Minor Spoilers
After watching Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? I've realized a few things here, so I'll list them.
Tried very hard to be The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, why you ask? It's rather obvious with the whole ball as a sort of time travel mechanism, a time travel theme is not an original or stolen idea, (Silent Voice) but the way they did it was stolen. Not a major reason why this movie wasn't all that great however. It did make a twist to the mechanism in that it seems as though it creates a different timeline per say, I won't go more in depth cause I don't want to spoil anything else, but you'll understand what I mean.
Next is the art, although very beautiful, it's resemblance to the Monogatari series is so close that it makes it seem like this is a special episode, I know it's made by the same studio but c'mon man the two mc's are literally Identical to Araragi and Senjougahara, literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw the music video. It had a couple of choppy scenes were the anime had bad animation in it, seemed like an anime on a really low budget in those scenes, but overall the scenery was quiet beautiful.
I was very disappointed with the character development, there was next to none, none of the characters personalities were really shown, and the voice actors were badly chosen, at least for the boys, their voices were very deep for their age and size and were very monotone.
The movie left many questions unanswered, which is fine, but lots of unanswered questions were also major plot points, and the movie seemed very unfinished, not that it was just left on a cliffhanger and led the viewer to think what happened, but it seriously gave no hint to the outcome of everything and how can these kids fall in love in just 1 day, let's be real here, that is super unlikely. I have my own takes on what happened at the end of the movie but I'll keep that to the mind.
Here's some advice, just watch the music video, it's well worth your time unlike this trainwreck.
Story: 4 Didn't stay on track
Art: 8 It was good just too identical to the monogatari series
Sound: 9 I loved the ending song choice
Character: 5 No character development, but the characters were likeable
Enjoyment: 7 Although it did manage to disappoint me, It was still a good way to pass time
Overall: 6.6 but we'll round it to a 7
