Review of Ahiru no Sora

STORY (6/10): The story itself isn't bad, but the way that anime presents with that slow paced show, make it look worse. All the emotional parts was truly good for the development of the characters, but as I say before, the rhythm wasn't collaborating wtih what the story suggests. The major problem of the story is the pace. ART (7/10): Some say that the art isn't good but for me, for what they purposed. This anime is NOT a sports anime, it's a drama anime surrounded by a sport background. Just see that even a single time the anime focus on the moves, but yeton the story of which character. The art is for a drama-comedy anime with a sports direction on the plot. That's why the art is good, because they clearly complete for what they purpose.

SOUND (6/10): The sound is very good when it comes to music. But sound itself it's different from music, and that's the problem. The anime doesn't have a good sound design when it comes off the story, in the matches for example. So it wasn't good but also it wasn't complete trash, I would say as the rate says: fair

CHARACTER (8/10): The very best part of the anime is how they develop the emotional part of very each character, and how they use that emotional part into others and into the sport itself. I mean, Momoharu was the best character so far in the anime by the things that he say and felt, not because of him at the basketball match.

ENJOYMENT (7/10): I really appreciate the anime, but the slow pace at the story and plot, really got on my nerves. I understand it is a narrative style remembering the old sports animes and manga (80s/90s style to be more accurate). So, about this, they could step further a little faster considering that the story that they tell, wasn't so necessary to spend that much time on the games, because the characters are evolving, not the match itself.

OVERALL (7/10): It's an unfair comparision to Kuroko no Basket for example, because Kuroko is bad. Kuroko is a shonen with no character development and good animation so stop do this. If you want to compare with an anime we have the old good classic Slam Dunk and the underappreciate Dear Boys (good old times from animax here at my country). Both this animes use the basket, the sport, to tell a story and not the otherside as happens in Kuroko. The drama and characters evolve with the narrative construction alongside with the games. I truly recommend Ahiru no Sora and Dear Boys as equal, because they are truly similar. And if not watch Slam Dunk, give your a life a good reason and never watch Kuroko again.