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  Review by Matty Revue ★★★★½

  This is an utterly stunning morphing animation short, with lovely colouring and shapes, flipping between familiar yet beautifully stylised landscapes, accompanied by evocative music which reminded me of Austin Wintory's work on Journey and Abzu. It creates such a beautiful atmosphere with the way it inverts and morphs between landscapes as the music plays wonderfully, slowly building up at the start before accelerating towards the middle, and then ending on an intriguing final section. While I am a tad unsure of the ending (although think I like it, possibly get it, and find worth in the ambiguity), this is an amazing short. A surprise new favourite for me.

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  Review by mattia_p ★★★

  I am realizing that I am not a big fan of abstract animation.

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  Review by Peter Hemminger

  Usually in writing about abstract animation, there’s at least some statement from the director, some contextual writing, something outside the visuals to use as a starting point for understanding. With Onohana’s such a good place to die, though, there are only two things: the work itself, and the title. The film is a brief but gorgeous abstract work, a restless, morphing landscape that seems to combine air, water, land and life into a single plane. Accompanied by a serene score from Tatsuki TSUSHIMA, the overall feeling is, if not exactly pastoral, certainly serene. Even when the landscape retreats to a glowing orb floating in an empty sky, the mood is one of peace.
  That title implies something else, though, and…