Review: Goodbye, Don Glees!

Once again, my anime journey continues to expand where I discover more talented filmmakers.

This one provides a genre that we surprisingly don't get enough of, adventure.

It begins fairly well with a great mix of captivating visuals of dream sequences, a real fun vibe of the set-up of our main characters and typical anime craziness.

After that, it's just a well paced adventure that helps us see the chemistry and friendship develop. There was also clear influences to 'Stand By Me' which will please many.

The ending is where we get the film's emotion. There's a big reveal and it's done rather well. Any anime fans I feel will swept up with this finale.

I think the only thing holding it back is it's originality, as in it doesn't have fun. It's perfectly fine to have that as there storytelling formulas that never fails. But unless it does something totally refreshing, it's limited on how I would rate it.

In the end, this was an effective coming-of-age adventure story. It might use a lot of familiar tropes within this sub-genre and that have that 'Stand By Me' influence. But it was still executed well and managed to still feel refreshing thanks to the anime style and it's dazzling visuals.

It's fun, has pleasing imagery and builds up the narrative to an emotional finale.

Rating: 7/10