It's short, it's simple, it's easy to watch and understand. Although this falls under the movie catagory, it doesn't feel like a full fledged movie. However the "movie" doesn't fail to impress you have you keep watching. With it's outstanding animation and art, and it's beautiful soundtrack, the movie will definitely have you watching until the end, If not for the story, or characters. The story and characters are exceptionally well done considering the little time limit they have to develop any characters in the movie. Despite the limitation in time, the story and characters still do exceptionally well.
-- Story --
The story behind the movie is about a male protagonist that loves, and see's himself making womens shoes as a career. He later than falls in love with a woman he meets only under the premises that is it raining. Both female, and male protagonists do not know much about each other, not even their names. Despite their lack of knowledge towards each other, they have common interests which later than develops into love. That's the main idea behind the story, but unlike most romances, this one ends differently, and so thanks to it's unique story telling as oppose to other romances, the story does exceptionally well with a 7/10.
-- Art --
The art is outstanding in my opinion! It's not just the animation, and art, but the visuals overall are outstanding. If you don't like anything about the movie, my best bet is that you at least liked, or will like it's art. The art, and animation were not rushed in the making of this movie, and you can see that during the movie, there are a lot of focus and precision in the making of the art and animation.
-- Sound --
The OST, and sound itself makes the movie's art and animation feel even better. Just like the art, a lot of focus was put into the sound and OST of this movie. The sound of raindrops, and the OST that fits the right moment is very well done.
-- Characters --
There isn't much character development given the short time in the movie, however the two main characters still change towards the end. Despite not learning much about the characters, we still get enough info to understand the way they think, and feel towards each other. And because this is achieved in only 45 minutes, the characters are likeable, and easy to understand. Their quotes, and reasoning is logical, and you may have a sense of how the characters feel towards each other, although I was not completely gripped by the way they felt, which I believe was due to lack of development.
-- Enjoyment --
I enjoyed it. I mostly found it enjoyable because of it's great art, and sound. That doesn't mean the story and characters were poorly done, but because the art and sound were so great it overlapped the movies story. Despite everything I've said, you should definitely watch this if you enjoy romantic animes. And although it may be short, and lack in some areas of development, it still manages to achieve so much given it's short run.
Overall - 8/10
