Reviews

This show was really chaotic, and I feel like there is a lot I missed watching. The dream-like quality of the world and the absurdity and surrealism were oddly satisfying. Watching it left me very emotional but in an incomprehensible way. I teared up at the end of the movie, but I'm not quite sure why. Was it the romance? Was it how elusory youthful memories are and how they are stretched? Was how fully alive these characters felt, and how little my life resembles that? Or was it all of the above? Watching this wasn't like watching any other anime. The story/plot takes a sideline, and instead, we are carried along by broad strokes of mood and moments, of genre and feeling. This show was absurd, beautiful, nonsensical, meaningful, but most importantly, really enjoyable to watch. I was pulled from scene to scene, caught up in the whimsy of this world that was somehow still grounded in emotional realism. Each moment felt absurd in its own right, but together, painted a kind of emotional canvas that really moved me. I'm no critic, and I'm sure there are better ways to describe this movie, so I'll just say this: I enjoyed watching it, and it really moved my heart.