User blog comment:Wareye/When can we see the second movie?/@comment-4924732-20140110122407/@comment-4924732-20140111005120

The fights are probably the best part (and only decently animated part) of the whole movie. The character designs are constantly off model in every scene that isn't a fight. It's ridiculous that the movies look worse than the TV series.

There's marginal character development. I would argue practically none. It's a straight up Shonen Jump film.

There's no link to the next arc. This movie takes place weirdly from some point after meeting Kite and exploring him... but before they go to NGL/the Ant arc. Pariston is shown, but he doesn't speak. He just looks up, waves, and smiles a few times like you see in the trailer.