Zutto Mae kara Suki deshita. Kokuhaku Jikkou Iinkai

"who is she going to confess her love to?", "who is she in love with?" ,"everyone in love", "I know she is in love with someone".....as they keep thinking like that they start hurting each other with words they don't mean it. The movie is your typical sweet RomCom, which talks about a group of friends being secretly in love with each other and we can't forget the love triangle. The story wasn't any new but to me, every single one has its own charm just like this movie which has its unique way of getting them to struggle until they find their way to master their courage to confess!! The art was pretty nice as they show us cute smiles, sad expressions, and tears of joy, jealousy, and happiness!!.As for the sound, it was good!!! To summarize: -Story: 8/10 -Art: 9/10 (a wonderful animation) -Sound: 10/10 ( The sound was a great impact to the story) -Character: 8/10 ( every character has her own charm) -Enjoyment: 10/10 -Overall: 9/10 (it was a great movie!! I really enjoyed it!)

Story: If you've read a lot of romance manga you probably won't consider the story as very original. The entire movie is about different characters trying to build up the courage to confess their love. However, I do not believe that there are many animated stories of this kind which makes it unique in it's own sense. Sure, it doesn't have any super original plot point or anything that makes it very unique, but the story is well executed for what it is and if you're into more pure love stories, I believe you'll like the story in this one. Art: I rarely care about the art in anime to be honest. The art is good and of normal 2016-standard. Sound: Some fantastic songs that set the mood very well. Really was a big part of the movie for me. Characters: The characters themselves are nothing out of the ordinary, but what is special is the relationships between the character. Natsuki and Yuu are your typical childhood friend love cliche, Akarin and Mochizuki have never really talked with eachother properly, and Haruki and Miou are pretty much dating, but they haven't realized it yet. It was interesting to see all these different types of relationships in one movie. Enjoyment: Through most of the movie I was screaming at the characters to just get together already, but I must say that I really found the story and characters refreshing in a time where ecchi, magical girls and tragedy rules the romance anime industry. Overall: I feel like a lot of loose ends will meet in the sequel which will be released in december, but until then I'll give this movie an 8 overall score. It's really worthwhile if you like pure high-school romance animes, and especially if you like series like Ao Haru Ride. Don't expect someting AMAZING and I'll think you'll enjoy this movie.

This might be the first time i write a review but i take really serious in giving some comments about this movie. Story : 6/10 || Enjoyment : 6/10 In my opinion, this movie is a nothing special romance movie compare to others. I don't dislike this movie but for me, this kind of movie is too mainstream school set romance plus it is a movie with a cliffhanger ending which i hate the most. Besides, the duration of this movie is too short and messed up the plot. The good about the movie is the charms of the characters with cool auras. Not to forget this movie have a heartwarming and giving some advices about love-life for viewers. To brief my review, Art : 9/10 I really love the art which is giving pleasant to the eyes with good sceneries. Sound : 8/10 The songs in this movie are all my favourites before this movie was made including the ost. In other word, it is a masterpiece. Character : 9/10 This review is just on what i've been thought about this movie so i hope you like it. Sorry if it is not really a good review.

I'm always a sucker for a sweet, innocent, slice of life romance; and this, my friends, really hit the spot. There are many many slice of life romance anime out there, but not all of them tend to go very well in my opinion. A lot of the time i end up very frustrated while watching because of misunderstandings or lack of chemistry or something along those lines. That wasn't the case for this movie though. The characters were all extremely likable, there actually wasn't a single character i was annoyed by (which rarely happens). The art was lovely, which is something i'm very picky with. And the music was really enjoyable! I tend not to like/care about the music in anime, if a song catches my attention its pretty rare, but i really loved the music in this to the point where i actually searched it up on youtube afterwards. Anyways, if you are looking for a sweet, fluffy, carefree anime to watch and squeal to then I definitely recommend this one. xx

