Review of The World is Still Beautiful

I've read the manga up till volume 17, chapter 95. When I saw this was also turned into an anime I was quite excited since the manga was fun to read. But I got worried when I saw it was only 12 episodes long. The story is there, a lot of useless filler is cut out since they have to squeeze the manga down to 22 minute chunks. But the basic story is there and it flows well. Of course the anime feels rushed because of this, their romance is rushed because it takes out a lot of filler moments. The artwork is beautiful, I like itmore then in the manga. I mean there are some obvious "silly" moments where the characters are supposed to look bad so it looks bad there but it's supposed to be bad.

The music was lovely. Every time Nike sang, I got shivers and it actually stirred some emotions in me. I think this anime did it's best in the music.

Characters are fine. We don't get a lot of time with them given we only have 12 episodes, so I can't really say much here.

I enjoyed watching the anime, I think it pairs well with the manga.

Overall a good anime. However I am disappointed that it only had 12 episodes and only showed the first 4 volumes of the manga. These volumes are some of the more boring ones when compared to some of the later ones. So it's a real shame we couldn't get more episodes showing some of the better volumes (the desert trip comes to mind).

I'm not sure if the anime didn't get good ratings or if they stopped because they didn't have enough material to continue the story at that time but I'd love to see a second season of this anime. I think it deserves it!