Yasuhiro Yoshiura's strikingly beautiful anime is high-concept in its themes and unashamedly sentimental in its execution, and gets rather more interesting in its darker second half.

The result of all of this wild genre-blending is an anime that really stands out. It is not like anything I’ve seen before, and the originality of the piece makes it a film that gets better and better as it goes.

An ode to friendship without prejudice that surprises in its simplicity. [Full review in Spanish]

Genuinely moving, the script effectively builds pace and tension and gives the characters enough backstory and motivation that they don't come across as, forgive me, two-dimensional.