I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for a good romance. I like it in basically every shape or form: I like it with a sad ending, a happy ending, with comedic ambiance, with serious atmosphere and one of my favourite types is the cute, heart-warming one. But this one? This one I hated. I can't even describe how excruciating it was to watch. The plot was completely decentralized, unnecerarily jumping from one character to another. I guess the writers wanted to include as many stories from the music videos as possible but because of the limited time they had for this movie, it ended up being about everything and nothing at the same time. The formula that worked in case of the music videos, where we knew close to nothing about characters but still rooted for them, certainly shouldn't have been applied here. The personalities of the characters are just your cookie-cutter shoujo archetypes or at least they seem so because, as I mentioned before, we know close to NOTHING about the characters. We don't really know much about their relationships beside who-has-a-crush-on-whom, we never learn why these characters are in love with each other, we don't really know their history, we are just randomly presented with certain informations about them like "this girl likes this band", "this boy likes video games", "just person likes this person... just because". This one hour is filled mostly with some mundane, irrelevant to the plot and random scenes that don't even add much to the characters, they just happen because "everyone eats food, people eat food and have a small talk, let's have a scene with 3 characters stuffing themeselves and talking about nothing!" or that scene that got me scratching my head the most with the question "why does it have to exist?" which is... a shot of each character sitting in their bathtubs at the same and just thinking about how much their suck when it comes to love. Dear Lord, cease my suffering. I wasn't expecting some kind of super deep-psychological character development or complicated plot or anything. I wanted to see a simple, cute high-school romance and let go of my worries for today. But this is so badly written storyboard-wise, and since I write stories myself, I just can't help but get irritated by how you can delete the majority of the movie and it would change almost nothing about the plot. The story is just a one big mess. Instead of introducing us to a close to 10 characters, the writers should've focused on the main 3 the movie is supposed be about: Natsuki, Ayase and Yuu and just go with their story. This way there would be more time to invest in showing us the relationship between Natsuki and the boys and we would know why are we supposed to root for them. Because I don't root for them. I don't fricking care who she end up with at the end because I know close to nothing about this characters, their history and their personalities. Let us see why Natsuki and Yuu are such good friends, let us see how they interact with each other. Show us how Natsuki and Ayase met and why he fell in love with her. Fricking show us his make-over he supposedly did just for her! We are only presented with this fact in the fricking moment he shows up on the screen for the first time! Like "This is Ayase, btw he looked like this in the past but this was before the movie". This way we would have mor cohesive and engaging story. There's this other movie about Yuu's little sis Hina, which btw I watched before this flick because I didn't know they were related. They did what I just said and it turned out sooooo much better. I mean, it wasn't great but I can at least say I kinda enjoyed it. We saw how Hina met the guy, how she started falling in love with him, why she fell in love with him, what she felt back then etc. etc. It revolved mostly about her story, hinting from time to time that there are other characters with their own crushes ("check our music videos for more, *win wink*") but it never to deviate from the main plotline which was good. Heck, I only know anything about Ayase thanks to that anime! And that's why I think this story is terrible and you shouldn't waste your time on it, go watch the music videos, good night.

