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Stark700 · 2021-08-25, 19:51

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Toei announced on Thursday that it is producing an anime film adaptation of Kana Ozawa's Blue Thermal -Aonagi Daigaku Taiiku-kai Kōkū-bu- (Aonagi College Sports Festival Aviation Club) manga that will open in theaters in Japan in March 2022.

The manga centers on Tamaki Tsuru, who was on sports teams throughout her entire school life until high school, but is instead seeking an active romantic life once she enters college. However, a turn of events puts her on the path to joining her university's glider club at college.

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Frontier · 2021-08-25, 23:36

Aviation and romance? Okay

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Infinite Zenith · 2022-08-24, 15:48

I've had the chance to finally watch Blue Thermal and found it a rather touching film overall. The story's a little rushed at times and many things are resolved more swiftly than expected, or left unexplored, but the core narrative with Tamaki was enjoyable, and of course, the visuals are phenomenal. My thoughts won't fit into a single forum post, so I've written more extensively about the film off-site; this also lets me share a small selection of screenshots from the movie. One other detail I'm impressed by is how the film screened in theatres back in March, but we received a BD/DVD release within four months. Makoto Shinkai and ACTAS could stand to learn a thing or two from this pattern, instead of waiting 9-11 months.

Ragashingo · 2022-08-25, 16:52

Hmm... the more I try to write a review, the less I like the movie.

The good: It has a handful of nice shots of gliders taking off, gliding, and landing. And the art and animation was generally decent to good.

The bad: The story was overstuffed with inconsequential and aborted plot threads. What should have been a story about gliding, or possibly about gliding and love, had a good handful of plot points and moments that were unnecessary and distracting and were not well done. Did we really need an unhappy, abusive pilot contract? Or an ailing mother who we never met? Or the friend who dramatically quit the glider club... but then actually didn't? Or the not quite meaningful sibling drama? Or the part contrivance / part lie that got our main character into the gliding club to begin with?

I would have forgiven all of the above if I'd been in awe of the gliding scenes. But I wasn't. There was a certain magical joy of flying I was expecting the movie to nail, even if everything else went wrong, and I don't think it ever nailed it. Some combination of not explaining the rules of the various competitions well, not showing the dynamics of riding thermals all that well, and not lingering on joyful moments, I think. It's not that any individual animation of the gliding was bad in and of itself... similar to the rest of the movie, things just weren't put together quite right.

I can see where this movie wanted to go. I can see what it wanted to do. But the writing or direction or whatever was just not good enough. It needed more focus on what it wanted to be and less extraneous plot points getting in the way of it's lofty dreams.

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Frontier Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2013	Aviation and romance? Okay . __________________

2022-08-24, 15:48	Link #3
Infinite Zenith Operation sneaky sneaks IT Support Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Hic et ubique	I've had the chance to finally watch Blue Thermal and found it a rather touching film overall. The story's a little rushed at times and many things are resolved more swiftly than expected, or left unexplored, but the core narrative with Tamaki was enjoyable, and of course, the visuals are phenomenal. My thoughts won't fit into a single forum post, so I've written more extensively about the film off-site; this also lets me share a small selection of screenshots from the movie. One other detail I'm impressed by is how the film screened in theatres back in March, but we received a BD/DVD release within four months. Makoto Shinkai and ACTAS could stand to learn a thing or two from this pattern, instead of waiting 9-11 months. __________________

2022-08-25, 16:52	Link #4
Ragashingo Happy Sphere Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Texas	Hmm... the more I try to write a review, the less I like the movie. The good: It has a handful of nice shots of gliders taking off, gliding, and landing. And the art and animation was generally decent to good. The bad: The story was overstuffed with inconsequential and aborted plot threads. What should have been a story about gliding, or possibly about gliding and love, had a good handful of plot points and moments that were unnecessary and distracting and were not well done. Did we really need an unhappy, abusive pilot contract? Or an ailing mother who we never met? Or the friend who dramatically quit the glider club... but then actually didn't? Or the not quite meaningful sibling drama? Or the part contrivance / part lie that got our main character into the gliding club to begin with? I would have forgiven all of the above if I'd been in awe of the gliding scenes. But I wasn't. There was a certain magical joy of flying I was expecting the movie to nail, even if everything else went wrong, and I don't think it ever nailed it. Some combination of not explaining the rules of the various competitions well, not showing the dynamics of riding thermals all that well, and not lingering on joyful moments, I think. It's not that any individual animation of the gliding was bad in and of itself... similar to the rest of the movie, things just weren't put together quite right. I can see where this movie wanted to go. I can see what it wanted to do. But the writing or direction or whatever was just not good enough. It needed more focus on what it wanted to be and less extraneous plot points getting in the way of it's lofty dreams. __________________ Macross Frontier Episode Guide