Review of Stars Align

[REUPLOAD] EVERY SHIT TIME There are two ways to build stories within a sport, or they are stories about the sport, serving as an introduction and basis of study, bringing a plot that interconnects them and establishes characters, called '' sports '', or they treat sport as something secondary they focus on building the characters, causing atmosphere and exploring any kind of conflict, we can usually call it '' escape sports '' if it's not quite clear, I'll give you examples: Hajime no ippo is a sports anime, while Ashita no joe is a sports anime escape, Slam dunk is a sports manga, Real is a sportsescape, well ... You got the idea, and it's up to them all to fulfill their duties, in Hoshiai no sora, nothing is fulfilled.

We are embarking on a journey with dramas, which is a subject that should be a fair approach to the theme, starting with introductions, building and finally ending, even a drama without ending it can still be considered fair enough, because it had its introduction and its exploration, is a way of balancing delicate subjects that in fiction, an introduction drama and an ending can be unsatisfactory for some, but it has a way of balancing, but take all the things I've introduced so far, throw them in the pan and wait for the damn script to be done, because that's what this anime does.

Hoshiai no sora is a story of forced drama and completely irresponsible for what it introduces, it begins as a stage preparation to then present its characters and its damn drama, I defend to some extent as a first episode that has the right to be impactful and show what will be dealt with, but the rest after that is the same sensation of throwing a bucket of cold water every 5 minutes, because this anime has no consistency what it wants to address, just pushes scenes that only serve as cheap shock value in every episode, and sustains it as a way of feeding the viewer, God ... That's no way to make a drama. Dramas are meant to be impactful to the characters and the viewer, and they need considerable screen time for the viewer to absorb the situation, think about it and conclude their perspective, but before episode 2, without any hesitation we are already introduced to a conflict in the first seconds, completely forced and without any context of the character and situation, there is no usual construction of the character for us we care enough about him, the director delivers and says you need empathy, otherwise the anime introduced stupid dramas like Mitsue's being bullied (wow ... Two bully in the same episode just to recreate a scenario of both characters alone ... Not a little forced, is it?).

I wish this was the last complaint if the crap in the next episode didn't introduce me A THIRD BULLY, which only served to irritate the soft tennis todoroki and show how sad its past is, and all done with 0 harmony, just inserting at the last second, and after yet another episode shock value we are presented with a horrible development, living proof of how victimistic this anime is in a supposed "fight" situation that should result in both sides, it completely ignores Itsuki's side, just to emphasize a hasty development of the person he is ... Completely ignoring any act of consequence that should have here. The next episode of continuity in the training plot and characters, introducing some and ending an episode with the same cliffhanger crap, can't this anime make an episode solid? It seems that everything needs to end in horrible things or injustices, which most of the time are not explored, and this is used over and over again in several episodes in a row, usually cliffhangers being the outcome of several episodes would be understandable if this series were mystery or some police plot, but it is not, she uses a script trick several times and this is all lazy and predictable.

Not even the soft tennis aspect is addressed here, this story doesn't decide whether to be a sports anime or escape sports, introduces basic things about soft tennis and then focuses on dramatic episodes or screen times that contain it, it's an inconsistency that disrespects any objective means directed at a sports media product, it develops nothing, much less its message, primarily to whom is that message? What kind of dad will watch this anime and change its behavior? None because they don't have to stay up late watching a flawed soft tennis drama looking for a job.

The protagonist of this anime is just Gary stu's tenth definition of the sports we're already used to, we might call him soft tennis Superman, it's stupid to see that he always has an answer to everything, making a character collision inconsistent Often, as always, it saves the team from decay, any sort of problem it solves, and its narrative function is that, while Toma is meant to be another child suffering from an incomplete drama. All the characters here are artificial and have an introduction of dramas and lousy characters, you are nothing at all here, there is no harmony, they introduce me to a fucking pair of soft tennis twins that we later found out to be the typical shounen opponents, and of course all of them are a blockade for the protagonists being tall, all the characters sink deeper into the narrative, it seems the script begs you to always care about them, I can't see any passion between the creator for his own project here, he just throws a lot of random problems at his characters and does nothing to make it happen, and when he has an outcome they are forced, only to watch Nao genuinely happy after ignoring his mother, dealt with in a way. simplistic way that the whole drama journey was useless and unconvincing. useless presentation of secondary characters who take too much screen time, all that class president building is minimally unnecessary and useless, I don't care about this character, so why should I see more of her without her having about 5/5 time in 5 episodes? We could explore some drama here ... But no, let's work on this girl that we can only sum up in aristocrat.