Why Is Love So Hard? - An "I've Always Liked You" Review I did not like I’ve Always Liked You. To put it bluntly, this 1-hour and 3-minute long movie is shallow, generic, and all-around meaningless. Its sole purpose is to showcase the moments of high love confessions, in ways that are neither clever nor original. Just like many other stories in the genre of romance, I’ve Always Liked You uses these confession as a sort of “payoff”, yet it doesn’t offer up any kind of worthwhile setup for them. The characters are also unmemorable and lack any compelling motivations or adversities. While the animation and music are of an acceptable quality, from a narrative standpoint this film is plain mediocre. But let’s dig a little deeper than that, shall we? First let’s take a look at the characters and the respective narratives they fit into. The main plot centers around Natsuki and Yu, the token childhood friends that actually DO end up together. Yu is the nice guy that’s always been there for Natsuki, he’s kinda cute and that’s about all there is to his character (all the characters are about this shallow by the way). Natsuki is just a loveable tomboy who’s shy about her feelings like everyone else in this movie, and for some reason wears sweatpants under her school uniform. At the beginning of the film, she confesses to Yu and then quickly retracts that confession, playing it off as “just practice” for the person she’s really in love with. Then the entire movie passes before she comes back to him and confesses for real. Leading right up to that moment was a bunch of still-frame flashbacks to their childhood, showing all the times that Yu had been considerate to Natsuki, serving as evidence to why Natsuki likes him in the first place. It’s pretty shallow because they never actually show a genuine, written out moment between the two for portraying how and why they feel the way that they do. I’d liken it to watching a slideshow at a wedding for people you barely know. Oh boy, it’s the bride and groom as children moving up to the point that they’re at now, except I don’t really know who they are and wasn’t there personally for these moments so this doesn’t really affect me at all. *makes fart noise with tongue* Next there’s Akari and Souta, the cute purple haired girl and the guy who falls in love with her for solely superficial reasons. It’s that sort of “love at first sight” catch-22, where it’s really not meaningful at all if they actually fell love at the sight of each other, because that makes their relationship based off looks and not personality. There is a bit of reason beyond that very base level of affection, as Akari does have a moment of appreciation for the act of kindness she witnessed Souta perform slyly on a train. In Souta’s mind however, it’s basically a matter of “I like her, how can I make her mine?”. Of course, it sounds a lot more innocent coming from him, but by the time he finally works up the courage to ask her out he comes off as borderline misogynistic. The nicest way to put it would be that he has a very “traditional” mindset, and he basically demands her to make lunches for him every day because that’s what good girlfriends do…ugghh. As for Miou and Haruki, they secretly like each other and nothing happens. Finally, there’s Koyuki, and he’s in love with Natsuki as well. This white-haired shy-boy asks her out to a HoneyWorks concert and then needlessly walks her home after it’s over. He ends up not being able to control himself and hugs her under the soft glow of a street lamp, illuminating them in the night for all the neighbors to see. They didn’t really do anything inappropriate, but Yu comes barging out anyway and takes Natsuki away from Koyuki. Natsuki cries but quickly gets over it by the next morning and that’s about it. Overall, this film is wholeheartedly hollow and unoriginal in terms of both plot and characters. There’s virtually no conflict, and these downright privileged students have nothing to overcome but a very basic sense of nervousness. There is not one single hurdle put in front of these characters that prove to be even the tiniest bit difficult, and they lack any significant flaws that could hinder them. Without having to go through any remotely serious strife, what makes their achievements important, or anything they do in life compelling? And the only answer I can come up with is: nothing. This story is a very simple answer to a very simple question: If you like someone, summon the courage to tell them your feelings. And then everything will be fine because it turns out they like you too. While it might be entertaining to watch cute high school students to go through the motions of romance, there is absolutely nothing consequential to learn from this particular experience. And that’s a shame because it actually looks quite pretty.

Story: It's nothing new or original; just a very straightforward story about crushes and high school love. Not that it HAD to be an original or innovative romance, but when the plot is THAT cut and dry, it's hard not to be bored out of your mind as you're watching it. I wouldn't even say it executed the whole romance aspect particularly well. Art: I actually did enjoy the art. It was very pleasing to watch and had a lot of attractive colors. Sound: The sound and music were fine. Nothing really stood out, but it generally was appropriate for a movie about romance. Character: This is probably where the movie falls flat on its face. The characters are incredibly shallow. What I mean by that is that they're very one-dimensional and you know (and care, for that matter) very little about them. None of them really have any qualities that make them memorable or relatable. I don't mean to be harsh, but honestly, every character I encountered in the movie is a throwaway character that adds nothing to the story or has any substantial dynamic with anyone other than their love interest. Enjoyment/Overall: It was pretty boring to be honest. When you give someone a bunch of pointless characters who don't do anything more than have very simple crushes on each other, it's hard to keep their interest. Maybe a movie wasn't the best medium for this kind of story. Maybe if they had more time (like in the form of a regular one cour anime), the creators could better develop the story or get the audience more invested with the characters.

I am pretty new to the forum: Anyways, I am just going to do my best in reviewing this just released anime. Well this anime is your typical High School Love Story. Childhood Friends and etc. The Story is quite typical to a high school love story as mentioned above but I still gave it a 9 despite the fact that it's quite ordinary because I am into this kind of anime, so can't resist giving a 9. As for the art & sound/BGM, it totally gets an outstanding which is 10 because the art & sound/BGM are what I can describe as "exquisite" and "total masterpiece". Just one second into the movie, I am already astonished by the art & sound/BGM that were presented to the viewers. Actually, the thing that really made me astonished was the 5 words "I have always liked you". I thought I accidentally skipped to the ending but when I look at the player bar, I was relieved. Well, would have s*cked if I were to skip to the ending but I think the ending is quite predictable even without watching. Nothing much to comment on the characters except that they are quite everyone's typical normal character that you can find in any anime that has the same genre and plots with different settings. In Conclusion, I enjoyed this anime as mentioned, I liked this kind of anime and a 9 will totally be a satisfy mark for me to give, if not, I will not be able to forgive myself. Anyway, a good anime indeed if you prefer school love, I will totally recommend it. If one already got bored with this kind of anime, I totally advise one not to watch because it will totally bore ones' out, because since the beginning one is already not interested in it. Then, why bother watching, right? :3 Sorry, if my review is not as grand as one expect from a reviewer and sorry if any of the contents are offensive to anyone. P.S. The ending graphic was cute. KAWAII-DESU!

