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This movie was quite enjoyable in the beginning, however characters were quite inconsistent with their writing while the story devolved into a complete mess. It did not take long for the movie to turn extremely cheesy with most of the character interactions being frustrating and hard to sit through. As I said earlier, the writing for the characters towards the middle of the movie started to show a constant inconsistency. The two characters that were introduced presented a common dichotomy that isn't new, but was rather charming, with both of the characters actually fitting into what the synopsis of the anime described them as. ... However, towards the middle of the story, both characters started to turn into the same characters and lost the charm that was given to us at the beginning of the movie. The movie isn't all bad however, the art was rather impressive for A-1 Studios and surprised me in certain key scenes, but wasn't anything special nor unique other than the bubble motif that was presented towards the end of the movie. Music was excellent as it was not too distracting from the dialogue but when paid attention to really sets the mood of most of the scenarios in the movie as BGM should. BUMP OF CHICKEN really impressed me with a their performance with once of the scenes in tandem with the fairly impressive animation. All in all, the movie is quite a letdown especially with the encaptivating exposition, but slowly derailed into a romance drama with no passion, creativity, or good character development. If I were to describe this anime as an equation, it would be y = -x + 8.