Sol Levante

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.

As a short animation, It wasn't bad. It has a unique animation style which differs a lot compare to normal anime style animations. And by unique, I'm not saying that it's bad. It's very visually appealing and can really be appreciated as an amazing piece of art.

Sound design feels amazing for this one. I don't know much about sound designing so I'll just leave it off here.

Animation and Sound design aside, let's talk about the "story". I feel like it didn't do a very good job at telling the story with the visuals. Most of the time while watching, I only thought about how pretty ... it looks. So not a very good story I guess.

It is pretty enjoyable if you really like stuff that is very artistic or aesthetic because it was pretty beautiful for most of the time.

Overall, should you watch it? I'm gonna say yes if you like beautiful visuals, plus it's also like 3 minutes long with a 1 minute credit so you won't be wasting too much time watching it.

1. Not a unique story. Art Style interesting... seemed more like a tech demo. Not a " anime film" like it proclaims to be.

2. There really wasn't much of a story. But the art style was cool

3. 0 character development we don't even know a name or a purpose really. Just flying on a familiar and a bunch of monsters attacking.

4. The character just defended herself and kept travelling. I was a bit bored.

5. Don't think it'll gain traction as is: it is an interesting concept and world I will return if it becomes a fully thought out work.

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2/10 3 minutes of interesting visuals that wouldn't have made any sense without description.

Will re-rate and re review if it changes to actually be a film in the future.