Reviewers point of view: I was having a romance marathon and thought why not add fuel to the fire. I saw both movies, but am only putting in my opinion for the first one. I did not read the novels. I don't listen to vocaloid. Story: Put nicely, the plot is basic and rushed. I know the movie is only an hour, but I felt like it put in stories that it couldn't handle. I didn't try to remember most of the characters' names (I'm also VERY bad with names) so if I was asked to describe all the love stories, it would sound like I was spreading some middle school rumor: "Insecure guy likes pretty feminine girl who he thought for a second liked androgynous white haired boy who likes cliche tomboy who likes her childhood friend who is friends with a loud blonde boy who likes tomboy's best friend but can't tell her." And I'm STILL leaving out another love story so that's 5 love stories!!! Only 3/5 love stories had some sort of conclusion and only 2 got definite answers via confession. The movie only truly focused on the relationships involving Natsuki, the cliche tomboy protagonist. I felt like I would've liked the movie more had they just stuck with Natsuki's story instead of adding details on unnecessary love lives around her because they got no sort of conclusion. And I would've liked it if it was adapted into a show, giving more time for detail and conclusions with the supporting characters. Art: The art was absolutely gorgeous and the main thing that hooked me to the movie in the first place. It was bright, fresh, and colorful; an appropriate design for a movie about adolescent "love". Sound: So, I'm not involved in the vocaloid community. I don't think I've voluntary listened to vocaloid besides some songs in Mekaku City Actors. But for the most part, they were okay. The lyrics to the songs were perfectly matched with the scene. I think there was only one song I really liked while the other one's I just didn't hate. Characters: I know the movie is only about an hour, but I have watched 10 minute short films (Yeah, you know which one!!!) that made me feel something towards the characters more than this movie did. All of the characters just seemed like your generic cliches without any complexity put into them. I was also rather annoyed with Natsuki's hypocritical friends who urged her to confess her love but never did the same thing themselves. Finding any conflict or climax between the characters was like grasping for straws. I think the big issue for my apathy was the fact that I wasn't cheering any relationship on. The characters were yearning for love, but for why? "JUST BECAUSE?" (lol, it's another romance anime). Although I know love is hard to explain, it's I would appreciate a reason as to why it can't be anyone else. Enjoyment: Not that enjoyable. The characters were bland, predictable, and more annoying than they were funny. The plot was basic, rushed, and had no complexity. My only enjoyment was watching the pretty animation.

Any connection what's in the story leaves a sour taste at the end of the movie. What's more great is that any related scenes can't highly approved onto certain degree scale of a typical romance. I expected Honeyworks was behind of this movie As I checked down the artstyle alone. Part of the movie lacking a point of view, and a plain atmosphere. At least the same MC which in reverse, From Shounen to Shoujo, They can't convey the spirit of a certain feelings on someone. Every music videos by Honeyworks was indeed good compare to this adaptation of the movie, Cause what's truly lacking are the sidesteps of a mellow music. A standalone Mediocre since I'd totally expecting a high praised and ended a huge dragged. I don't wanna rewatch it and think about it, within regards to this movie. As I grief and won't satisfy my inner side. Overall 4.75/10

