This review will contain Spoilers for the movie A movie with an okay story and amazing visuals. SPOILER AHEAD STORY: The whole premise of the show is that an upcoming shoemaker Takao Akizuki meets an older lady when he skips school to go to a garden. He meets her only on rainy days at the garden. They bond together during those meet up and become really close until the rainy days stop. He soon finds out that she is in fact a teacher at his school who is getting not the best treatment from the students. He goes to her house and begs to change and open up. Thats basically it. Im not sure what the ending is supposed to symbolise or mean and I watched the ending like 2 times just for this review. My guess is that its something about maturity and growing as a person to overcome those things we are scared to go through. Ever since that last scene with the teacher the student character attended school much more often and even made some friends instead of going to the garden every day. 420https://media2.giphy.com/media/ojpXmp7BN9QAg/source.gif CHARACTERS: There is really only 2 character that matter in this whole movie. Takao Akizuki The guy who keeps going ot the garden each rainy day and meets up with the mysterious woman. He falls in love with that gal even after he finds out she is a teacher. He feels like your generic student who would do anything for their love interest. As we seen during that fight scene. Yukari Yukino The mysterious woman who always goes to the garden on rainy days and meets up with the upcoming shoemaker. She is calm and collected like a mature adult Cause she is one. Nothing much about the character it feels like a normal adult. 420https://media0.giphy.com/media/BUuWLYrY6f2Ao/giphy.gif ART/ANIMATION: Now this is where the movie really shines. The animation and art style is amazing just like Your Name. Its smooth especially the rain so pleasing to look at non stop. The character design is also really good. All of the animation and artstyle aspects feel realistic. 420https://media0.giphy.com/media/yJN8tKQjSW2nS/source.gif MUSIC: The OST is also really good. Its calm and beautiful and reflects those peaceful rainy days really well. Really good for calming down any day. 420https://data.whicdn.com/images/172888796/original.gif OVERALL OPINION: I dont hate this movie I liked the animation and the OST. But the story is not something I put that much care into it just didnt connect with me that much. So dont let that 60/100 scare ya this is a good movie but just more on the boring side. If that makes sense.
60 /100
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