Aozora Yell

A generic high school spectacle where the students are still so naive, they get drunk on sweet talk and are full of hope (it will pass, darlings, once you start looking for a job, all hope will disappear from your hearts!) A big selling point is the cast – really the stars of 2016/2017. Otherwise, it's kind of average in the genre, nothing outstanding, slightly lengthy. A weaker 3 stars. (03.05.2018)

This is a skillfully mixed cocktail of those guaranteed ingredients for a typical Japanese high school “youth drama” – nothing more, nothing less. You could try searching for some originality on-screen with a magnifying glass, or you could even try searching under your seat, but too bad, as someone familiar with this type of movie could have easily gotten an idea of how the rest would turn within the first ten minutes, and gradually you would just confirm that there really would not be any real surprises here. Within its sub-genre, it is a well-crafted generic affair, into which the necessary ingredients of the genre are gradually thrown in (choosing school clubs, declarations of love, rejection, finding the solutions to the problems with themselves and problems of the surrounding characters...) and which will not make a deeper impression on you, but which, thanks to the excellent performances of the main duo, is at least nice to watch. (In addition, I shall give the producers a small insignificant plus for the cover of my favorite karaoke song at the end.) (28.05.2019)