Story: I've noticed that a lot of the reviews have downvoted the story, but I personally didn't have any real qualms with it. It was cute; it didn't try to go too deep, but that was really to be expected from a (less than) hour movie. The story follows the love stories of three high school girls, as they try to figure out how to confront their feelings. Very shoujo. I would've preferred if the story had focused primarily on one romance, the one between Natsuki and her crush, but it was rather refreshing to see the different character interactions from characters that had appeared in Honeyworks's songs. (As a standalone, I understand why people weren't big fans of the story, but I'll elaborate upon that more later.) Art: Personally, I really liked the art style. It's very clean, in the same style as Honeyworks' MVs, and there wasn't a depreciation (so to say) in the quality of the animation and the artwork in between scenes. I do feel that there could've been a little bit "more" whenever a character paused, but overall, it wasn't terribly jarring. Sound: As a fan of Honeyworks's songs, I really enjoyed the music. The VAs did a great job at conveying the feelings of their characters, and the songs, though sometimes a bit awkwardly incorporated into the story, were solid on their own. The BGM was pleasant too. Characters: As I said earlier, the story doesn't delve too deep, and neither did the characters. I feel that in certain respects, Honeyworks intended for this movie to be presented to a certain demographic (fans of Honeyworks's songs), and they intended for the feelings and characterizations of the characters to be revealed through the music. The characters are "okay," with minor character flaws, but none of them seem to be particularly memorable, even if acquainted with Honeyworks. Enjoyment: I enjoyed watching this. It was cute and light-hearted, a nice pick-me-up when I just felt tired. Although I can't say that it's a new favorite of mine, I can't deny that I liked it and would watch it again. In summary: if you enjoy watching shoujo and have some spare time, give it a try--especially if you're a Honeyworks fan.

To avoid spilling some spoilers, I'll make this review as simple as possible... If you're looking for an anime with interesting and unique plot with lots of unexpected development, then I would not recommend this to you. This is a normal romance school anime. A one-hour-length film with an overwhelming number of characters. A flat story where I haven't felt intensity or something unique that will instantly hook me into the show. In other words, if you're planning to watch this movie, then lower your expectations and just enjoy the whole thing. Also, the effort given for this show is not a waste at all since it still has its good aspects. There are two possible goals in this movie that I could think of. First, It tries to make us relate from our past romance back in our youthful days, which is not that effective since everyone doesn't have those cliche situations or story. Second, it wants to give us romantic excitement which I've never felt while watching the movie. But that's just me, I do think that some people would appreciate this show more than I could since the MAL score is high. I felt so detached from the characters, they are too many of them and the flashbacks doesn't help in building up their developments. One hour is never enough. In fact, making it as a seasonal anime could make this show much better. Well, they do have a sequel movie but the main roles has changed, and I'm not yet convinced to watch it because of the impression it gave me. I heard the songs used were their original, so that is a wonderful effort. The soundtracks were actually many for a one-hour-length film, and they're not bad at all. There is one note that I came up with from this story. No matter who you are or what your personality is, whether you act cool or you act strong, everyone's weak when it comes to love. The courage you gain comes from the sole reason why you love that someone. So basically, enjoy your youth because it won't last long. Well, I'm a person full of regrets. High school is high school. It may be one of the cringiest segment of our lives, but it is also one of the happiest, which I haven't felt back then. Well, time for me to sulk for a little bit. Ja Matane!

First off, "Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita" is, to anyone who doesn’t know, based off the stories and characters of a song series by a creator named HoneyWorks. So as a stand-alone movie, or to anyone who hasn't encountered HoneyWorks before, it may appear as a buttload of cheesy anime high school rom-com right off the bat. However, to someone who had HoneyWorks songs and PVs on replay before (still do on occasion), it was immensely enjoyable albeit its attempt to squish all those personalities, unrequited loves, sibling loves, and love triangles into a mere hour. The story in which the movie revolves around is just as sweet as its song [Kokuhaku Youko Renshuu], but peppered with cliffhanger stories as much as the PVs are peppered with cameos. The movie is gorgeous HoneyWorks art, animated and voiced. While it was a treat to watch, it leaves the audience hanging and a fan yearning for more stories and songs to be featured. All in all, "Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita" was a joy to see even if it was only 60 minutes long, but may be less so if the audience is not familiar with the song series it was inspired by. I highly doubt they’ll leave it as it is, so I’m certainly looking forward to more movies in the series. *So whether you've already watched it or not, if you're interested in a rom-com song series with peppy tunes and manga style art, HoneyWorks is worth checking out! It might even clear any confusion about some characters in the movie because yeah, there were a lot of them to process in an hour, all of who deserve individual movies themselves.

I personally absolutely loved this movie. But, I believe that I have a bias. This entire movie was based off of the events that took place in the song "Confession Rehearsal", by HoneyWorks, which can be heard in the background of the buildup to the finale. (There were other subplots that were based off of other songs such as "Solution to Jealousy", "Confession Rival Declaration", or Inokori Sensei, all written and performed by HoneyWorks) Because I knew the plots and characters so well I think I was more blown away by the execution, which was GORGEOUS!! I know it's not a very original plot, nor characters, but I would definitely listen to the songs that I mentioned and others, HoneyWorks is an amazing group and they 100% percent deserved this lovely movie based off of their work.

