I can understand the hype about this anime, but as it happens most of the times, reviewers can't write an objective review, so giving unrealistic evaluations (9 or 10? this isn't spirited away).
This anime shows from the very beginning a stunning art work, that is portrait until the end. The musics are beautiful and the story intriguing. It tells the adventure of a young girl into an unknown world following in search of her lost mother. To do so, the writer created a detailed and immersive world, that is somehow coherent and stimulates your interest. But as I hinted, there is just too much material for a 13 episodes anime. You begin to realize that around the middle of the series, when you notice that the two main characters are still struggling through the beginning of their journey. I think it takes three entire episodes before they depart for the adventure, wasting 1/4th of the anime just talking about characters that we'll never see again nor we need. What's more, toward the end instead of making progress through the story they kept adding so many unnecessary side quests and backstories that we don't need and care of (literally the last episode is a side story). As result, the anime is incomplete, there is the hint of a sequel but in these 13 episodes nothing is concluded, it is just like reading a book and stop at the middle.
To sum up, this anime start off great but becomes pointless. It could have been a great anime if only they waited a bit more and made a 25 episode COMPLETE anime. A good advice is to watch this only when (and if) a second season is released, or you'll have only empty promises and waste your time
This anime shows from the very beginning a stunning art work, that is portrait until the end. The musics are beautiful and the story intriguing. It tells the adventure of a young girl into an unknown world following in search of her lost mother. To do so, the writer created a detailed and immersive world, that is somehow coherent and stimulates your interest. But as I hinted, there is just too much material for a 13 episodes anime. You begin to realize that around the middle of the series, when you notice that the two main characters are still struggling through the beginning of their journey. I think it takes three entire episodes before they depart for the adventure, wasting 1/4th of the anime just talking about characters that we'll never see again nor we need. What's more, toward the end instead of making progress through the story they kept adding so many unnecessary side quests and backstories that we don't need and care of (literally the last episode is a side story). As result, the anime is incomplete, there is the hint of a sequel but in these 13 episodes nothing is concluded, it is just like reading a book and stop at the middle.
To sum up, this anime start off great but becomes pointless. It could have been a great anime if only they waited a bit more and made a 25 episode COMPLETE anime. A good advice is to watch this only when (and if) a second season is released, or you'll have only empty promises and waste your time
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