Crystal Sky of Yesterday

Synopsis

In China during the late 1990s, high school student Tu Xiaoyi cares more about playing video games with his buddy Peanut than about his schoolwork. After being selected as class representative alongside the lovely Yao Zhetian, he begins to encounter his first romance and the heartbreaks that follow.

Background

Manhua artist Pocket Chocolate produced a sample pilot adaptation of his work Zuori Qing Kong (published outside China as Crystal Sky of Yesterday) in hopes of later creating a full-length animation film suitable for audiences born in the 1980s and 1990s. The pilot film was released in January 2014 after a half year's work and elicited much feedback before he began work on a full-length film.