Little Witch Academia: an odd addition, seeing it's technically a movie, yet is around 25 minutes long. Well, it was 25 minutes well spent! Upon seeing DEMOLITION_D's review on this movie, I was kind of tempted to give it a go - well, just after 6+ months worth of procrastination. Hey, I had a lot of anime series' I wanted to watch, but little time to wrestle with.
As soon as I recently found Little Witch Academia on Netflix and watched it, I was quite surprised it was just as good as what DEMOLITION_D said. While the story wasn't all that significant - it being "just there", it was quite enjoyable in other aspects. Little Witch Academia was beautiful to look at and watch, all thanks to Kaneko Yuuji's handiwork on the art style, with Yoshinari You's take on the character design making the visual aspect more pleasing - heck, the fact that the characters looked pretty cute in this film is one of the selling points for me. The sound and music complemented well with the lighthearted setting, although when I say so, I can't quite explain why - kind of like explaining to your child about life and its purpose, or choosing your first Pokemon starter without saying the words "cute", "awesome" and "fluffy".
There wasn't much that I didn't like about Little Witch Academia, asides from its short length - the same length as a single episode of a TV anime series. But since there are news of an upcoming TV series, and a sequel of this film that I haven't gotten around watching yet, I'm willing to set that shortcoming aside.
Go watch Little Witch Academia. You don't need an excuse for it, and it doesn't require much effort - just do it for the heck of it!