Watching this shouldn't be about originality, it should be about whether you've enjoyed it or not. A lot of the anime are about the same but it's not like nobody doesn't enjoyed it. I may not have watched a lot of shojou movies or anime but I have a lot of shojou manga and this has by far, won my heart over. I love the characters, I love the story, and it may not have many twists but it shows relatable characters, romances and all. It doesn't have to be fantasy, full of turns, deaths and what not to make it interesting. If you read the tag and synopsis, you know the genres, don't shit on this series when this beautiful piece of work doesn't meet YOUR EXPECTATIONS when you should have known what to expect. Is this movie typical? Yes. Does it mean it wouldn't be or isn't enjoyable? NO. I especially love the character Koyuki, what he said was so encouraging, so heart-wrenching and the effort he puts in is so admirable! This movie shows off 3 different types of girls, it's not only about Natsuki who struggles with confession but she shows courage, Mio who know about each other's feelings but felt that that feeling will only drag Haruki down because he is going overseas and Akari who wants to know more about love. Please watch their music videos to know more about the story!

“I've Always Liked You” is what happens when… honestly? I have no idea. Maybe it’s what happens when You have a metal rod stuck in Your frontopolar cortex and yet someone forces You at gunpoint to write a script. It’s hard for me to even call this a movie. It’s just a series of scenes stitched together in a chaotic way. There is an overarching motif (confessions) but its execution is so bland You’ll forget about it in an instant. Let’s get this out of the way. This is one of those cases where the story is plot driven and not character driven. The focus isn’t the relationship between characters but just the act of confessing their love. Everything happens not because it makes sense, not because the characters made the best possible decision in their eyes. Everything happens because the plot deems it so. Even if it doesn’t even make a lick of sense. All the characters are annoying and poorly written. I couldn’t tell You anything about any of them if You held me at gunpoint. Maybe it’s done on purpose. After all, teenagers are annoying twats in most cases. If that’s the reason… 10/10 character design. The main character (and I use that term extremely loosely) is loud, obnoxious and kind of a moron… and also a ripoff of a much better character from “Lovely Complex” (go watch that instead). Another problem is the amount of characters. There are too many for anyone to actually give a damn and ALL of them are just one trait pumped up to 11 to pretend it’s a personality. We have a shy girl, a shy guy, a friend next door, a ripoff of Risa from “Lovely Complex” (yes, I’m not joking, they are almost 1:1 in design and “character”) etc. You get the idea. None of them get the screen time needed to get invested in them. Even in the more dramatic scenes I felt nothing, because I didn’t care about them. I had no idea who they were as characters. All I knew is their function in the story and that’s not very immersive. You could easily delete about half of this movie and the plot would stay the same. What’s more strange is that one of the “romances” isn’t even resolved during the movie itself. The resolution is shown during the slideshow with the end credits. Clearly a 300 IQ move. Who would want to get everything in the movie? It’s much better to use the part that most people don’t care about. It’s just so… amateurish. It almost looks like there was no one with experience in actually writing and directing an actual movie. I have seen and read many stories, in many forms but this script is probably one of the most nonsensical and amateurish I have ever witnessed.

