Disclaimer: the following is my personal opinion, said opinion being strongly influenced by my eye condition. I will make it clear here that I don't mind if someone likes Snowdrop, who am I to tell you not too? However this blog is not to judge its quality, but to help state the reasons it rubs me the wrong way to the point of being insulting.

Now for starters let me tell you about myself. Long story short, I have Aspergers and I'm visually impaired. Now while I have eye sight it still counts as being Legally blind. Where am I going with this?

Well, as stated above i'm not judging the animation, music, or voice acting in this, nor am I really the reviewer type, so please bare with me.

Well I suppose the best place to start would be the main character herself, Snowdrop. Throughout this entire animation your suppose to feel empathy for her. The problem is the way the plot is written made me angry at everything too much to care for her. *takes breath* Okay let me explain.

Firstly, yes she is blind, which isn't my issue here. The biggest issue is no one, and I do mean no one, seems to even care about Snowdrop in the slightest, solitary bit. Every single student is an ass to her showing little personality or any emotion towards her. The teacher didn't notice she didn't have a partner for this assigntment till the last minute. Okay first off, that has to be the worst teacher to not notice a detail like that for one of her classmates. Where not talking a classroom of 50 students. No were dealing with like 15 kids here, and that is a tolerable number of kids to keep track of. If she was social awkward then it might make sense why she had no partner but nope. Secondly, kids with disabilities usually get special help if needed, did Snowdrop get any extra help, eeenope. Oh yeah and she just waves goodbye to the blind pegasus on the way out the door, despite the fact she knows it dangerous. Um, hello! Go with her, I mean I know you can't fly but still guide her home.

That's another thing that erked me this whole time, a blind Pegasus, how does that even work. You can't fly without any sense of up or down. Sure wind blowing and such but in a blizzard all that would be static as in she have no way of tell direction or even which way was up.

Okay, nickpicking aside, back on track. Snowdrop's own personality annoys me. Displayed as a perfect little angel, oh give me a break, is this really how you want people to see blink people as? Shy, weak and helpless, really you're not helping in the slightest to make a good character here. In fact go watch Avatar The Last Airbender series and look at Toph. She is blind, but does that stop her from proving herself? No in fact she found a way around her disability, earth bending aside she still has a weak side and still has hardship to overcome but she pulls though and still retains her kiss-ass personality. Thus you can actually feel for her when she get in trouble or had a heart to heart moment.

Now compared her to Snowdrop...yeah, Snowdrop's about as developed as the snowflakes she carves out. Do I feel any connection to her? Well no, I can't connected with what she feeling cause the entire situation is contrived beyond believe, feels shoved down your throat until you choke on it.

Now, I know I'm sounding like i'm just hating on Snowdrop but i'm not. The fact that the character was blind and so contrived at the same time with no redeeming qualities is what made me cringe and overall felt like I was being slapped in the face.