Uchiage Hanabi

I'll save you some time if you really want to, just watch the music video, but after watching the music video, don't let it persuade you into watching the movie, I made that mistake, and I can almost guarantee you'll be disappointed. Also a music video is a great way to advertise a movie or show, I mean it persuaded me. The music video has stunning visuals, the song is beautiful and the 2 artists have such great synergy. I've watched the music video over and over again and I just can't get enough of it. Story: 8 Short and simple but get's the message out, especially forsuch a short video Art: 9 Visuals are stunning but the character design is the same as the monogatari series, c'mon shaft make some new characters they're literally clones Sound: 10 the music is amazing Character: 8 We only saw them vaguely you but you could see they had a strong bond with one another Enjoyment: 10 Simply can't get enough of this 5 minute music video Overall: 9

*Disclaimer* Just personal scratch. Advised, possible spoilers. Opinion & Informal Art: 5/10 I know SHAFT can put out some really nice looking stuff, but for a movie...I'm not so sure about what this music video was able present to me. What this short MV was able to convey to me in its 4 minute duration is that SHAFT basically made a movie with television-production quality. To me, it just looked like they made a movie-length television series with television series art quality and television series animation quality. Realistic proportions and anatomy. Cute-realistic style. Unrealistic eye sizes, especially for the presented male MC. Scenery, water, and objects looked realistic. Lookspretty good in general though. Animation: 5/10 Common SHAFT stuff was showcased in this MV: Impact-scene head-tilts, closeups, awestruck faces. SHAFT really likes to impact-scene facial expressions and closeups; got a lot of that in this MV. There were also clear shortcuts taken on some of the movements and motions that were showcased in this, skipping frames, cut shots (from what I was only able to see in this MV alone, I am unaware of what certain transitions may have actually been in the film). Characters: 5/10 MV. Showcased the characters with only visual introduction. Plot: N/A. Music video. Development N/A. Music video. Music: 6/10 This part's subjective to the listener. I personally thought it was okay. It wasn't too catchy. Although I've listened to her quite a bit, I don't particularly like DAOKO because her recent albums sound so flat-lined. I just think she hasn't really added any flair to her recent releases because she doesn't really go beyond her usual style: I wouldn't say monotone, but she pretty much sounds the "same" in a lot of her releases. The only thing she really mixes is the speed in which she drops bars. Conclusion: N/A. Music video. Overall: 4/10 Everything was about average but I decided to give this a 4 because for a music video this sort of failed. It literally just took clips of the film and added a song over it. This can pretty much be done by anyone. In fact, there's even a few fan-made tribute videos that, too, take clips of the film and play this exact same song over it. Low quality advertising that basically took all the impact-scenes from the film to make it look pretty and used a fairly (fairly) well known singer to add even more hype to the product. "Wow! take a gander at all these impact-scenes with awestruck and wide-eyed characters as well as this sorta popular singer! Haha! Watch our film please!" It's sort of concerning when this music video has a significantly higher community score than the actual film.

This whole music video is great! do you want to know why? It's because it's better than the whole movie it's in! The music video uses all of the best visuals (except for the bike riding scene) to fully engross us into the world of mediocre characters and dull story beats, but the best part, this video hints at something deeper and more clever than most of the Uchiage Hanabi movie. This video really gets across a nice and pleasant looking film in a short time and with a beautiful song in the background. Most of the movie's soundtrack was mostly mediocre, so it's good tosee the best song in the film getting a really nice spotlight with this mostly average music video.