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This review contains slight spoilers for this movie.

As I'm not very used to writing reviews this will definitely not be particularly well written, however I really wanted to share my thoughts.

I did not like this movie, but i'll still start of with the positives:
The animation is quite good (Especially for one piece) it isn't anything special in terms of anime movie standards but compared to the abysmal animation the anime has it comes off as incredible.
I really liked the designs of everything, the floating islands and animals especially. I also liked the designs of Shiki, his two henchmen and the feathered villagers. all the NEW ... characters personalities where suitable and they felt like One Piece characters
I like the origin of where namis arm band thing came from, and from my recollection of the manga that was never touched on

Now as for the bad:
First of all, as i previously stated the NEW characters are all pretty fun (aside from the fact that Shiki is extremely weak compared to how he is portrayed in the rest of the series) However the straw hats don't make any sense whatsoever. This movie takes place after Enies Lobby yet Nami makes the exact same decisions as Robin did back then, however for robin it made sense for nami it doesn't. Nami learned to trust her crewmates back in Arlongpark which was kind of the point of the Arlongpark arc. She was also one of the crewmates Robin needed to trust during the Enies Lobby arc. The point that I'm trying to get across is that Nami (like the other straw hats) should know to trust in Luffy and trust in the crew, yet in this movie she does not.
Another problem about this movie is the plot and how it just feels like it was copy and pasted from the manga (Especially Arlongpark and Enies Lobby/Water 7) except they removed most of the good parts as in the Fights, the drama and the characters and only left in the humor (There's not that much) and the general structure.

In general I think this is a good MOVIE however that is only if you seperate it from the rest of the One Piece series, but as i absolutely LOVE the manga series and have read and re read it multiple times i simply can't evaluate this movie as a separate thing.

It’s a cute short Yuri manga that made my day just a little better

Because it’s a collection of 10 different short stories my enjoyment of each varied. I liked most of them my favorites being 1, 3 and 10. they where my favorite because they where the least complicated relationships and therefore didn’t need a whole lot of development. Most of the stories lacked the development needed and fell a little short. Two of the stories also made me feel very uncomfortable because of the relationship dynamic.

Over all Yuri Life (Yurigurashi) is sweet, cute and wholesome. But is way to short to offer what ... a lot of other Yuri offer. 6/10