exposed them to another dimension. Old Koyomi doesn't have a 0 at the conclusion of Bokuai since he was entirely fused with the Koyomi from Kimiai.

 If you remove the spoilers, I think it makes more sense to watch "To every you I've loved before" before "To me, the one who loved you" because it is much more interesting to see how they figure out the parallel shifts first, and in the second movie they try to figure out the time shifts to save Shiori. In the first, you witness a couple's love that endures in almost every parallel universe, and in the second, you witness a young couple's impossible young love that was prevented from developing due to an accident. You also learn about Kazune's support of Koyomi despite his obsession with Shiori, and you learn that in both films, he got married.

Since parallel shifting from nearby worlds is accepted as normal, Kazune and Koyomi made the promise that regardless of the number of Koyomi and Kazune in the universe, they would all accept and adore one other's version, good or bad. Hence the title. Thoughtful conclusion for Kazune and Koyomi because they essentially become lovers in practically all of the parallel universes

Overall, I'll give it a 6 out of 10. The plot and concept had the potential to be amazing, but the execution and shoddy planning and explanations only serve to worsen the situation. If anyone reading this please try to understand the entire thing.