Blue Archive: Beautiful Day Dreamer

If you're a Blue Archive fan, you're going to love how cute and funny this animated-short is.

NOTE : This review is really just my personal opinion and also biased as I'm also the fan of the game.
It's very close to being the perfect Blue Archive adaptation I always wanted.
I personally liked this way more than the 1.5 years anniversary.

The main story for this animated-short centered around Momoi, a Game Development Department Club Member,
whose responsible for writing scenario for their games.
The plot begins with Momoi getting pressured by everyone in her club for their upcoming deadline, so she ran away.
To be honest here, You don't need ... to care about the plot, this felt like a short wholesome story for a fan-service.

You literally didn't even need to know any of the characters in these short, yet you could tell what they're like in the game, the character design in Blue Archive have always been very good and the Art style just also perfected its nature and makes it very lively.

The comedy and humor they're going for here is very game and in-lore accurate, Very meme-able.

The Art-style here looks simple, goofy yet that is what I always wanted,
Doesn't need to look AAA, Ufotable's standard with 100K VFX all around with a spinning camera.
Just makes it appealing and interesting to watch.

The Soundtracks are one of the first things people think of when talking about Blue Archive,
It's still God-Tier, also the new Ending Theme they've used for this are also very good and have its own charm.
(It also being used for Volume 2, Chapter 2 Ending for the game's main story)

To me personally, their main story in the game (Volume 2) is one of my favorites.
There's something about a group of friends tries to make something and do whatever they like type of story,
Their friendship in the main story is also really beautiful too. One of the most wholesome story in Blue Archive ever.

My only problem I had with this was, some of the Scenes transition are a bit weird,
maybe it's storyboard issues or whatever. And that's it.

Also, one more thing, since the TV series adaptation was already announced,
I really wish we're getting a full Main Story adaptation with Sensei in it.
The main story of Blue Archive is unironically very good, really inspiring, and I'm really hyped for it.

TLDR; If you're a Blue Archive fans, it's 7+ but else, it's really depends if you're into Moe/Slice of life since it's just an animated-short of a gacha game.

Thanks for Reading!

If you love Blue Archive and have finished volume 2 of the main story. This is a fun expansion on that same story with familiar faces. If you have never played Blue Archive before or have not completed the first half of the second volume, I do not recommend this until you have read through it as you will be confused at best and bored or annoyed at worst.

Story - 5 - The story is nothing particularly special and is of little substance and expands little upon the characters or the setting as a whole. The story is of the quality of most filler ... content you would see in most filler episodes of anime.

Animation - 6 - Awkward at some points with clearly reused frames, but generally is capable of giving weight to actions.

Art Style - 8 - Generally captures the look and feel of blue archive though near the beginning, prior to when Momoi catches the baseball, the sequence feels quite washed out and is noticably of lower quality than the rest of the animation.

Sound - 8 - Music within the animation is generally adapted from the game and sound design is relatively unoffensive. Voice actors voice the same characters from the game and do a great job.

Characters - 5 - Little characterization occurs within this animation with it operating under assumption that you are familiar with the characters. While I love some of these Blue Archive characters with all my heart. Characters within the game development club and outside of it generally fall flat. This is most notable with Aris(u), a fan favorite character who should be stealing the show, but she is never given any real opportunity to show off her character gimmick.Characterization of the characters within PS 68 and the Justice Task Force is very strong overall and you can get a general understanding of the character from their short time on screen.