ROAD TO YOU

ONA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
3
RELEASE
October 2, 2019
LENGTH
3 min

DESCRIPTION

Commercials by Dunlop Tyres Japan for their Winter Maxx tire line.

Episode 1 (Kimi e to Tsuzuku Michi) (The Road That Goes On to You): The anime short's story is set in a certain snowy land and centers on the intermingling feelings of three groups of men and women: a couple, a parent and child, and coworkers.

Episode 2 (Hoshifuruoka no Yakusoku) (Promise of the Starry Hill): College student Yui was suddenly invited by her mother to visit an observatory on her 20th birthday. Yui has to travel along snow-covered roads to reach the observatory. The visit makes Yui remember going to the same observatory with her late father on every birthday when she was a small child.

Episode 3 (Kioku ni Mau Konayuki) (The Snow that Dances in Memories)

(Source: Anime News Network)

CAST

Ryota
Hiroshi Kamiya
Yuki
Miyuki Sawashiro
Toshiro
Atsuki Tani
Mai
Minami Tsuda
Kei
Masumi Asano
Jin
Kenji Nojima

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

G4bbo7
75/100
If you have 10 minutes in your life, watch this OVA. Unexpectedly beautiful (except ep.3)
This review contains spoilers. To be read when you finish the OVA.

Despite the fact that this is a commercial and not a real anime, I was amazed how Hiroshi Kawamata (the director of the OVA), in only 10 minutes in total, managed to tell 3 'stories', if we want to call them that, of love.
- In the first episode, the story that touched me the most was the 2nd: the love of the father, Toshiro, who would like to be exchanged by his daughter, Mai, seems very topical to me, about how we don't think about our parents very much (or at least I do) because of all the busy schedules that overtake our day, while our parents wanted to change their lives for us and having given birth to us gives them joy. The problem is that as time passes, parents become more of a nuisance, with all those prohibitions they impose on us. Well, this OVA makes us realise how beautiful reciprocated love is, not only between friends or colleagues, but especially within the family.
- In the second episode, the love for the stars that unites a family, even when one member is missing, is simply unique. The memories of this girl, Miyuki, and her past make us experience the joy, too, that she has in seeing that her father, Yuuto, left him something, wrote a letter to him after he was gone and dedicated a star to him, and the sadness, of not being able to thank him for everything he did for her in his presence and not being able to have him near her. Very touching as an episode.
- In the third episode it makes us realise how lasting the love that binds two people is, wherever they are. I understood this episode less than the others, but from what I saw, a girl goes to move because of her parents to France, and we see first the sadness of the boy, because of the distance and the fear that their love, so pure and beautiful, is over, and afterwards the happiness, of when she will return and dreams of how good they will be together. I liked this episode less than the previous ones, going on the technical side, because of the animation style and the story jumping a little too much between one time period and another. This one, compared to the others, felt much more like an advertisement than a story with a sponsor behind it, to put it better, especially because of the little dialogue (and for the reasons above). This episode seemed to me to fly by as it was with less story and little stuff to say. The others, on the other hand, are real stories and elicited real emotions.
All in all, if you have 10 minutes to spend of your life, whether it be while waiting for a bus, your seat in line, or just in the bathroom, you should watch this OVA.

Thank you for your attention and sorry if you find any grammatical errors in English or inconsistencies in the meaning of a sentence (I am Italian).
G4bbo7
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