Sol Levante

Soooo, I thought that it would be an anime or an film, but in the end it's just an short animation. It's fine, but only 4 minutes for a show that they had talk a lot about, it's just disappointing

But, the animation and the design are just AMAZING. This project is probably only a test, so if they try to do an anime, or an movie using this animation technologies, it will be fantastic. The sounds are normal, the story, well, there is no story...

They hyped me for nothing.... Netflix should continue with this project, instead ... of make random 3D animes that nobody asked for.

So, I'll keep this simple. A lot of people don't seem to understand what this short film is. It's an incredible artistic feat. This film is the first hand-drawn anime to be done in full 4K resolution and it has so much detail in the art, that it took 2 years to complete. I think a lot of people watching this probably think the whole thing is a computer graphic animation or something because of how high fidelity it is, but that's not the case. This was actually hand drawn. Appreciate it for being a historic artistic feat. Enjoy it like you would a painting, ... and you'll get a lot more enjoyment out of it. If you try to view it as some kind of full-story anime, then you will be disappointed. But as an art piece, this brief anime film is historic and groundbreaking, and truly a masterpiece example of what Production I.G's animators can do.

This one-shot is 4 minutes long (with end credits).

Well this felt more like trailer for anime or demo reel then actual anime but in the same time they never advertised this as more than experimental short.
Also I don't have 4k TV so that's that.

What about positives? I definitely appreciate effort to make 4K HDR anime because I can imagine this wasn't easy task and overall animation looked nice, if only there was more story to add context to what is happening.

My score for this "episode" 3/5 - Like I said earlier I don't have 4k TV so I couldn't appreciate animation to the fullest, so ... without a plot the only thing I can rate is animation (and its fluidity), art style (which was not bad but nothing special) and music (which was forgettable).
Even right now I have hard time to remember more than a few scenes. So I can easily imagine that in a few days I will completely forget about this anime.
Like Jeremy Jahns would said "T-minus 1 Day, already forgotten"

Overall score for Sol Levante 7/10 - Mainly for effort.

I recommend also to watch "Behind the scenes" on Netflix yt channel, these videos are honestly more interesting (and longer) than actual anime.
"The Making of Sol Levante, a 4K and HDR hand-drawn anime short | Netflix"
and
"The Sound of Sol Levante: Bringing Immersive Audio to 4K HDR Anime | Netflix"

Well........ this was interesting, but in a good way, but it felt more like a trailer than a full movie, maybe also cause of the rather short running time. There really was no story naration, not even a narator guy who would explain what's going on. The character I guess was decent, but again without any naration it's really hard to understand it. The saving grace is the music and the animation, it's rather quit beautiful. So I guess that thet if it would be longer, or at least narated I would give story and character a higher rating. And I kinda understand since ... it's a small team behind this they probably didn't have high enough budget for more, so would prefer in that case if that would made into series. The episodes wouldn't need to be long, could be the same run time as the movie, but it would still explain a lot more.