I stumbled across this one on Hidive. When I came to check out its ratings and whatnot on here and realized that apparently no one else has said anything about it yet... I figured, what the hell? It's easily accessible and only 30 minutes long. Might as well check it out. But I can't lie. It's pretty rough. I feel like it would be pretty impressive as, like, an amateur Youtube project or something. But it just can't stand alongside anything worked on professionally. Its visuals went from passable-- even sort of beautiful in certain places-- to butt ugly anytime a person had to beanimated on-screen.

The song at the end was also pretty, but some of the voice recordings for the dialogue sounded like it was done over Skype or something. (Or whatever the 2021 equivalent is.)

And 30 minutes is just not enough time to build up the emotions they were going for with this premise.

It set up the start of something that could have been really poignant and relatable in today's day and age. The aftermath of Mt. Fuji erupting with another, more deadly eruption expected has recreated the pandemic conditions of the real world. All schooling's been moved online, only "essential" jobs are staying open, and the main character makes a new online friend who he falls in love with. One who seems to be suffering from depression caused by the newfound isolation. It felt like it was setting up something that could have been really meaningful. But then it kind of just went off the rails.