This anime's matches are disgusting to watch, man this is one of the worst camera jobs I've ever seen, not only that as lighting, it seems like I'm in the same fucking day when I see a match and the camera in return for it makes you want to throw up every time they get the ball, Hanebado could be bad but the camera movement was good, here it looks like a guy stuck the camera to a soft tennis ball and decided that they should act that way. But returning to the expected drama in one episode we have a consequence being completely ignored from the previous episode, a drama being inserted, AGAIN BY ABUSIVE PARENTS, this shit is getting me tired, it seems like every week they want to introduce me to a new one and all of them being artificial, and what does anime do to exploit it or solve it? Nothing, the director is unaware of the word "family dialogue" that if possible could already progress the plot in such a way that you could observe an overview of the situation.

Still about the episode he introduces me to a conflict between Mitsue, a characterization of Touma's friend, a characterization of Mitsue herself and ends the episode making a cliffhanger... I don't know how anyone looks at this script and says that he is solid, so many things being introduced and pacing does not contribute to any of this, this anime does not need so much stupid drama, I think even the worst romance this year did not have such a ridiculous pacing like this.

I want to make room for this paragraph to talk about how bad episode 9 of this anime is, introduced Shingo's sister who conveniently gets lost because the characters are dumb and instead of making Mitsue follow the girl, they give the excuse for most useless character having to do the work and bear the consequence, if Mitsue feared the child would go to the roof, why the hell did she run to warn everyone? Consistency of character, you know, and with the unfolding Nao that was totally shaken by his mother ends up finding Shingo's sister, and here this anime managed to introduce one of the most forced and ridiculous scenes of the year, out of nowhere Nao begins to see the Shingo's sister as a problem blocking everything and lock the room ... Lazy and completely idiot, what kind of reaction is that? If it were to become a shaken character why at the announcement of the game he was not before? Shingo's sister was still sleeping right in the ward ... Lazy again, with the end of this part, Maki with his superhero ability realizes that Nao was to blame and saves Shingo's sister, Nao begins to blame himself and cry, while everyone around you is laughing ... What kind of reaction is that? No one noticed his suffering? Character reaction and consequence ... Then we have a super robotic dialogue between the protagonists about Nao's parents and parents themselves, over time the episode introduces us to Tsubasa who also has an abusive father ... Creativity, and in that same Tsubasa and his father quarrel, Tsubasa hurts his wrist and just runs away from home ... Which already makes it a lazy narrative convenience just to give DRAMA, and right now Shingo is leaving home to train, he sees Tsubasa, Tsubasa try to run away and Shingo decides to HOLD HIM ON HIS FUCKING HIS FUCKING BITCH that sucked at the forced convenience of the club, this is an involuntary comedy show every epic episode, tell me what Shingo's sister's conflict was for other than giving more details of Nao's family? For practically shit, it was so pointless that even the consequence of Nao being a liar was made.

Why does this anime, instead of further antagonizing family figures, not show a second perspective or a really sad and shaken parent? In 11 episodes, not even the most important aspect between problem perspectives worked, and when it comes to everyday problems it's always good to see a more humane side of the situation, even if we don't agree with the actions, at least one perspective is there to support it. every basis and idea of ​​discussing a daily problem as a theme, but this anime once again does none of it, just tries to push like every adult (except the teacher) here is a bad person with characteristics of a psychopath. To give you an idea of ​​what I'm saying, the familiar and minor problems this anime has introduced but haven't solved so far, and we're nearing the final episode:

