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I absolutely love this film,

Like, the aesthetics are absolutely FANTASTIC, I love the little blur that’s added to the outer frame of the screen, and those colours!

I would say I wish they had taken the far more intense story-line that is present in the original manga, but for a movie adapted from an ENTIRE series, it did AMAZING!, That’s 62 chapter down to a 2 hour film! A film that savors it’s quiet scenes as well!

Not to mention the film adds a much stronger humor element.

The animation is also absolutely beautiful and full of life, it makes even the simplest movements into masterpieces of emotion, I remember feeling disappointed that it was a movie and not an anime series, but I’m so happy it went down the movie root, the look is 100% worth it. Even if it didn’t get to venture into a more complex plot, still got the manga though!

The voice acting is beautiful, I’m not a Japanese speaker, but from my perspective, its amazing!

And finally and probably most importantly.

The soundtrack

That soundtrack man. THAT SOUNDTRACK

The one thing I could never get from the manga, and it was done PERFECTLY

Subtle, simple, shimmering and just. MAGICAL.

The soundtrack is the bomb! Especially during that ‘fireworks’ scene, what was done in a few panels of the manga was stretched out into a full minute scene overflowing with all the emotions built  up during the film. It had an INCREDIBLY IMPACT!

This is of course my bias, since ‘Koe no Katachi’ is one of my favorite manga of all time, but you’ll hear more good reviews from an insane amount of people.

so as a quick end to this small review that ended up way longer than intended.