LogFAQs > #967813212

(We'll start with the movies today. And no this isn't really a movie, it's an ONA or whatever, but it's one episode that's only an hour long so it isn't a series. I just counted it with the movies)

2 (Movie). Starlight Promises
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37970/Yakusoku_no_Nanaya_Matsuri
Summer 2018 (1 movie)
My Score: 4/10, MAL Score: 6.71/10
Best Character: Shoma Mihara

(This has no OP or ED and the only trailers I could find all had French subtitles)

Premise: Shoma Mihara receives a message from a friend he hasnt heard from in years inviting him to a festival. He heads to a village in the mountains and finds more than hed ever imagined.

The Good: Starlight Promises isnt a great movie, a fact that Ill try to convey in the bad section. Still, for its short runtime (barely over an hour), I thought it had a lot of heart. The animation was pretty, and the main characters at least had a nice story. Im a sucker for stories about old friends.

The Bad: All the action scenes in Starlight Promises felt like a huge waste of time. It didnt really detract from anything, but they didnt contribute to the characters or the themes and they werent impressive enough visually to stand on their own either. Starlight Promises was so short to begin with that every minute wasted on the action hurt it a lot. The story was also predictable, which I didnt mind because it still appealed to me but Im guessing it would but most people.

Overall: I thought Starlight Promises was a nice little story with some good emotion. For as short as it was, especially given how much time it wasted on a pointless action subplot, and for how predictable it was, I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I still ranked it a 4/10 so obviously its below average, but thats not a bad ranking from me for a standalone anime movie!