Customer Reviews
piece of crap - By: Wissam Boustany, 12 Aug 2008 
I am sorry but this film is:
pointless
poorly animated
CG effects are primitive
story is at best over-boring
good luck for people who purchased it like me.
Nothing special - By: J. Matthews, 05 Jul 2008 
The animation is OK, the music standard fare, the story just silly. Too many anime cliches & logic-holes.
That's all I have to say.
What light through yonder window breaks? - By: DangermouseZilla, 14 Jun 2008 
At only half an hour long, this short film manages to be more poignant & emotional than many films three times this length.
The film explores a (very, & increasingly) long distance relationship between two childhood sweethearts. Communicating only through text message whilst the girl (Mikako) begins a careerin the military fighting an alien race called the Tarsians, the length it takes for her messages to reach her boyfriend Noboru increases exponentially as the distance between them becomes greater.
Before long the messages are taking over 8 years to reach their target, & our Romeo & Juliet are trying to deal with moving on with their lives but simply can't. Their attention lays focussed with their mobile phones, never knowing when another message might arrive - that after years it could throw them into emotional disarray. The angst at waiting for the next message, never knowing if there will ever be any more is painful to watch. You can't help but feel for the pair. Mikako longs for simple moments - to eat ice-cream with Noboruin the bus shelter whilst it rains, & Noboru tortures himself with desperate anticipation of another message.
In a nutshell: Sci-Fi has never been so lovelorn. I mentioned Romeo & Juliet just a moment ago, & if Shakespeare were with us today then this is the sort of stuff he'd be producing. Brilliantly unbearable & beautiful. Although this is a short film, you feel totally immersed. And though the sci-fi may seem distanced from real life, the scenes back home are realistic. After this film finished I still thought about the pair & hoped that they would be reunited. A masterpiece.
A disappointing lack of any additional features, but that doesn't take away from a fantastic piece of work.
Beautiful - By: Chiru, 09 Jan 2008 The animation is lovely, the music is amazing, the story is touching, the characters are sympathetic & the whole thing is perfectly timed & scripted to produce an enigmatic & beautiful piece of art. So what that it's only half an hour long? It's perfect.
Almost a classic - By: Ada Aran, 18 Jun 2007 
I was a little put-off by the fact the actual film is 25 mintutes long, but I'm glad I took the time to watch it: it actually seemed a lot longer than it was, & the story is very sweet & simple, & didn't really need to be a long film. The only problem I had with the plot was the ending: everything seemed to get a little too emotional & left a lot of questions un-answered (eg. why the alien morph into her?). The CG sequences are very slick & looked great, but some of the character animation at the beginning was a little bit basic, but that's the only thing I can critise about it. The soundtrack was very good. But the best thing about the disc was the animated short 'She & her cat', which I found better than the main feature. I was just seemed much more
'complete'. A single interview, trailers, originally voiced cut & THREE versions of 'She & her cat' justifys the price of the disc, & I would recommend this title for any anime collection.
