Review of Sasaki and Miyano: Graduation
Oh man! I recommend everyone to give Sasaki to Miyano a chance, even if you are straight male (like me!). Because I truly believe that this is one of the best romance anime franchise I ever watched (and I watched a lot). This movie confirmed my belief even more. This movie cover between Sasaki’s examination period until his graduation. It doesn’t give me a typical movie vibes that much to be honest. It feels more like a bunch of episodes being put together and made it as a movie. But what can I blame them? Because in the end it work out so well! The samevisual effect, the familiar side character, the old familiar pace of story. It’s somehow make me feel cozy even though I was watching alone in cinema. It was seriously new vibe that I doubt I will ever experience again from other franchises.
The main element that I love the most about Sasaki to Miyano is that it try not to be offensive when it comes to relationship and let it escalate smoothly. Now that their relationship is escalated well enough after episode 12, we start to see some more aggressive moves yet still smooth by Sasaki and we also see more jealous side of Miyano. It’s truly soothing to watch.
Even though it feels like bunch of episodes of period between Sasaki’s examination until his graduation being packed together and called it a movie, it doesn’t make me feel boring at all. You would think that it will be boring due to how slow-paced Sasaki to Miyano franchise is but surprisingly it really is not boring. The story is interesting enough to make my eye feel like it’s glued to the screen.
Worth mentioning that the side story between Hirano and Kagiura at the beginning was also refreshing to watch.
Overall, it was a great movie. What more can I said except you really can’t miss this movie if you’re Sasaki to Miyano fan? After all, it’s your same old Sasaki to Miyano style that just being put into movie format. It made me feel like I came to grandparent’s home that I have been missing desperately. If you watched Sasaki to Miyano, you will love to watch this movie for sure. Even if you don’t watch Sasaki to Miyano before, you will likely thanks yourself if you start from season 1 then watch this movie.