I loved this movie. I don't usually love anime movies. I like them but I haven't found one that I love, but I can honestly say, I love this movie.
Enjoyment was definitely a 10. It is one of those movies that filled me with sentiments and feels through out the entire movie.
The story was really relatable and realistic. It didn't really round out everything like most fictions do. The portrayal of how things can lead emotions on and develop into sadness and to even more serious cases like depression was really applaud-able in how they presented it. I feel like the movie gave a very empathetic view to those who may have suffered similar to relating issues. At least on my own personal point of view, there were definitely moments where I went, "Wow", at how close it tugged at the heart strings. What I loved about the story itself, was that its point of view...the movie didn't present from the victim's perspective. It presented the effect of how a small thing can create a chain reaction of emotions and events. The different point of views that each character has, the different personalities, that wrap the story, the event in itself, is what made me fall in love because it was able to entirely bring me in, like it was a real event that had happened.
I thought the characters were really nice. Each character had there distinctive part and role in the story. They don't really overlap in what they represent. When you put all those characters and what they are together, it makes the story so easy to understand. Even if you have never experienced something so negative in your own life, the movie will at least bring you to a sympathetic standing for the story.
As for the art and sound, I have no complaints and don't know how to judge that part any way...so in my point of view, I thought it was good. There was many scenes where they used a trick of light (like a dawn moment) to move scenes, which was really pretty. I do feel that they chop up some of the scenes pretty weird and the lineup of the plot and the scenes could've been a bit better because sometimes it moves from one scene to the next and I would have to go back to get what just happened. But...that would probably be my only complaint.
Like I said, I do love this movie. I definitely cried. Overall, I rate it to be a very good anime movie.