An okay movie, its worth a little to fill your blank heart or even waste your time. The story feel classical to me with the concept: the young lover and their complex love story. Trying to get the confession story get a long run, making all clear route get complicated even if their flag really understand to seen. This show even try to make the main thing get a long run while the white hair guy trying to steal. But, thats just only a plot device to make the story feel interesting. For me, its impact a little, only a little feels got some kind of burst out of laugh. Yet, i kinda worry with this kind of show. Because i just feel bored with the theme. However, after scanning and understanding what is going on, my simple mind got a nice review for these movie. Although its music attachment not quite nice, their attempt got my respect. Idk, i feel like, the music just disturbed the flow of some good romantic moment in no time. Tbh, i like the sound track, however, its irked me a little. Its not suppose to fill that song on that scenes. I mark, some of missed moment failure to get the feels when track of sound appear at the half of the movie. Thats all my weak point for this. At general, i dont blame with the classic typical romance appear as a main plot for this movie. A typical childhood love road, a classic love at first sight, a decent high-school love story that appear at every show, this show prove some basic romance story. I feel the strongest point only on its music, even i kinda worried about their decision for inserting the song on such scenes. Somehow, its missed some good point. And one point miss, no kissing at all in this show. Mark that, and, feel that. Yes, theres no point for blaming kiss scenes. But, thats my opinion for this show. Even if i dont read or trying to know its resource material, i kinda feel that scenes must be added. Since this shows was actually too decent and pretty generic for the usual romance show, right? Okay, for the main course, i will do my complete score for other sections like usual. For the story, its too generic, maybe i wanna say lame accusation for the sake of the classical school romance with no flagship. However, the third party in the half really get intrigueing for the progress of the story, and i salute for that attempt. Other than that, the flow feel normal, and nothing new for my sense of romance show. For all of them, and some point just got state on my statement above (feels with yourself, you will know what i try to implied), i wanna take 7 points as a gratitude. Sounds, abit off-side, even i like the songs and insert music with my general sensical. Fortunately, their VA save the show, while trio heroine show-off their cute voices. With all of them, i kinda take a 7, sligthly below 7, but its take a 7 as my final. Art, an okay blown up, a nice and heart-warming scratch. I dont have much complain on this, because i love the cuteness, and the art really completed my purposes. 9 for it. As characterization, i take it to 9. No questions. Its same for my enjoyment, with my final wish drop to 8 points So for the overall, i make it short, i mean rate all of them to show my respect for all kind of sections. Then, afterall, 8 point must be enough for this show. A fair judgement for me, despite how decent and generic this show was.

Firstly this is coming from a giant honeyworks fan (and its my first review) but because of that I am mainly criticizing this film for what it could of been and how it doesn't do the original music videos justice. The main problem with this film and the other adaptations is that it doesn't include all the information you need to understand fully what is going on and many plot points are left for the viewer to guess or never learn about unless they have seen the music videos or read about it in the novels. This is most likely a limitation due to how short this movie format is and other areas suffer because of it such as mochizuki's and akarai's relationship basically being completely shafted in all 3 adaptations due to lack of time and the poor release date of the adaptations in the first place. Thankfully Miou and Haruki get their own series to adapt their relationship. Lastly Sena and Midori were very much secondary characters but at least got an OVA to give them some more screen time. Story: 6/10 Of course the main focus of this particular movie is the love triangle between Natsuki, Koyuki and Yu. This has at least adapted most of it right but still leaves out quite a bit of details. Art: 4/10 I don't know what went wrong but I just feel like the character designs are so different then what we see in literally anything else related to honeyworks and they just don't capture the artstyle right. Sound: 10/10 Ok this is where the bias would shine. Featuring a lot of honeyworks music including some new original songs sung by many popular utaite's that have worked with honeyworks, including some new original story related songs like Koiiro Ni Sake which makes this a 10/10. There is also some cool attention to detail where the characters may say a line at the exact same time they would of sung it over the background track playing. Character: 7/10 The couples of honeywork's stories are all quite varied in how each relationship is formed from childhood friends liking each other for awhile to someone simply having a crush on another and trying to get their crush to like them. Though many of the problems I have said above still apply with alot of the characters not being fully developed and alot of details about them being left out. Enjoyment: 9/10 Being a big honeyworks fan and watching this, it is a real joy to see some form of an adaptation with a somewhat cohesive story all presented at once. Even if some certain song's stories weren't adapted, you would be able to at least hear the instrumental version of the song as background music at times (such as Tokyo Summer Session). Overall: 7/10 Now I have rated it this low as to someone who knows nothing about honeyworks and watches this for their first time, it would be very disappointing and give a bad first impression to how great honeyworks can actually be. Additionally is this low to just how poor of an adaptation this is for the stories they are trying to adapt. A longer 12-24 episodes tv series would of done a lot more justice to what there actually is.

In truth, the actual plot of the movie is very stereotypical. Most of the things that happen are very predictable and a lot of people might not enjoy a movie like this. If I didn't know the honeyworks songs prior to watching this, I'd probably have rated this very low (around a 4-5). Having played the songs from this movie on OSU tons of times, I'm very familiar with the music & what their songs are about. I recognized the stories the movie was telling immediately & it was nice seeing it being played out while remembering the lyrics to the music =P. Overall a 8/10 for me but the music was 10/10. Really good art too. Highly recommend this movie if you're a fan of honeyworks or an OSU player that's familiar with honeyworks maps! Very nice experience.

