Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo

High school student Aoi Aioi lives with her elder sister, Akane, after a tragic accident took their parents away 13 years ago. Because Akane has since been taking care of her single-handedly, Aoi wants to move to Tokyo after her graduation to relieve her sister's burden and pursue a musical career, inspired by Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke "Shinno" Kanamuro. Shinno was part of a band until he left for Tokyo to become a professional guitarist after the sisters' parents ed away, and he was never to be seen again.

One afternoon, while Aoi practices her bass in a guest house, she gets startled by the 18-year-old version of Shinno from 13 years ago! As if by coincidence, the current 31-year-old Shinno also returns to the town, but he has changed drastically. There are now two Shinno's in existence, but why is the Shinno from the past present?

Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo revolves around these four individuals as they confront their inner feelings toward each other and make decisions that will affect their lives from here on out.

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Aioi, Aoi Main

Wakayama, Shion Japanese

Shinno Main

Yoshizawa, Ryou Japanese

Aioi, Akane Main

Yoshioka, Riho Japanese

Nakamura, Masatsugu ing

Taichi, You Japanese

Ootaki, Chika ing

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Abo ing

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Nakamura, Masamichi ing

Ochiai, Fukushi Japanese

Nitobe, Dankichi ing

Matsudaira, Ken Japanese

Saitou, Shunsuke Producer

Odagiri, Narumi Producer

Ozaki, Noriko Producer

Shimizu, Hiroyuki Producer, Planning

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Jun 12, 2022

Palash0007

Recommended

Within 10 mins of the movie, I realised that this was going to be a special one. The plot of the movie was so different and refreshing that I had very high hopes and expectations from the movie. But it did disappoint me to some extent when it did not reach its potential. The foundation that the movie laid in the first 15 mins made me look into so many beautiful scenarios in the movie but the writer decided to go with an average one.
Yes it is not a bad movie at all. But when you begin this strong in a movie you tend ... to increase the expectations of the audience and those expectations did not meet for me.
The movie does give a very beautiful message to never regret about anything in life and to not shut in your feelings. I really loved the message that the movie displayed for the audience. It is a decent watch overall.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 10, 2025

pvzlqux

Mixed Feelings

Kind of enjoyed this for about an hour, despite the supernatural aspect feeling half-baked for how reliant the emotional weight of the story is on it. Inherently likable but flawed characters with relatable struggles, steady but consistent pace, no forced melodrama, no overbearing music to dictate the viewer's emotions? Is this still even anime? Characters occasionally still have a tendency to just announce their thoughts so bluntly but whatever, I'll take what I can get.
Then the third act starts and completely kills the momentum, much to my genuine chagrin. Its the sad part of the film so we have to play loud sentimental orchestra ... music and running through the rain. Completely unearned, out of nowhere and it just keeps going off the rails after that. It really feels like they didn't know what to do with what's been set up so it rushes to the most obvious conclusion with bizarre execution. Massive letdown, but the first two acts were genuinely good, Akane is cool and Sugu is based.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 2, 2024

Klabautermann

Not Recommended

So close, yet so so far.

This movie starts off surprisingly well, one of the few anime that distances itself from the anime tropes and makes characters well defined and closer to realistic. Everything from characters to aesthetic was so sweetly spot on, and though the plot is nothing to write home about, it is a very comfortable ride thanks to how non-anime it seemed and how chill it is: a true proper slice-of-life experience with a supernatural twist, and some nice, romantic drama.

Alas, what was supposed to be a nice, comfortable movie about growth, maturity and following your dreams, was that for about two ... thirds of the movie before it turned into some quite unnecessary, forced drama about rescuing a "damsel in distress", and turned to rather strange and inexplicable supernatural occurrences. For aesthetics' sake I think it's worth a watch, but this is not the sort of anime I would gladly go back to re-watching, because once it gets into the third act, everything unapologetically loudly falls apart, and you're left standing in the rubble of the story, scratching your hand and wondering: how could this have happened? I would like to know too, because the subtlety with which the story is told until then suddenly turn into exposition so poorly told, and an ending so poorly delivered that it literally made me yell 'that's it?' at the screen.

There is a 'cheat-epilogue,' which is to say: the main story beats that were supposed to be THE finale of the movie are presented in still shots that appear as the credits scroll. Have I mentioned that a good deal of this movie was about music, and that there is a massive music festival being announced throughout it? And all we get out of that is a STILL SHOT IN THE CREDITS?

All in all, worth one watch for the sake of being able to say you've seen it, and maybe enjoy the really well animated and acted portions of it, but largely a disappointing experience as far as the story - and the promised but never delivered music - goes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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