Appreciates the art and animation, but the comedy direction breaks immersion.
Completed-season and dropped-series impressions · 6 / 10 · 3h 58m agoThe story starts here
In an alternate early-twentieth-century Kyoto powered only by steam, a boy mourns his brother and their dream of electricity. A girl carries hopes for the future and regrets about her mother. The secrets of a mysterious catalog bring them together to confront their pasts and recover their ambitions.
- An imagined steam-powered city connects technology to personal grief
- A mysterious catalog gives two young people a shared journey
Reviews, with context
Completed-season and dropped-series impressions · 4 sampled opinions, not a site-wide consensus.
Appreciated
Background and character art still earn praise; some viewers enjoy the invention scenes' imagination and individual directorial touches.
Reservations
Criticism focuses on loosely developed subplots and romance, and abrupt shifts between serious drama and absurd comedy. Attractive visuals do not resolve the fragmented storytelling.
Individual viewer opinions3
Selected 4 attributed short reviews with specific viewing observations from the 20 entries on the first comments page at retrieval. This non-random sample does not represent a site-wide or audience consensus.
Reviewers: 果壳 / BAiKAiSHUi / 山東コベニ / ANR
These are paraphrases of the named viewers’ reviews, not direct quotations or an audience-wide consensus. Relative dates refer to the original collection time.
Loose subplots and romantic setup are difficult for the beautiful visuals to compensate for.
Completed-season and dropped-series impressions · 4 / 10 · 8h 26m agoSome invention scenes are imaginative, though the backgrounds feel overcrowded.
Completed-season and dropped-series impressions · 6h 55m ago