Review of Hello World

What if you suddenly knew that you're an intangible and fleeting existence in an alternate universe consisting of neuro-quantum data within the boundaries of reality? You exist, yet you don't. Only feelings remain true. This is "Hello World" in a nutshell. A mind-boggling film made for the hopeless romantic. The story sets off in a very common anime setting, but in then near future. As it progresses it'll immediately give off Sword Art Online vibes (an opinion). I wouldn't delve too deep into the "neuro-quantum" aspect of the show due to the fact that it would give away too much of the story, and future viewers quite ahuge hint, and predictions might become spoilers. So for this review's sake, let's just say that the plot in itself is quite generic, but also quite original, which might seem like a contradiction, but watching it for yourselves would be a good answer as to why I would describe the entirety of the film as such.

Art looks a lot like KyoAni's style, so it's a ten. No arguments, it's a ten. I'm not much of a fan of 3D CGI, but obviously Studio Graphinica didn't overdo it, so I appreciated much of the animation.

The sounds and music are beautiful, especially the OST. Personally, I'm a freak for sounds and technicalities involving music, so I dare say that the presentation and usage of sounds and music on the different scenes and situations in the movie were masterful.

The characters felt static several times, but the heart was there (I'm just a hopeless romantic *sigh*), so it's a generous seven.

I really enjoyed the film, though it feels kind of rushed, like really rushed during the climax/falling action parts, but I' still give it an eight.

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My verdict: 8 out of 10

NOTE: Please don't hesitate to watch Hello World even though some people really criticized it badly. Give it a try, it's good!