*Disclaimer...? First of all, now that I realize Aida Miou's side of the story is also getting animated, I'm gonna conserve all judgments for it. Yaaaaaaay!!! Miiiiiraaaiiiiiinooooowaaaaataaaaashieeee Also I understand A-1 only helped and the real animators are Qualia Animations, but it's really likely that this new studio came from A1, which then means they contributed way more than just a subservice. So point still the same. But if the third movie is much (or at least a little) better I'll delete this right away. Fuck you A1. I think through this one it's finally official. A1 doesn't give a jack shit about making a good anime. When I first heard that my beloved music series was getting animated, I had nothing but doubts after the last one's...uh, unfortunate turnout. I'm of course referring to Shaft's adaptation of Kagerou Project. Then again, adaptation is a kind word here. But when I heard that it was getting done by A1 who love to make adoring girls more adorable than humanly possible, I had my hopes. And even more so when I heard that they were making a movie out of this, and not a series. While I would've personally wanted to see Enemoto and Miou and hear Sana's voice every week, a movie would spell lots and lots of budget, and that meant fluid movements, uncringey (at the very least) dialogues, and infinite moeflower. This was one of those anime that would benefit from having a shameless display of infinite moedom. It's a simple series of music videos with a simple storyline, there's nothing complicated. That's one of the greatest thing about Honeywork's works. Before I go any further, though, let me be clear; the music was amazing. I seriously can't get enough of Sana's voice in my ears. Not to mention some of the greatest voice actors/actresses of our generations were hired into this thing. My point is: and for what? There's no point in even saying spoiler-free or there's no revelations. It's a simple love story. I mean, it's in the FUCKING TITLE. The girl loves someone, and confesses to him, and gets cold feet and goes back on her confession, have some troubles along the way, and lo and behold, ends up dating the guy. Wow, who could've seen that coming? So what the hell is so complicated about all these? There's nothing difficult about making girls in love look cute and talk like they're girls their age, and same with boys. #genderequality. But what exactly did we get? They just made a two-hour-long version of the music videos. And I mean it. The dialogues were blatant copies of the actual song (yes, because people talk like they sing all the time) and character design was borderline unwatchable. But to be fair, the animation was good, except it wasn't. We got the one-frame bullshit we are so sick of watching by now in a FUCKING MOVIE, and even worse they almost basically REUSED some of the illustrations from the music videos. Why in the hell would I listen to someone talk about a song I love for two hours instead of just, you know, watching the actual song? There was no point in this movie at all. The only exceptions were maybe seeing the characters move (which was halfly done and sometimes not done at all) and listening to Sana and the voice actors/actresses' renditions of the songs I love and enjoy. But, and here's the thing, if this is all they were good for, how is it better than watching a nicodouga mad video of a new song by honeyworks? It isn't. It really isn't. I actually wanna see that happen now. The characters were a joke. The actual characters in the music video are top-notch, of course, but they were almost shamefully underused. For example, we never got to see what the hell happened to Aida Miou. This chafed me up so much because she was my most favorite character. What even is the point of her besides giving the angry fans time to calm down and put down their pitchforks? We never got any glimpses of her problem or her issues, and we never even saw if she ended up with the guy. Then they at least focused on the main couples, right? Yeah, no. Fair enough, they got the most screeentime. But here we see time and time again, their lacking dialogues and cheap animations. They at least got all of their stories out, so I guess that's a start... Overall, I was just too disappointed to give this movie a fair judgment. If I didn't know about the original music video series I would've given it a 6 at the lowest. But here's the thing about adaptation; they're adaptations. There's a reason people raged on Death Note and Ghost in the Shell more than the other hollywood garbage regularly produced. They are supposed to satisfy the fanbase. At least Death Note and GitS did their best. Both went out of their way to fit a mainstream audience, changed the settings to not simply make a remake, and gave no commission to the budget. Yes, I know, comparing hollywood to anime movies is harsh, but here's my counterpoint. Sagiri. So no. Fuck you A1. You had time to give Sagiri her own animator in the trashiest show of the season, if not of the year (of course I exaggerate) but you couldn't give two fucks to give Honeyworks and their crew a proper adaptation, in a movie, in a story simpler than the Giving Tree? Fuck you A1.