Review of A Place Further Than The Universe
Agree or not, this season of Winter 2018 was dominated by drama genre. Two competitors of my version of best anime of this season were both drama anime and Sora Yori mo Tooi Basho, an original anime by Madhouse, managed to go there and inspired me to reach my dream even its impossible, because four high school girls can make their dream come true, why me, a 21 years old woman who struggled in her last year of college, cannot do that. The major plot of this anime is quiet simple actually, a journey to live the youth at its fullest and they did that withgoing to Antarctica. What I want to underline is how careful each of the character being handled especially the four girls that was in the center. Each one of them have a problem that they want to overcome and this journey to Antarctica really reshape them all to overcome their problems. Sometimes, when you have a problem to overcome, what you need is a journey for a self discovery and overcome your problem.
For the sound, they really have good opening, ending, and insert songs. That opening is really catchy that sometimes I have that song on a roll and listen to them over and over again. But what I really want to say about the soundtracks is of course that insert song that always played when the timing is perfect. Yes, when the emotion were overflowing. That insert song really made the situation more emotional and pushed us to spill our tears even further.
The animation is really good. This is where Madhouse specializes in and they wanted to try to do that in cute girls doing cute things animation and they did it. I think it's worth to point at because they really did a good job at animating cute girls doing cute things and I wish they do the same or better in the future.
Overall, Sora Yori mo Tooi Basho is a dark horse in the season. Coming out of nowhere to shine in the end. Sadly, this anime is not really being watched by the community in my country. I just really want them to know that Sora Yori mo Tooi Basho is worth to be labeled as one of the best anime of the season.