Just aired in my country and obviously I had to instantly give it a go. And this anime instantly exceeding my expectations, I cried at the theater because I failed to hold my tears. BUT, I am a slice of life enjoyer and I strongly believe this anime isn't for everyone, if you didn't like slow pacing or SoL, I suggest that you skip this anime, I think people who only watches shounen will fell asleep. But yeah, animation is charming and story is great but very depressing, this anime will put you through some sort of mixed emotion and you will probably think that thankfullyyou're not living through that period of time.

There are some scenes that you need to pay attention to so that some of the climax/key scenes will have effects on you and oh, I think movie has an upperhand if compared with it's 2 other similar movies, it's based on an autobiography so 75% of this movie is definitely true and that makes it more depressing.

Kono Sekai no Katasumi Ni and Grave of the Fireflies has some sort of "Playing victim" vibes to them but not this anime, this anime is the most anti-war movie you could get from Japan. But it's still somewhat has resemblance to Grave of the Fireflies because it took children's PoV.

My emotion is still mixed, I wrote this right after I watched it so pardon me for this quick review.

It's a 10/10 from me, might gonna watch the Blu-Ray once it's released only to watch for the "Key scenes" though sadly, I wish I can enjoy this movie again like I did today but usually 2nd watch through is gonna be quite normal.