Review of Stars Align

Hoshiai no Sora (Star Align) is an original anime that was planned to be 24 episodes but after production has been carried out for 2 years, it was restricted to be 12 episodes. So we ony get to see the current anime ending rather than true ending. This review will be for the anime ending. Story: 8. Hoshiai no Sora bring you stories about year-2 highschool boys on their soft tennis club, school life, daily life. Each person has different background and distinct personality, but overcome hardship of living their life to unite as team for the ultimate goal. Art: 8. Scenery art are made good enough to signalabout incoming dramatic events. Character art do resemble to Rewrite's.

Sound: 6.
Background music not bringing us enough feeling in dramatic scenes and exciting in sport scenes. It was made gentle enough to suit the theme of highschool protagonist slice of life - which we see as often in Orange, Ao Haru Ride, Natsume Yuujinchou...
Voice actors and actresses are doing good as usual. I have no complaint.

Character: 7.
Each character has their own challenge in which they have to overcome, no matter it is sport or real life. Through tackling with their problem, thoughts and opinions are explored from different point of view, in which reflect some of yourselfs as you understand/disagree with them.

Enjoyment: 8.
First time watching this, after every episode ended, I immediately head out for next episode, thus enjoyment are very good (I am into drama mostly).
Throughout 12 eps, you will gradually to get to know all of our boys and companions, seeing they develop positive attitude toward soft tennis and living. Drama of each person pops out a bit every here and there, naturally from the start of each ep to post-credit scene.

Overall: 7.
Huge cast 12-ep drama sure are hard to implement, but they can still bring up plot naturally fluid. Sadly we only get to see half of the true story. Final episode brings shocking ending then some questions are left unasnwered, much as you wish for second season.
This anime is still a mainly drama focus theme instead of sport focus theme, yet they excel none in either catergory. Sport serve as glue in helping stick the boys together. If music coporate the dramatic scene were good enough and each character story had more screentime, this anime would be a honed pearl comparable to visual novels.