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The Movie director and staff managed the impossible by elevating the original work by manga genius Tatsuki Fujimoto. Full credit to the director, Kiyotaka Oshiyama, Amazing job.

The film is just amazing whether it's the voice, acting, animation, or background art. Despite its short run time, it leaves a strong and memorable impression on you.
It takes the biggest strength of the manga, Background art, and against all odds takes and enhances it to a beautiful cinematic level.

Overall a complete package of a film that does the most of its short run time. It demonstrates that less can be more.

Whether it's the bedroom, Library, City, countryside, or manga workstation it just blows you away. You could pause at any moment and just stare at the background art. The detail it has regardless of the environment is just something else. It's easily the best background art of this year's lineup of animated films. It's arguably the best part of the film.

The music by Haruka Nakamura had so much soul and love put into it that it moved you every step of the way. Elevated every emotional scene.

The story by Fujimoto looks so simple on the surface but it has so much going on underneath. Numerous themes flow within the story each as meaningful as the other. Whether that be how much a simple gesture can change someone's life, how you view yourself can be drastically different from others, a simple hobby blooming into a passion, admiration unknowingly being mutual, or how you look back at everything that led to a certain moment. It's all a varying level of complexity but mesh so well to create a story bubbling with themes.

You get so quickly attached to the leads, their individual story, and their relationship. The growth and relationship of the main characters even though it was a one-shot and now an hour movie is crazy. Some movies have double or triple the runtime but don't offer such quality in terms of character growth, relationships, and writing.

One of the strongest points of the original manga was the facial expressions. Tatsuki Fujimoto excels at that and it's hard to adapt it. The animation team for this movie at the very least nails it. Whether it's expressions of Joy, anger, jealousy, or sadness it hits so hard. The detail just like the background art is amazingly intricate. The movements too when you see them dance or run its captivating even though it's such a simple ordinary thing, It is a lot like the Chainsaw Man anime where ordinary movements stand out. Theirs just so much life put into their faces but also movement

The voice acting as always with anime is of very high quality with lots of emotion put into it. Every word has such a degree of intensity and emotion.

Overall a complete package of a film that does the most of its short run time. The only negative was not getting the chance to see this beautiful film in the cinema.