Surprising.
I say surprising for several reasons.
First of all it's surprising how many negative reviews there are of this movie. No plot = 0? Wow. C'mon, geez.
I've already told you I think this is a great display of animation physics. Weight, momentum, all that stuff, it's pretty stunning. What's surprising to me is that there are flaws in a lot of the animations of the skating in particular. I think the act of skating in real life is really exaggerated and intense looking on its own. I think that instead of making up your own way of skating you should've used references for the skating movements. I think it was the jumping and aerial movements that really made me go "wow," but when the characters were actually skating I didn't feel like there was anything interesting about their movements. They looked very stiff.
Another thing that was surprising was your lack of any plot/character development. I know you're hearing this a lot, and while I think it's a personal preference mostly, I do remember you telling me in-depth character backgrounds and what not which was mega intriguing. Sure, I was excited about seeing your animation progress showcase, but I was really much more interested in seeing you develop this dynamic idea and I was really disappointed to see it in the form of a long winded text-based synopsis. I do have the next episode to look forward to, I'm sure, but I really hope that these deep concepts don't just back up some dazzling faceless display of raw animation skill.
And please, I'm not talking about The YuYu. I never mentioned it, so stop hiding behind it. I could care less about what is in the top 50 or what has a 4.29 rating or some bullshit. I want to see this series kick ass, and I think that your animating ability at your age is damn near prodigy level. Whether at number 1 or dead fucking last, I don't care and neither should you. You should just continue animating and tell your story.
All you do is mock me and all I do is give you support, and it pisses me off sometimes, of course, and there are times when I just fucking hate you, but when you show you have this incredible ability, this raw talent just waiting to be unleashed, it just depresses me to see that you seem to care more about some petty, flawed, biased rating system than your own progress. My point is, I seem to be the only one here who gives a shit about what's really important, about making your creations really fucking shine. I hardly kiss your ass, I do my best to critique your works so that you can improve, I thoroughly listen to your ideas and your stories and am inspired by them, and yet I'm probably the last person you'd want to listen to.
That, to me, is surprising.
And I think with this review I'm through trying to communicate with you and I'm through showing my faith in you. Unless you show me that you can get off your godamn cloud and show some respect to fellow human beings, I really don't want to have anything to do with you anymore.
And maybe you're happy to hear that.