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(contain few spoilers)

Movie 3 of the Hibike series contained a lot of hype on the part of fans, seeing the success of the 2 seasons of the TV series, in which Kyoani shines as usual. This film doesn't deviate much from what it was in its previous seasons, in terms of story and narrative, adding new characters from the first year who join the music club. With all this lack of ''new content'', I ask a question: Did we really need this movie?

I'll talk about the good points first.
About the music, it's fantastic as predicted. Everything involving the soundtrack is impressive here, especially the final ... orchestra, Liz to aoi Tori, which manages to be more emotional and melancholy (especially if you saw the Spin off of the same name before this movie) than the TV series
Another positive point of the film is Kumiko Oumae (yes you didn't read that wrong) its development in this film is commendable, mainly for being always together with Kanade, a new student that causes a lot of conflicts between some members of the club, forcing Kumiko to have to give up from your passive and observant way to something more active and open to be able to solve these problems of your new school year

Now the negatives
You know those characters that are developed later in the TV series and in the spin off movie Liz to ao Tori? All went to the Trash. Mizore and Nozomi, even after having such a cool spin off focus, barely appear in this movie, nozomi doesn't say ONE WORD the entire movie. What was Liz to Aoi Tori for anyway? Along with them, all the other characters from the third year leave without having much prominence in this movie, that's revolting.
The film's narrative is not impressive either. In addition to the lack of new things, it is totally rushed and condensed into almost 2 hours of film, totally hurting the viewer's enjoyment and cutting screen time for several characters, as mentioned above

I would say if you've made it this far after watching all the other animations in the franchise, you'll enjoy the movie, but we definitely didn't need that much here. Maybe the series isn't made for movies, as what we most like to see in Hibike is the characters training their skills, bonding with others and having their dramas to reach their goals, and with all of that being discarded in the movie, the bitter taste remains in the mouth at the end of the feature film and the future of the series seems to me to be harmed

Time Paradox, one of the new manga coming from the new wave of Shounen Jump, being probably the most promising among them

Telling the story of Teppei Sasaki, who ends up receiving a Shounen Jump from the future ... This is strange, isn't it? This is bizarrely innovative, the people at Jump must have had the same reaction as the people who read the White Knight of the work itself, maybe it was inspired by that, right? hahah

The most positive point of the work I believe is the approach he takes on what makes a manga really good to be read by readers, which is not ... an easy task for the authors as the manga itself shows since it deals with everything they usually go through like: Blocking creativity, the fear of not making a work original enough to be appreciated or just constantly wondering if he did a really good work to the point of being in the magazine. It shouldn't be easy ...
Art does not have much to say, it is very standard but captivating enough for what the work proposes
The main characters are connected with the Time Travel factor, which is also what makes the work go. It can be a little worrisome for some people, as it is for me, since the level of works that have the theme Time Travel that are little explained and explored is quite large.
Overall, it is a good manga that will probably win anime in the future, as it is already making a big hit. At least for me, this success is deserved.