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Since nobody wrote a review yet, i'm going to do it quickly.

For those who watched the anime, the movie starts just after it and finishes the story of the Great Snow Sea. So, If you liked the anime, or just want to watch the conclusion of this history, to understand the reason the Great Snow Sea and the great Trees exists, this movie is a must watch, a kind of last arc big episode. In short terms, the Movie is a direct sequel of the anime.

As of characters, scenario, animation, and all others things, it follows all the same as the anime. No surprises here. ... See it as a big final episode, and not a movie.

Mostly both OVAs are Recaps, the first one into Yue's perspective.

The second one recaps how each girl first meet Hajime. Now that's the new adition to the show: How Kaori saw Hajime for the first time.

The others' first meet are shown as flashbaks of the first season.

Ah, everything set on a "Onsen" (bath time) on the OVAs.

If you enjoyed the first season, I think it's worth to watch in order to understand Kaori better. It fills a hole on the background of the character that I think should have been introduced on the first season, actually.

About the animation, it's exactly the same used on the ... first season, nothing worth to be highlighted on this review.

Well, this is my first review in MAL.

The first thing I'd like to say is that, in my opinion, this movie should be watched after you've finished the anime. Although it's a prequel, many characters from the middle-end series appear, and some spoiler events, shown in the main series as "flashbacks" are described better here in the movie. If you watch it first, will lose some expectation and surprises of some key events.

The second thing is, I'm sorry if my english is not the better one out there, because its not my first language.

I wanted to write a review because although I loved the ... anime, I took too long to watch the movie because I thought it was about Hibito and Mutta's childhood, but it's not. It shows Mutta in his previous work, dealing with his own problems in the car company as an engineer and designer, and Hibito following many training and exercises, that for the ones who watched the anime, will certainly remember. There is no explanation of many of those training in the movie, because if you already watched the anime you will understand them.

The movie follows the same animation as the anime, with the same music. It looks like a big episode, that finishes in the first episode of the series.

So, for me, it is worth to watch it if you already watched the anime and liked it.