Name: Over the Sky Type: Movie Duration: 95 mins Studio: Digital Network Animation https://anilist.co/studio/6214/DigitalNetworkAnimation Director: Yoshinobu Sena https://anilist.co/staff/144529/YoshinobuSena Alright Lets start. 1000https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/962669558202777655/978571635152011274/Untitleddesign24.png?width=960height=240 Summary: Mio a careless and lazy girl is the type that takes life as it comes. One day Mios friend Madoka reveals she has feelings for Mios childhood friend. Not used to confronting problems Mio tells Madoka that she has her full support while denying her own feelings. On one of her usual day outs with Arata Mio gets into a fight with him. That night as she was rushing to apologize to him she got into a car accident. When she woke up she was on a train to a magical world with flying whales and penguins and other fantasylike elements. But it turns out that the world is the border between life and death. With the help of a talking plushie and a mysterious girl will she be able to go back to her world? 1000https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/962669558202777655/978571634699034684/Untitleddesign25.png?width=960height=240 Art: Just ok I guess. Nothing much special. Even though it was a 2020 release the art makes it feel older. The color is really bright so much that it hurts your eyes at times. But during the gloomy scenes art takes such a step back that it seems to almost be from the 1900s. The linework is also just ok. It is quite thin but sometimes too prominent. At times when the camera is zoomed out to cover a wide view the smaller details just seem to disappear. 1000https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/962669558202777655/978571633700782080/Untitleddesign28.png?width=960height=240 Animation: Smooth. But only most of the time. The mouth movement is weird. It tends to skip the animation and just directly change shapes. Sometimes it also stays frozen like when she laughs. 1000https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/962669558202777655/978571634405421056/Untitleddesign26.png?width=960height=240 Story: Plot: Interesting. But thats about it. Otherwise it just seems too much like a fantasy without seeming like a fantasy. It doesnt have anything good. Just a lot of stuff is all it seems like. Theres nothing amazing about it. Storytelling: Bad. Like thats it. Just bad. It doesnt hook you in at all. Sure it has got emotion. Only thing is the watchers dont feel it. Quite a bit of crying scenes and sad ones but at one scene where she was crying from despair it sounded like unholy screaming and it also doesnt make the watcher any sadder than their choice of watching it. There is also a lot of unneeded suspense. Like they only have her confess her feelings at the end and even that they make us guess since they dont give her any audio. The music scene also seems very forced. At the beginning it is just useless stuff in the background with her singing and only gets better later. Even then the song sounds like a cross of japanese and chinese and the singer has become an old woman sometimes. 1000https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/962669558202777655/978571634170560562/Untitleddesign27.png?width=960height=240 Character: It looks as if they put in some effort at least. This is honestly one of the few good parts of it. However as for the villain he is given a face reveal only in the third quarter or something but he actually becomes a good guy at the end. This would usually be ok but they went as far as to turn him into a monster and chase Mio like a zombie at one point so it really doesnt feel good. 1000https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/962669558202777655/978571633302331402/Untitleddesign29.png?width=960height=240 End. Feel free to leave comments on my activity
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