Story: It starts out with Icarus and Tomoki flying towards the Synapse and so many questions in the audiences mind. The story then processeds to jump into a flash back that will be the telling of the main story for the movie. From here the viewers are dropped into the world of HLP sometime after Forte and Movie 1 took place. From here Tomoki and the gang proceed on what could be described as a long episode of the series in which Tomoki and Icarus come to realize their feelings for each other. In the end it is enjoyable but it feels very rushed in trying to wrap up the story that was supposed to have a 3rd season. Because of this 3/10.
Art 10/10 Improved from the series looks amazing. That's what a movie budget lets you do I guess.
Sound 10/10 Songs from the show return, acting was good. I can only assume the dub will have the return of the cast which will be great as well.
Characters 6/10 Everyone is the same as they were in the show following their typical character traits without much time to improve themselves besides Tomo and Icarus which is fine since the movie is centered around those 2. However they drop 2 characters that briefly appear in the anime/movie into the mix and are just like oh you're here and now part of our group. I'm sure manga readers will make more sense of this but to anime only viewers I just really have to wonder why they're back.
Enjoyment: I rated it a 7 on mal so I stand by that. As a stand alone story it was good but as an ending to the whole series of HLP I'm disappointed.
Overall I'm giving this a 7. Besides the overall story basically ending out of nowhere this is enjoyable for fans of the series. And if you really want to know more about what ends up happening in HLP you'll read the manga. It shouldn't have to be that way but that's what happens when a season of anime gets crammed into a 50 minute movie :/
Hope you enjoyed the review everyone.
