Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan wo. Kokuhaku Jikkou Iinkai

Following Natsuki Enomoto's confession rehearsals with Yuu Setoguchi, their younger siblings Kotarou and Hina struggle to confess their own love. Despite a disastrous first meeting in middle school with her upperclassman Koyuki Ayase, Hina’s heart is captured by his warm smile. Initially confused by these newfound feelings, Hina soon realizes that she has fallen in love for the very first time.

Chasing after her brother Yuu and her crush Koyuki, Hina also enrolls in Sakuragaoka High School; but the threads of love are far-reaching, and they entangle Hina and her friends. Boisterous but sensitive, Hina hopes to confess her feelings to the tender-hearted Koyuki. Meanwhile, Kotarou, oblivious to his own feelings for her, is determined to always keep Hina smiling.

Suki ni Naru Sono Shunkan wo.: Kokuhaku Jikkou linkai follows Hina, Kotarou, and Koyuki in high school. Their youthful love forges new relationships, but also threatens to break others.

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Ayase, Koyuki Main

Yonaga, Tsubasa Japanese

Setoguchi, Hina Main

Asakura, Momo Japanese

Enomoto, Kotarou Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Hayasaka, Akari Supporting

Asumi, Kana Japanese

Aida, Miou Supporting

Toyosaki, Aki Japanese

Setoguchi, Yuu Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Serizawa, Haruki Supporting

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

Enomoto, Natsuki Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Mochizuki, Souta Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Narumi, Sena Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Saitou, Shunsuke Producer

Nagasaki, Yukio Sound Director

Okamoto, Hideki Episode Director, Storyboard

Kuramoto, Hotaka Episode Director

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Feb 9, 2017

tsuki_shiro

Recommended

Here's the quick review of this movie:

Story:
the story pretty much centered around protagonist name Hina who love her senpai and her struggle to confess her love. to be honest, in terms of love story, it's pretty much decent without any complicated stuff/event, and I like that kind of storyline.

Art:
I love the art of this movie. since the duration of movie was not that long, I think they might want to focused a little bit about the art and that's something that I like about it's art.

Sound:
The one thing I really love about this movie is the original soundtrack. I do believe it's the core ... of this anime and I really enjoy the music. Once again, Honeywork's did an good job creating such a wonderful music.

Character:
Like a previous movie, the characters are decent. every single one of them have their own characteristic and they have their own romantic love. It's not great but you can pretty much enjoy their action.

Enjoyment:
I do enjoy this movie. They have a certain event that makes you laugh and sometimes it makes you want to scream at them but overall, it was enjoyable.

Overall:
Suki ni naru is an good movie. I do love their story, I do love their art and I do love their music. for those who want to watch simple love story, maybe you can check this out. Thank you for reading my review.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 25, 2017

komasan

Mixed Feelings

Let me start by saying I watched this in cinema, and when it finished, the collective "that's it?" from the audience was audible; that's how disappointing it was. I am not exaggerating.

Though I have not watched the previous movie in this series, from the official website it suggests this to be a standalone movie that you can enjoy regardless and has good reviews from people who did not watch the first one. So I went ahead to watch it. But honestly I think only the people who watched the first movie would have felt anything from it.

The main problem here is that there was almost ... no time for one to build an attachment to the main characters and feel anything for anyone. If you are seeking the signature heart-wringing moments in a romance movie, turn back now. There is none to be had here. There are a few cute/funny scenes but beyond that this movie is bland.

The entire movie is 65 minutes, and things progress fast. *very minor spoiler* The main characters go from first years at junior high to being in a high school in like 15 minutes. The timeskips are jarring. I got the feeling like the movie had a lack of budget and and scenes were aggressively cut for it. Of the two guys in the love triangle, one of them barely had any screentime, so you just knew who she was going to end up with. The characters and relationships are sorely underdeveloped.

This movie is very low on substance and is entirely a promotional vehicle for HoneyWorks songs. If not here for the music, don't watch it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 19, 2021

justgivemeanyUN

Not Recommended

I really am surprised that no review has given this film less than a 5. It's got a bit of something for everyone, and when I say that, I don't mean to like, I mean to hate. An incredibly nonsensical romance, multiple characters who are important to the narrative but aren't really included at all, terrible writing, major conformity, and the culmination of all things to hate in romantic anime films.

