The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where mysterious bubbles are still raining down, even though it stopped raining on the remaining world. Some angsty teens started to go into the bubbled Tokyo in order to flex their parkour skills by having tournaments in it's one of a kind track. One day, a guy named 'Hibiki' gets saved by a girl who was later named 'Uta' while climbing the Tokyo tower and then she starts to hang out with him.
The parkour scenes are all what I came for and they did a pretty good job. The choreography is decent, dynamic camera movements & the bright lighting gets a plus, and the backgrounds & scenery are really great. They set the mood & atmosphere pretty well and I really liked them.
All the characters have some eye catching character designs but don't really have interesting traits to compliment their looks. Uta is a damsel in distress who came out of a bubble, Hibiki is your cool MC with some understandable backstory and remaining characters aren't even worth discussing because your first impression of them will gives away everything about them. It's whole 'mermaid' story is very predictable yet gets so much attention that it forgets that it's also a sci-fi. It wanted viewers to care for the story but did a very underwhelming job at it. They focused too much on drama but ended on a poor note. This whole story reminded me of 'Weathering with You' a bit and honestly, that did a better job at drama than this.
The sound is one thing that didn't disappoint. The dramatic & mysterious vocals and the action inducing music, really did a great job at bringing the best out of the scene. Both Eve opening and Riria Ending themes are pretty good too.
If you go into the movie in anticipation of something great, you might get sorely disappointed. It used it's setting only for the parkour which was good but didn't explored it more than the vague plain, it has a fairly big cast who doesn't even have enough screentime to care or develop, which lead to a soap opera of a drama that is simply melodramatic in the end.
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