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| Despite being only 18 minutes long this was surprisingly a very solid short film! and my favorite part of the entire thing was the beautiful soundtrack by Kevin Penkin. Really awesome to see a youtuber actually manage to self-fund a project like this and bring along professionals from the industry to bring this anime to life! |
| The art, music and JP voice work are good. Everything else was lackluster, just too short for me to connect with or care about the characters or narrative. 5/10. |
DernusSep 20, 2025 12:05 PM
| The only redeeming quality about this short film was Kevin Penkin's music |
| I don't know. Aside worldbuilding, aesthetics, animation, music and VA reperformances (I switched to the japanese dub + english subs), which are great, the story kind of misses something. Impact? "Oomph" or something? Also if you really think about it, some elements didn’t make much sense. Like why Rin couldn't find some jobs on Earth related to her magic? She could make money with it. Since both worlds have established official relations and even an immigration program. surely people from "our side" could've have figured out ways to make magic useful...saving lives with it even. Also her father adopting her - how and why her society was fine with it? Other things too, I don't want to dive too deep. I mean it was fun, but nothing to hook me in. PS I randomly checked two reactions and both dudes couldn't find how to switch to japanese audio. What's with the YouTube illiteracy (by YouTubers)? I am disappointed in those guys. |
alshuSep 20, 2025 5:13 PM
| Nice job, Gigguk I really liked the plot-twist that Daichi was the dad of Rin all along in his younger days when he did his traveling journey, while Rin was his adoptive daughter of Daichi. So Daichi decided to stay in the new world, while Rin decided to go back to her own world and not stay in her new world. I really liked that Rin also gave the phone to Daichi's parents in the end; I guess Daichi never came back to his world ever again. I also liked that we saw the "dragon" when it was a baby as well. And the OST was amazing as well Nice job to the whole production team. I saw it in English dub and it was great. Two thumbs up |
| Beautiful and comfy little short film. Releasing it for free on Youtube was a great move and I found it pretty cool that it had both the English and Japanese dub in the same video, didn't even know that was possible. Great work! Looking forward to the documentary. |
| I thought it was a really solid short film. Could have been 5-10 minutes longer, but it still worked regardless. Beautiful music and visuals. Looking forward to more anime from Gigguk! |
| The visuals and music were amazing. The story manages to deliver the message in such a short time. I would even say this could have been a great concept for a full movie. Congratulations Gigguk. |
| 「Self Aware Cringy Weeb」 |
| Can't say much since it was too short, but it was a good watch. Hoping it was more longer so I would be able to see how Daichi actually lived together with Rin. |
| It is fascinating how an anime reviewer can have the opportunity to make an anime of their own. I think it's inspirational as a creator. You can tell how much love was put into this, and I can't believe this is his first work. I loved the music, as always from Kevin Penkin. I don't think you can go wrong in the music department when Kevin Penkin is the one working on it. Other than the music, I love the character designs and the use of southeast asian culture in the world building. Well, other than that, was it anything extraordinary? Not really to be honest. The twist was predictable, the animation was nothing special(though the dragon was cool) but I know that's all just subjective. Personally, the story wasn't relatable to me, but I'm sure to those it does, it hits them deeply. I saw people in the youtube comment section say that they have worked/studied abroad away from their family and that this work hit them deeply. I've never experienced anything like that yet, so that's why I think it didn't hit me as hard as it did. Still, even if the story didn't fully reach me, I have to respect Garnt for getting out of his comfort zone and putting this out to the world. That alone is a feat I deeply respect. |
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| Gigguk going TheAnimeZone to making his own anime, there'll be faults within the limited time run, but this is still a phenomenal work done for him and the rest of the S-tier staff staff team supporting his vision. The story of Daichi and Rin, two different beings from very different realities of life, coming together to a world where both the supernatural and reality hits like a wave, though I did not expect them to be related as father and daughter. Earthlings and Euthanians coming together for a heartful family, no matter the time disparity, be it through the things that they do, or the food that Daichi does for Rin, every bit of it embodies the familial feeling, and it's emotional to a degree. A feature film like this, while it may not be in the same wavelength as Porter Robinsion's Shelter almost a decade past, it's still a pretty good short work. |
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| Gigguk delivered. This is a life achievement, happy for him and everyone involved. |
| Was a decent short story for the time it had but i feel like some stuff could have been cut out to expand on other things, though i know Garnt and the staff did shorten the og story a lot already. The animation and ost were good. One thing that bothered me though was the wings color, it was stated they change color to match the emotion the person is feeling but literally every winged person had them of a different color, even when they were fighting and must have been feeling pretty similar to one another. I also thought it was weird only the mc's wings changed color, when emotion is something that changes a lot by hour, day, etc. Would give it a 5-6 judging by its screentime restrains. |
ayumiisSep 20, 2025 8:51 PM
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I don't know.
