With Shark Skin Man, the characters were up front from the beginning about being themselves. But with this movie things take a bit longer, and the characters have to keep interacting with each other to reveal more of their… ahem… character. I feel like I keep comparing Katsuhito Ishii’s stuff to Shark Skin Man a little too much, but I think its fine considering how much of his stuff I’ve seen and how stylistically written it was. Despite that difference Party 7 still manages to have Ishii’s character writing I’m finding myself enamored with.
The opening animation hit me like a freight train, making me baffled by what was going to happen for the next 90 minutes. Despite taking place in basically two (2) rooms, I still think the movie delivered on what the opening showed. I enjoyed the weird comedy and people getting angry at each other for the smallest things, and I thought the ending was cute.