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I watched the first worldwide preview of this movie at a local film festival (I've always wanted to do something like that, yay!). Having not watched the anime nor read the manga, I went there not knowing what to expect from this. What I got to see was a very disjointed experience. The editing was all over the place, some parts felt like they were from a different movie, it was very clumsy the way a few characters were introduced and, for the soundtrack, it was like they only had this one song, which would play in a short, repetitive loop, on occasion. In all honesty, it felt a bit like I was watching something amateurish, out of a cinema school project. Maybe you'll get a kick out of this if you're a fan of the anime/manga/CLAMP. For everyone else interested in Japanese live action movies (or fantasy and/or Japanese movies, in general), I'd say you're better off looking somewhere else.