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Unfortunately, being animated and having music aren't merits worth giving this one any time of day you have.

Reading further will lead to spoilers so if you wish to avoid that: Bubble isn't good enough that you should put your time here rather than something better, whether it's for its visuals or not.

You've read the original The Little Mermaid story, right? Then you've seen the film. The story very explicitly references the work throughout the experience but rather than taking the work and being transformative with it, it just plays out exactly as you would expect. It's not as if taking reference from other works and ... using it is wrong, but the problem lies in that if nothing is done with that inspiration, what would be the point in watching that work over experiencing the original instead.

There are stories that reference old material all the time and remain unique by doing something new with it, to give an example in anime the Your Name movie comes to mind as it takes from an old 80's novel in Japan. And in Your Name is adds more which previous body swap stories didn't have including a unique theme. This makes the story of Bubble feel forgettable in comparison as it has no theme or message that hasn't been done in countless stories before. To add to how pointless and forgettable the film is the fact that there's a lot of characters that could be removed from the plot yet not affect it meaningfully whatsoever. To let my point sink in, try a thought-experiment if you seen the movie and remove one character with a speaking role from every scene and estimate how little the plot would change or how easily replaceable they could be by another character. I claim this to be a flaw since time is being put in these character and yet will be immediately forgotten the moment the credits roll, it makes the film feel incomplete. To be more clear, my point is side-characters that don't contribute to the plot or story yet still take your precious time feels like mismanagement.

To add to the previous point of feeling incomplete, there's more than plenty factors in the world of Bubble that's left with no clear conclusion. Although in it defence as well, those plot points don't really have to be focused on as they're irrelevant to the story. I'll also take the chance to praise the film for thinking deep enough about the world to have people inhabit destroyed Tokyo for believable reasons like scientists researching the bubble and juveniles being juvenile. This is likely due to Urobuchi's hand in the writing for the film.

And with all this said, is there a point to the story? At the least, this movie does have a message to give to the world, but it's told to the audience so directly it'll disengage you from the experience. The message being it's worth risking pain to connect to others. No thought is needed to be put in to understand it, A boy that closes himself of from others because it hurts him to hear and an alien girl who can't touch him tries to connect with him.
It plays out exactly as you'd think...

My issue isn't that it'd predictable, my issue is that it's been done before AND better in other works and so I ask what actually makes this special. We're all thinking it was a little disappointing and you aren't wrong in thinking so.

4/10 for being so uninspired

Every Fate adaptation is bad nor will there ever be a good one.

The Heaven's Feel movie is exactly what intended to be: An adaptation of the final chapters of the Heaven's Feel route and after completing this film I now understand the idea of even adapting Fate/Stay Night into another medium (This includes other VN adaptations) misses what Fate/Stay Night is and what it does entirely but that's not the point here.

Is this movie worth your time? If you already followed all of the fate anime before this, understand that this is the end of the series. Its true climax. Every character has finally been ... explored and their arcs completed, every stone has been turned now and we've been rewarded with the most Happy End seen so far in Fate and it's a satisfying one. As you'd expect the fights look great since it's ufotable but for those like me who prefer a fight to have more grounded choreography you won't find that here but if you've reached this point you're already more than aware. If you haven't refreshed yourself on the Stay Night series I'd recommend you do before watch this film and keep in mind that every route is a direct continuation from each other (Fate -> UBW -> Heaven's Feel). I know you understand this is the necessary order but ever wonder why is that beyond just "that's how it must be"? (Spoilers ahead)

Heaven's Feel is the end of Fate/Stay Night, it's impossible to reach this route without completing the previous two and understanding this will make the structure of Fate immediately more clear of why it is the way it is. Why must the anime/VNs be experienced in a specific order? Because the story progresses from the last, why is it that there's blatant holes in the narrative in everywhere? Because they're separately explored in each route and even in Bad Ends in the VN.

The entirety of the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel IS the story Fate, rather than it hosting 3 different stories that give different points. The very start of Fate, from the first time we meet Shirou in the Fate route (Deen/Stay Night) he's a character that's conflicted and heavy under-values his life and by the end he becomes Archer, realising the scope of his dream. UBW Shirou then has to confront Archer, who represents the reality of what Shirou will become and ultimately Shirou accepts that fate but still under-minds the fact his choices are still based on others and still under-values his life. Then we reach Heaven's Feel Shirou, who completely surpasses Archer by adjusting himself to what HE wants instead of what should be and finally values his own life even if for the greater good as he proclaims with the most genuine emotion he's expressed this entire Game/Series "I want to live". There's plenty to unpack with jus Shirou alone but you're smart enough to understand on your own time.

