This is just all over the place. The emotional moments fall flat, it takes itself way too seriously and even the visuals are underwhelming. It feels as if this Ova thinks it's a lot prettier than it actually is, like it wants to be a Makoto Shinkai animation. It's not ugly by any means, but with a story this uninteresting, better visuals could have probably save the whole thing. Altough I must say I really liked the music. The muscial score is by far the best aspect of this Ova. I think this would've worked better as a full lenght feature. It could've fleshed out the boring characters andtheir boring baseball freindship, and made some of the more absurd elements of the story less jarring.