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Title: Blue Thermal
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Masaki Tachibana
Starring: Mayu Hotta, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Junya Enoki
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

What It Is: Tamaki Tsuru is a freshman at Aonagi University. She’s sorta confused as to what and who she wants to be here in college. When she fails, miserably to join the tennis club she’s made to join the glider club in order to pay for the damage she caused by hitting one of the gliders with a tennis ball during her failed audition for that club. I mean it beats having to pay two million yen for the repair.

What We Think: From an animated perspective it isn’t anything to write home about. Pretty standard anime fair here. It’s decent from a story and narrative viewpoint. Even if it all feels kinda old hat. This is a story told many times with many different backdrops. Nonetheless there’s something here for the intended audience, children, as well as for adults to enjoy. This, at its core, is a good film for families who’ll enjoy the sweet animation style and somewhat relatable protagonist. This is a film that when it is all said and done is worth a watch even if it’s just something you throw on as background noise…though being in Japanese that’d defeat the purpose since you wouldn’t know what was going on.

Our Grade: C+, A fine piece of animation. It didn’t thrill me in a way that Japanese animation often does. This instead falls in line with the mid-tier animation I’ve become accustom to out of American productions. Even if it looks absolutely incredible. It’s just sort of…uninteresting. It doesn’t hold my attention. I’d often look at the screen and see something really majestic only for the dialogue to sort of let me down. Either way the film is fine and might be able to hold the attention of others…but not without help. Anime lovers are welcome…all other may not find the same joy.