Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru: Fantasy Railroad in the Stars

This film is one of the most whole experiences that I've ever had. The film mainly takes us to an astonishingly beautiful and relaxed atmospheric audiovisual journey. While there is narration of the story throughout the film I'd say that understanding it or even caring about it isn't really important for the experience that is this film. The film itself is more of a audiovisual journey literally through "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" as the title of the film suggests. I'd say this is one of the best and most unique adaptations of a story that I've seen. It is made almost in away that makes you feel that you were part of the story yourself. Kagaya did phenomenal job with the visuals and art. Pretty much every scene of the film is brilliantly rendered with a fantastical look and extremely true to the detail and enhancing the story immersion experience. You can see that this art was created through passion for the work in question and fantasy of the stars and space in general. In short I'd say this film has showed me something that I didn't believe was possible to achieve with animation and visual medium in regards of immersive storytelling experience through the visuals. The art and overall visual atmosphere is as soothing as it can be. It is rendered beautifully and retains its fantastical and mysterious vibe throughout the film while still appearing relatable and immersive, as if you were discovering something beautiful for the first time. Laying your eyes on a masterful work in art gallery. I'd say the film definitely is an artistic experience and journey where Kagaya poured everything in the art and you can experience that through this film. The sound design is another part which I think is something exceptional. The general tone and voice of the narration is done with a soothing voice, giving you and the film a calm and relaxed vibe, its almost like you were listening some kind of performance. That is only when it comes to the narration and the voice acting. When it comes to music it really matches the fantastical and extraterrestrial vibe of the gorgeous visuals, while still staying calm with the narration. I'd say that the music itself is a masterpiece of its own, but combined with the narrative and visual experience, matching flawlessly, I think we have something extraordinary here. Note there are no visual depictions of any characters that appear in the story, but as I mentioned earlier due to the excellent way of visually portraying the story it is possible to immerse yourself as a part of the fantastical scenery as a character of the story. It is almost as if you were actually boarding the train experiencing the "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" through the combined experience of narration and audiovisual storytelling of the film. I've not experienced anything like this film in anime or anywhere else before and I can safely say that it is one of the most unique experiences that you can get as far as audiovisual medium goes. I got nothing but respect for Kagaya for crafting this luminescent masterpiece.

im surprise there is only positive reviews not because it is necessary bad but this makes a very interesting choice . so i will write a mixed review to show the issues that might result in people deciding not to watch. story 6 this is something i do feel is done a bit better then the other version. the story pauses just enough for atmosphere but did not linger far to long for its own good. this allowed it to feel like a journey and not like a long train ride. it really did properly go through all the places atthe perfect. it kept most of the places in the journey so in that area it does not disrupt core of the story. the one thing that might throw people off is this is more told like a audio book which was a really weird choice. sound and art 8 this part i will join together as i feel they are created to work off each other and create the intended atmosphere. for the sound much of it is there to help get sucked in to the art and story which it does a great job at. as for the art it really doe look amazing and helps get sucked into the journey. the art kind of has to do this as it really is the main thing you will see and if it did not do everything to suck you in there would be no reason for this not to be a audio book instead. character 1 now we come to the biggest and strangest choice that was made. during the journey you will not once see a character even when it fully shifts inside the train it will be completely empty. the characters are purely told through the story. so while you are looking at beautiful created lands the characters that is the core of journey will never be seen. this really does hurt the movie as you expect to see the characters this whole journey is centered around. while the narration do talk about them as it is not shown the characters almost feel to not exist and it purely being the a journey. overall 5 while the art music and narration really does work wonderfully to give a great atmosphere to the journey. specially if targeting children it did a much better job then the other movies which really felt off from what i think it was trying to do. sadly the fact it never shows characters gravely hurts this movie were even the i feel this had the better journey ultimately is worse then the other version. as characters are extremely important and not showing them really takes away allot and really i have a very hard time thinking of people who will watch a anime that does not show it characters. really even the i really did like the visuals if it wasn't going to show characters it just feels a bit bewildering why this was not made into a audio book instead.

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