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At the end of June I was pretty sad. With the end of Kimi To Boku. 2 came an uneasy feeling. Like something was missing. This certain heartwarming feeling I get from watching a sweet, authentic and clever told slice of life-anime.

In an act of.....desperation I guess, I browse through the summer anime line-up once more to stop at Tari Tari saying "You'll be my new Kimi To Boku., ok? Be nice to me!". The addition of music was promising, too.

After watching the first two episodes, I wasn't sure if my choice to watch Tari Tari was a mistake or not. The pace seemed ... akwardly rushed. But staying optimistic, I just hoped it would slow down after that and give the characters some time, to develope and shine.
It slowed down indeed and focused on the characters, but not in a way it should've. At least I don't think so.
The characters basically took their turns getting depressed, so they could cheer up at the end of each episode (or after two episodes) through the power of friendship and music.
That itself is an ok idea, but just not executed well. Instead of dealing with the circumstances the characters are confronted in a subtle way, the show throws it right in the face of the people watching like it's yelling "HEY, I'M DRAMATIC NOW! Feel sorry for the characters!" just to demand "awww"s and tears of joy later.
The opening is a perfect example for this. There the female main-characters are shown one after the other all sad and crying, just to pluck up courage then and be happy while singing and laughing with the others, eww.

Speaking about the characters. There isn't really much for me to say about them.
They suffered from the shallow presentation and thus could never grow on me, let alone be taken seriously.
This is not to say that they never had their moments to shine. Every now and then they really succeeded in being charismatic and appealing. Especially in comical scenes. Unlike the drama, those weren't as overly exaggerated. Instead they were done in a more likable and subtle way.

But the same goes for the whole show itself, I think.
If it just would've contained the drama (quite) a bit and put more effort in making the characters and their situations more authentic it could've been way better.
Of course it's only natural for a show to specifically trigger emotions, but Tari Tari is just trying WAY to hard.
With that happening throughout the whole series there was no way I could take it serious as a slice of life-series. It felt like an overdramatized and too theatrical show, that was just there to sneak in some tearjerkers and pretend to be smart and profound.

The music being one of the main themes I expected a bit more from it.
The songs and bgm-tracks were nice, sure. But there were very few of them and not really much of variety. Meaning the two "main"-songs (from Wakana's mother and her own) sounded too much alike.

I'm not going into detail regarding the animations because they don't really matter in this kind of anime.
I didn't like the character design, but that's just my opinion. No criticism because of that.

And the word "opinion" is perfect to conclude this review.
I didn't like the way the show forced it's uncreative, linear drama on me. At times I even hated it.
But I'm not saying that because of that, the show is undeniably bad. There are people who like this kind of presentation and that's fine (more or less). Nothing wrong with that.
All I wanna say is that people who like smart and well-thought-out slice of life, that is authentic and not too naive at the same time, should stay away from this show. Watch Kimi To Boku. or Usagi Drop instead.

I've never written a review before, simply because I'm not good at stuff like that.
But after watching this movie, I just got an urge to do it.

So, here I go:

Even though the trailer didn't get me least excited and therefore I wasn't THAT hyped, because of Movie 12's, 13's and 14's Awesomeness, this one blew me away, once again.

It had everything, I love so much about this series (except for Kaito and Heiji, but they were in Movie 14 already).
The case was very exciting, the typical humour was good and the action was thrilling.
Of course, there also was the obligatoric dosis of drama, the series ... and especially the movies, always got. Some may find it cheesy and that'd be fine. But it doesn't bother me.

Last but definetely not least, there was one of my most favourite things about the show, that I missed in the recent movies.: the presentation of the beautiful country and culture of Nippon (mostly country this time).
Before and even in between the cases, the series very often delievers a heartwarming, authentic and overall fascinating impression of the land of the rising sun. In my opinion, that is what makes the show so great, almost as much as the cases themselves.

The only thing I didn't like, were the 3D-Effects regarding vehicles and traffical stuff in general. It's common in anime these days and especially the Conan-Movies made use of them for a long time now.
Still I like the "old way" of animation best, were this parts also were "handmade".
The Skate- and Snowboard-Scenes were an exception though. They were fantastic. They added a lot of action and dynamic feel to the movie and were great to watch.

The finale was the cherry on the cake. It was one of the best, if not THE best in the whole series. And that is quite an accomplishment.
It was dramatic, fast paced and simply bombastic.

Bottom line it was one of the best Conan-Movies so far, even though nearly all of them, were top notch.
Every fan of the series should've watched it and most of them, should come to love it, too.