What is up everyone! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving, and I am back this month with another review for you all. Doing these monthly post have really been great because its allowing me to get threw my backlog more and in turn bring you guys even more random reviews lol.
The Anime for review this week is one that from what I can tell is held in pretty high regard. That anime is Aim For The Ace, although ill be reviewing the movie which is a condensed version of the series. I will say though for a 70s Anime it does a solid job of establishing it's story.
The movie gets started by introducing us to our main character Hiromi, who is a freshman that is joining the Tennis team for her school. Early on we see that while she does have a passion for the sport she is still a bit rough around the edges but with the team getting a coach change, we see her getting pushed into the spotlight.
As I mentioned the team gets a new coach and he is your typical hard hitting no-nonsense character that believes in pushing the girls to do their best even if they dont understand his methods. This is where we start to get into the meat of the movie because they start planning out who will be in the lineup for the next tournament and he decides that Hiromi will join the lineup over a player that helped them win a championship in the past.
This turns the team on her and while I wont be to harsh given that this movie is basically just a recap, at this point the Anime starts to do what seems to be random jumps and time skips and for me it really threw off the flow of the film.
Ill stop the review here so that I wont spoil anything if you do decide to watch. While I do think the middle of the movie gets a little iffy, I will say it was a a pretty good watch and I did enjoy it for what it was and I can see why it is so highly regarded. If you would like to watch it, I was only able to find it on Vimeo.
Thank you all for reading, ill be back next month with my Secret Santa 2021 post so be on the lookout for that.
MAHO OUT!
