My Review of "Looking Up at the Half-Moon"!

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"Everything doesn't have a happy ending."

____Story____

Yuuichi Ezaki is diagnosed with Hepatitis A. Being stuck to a hospital, he meets a patient named Rika Akiba. Rika has a weak heart valve, leaving her to be hospitalized for most of her life. After meeting Rika, Yuuichi wants to spend as much time as he can with her before she dies. Their friendship begins to blossom into special feelings as their life in the hospital slowly connect closer and closer.

____Visuals____

The visuals are very average for its time. It's nothing too special, but there's nothing bad about it either. This will probably be the last time I have a visuals section in my reviews (Unless I really do find something really good/bad about them)

____Characters____

Yuuichi Ezaki is the kind-hearted man you'd probably expect. He genuinely cares about Rika's safety and her feelings, going through certain lengths to make her happy. Rika Akiba is at first rude and disrespectful to Yuuichi, but she slowly begins to show her true self. As she grows closer to Yuuichi, Rika begins to act more friendly and happy towards him. Akiko Tanizaki is the nurse that treats Yuuichi. Although a bit bratty at times, Akiko actually has a soft side for Yuuichi, showing her more free lifestyle in later episodes. The doctor that takes care of Rika, Gorou Natsume, isn't a fan of Yuuichi in particular. Gorou likes to mess with him, sometimes trying to ruin the relationship between Yuuichi and Rika.

____The Good____

With what the show provides, I think that the show does a good job drawing emotions out of the characters. When the scenes are supposed to be emotional, they are as emotional as they should be. Even with the somewhat predictable ending, I still felt all the raw emotions hitting me at once. I saw a couple of times where the show could've taken itself more lightly and I'm so glad that they chose to make this a completely serious anime. The topic they cover is quite a dramatic and painful one, so trying not to downplay it in this anime definitely benefited in terms of the quality of the plot.

____The Bad____

This anime lacks the "it" factor that many other anime ranked higher than this have. It doesn't really have anything somewhat special going for itself. There's definitely other unique anime out there that take concepts from this show and make it more entertaining and interesting. Not to say that this show is necessarily boring, but it's definitely nothing to talk about.

____The Downright Ugly____

Nothing downright ugly about this anime.

____Is It Worth The Watch?____

Hmm.... This is a somewhat difficult question for me to answer. It's a decent show, but I don't think it's anything you should waste your time on. It's not bad by any means, but it's not good enough for me to say that watching the entirety of this show was worth it. For that reason, I'd say that it's not worth the watch, but only because it's nothing spectacular.

Thank you for taking the time to read my review. I hope this helped you with your decision on whether to watch this anime or not! If you already have watched it, I hope that you can agree with me with some of the points I made. ^^