Maki's Dad (unresolved)
-Touma's mother (unresolved)
-Mitsue and something about drawings (solved?)
-Rentarou (unresolved)
-No and his mom / dad (unresolved)
-Don't be a pathological liar (unresolved)
-Tsubasa and the abusive father (unresolved)
-Shingo and his non-biological mother (unresolved)
-The chubby girl and her family (unresolved)
-The very concept of soft tennis (unresolved)
-Yuu regarding your mother (unresolved)
-Touma and that mini jealousy inserted by Maki have enough prominence (was made in the previous ep and unresolved)

Even if you tell me it can be completed in a second season, then why put a cliffhanger on an end of episode if the anime doesn't resolve to give at least 1/5 of Yuu's situation? Even if he has a season 2, then why insert 1000 dramas and not split them by season? Because it would be a more advisable and much fairer construction of script, it can complete several in a second season, but it has set a loaded plot in a bad way.

About the final episode:

This final stretch was disgusting, for skies that lousy production, they recycled the same shit about 10 times in the final match, it hurt my eyes because I felt in a loop that didn't go anywhere, there's no strategy in this anime, everything just depends on last minute momentum, please if you watch this for production value take any screenshot of the last episode and notice the whole background changing places at every point, character twisting in static images, errors of exchange of faces in the characters, seriously it's horrible how much even our main characters suffered from it, I've never seen a storyboard get so messed up, you don't feel any harmony with the soft tennis match, the episode still tries to generate a repulsive drama from twins, but what impact on narrative do they have to have this conflict? Why should I care? The anime fails completely in character humanization, and so much so that this is forcibly inserted, we have 15 seconds just focused on those twins that make no difference, and the end of this anime is completely giant shit, didn't complete any plot that was established, introduced drama over Touma without any conclusion, Why the hell did Toma's mom start laughing like a shounen villain on the phone? I've always said that the parents of this anime are portrayed as villains of Sword Art Online, but damn it makes it even funnier, and then turned Maki into a character from School Days, that final sequence was hilarious and so ridiculous, completely thrown and forced, I don't know how anyone looks at this script and pronounces the word "solid". because it is not, everything here is forced and artificial, even if you planned this series for 24 episodes, you don't treat your characters like trash and make a despicable ending, there are good kinds of "bad ending" in fiction, some of it built in a way, that has a strong base and that indicates it, making it unique, but here there is none of it, as I said, this series is a story that only if It focuses on pure shock value rather than continuing the narrative.

About the production

The direction of this anime is poor, frankly it doesn't have a shred of identity being shaped throughout the episodes, at least different camera angles that aren't merit either and a particularly very lively scene, but you have scenes like 3 FUCKING MINUTES OF FLASHBACKS OF TIME, and we've watched them all and know how it got there, all unnecessarily to take up screen time in a futile way. This anime has one of the ugliest arts I've ever seen, take any frame episode 8 and especially episode 11 that clearly should have been neat, compare all the scenes, not only in art but the animation of this anime is poor, at first they were good sakugas but it all boiled down to recycled scenes, recycled angles, the same recycled models... And all of this making the characters off model, I can make a folder in Imgur of how many times the anime has had it, it's no pleasure watching this type and the soundtrack here is nonexistent, there is only one piano track and one insert song THAT IS THE SAME SHIT OF OPENING MUSIC, for every moment the anime tries to introduce it I feel like throwing up, even moments that do not live up to the situation, are received by this song.

this story feel me sick and has many inconsistencies and plot problems, dramas inserted in an indecisive way, the director does not know how to work on any theme that has been put in, let alone his characters, purely "bad" parents who repeat themselves in the script, would be important put a fresh perspective on them and show that some are even human for their child's concern, but the director chooses to make them villains of Sword Art Online, it's not an educational dialogue about a representative community that will make this anime something well, this story is completely dishonest with the viewer, the same applies when we are 3 episodes without a trace of Yuu and his mother's problems... They don't even work out the consequence, this anime can even disrespect the viewer himself, Jesus... He owes several explanations and solves nothing.