Story: 6/10. The story is fairly uninteresting, to be honest. It's a romance that follows the heroine and her love interest through a little self-discovery, with an attempt to save a school club building in the background. There isn't anything particularly novel to the story, other than the lead characters' continued interest in each other after they find out something that really should be putting them off, of course. It all ends up okay in the end, though, so whatever. The cleaning scenes were really nice but short-lived. There just wasn't really anything in the story that caught my attention, although my partner and I were incredibly worried about how little the school staff cared about what the students did on school property haha
Art: 9/10. With gorgeous backgrounds and expressive animation, this movie is a delight for the eyes. The character designs were simple but clean, and the whole visual side of the movie was just lovely.
Sound: 9/10. The sound is also wonderful, with lovely music throughout. The voice acting was really good and the foley work was impeccable. I was never jarred out of the movie at any point by the sound and I commented multiple times through the viewing on the lovely soundtrack.
Character: 7/10. The characters were nice, with some really tragic stories. However, That's all they really were, nice. They didn't stand out, really, and I can't say I'll be pointing to any of them as being among my favorite Ghibli characters. They weren't unlikeable but they never truly made me *love* them. The biggest compliment I ever gave the cast was that the main character was very hard-working (and pretty).
Overall: 8/10. An enjoyable film well worth the time investment, if only for the audio/visual spectacle. I can't speak for the romance as I'm not really into most romance in anime, but everything else came together quite well. I would recommend this movie to those who want a nice story with some complex situations, beautiful art, and a very enjoyable soundtrack.
