Your Voice -KIMIKOE- · review
Enjoyable overall. For me: a keeper in my anime archive. Fun characters with individuality (talents, and quirks, even), purpose, and development. Observant of details of everyday life in the Enoshima/Fujisawa area, set during a high school summer break. Embedded within its creative kit, it sympathetically explores subtle and sublime elements of Shinto spiritualism, primarily kotodama, but also the concept of spirits inhabiting other bits of our world, and our exchanges with same. Asks a bit of generosity from the viewer regarding some of its details, plot, and development, but I found this was easily granted. Rather emphatic on thevalues of human expression ala the spoken word and music, but in a good way. Admirable artwork, color palette, set consideration and design, blending of CG with handwork, and consistency of how frames, movements, and soundtracks are presented and progressed. Asks a bit of extra acceptance for its choice of story resolution and its closure with a musical-within-a-movie ending, but it's still within creative license. It possesses a sweetness and superlative charms that won me over. Yes, I want Kimi no Koe wo Todoketai in my world.