Story: 7
What you should know about the movie is that is based on a series of Vocaloid Songs.
This movie focussed on Yuu and Natsuki, two childhood friends. Natsuki decides to confess to Yuu, but after her confession she got nervous while waiting for his answer so "It was just a prank, bro!" and the story goes from that. It's not great, it's not bad. It's average.
Another one of the pairings is Mochita and Akari, who barely know each other. Mochita (or Mochizuki, but that's too long) fell in love with Akari at first sight, but he has never talked to her. His feelings are the purest, but he can't help but feeling jealous about every single boy that talks to Akari. Meanwhile, Akari is clueless about love, she doesn't like anyone and never has had a crush. The interactions between the two of them makes their story interesting. I find it hilarious how Mochita is constantly asking to himself "who does she like? who does she like?" and Akari just thinks about cake.
Then there's the third couple...who you barely notice they are there...Miou and Haruki, too oblivious and shy teenagers who have a crush on each other...and everyone knows that except them. I see why they didn't get as much screentime as the others, there isn't much going on in their story.
I would have given it a 6 if it hasn't given us extra content that we hadn't seen neither in the songs or v-comics.
Art: 9
I don't know much about art so this will be shorter. It was really cute and the colours were so nice to the sight. Although I'm used to the art of the PVs, which in my opinion has more quality and detail, but that's only because there are just images and not animations.
Sound: 10
Of course, as a fan of Honeyworks I'm going to give the sound a solid 10.
It was amazing to watch the movie and that the background music in many MANY scenes were the instrumental of the songs in the saga. That was a really cool detail and it made me want to sing them. The new songs for the movie (op and ed, and the song in the middle) were as good as you would expect for honeyworks. Catchy songs, with cute lyrics (quoting Natsuki "a little embarassing") and really good instrumentals, the usual honeyworks formula.
Character: 7
I love these characters, but i feel like they weren't developped properly in the movie, but that's acceptable, there's only an hour to tell a whole story.
Natsuki and Mochita were the ones that got more screen time, while their love interests Yuu and Akari were there plenty of time too. But, as i said, Miou and Haruki barely appeared.
Enjoyment: 10
The hype was real. I enjoyed watching my favourite characters animated. I enjoyed singing along the songs I knew. I enjoyed listening to the new ones. I enjoyed all the references i could get. But that's my enjoyment as a devoted fan, as a casual watcher, i would have given the movie a 7 probably.
Overall: 9
It's a great adaptation, but i feel it works as a summary.
I do not recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't heard the vocaloid songs it's based on. If you do, the story may look simple and bland, typical shoujo-anime. But if you had heard the songs (or even read the light novels) it'll be great and it'll fill you with hype to see your favourite characters animated. It also summarized and wrapped-up the story of the saga very nicely.
In terms of story and characters, the second movie will be better, I'm sure.
