I didn't like it so much =/. The one thing I love the most about animes are the characters. They cut almost all the characters in this. Actually, I don't see any relevance in any character here except for Shinigi+Migi and, maybe, Tamiya. All the other characters seemed to be there just as a way to make the plot flow in the direction they wanted. They were never developed.
I don't care so much about the plot being rushed, but I felt they forgot some very important details, being the MOST important imo: the anime makes very clear what these parasytes' basic mission is (about the directive they somehow received), while the movie only gives some hints. There were some things that didn't make sense to me in the movie, like a method on how to detect a parasyte being published even before the police was completely aware of their existence. Actually, nobody was even talking about it (like they were in the anime), and then suddenly they are talking about how to detect something they didn't even know existed.
Not to mention about why a detective was after Shinichi... it seemed so random in the movie, hope they explain in the second part. But I'm almost sure they will actually change the story compared to the anime here, as they did in almost the entire movie. Yes, the final result is basically the same, but the plot leading to the end is soo different. Same events, but created by different characters in different circumstances, and sometimes even in different moments (and happening in a different order than they did in the anime - for this, almost everything is swapped).
I'm not 100% sure in which episode they stopped, since he killed the parasyte inside his mother in episode 7, and Shimada in episode 10. In the movie it is inverted. Also, episode 11 happened very early in the movie, even before the other two. Episode 12 doesn't make sense to exist in the movie, since Kana isn't there. The detective learned Shinigi wasn't a normal human in episode 13, so I can just guess that's the next in the movie (of course, modified since the event with Kana was what led to it in the anime...).
The anime has 24 episodes of about 20 minutes (after removing opening/ending), so 8 hours total. I think they could have done a much better job with two 2ish hours long movies. Half the time of the anime would be enough to keep everything that was important to the story, without having to rush so much and change the plot completely if it was well done.
What I don't understand here is how they managed to cut almost all characters from the story, not develop any character they actually decided to keep (and, after the action - which we also didn't see much in the movie - this is what costs more time in the first half of the anime), remove many of the events (even remove some episodes completely) and STILL not have time to keep the same story.
Sorry for the long post, I started just throwing random thoughts at it, and it grew more than I expected considering the few - and confusing - content I put into it. Just like this movie.
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