Feb 7, 2018
At first, I found this a slow-paced anime that was heavy on the typical Japanese nostalgia (cherry blossoms, high school, etc), but at around halfway when the actual plot kicks in, it starts to become compelling in spite of itself. If you are looking for an actual psychic war, this will disappoint, but in an odd way its slow pace and reticence about the details makes it a lot more watchable than if it was explicit and explained everything. It's more of a healing anime than anything, something you watch to relax and enjoy the gentle points being made.
Unfortunately the downsides of the anime are
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many and prevalent. The art is good, but tries to evoke nostalgia too much and resembles a Thomas Kinkade painting will all the emphasis placed on multicolored light. Towards the end, too many things just happen without much grounding in a solid plot. And the first twenty minutes are slow enough to turn you off the anime, with focus on rather normal school lives and obsession with mobile phones as a barrier to real communication.
You can't help but wish for a bit less blushing love, and more of the awakened psychics acting in the school (done absolutely wonderfully, as it's not really a "war" at all, and then the whole obsession with mobiles make sense) and just a little more of the science fiction part of the film.
I found it good to watch, but I can definitely understand the low scores. It's a film you'd need to watch to find out if you like it or not.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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