All in all, I've found a new respect and even love in this series which I haven't felt when I started. And even with these high effort adaptations being made for Fate and they are well done in their own right, it simply could never replace the experience of the VN and is the more recommended and ideal way to experience Fate/Stay Night. If you're a fan of the anime for more than its action I do think you'll gain the better experience there.

Having fun with your Work: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Tl;dr - Much fun, very cool, recommend for da horny people

So it’s no surprise that SHAFT runs on rather tight production values (until Monogatari and Madoka anyway) and they sometimes tend to be ‘unprofessional’ but it’s these things that give there work so much damn character beyond what’s physically on the screen.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is a prime example of the appeal of SHAFT, with brilliant use of audio-visual editing, pop culture referencing and seeming inside jokes that almost no one would get except the people who worked on this. The show itself is filled character with combinations of ... jokes made by staff or the source material itself, despite jokes not being that funny most of the time.

This show greatly raises the standards on any Slice of Life, Harem, Comedy that I’ll see in the future, if all of them were this fun to watch or had this much soul and character in it I’d doubt this genre would be looked down on as much. And it thanks to what you’d expect to be the most important thing to get right for these kinds of shows, extremely likeable characters, each on with they’re own characteristics that serve in themselves to parody the occasional mentality of people and greatly exaggerate them.

Not only that but the soundtrack used is pretty top notch in itself, I’m sure you’ve heard the ‘Itoshiki Nozomu’ track. I don’t have as much knowledge in production in music as in film or animation but to me, this song captures his character extremely well and it’s satisfying to hear every time it play. That song is just an example, there are multiple other tracks that have reached me and potentially could reach you as well.

Discussing in its art, this is likely something an innumerable amount of people would disagree with me on but I find it only enjoyable in animation (which makes sense as they have simple designs making it easy to translate them to animation) but when I read the original manga, I find myself mixing the characters up more than a few times and, while less, a number of time in the anime as well although never at a point to completely take me out a scene. In all, I still find the general art visually appealing and satisfying to look at but as for designs, it becomes harder to complement as heavily but still like them nonetheless.

I’d definitely recommend to anyone looking for more style and creativity in animation in general (despite not being traditionally well animated, but most certainly has its moments) thanks to its top tier editing and direction alone.

My loli fanservice can't possibly be this competent: Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya

So I was suggested to review all the Fate anime and actually accepted since it seemed fun (even though it might have just been a joke.)

Let me say off the bat, this Fate spin-off is actually one of the well made ones and would definitely recommend, I'll explain why if that's not enough.
The competency of Silver Link. has started to become clearer to me as of late and Prisma☆Illya is a prime example of their capabilities with the show's great use of editing and shot composition. The character designs themselves are pretty attractive too along ... with background art and general animation as well.

Now in the scripting and story department, I'd say it ranges from average to above average. What I appreciate about it is how the dialogue has the characters actually feel like kids as even Miyu, despite her seemingly mature nature, is still immature in many other aspects. The characters, or atleast Illya and Miyu, actually have conflicts based on the story and even between each other and it highlights their inner character and mentalities rather nicely. However, the only thing that holds this anime back from being greater is that its story/aesthetics are very, very lackluster.

To help understand this try to reference other magical girl anime, in my case I'm thinking of Sailor Moon for the aesthetics. At the beginning of the series, Prisma☆Illya's aesthetic was seemingly being a parody of magical girl anime as it makes jokes or references tropes seen in those anime and while it wouldn't be the first of this kind of thing it would've left a stronger impression on me if it was rather than the direction it ended up in (not to say it's poorly written but rather it didn't have much going for it that you couldn't find in other magical girl anime and done better).

Without that aesthetic Prisma☆Illya had in the beginning, it becomes more of a generic magical girl anime with nothing making it stand out from the rest other than having Fate characters.

Even with all this, I can say this is a fine anime with a clear amount of thought and effort put into it. I'd say the thought put in it could be a reason to give this a try alone, while I do believe I wouldn't miss anything if I never ended up watching the show, I certainly still somewhat enjoyed my time watching despite conking out from moment to moment. Give it a try.