Aside worldbuilding, aesthetics, animation, music and VA reperformances (I switched to the japanese dub + english subs), which are great, the story kind of misses something.
Impact?
"Oomph" or something?
Also if you really think about it, some elements didn’t make much sense. Like why Rin couldn't find some jobs on Earth related to her magic? She could make money with it.
Since both worlds have established official relations and even an immigration program. surely people from "our side" could've have figured out ways to make magic useful...saving lives with it even.
Also her father adopting her - how and why her society was fine with it?
Other things too, I don't want to dive too deep.
I mean it was fun, but nothing to hook me in.
PS
I randomly checked two reactions and both dudes couldn't find how to switch to japanese audio. What's with the YouTube illiteracy (by YouTubers)? I am disappointed in those guys.
Aside worldbuilding, aesthetics, animation, music and VA reperformances (I switched to the japanese dub + english subs), which are great, the story kind of misses something.
Impact?
"Oomph" or something?
Also if you really think about it, some elements didn’t make much sense. Like why Rin couldn't find some jobs on Earth related to her magic? She could make money with it.
Since both worlds have established official relations and even an immigration program. surely people from "our side" could've have figured out ways to make magic useful...saving lives with it even.
Also her father adopting her - how and why her society was fine with it?
Other things too, I don't want to dive too deep.
I mean it was fun, but nothing to hook me in.
PS
I randomly checked two reactions and both dudes couldn't find how to switch to japanese audio. What's with the YouTube illiteracy (by YouTubers)? I am disappointed in those guys.
| @alshu Like why Rin couldn't find some jobs on Earth related to her magic? She could make money with it. Typical immigrant experience, your foreign degree, qualification, skills, and experience doesn't mean much to a hiring manager. I have seen banker, lawyer, and PhD holder struggle to find jobs in a new country. And you can't suddenly create new jobs based on those specific qualities, because there is no demand. And when I moved back to my own country, my foreign experience was also questioned. There is always inertia when it comes to these things. |
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| I enjoyed this short film! As someone who has experiences with belonging to multiple different cultures, it resonated with me. Wondering where you should be, as well as feeling the emotions that come with remembering your roots; these are things that few other anime have really depicted before, but are nonetheless a very relevant part of the identities of many people. This anime definitely gets these ideas across, and it definitely comes from a personal place. On the production side of things, studio daisy did well. The animation never looked off or stiff to me, which is more than I can say for the majority of seasonal anime. Kevin Penkin's OST also meshed with the on-screen events much more than I thought they would, contributing towards creating the atmosphere of the film. Finally, the voice acting was great; the voices felt like the characters themselves. My personal nitpick would be with the story, which feels cut down. I am sure that some ideas that were not explored due to the runtime, which makes the emotional payoffs not as impactful as they could have been. If anything, though, I think this issue speaks more about how many ideas this short film could have offered as opposed to how many ideas this short film did offer. This is actually a good thing, because it shows that the project was clearly thought out. Overall, congrats Gigguk and the rest of the Bâan team for this achievement! I would rate this a 6.7/10. Bâan is not the most polished work, but it is definitely worth watching. |
| Thought it was pretty good. Nothing mind blowing but a solid watch. |
| Idk what to put for my Signature |
| It's here! I was looking forward to this ever since Gigguk announced this project. Nice to see Connor is also involved with the ADR and a few English roles. However, I watched this in Japanese. I didn't know what to expect, but it definitely exceeded my expectations. It's a simple story, but beautifully done. I love the world development. Rin and Daichi are wonderful characters. But the moment that was really emotional was when Rin cried when she saw Daichi's message. Very touching. Can this be a series, please? |
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| Definitely limited by the short runtime. Got me thinking for a bit with how the plot was framed. It was good. |
| Pretty short but sweet. |
| I understood the story it was trying to portray. With a run time of 18 mins I think it did fine. It didnt need too many spoken points to make a point. The visuals told the story. Its a 8/10 for me. If it was a run time of 30 it might of helped it a bit more on helping the people that dont quite understand what is the story meant to show and be about. |
| Animation & music was beautiful. Story wise it's solid I guess. For 18 minutes, This was quite nice. For Garnt, this was a huge accomplishment. Genuinely happy for him. |
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| It was pretty solid, nothing too special. It had an interesting twist that took me a bit to wrap my head around. 6/10, its runtime should’ve been longer. |
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| bro can't get enough of isekai so he made one... okay, jokes aside it was a good shortfilm with really good end song. |
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