The beginning of the movie was, to be frank, legitimately cringe inducing. I have long thought the days of guy characters tripping and accidentally seeing a girl's panties and then being chased around over, ... but this movie just reminded me that third rate writing will always exist. On top of that overplayed scene, of which I guess was the only way to introduce two of the main characters to each other, upon learning that the guy who she was just chasing around like a hound was her upperclassmen, Setoguchi Hina suddenly falls in love with the guy. Like, what? I was so shocked at the random and hasty development that I had to check the time that had gone by in the movie. A whole 8 minutes had passed before the main heroine got the hots for the other main character, Ayase Koyuki.

8 minutes has to be a record for shitty pacing. Even though I hate people who will call a film's pacing bad just because it doesn't adhere to some objective scale of, "this happens at x time" and such, 8 minutes was pretty jaw-dropping.

Worst of all, though, it's not like he does anything to gain her affection. He shows up, trips over the garbage she cleaned up, looked at her garments, and then turned out to be older than her. Bam, girl madly in love. What the hell?

It only continues to go downhill, as just a few scenes later, following some stupid scenes about Hina being jealous, Ayase has suddenly graduates. Oh, and those other older characters? They graduated too, I guess. Hina bawls her eyes out, but the audience is kind of left feeling apathetic to the whole ordeal. Of the few scenes they had shown up to that point, Ayase wasn't even in that many many of them to begin with. The fact I was now supposed to resonate with the girl, of whom was not developed particularly well either, about the guy whose only personality traits seem to be smiling, really stirred me up.

Now listen, I don't claim to be some music critic, but the soundtrack on this movie is pretty subpar at best. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas had a mediocre soundtrack, but I still loved that movie. The difference here is that this movie seems to have a boner for its songs and tries to play them at every moment possible. The continuous and repetitive melodies get really old, really quickly, especially when the scenes that they overlay are cliché montages that don't actually serve to substantially progress the story in any way. It's worse than a backdrop at the end, it's legitimately gritting to sit there and watch some melodramatic scene filled by less than average music.

The characterization? I wish there was stuff to talk about, but every character can only be boiled down to their archetypes, really. Childhood friend who really likes the main character. Main character who really likes some other character. Cool big brother. Teasing big sister. Love interest, but that's all you need to know about him.

It's kind of funny because when Ayase gets a haircut and Hina theorizes it's because he wants to make Natsuki, her childhood friend's elder sister, attracted to him, I laughed it off because there had been no indication whatsoever, neither had the two even interacted that much. But at the end of the movie, it turns out he DID like Natsuki, and it made me crack up because of how utterly convoluted and underdeveloped the whole plot was. Everyone likes everyone, but none of that is ever dived into. Yes, it's a one hour film that doesn't necessarily have the tools to put into place the groundwork for an emotionally riveting and complex narrative as far as the theme of multiple romances go, but why even try to tackle it in the first place if it's left so half assed.

Its presentation is acceptable at best. Usually, movies like this will try to have at least one nice looking still, or barely moving frame that's wallpaper worthy, but this one seemed to have spent half of its budget in the weird prologue thing in terms of visuals, and god knows it did not care for its audial qualities.

Its only saving grace is that is stumbled outside of the cliché realm at the ending to deliver an ending that actually implies the childhood friend won Hina's heart. Although it was a short lived implication, the fact that it comes after all of the inexcusable garbage made the moment an amazingly refreshing touch.

Even then, I can't believe I sat there and watched the full hour of whatever dumpster fire this movie was. It lacked in all qualities that one would expect from a good, or even average film. Everything it did in mediocrity was only exacerbated in a negative manner by all of the bad it portrayed. How can something be this by the numbers and mind numbingly cookie cutter in its presentation, characterization, and plot progression, and still not do it at least somewhat well? The formula has been set in stone since the late 2000's for cheesy romantic anime and still, this modern piece of cinematic rubbish can't do a single thing right. Forget its somewhat interesting ending, I hate this stupid movie. I hate it with my all.

I'm feeling a light 1.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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