Review of A Place Further Than The Universe

This is an anime that I'm sure many of you have heard about. Maybe hearing about it through various anime reviews with many people praising it for it's writing and called the anime of the winter 2018 season. But for me, I watch this long after the season has ended so I didn't get hyped and enjoyed to the fullest in my opinion. The anime is about a group of 4 girls going to Antarctica, which is very much in this universe, and their journey they took to go there. This anime speaks to me even from the first ep as we are introduced toour main character, Tamaki Mari (Kimari), who realized that she feels like she is wasting her youth and I'm sure that everyone has at least had this feeling once in their lives. I somewhat saw myself in Kimari, someone who is just waiting for that one thing to push us over the edge but never stop waiting usually. But in this show, Kimari met someone who had that push, the motivation to pursue her ambition and am not going to let anything and anyone to stop her, that is to go to Antarctica, and for Kimari, that was her push to go on her journey. The anime really portrait their journey very close to real life. Anyone who has been on a trip with their friends knows fully that nothing goes exactly according to plan and the episode in Singapore really shows that and by the end of that episode their bonds have solidified through their experience and finding out something new about themselves.

After finishing this anime, I had a feeling of emptiness, bittersweet feeling inside myself, I didn't watch another right afterwards but I let this feeling sink in and understand how much this anime has affected me. If you have reached this section of my review then you surely you know that I highly recommend this anime and thank you for reading this long review of mine.