Quite beautiful. Certainly in my personal top 5 of the Studio Ghibli films. The visual style and the music alone are as close to perfection as one can get. The coming of age story works just fine. The ending would be a minor nitpick though. I get why these characters, being naïve teenagers and all would say what they say, but the execution of the scene is a bit off. The line is said and boom, roll credits, all is fine and dandy. It didn't take away too much from the overall experience though. Very glad I watched it!