I felt a strange sense of melancholy watching this piece, but at the same time I couldn't help but admire the fluidity of the animation (Were parts of it done in Flash? It felt that way when the in between frames are looked closer upon), and in truth, the overall contemporary style actually appealed to me. The colour palette is absolutely gorgeous, matching the abstractness of a seemingly dark representation of escapism.
From what I have managed to gather online, Wataru Uekusa seems to focus a lot on young, socially awkward girls who desire to escape from reality (No matter how violent), before eventually coming to terms with reality. On a brighter note, there weren't any unnecessary panty shots in this one like "Transfer".
What is notable is how the girl's hair continues to grow in length throughout the animation. The helicopter seems to be an important element throughout the animation as the girl finds herself back in a hospital room every time she hears or sees it... it could possibly suggest that she has been in a coma throughout the majority of the animation and only truly awakens near the end. This theory seems to be supported by the fact that no one actually seems to notice her when she's around, save for the bespectacled girl, who might be her closest friend, and it is also the same girl who seems to happily welcome her friend back.
And so throughout the animation, the helicopter is the thing that manages to awaken her from her coma, the only sound that is able to pull her away from a world that she had actually believed to be real.
Since finding out about Wataru Uekusa, I think one of my favourite works by him is "The Tender March", but I believe it's just as violent and seems to focus on similar themes as mentioned earlier, and honestly it all still looks really pretty.
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