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To get directly to the point: This show is like a big bowl with great ingrediences and no cook. It feels like 9 or 10 girls put their craziest ideas, mixed them up and took, whatever came out of this mixing process. This show is a mash-up of great fantastic ideas glued together by a story-telling without a störy.

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1.) Sunshine in the mirror as Love Live show
This show was first announced as april of the "Love Live" franchise. Therefore, it is part of this franchise. But this show doesn't feel like a Love Live show at all. The mirror-counterparts of ... the Aqours members share some traits of the originals and the mirror Numazu reminds partly of the original Numazu as shown in "Love Live Sunshine", but that are nearly all similarities.
There is no school to save, no song contest, the characters are some kind of adult and there is nearly no singing. You will not like the show, just you like "Love Live". You can possibly like "Sunshine in the mirror", but for another reasons than its franchise.

2.) The crazy setting
The most impressive part of this show is the setting. This is a kaleidoscope of ideas. Sunshine in the mirror excels most fantasy shows by cool and crazy elements. We have magic elements, steampunk elements, modern and postmodern elements.
For example: While Dia rides a bike with some trandformation elements ans Ruby (as a fairy) speaking out of screen of this bike, we see You as a postgirl shot out of a cannon and then gliding to her target. We can see Lailaps again, but this time as a speaking wolf-like sister-like partner of Yohane.

3.)The story
There is a Numazu-wide threat of randomly popping up aberrations with dark purple fog, strange lightnings and strange behaving animals (mostly deers) with glowing red eyes, but this doesn't prevent this show to focus on completely unrelated things like organising a girls night out or organizing a community festival with the once group singing (at least until episode 11). To be fair, we the other story-driving element of Yohane searching something like a purpose (Something, that only she can do), but this doesn't change the impression, that this show doesn't look like as it knows, what it wants. Even if there is a story in the backgound, the episodes doesn't mostly feel connected by this story.
The episodes itself can be fun. But you should have no problem to enjoy purely CGDCT stuf in some episodes and some dark mysterious stuff in some other episodes. If you want a great story, which holds all together, you should probably ignore this show.

I started to watch this film fearing, that I will get down like after "Grave of the fireflies", which has the same premise of telling a story of civilists in the WWII. But now, I think the film is great. It is just a small downer with much hope and many heartwarming moments in it.
The story is not much more than simple Slice of Life in the war. Suzu moves from Hiroshima to Kure to marry her husband Shusake and to live with his familiy. And now, the audience know, what will come. But first the story goes on as if the war doesn't ... really happen. Suzu has some struggles to find her place in her new family. Her doesn't really fit the expectations of the Shusakus familiy and her sister-in-law doesn't like her. However, the influence of the war begin slowly to grow. And this makes the story great. You don't feel like this is written to show the cruelty of the war. The cruelty is shown, but there is nothing, what looks like constructed to make a big impression. It just feels like an ordinary fate of an ordinary girl in an ordinary family. This does this film do better than other comparacle works. The cruelty of the war happens to everywhere in a war. You don`t have to look for special cases. And this makes this story impressive.
And so, this story left room for hope in the end. Hope for a future after the war. There will be scars left. But there is a time beyond. Even when this film shows many kinds of losts, lost of friends, lost of family, lost of wholesomeness, it shows some heartwarming views too. There is place for love, for fondness and for benevolence. So, even with many sad moments, this film will release you with some good feelings, too.

Optically is the film mostly great. But just the main character Suzu has been drawn like a child. She doesn't look like an adult. And when I praise this film for the story, not constructing some weird ideas to show the cruelty, but rather just let happening that, I am annoyed about, that the film tries to overdo it with some kind of cuteness of the main character. This story would work with an adult looking woman too! There is no reason here to draw a child and call it a woman. Drawing Suzu unnecessary cute foiled the impression of the ordinary situation. Here this film has lost a good opportunity of being great. It should have been risked to draw an adult woman.

Overall this a very good move, tensed between sad and heartwarming moments. In the end you will be happy and sad at the same time.