(Warning / Disclaimer: This is a personal experience review and may contain spoilers. If you expect any sort of professionalism in this, or don't want to be spoiled. Then this is the wrong review to for you to read.)

Starting this show I was greeted by a silent start. No monologue, no talking, just plot by camera and character actions. I thought it was going to start silent into next scene so that any kind of infatuation wouldn't happen. The show prove my thoughts wrong though, so I was hooked.

From there it became character convenience to character convenience. The only time I felt plot convenience was the encounter with Mahiru's parents. Aside from that, the plot is driven by the characters and the calendar of events. It felt great to just ride how the character develops along with the world. But that one plot convenience encounter felt off to me. (~~But who knows? It might just be because I binged the entire thing to stay awake.~~) I've slowly became unattached as the show progressed beyond Ep 7 though. (Which had the encounter~~, and a nice different ED~~.) It felt like everything became very set in stone after all that convenience.

And even then when the camera story telling no longer catches my attention by EP 2. The show was cozy and fluffy enough to make me look all those over and liked the journey. But as for the ending, it fell short. Was almost at the finish line, but tripped on the last step. Those hard ball rushes in the last 2 episodes, it felt very compact and didn't feel like we had enough time to make it ease in. I guess you could say the ending was selfish.

Outside the story part, the show felt like it was cutting corners on some animation sides too. It could be a me thing, but it's my fault for my eyes being attentive. The cuts may have only appeared for 2 seconds or less, but it's there. Even on the key moment scenes, I felt them there. Passable or not, that depends on the professionals, it just feels off for me there.

The music, I kind of didn't feel through the entire show. It was background enough that it sets moods. A good thing in my opinion since the delivery and experience of the story is the best part. Still I'm sad that none of the tracks clicked to me, but that again could've been my fault for doing the binge just to stay awake.

Now you might say that my score for the show might be unfair, but I assure you that I was attentive for the entire plot of the show. Be as it may I noticed things outside the story part, the story itself was still good. The animation and movie also didn't drag the it down, everything was enough to deliver. Good experiences is what I'm looking for.