Ai is a 2012 ONA by Rapparu it consists of a 7second camera shot of a person struggling and shaking as they grapple with something. The person is dressed in light blue/grey and has long black hair. They also have a look of sheer determination and concentration on their face. To the left of the screen is a clearly defined hand and to the right is a blurred hand. This person appears to be grappling with someone. Perhaps we are seeing this person struggle with love itself as they shake and the look on their face scrunches up. Alternatively perhaps the actual theme behind this short 7second animation is murder. This animation is a POV of the last 7 seconds of someones life which is why the expressions on the persons face change as they squeeze harder and then it all fades to black. Perhaps this is a person killing someone for love whether it be a romantic rival or out of jealousy. If I cannot have you then no one can situation. To rate this animation is relatively easy. Ai lacks sound voice actors and music and hardly has any animation characters narrative or clearly defined genre. It is too short to elicit any emotional response from the audience. 1. Characters 1/10 It gets the bare minimum for characters as we see one singular character. 2. Narrative 0/10 For narrative it gets 0 as there is no narrative in place. We can only think of metaphors and find ways to believe this animation has a deeper meaning. 3.Art 2/10 As far as art goes there are pieces of animation listed on this site with art worse than this so it gets a 2. 4.Animation 1/10 The animation is almost nonexistent yet this is still an animation so it gets a minimum of 1. 5.Music 0/10 There is no audio so this category is N/A. 6.Sound Effects 0/10 There is no audio so this category is N/A. 7.Voice Acting 0/10 There is no audio so this category is N/A 8.Pacing 0/10 There is no narrative or drive behind the characters intention. No story to drive a plot means there is no story and thus no pacing. 9.Genre 0/10 While it is marked romance because of the name we cannot assess if there is a genre to this at all. With this 7second clip there is very little to go off of 10.Enjoyment/Emotional Effect 0/10 This animation elicited no kind of enjoyment or emotional effect. Ai means love in Japanese and so this has been labelled a romance anime. In Japanese both ai and koi can be roughly translated as love in English. The main difference between ai and koi is that ai is about feelings of love while koi is about romantic love. However it is too short of constituting a romance or even having the most pertinent aspects of marking. Ai may be a short animation showing us a POV of a persons last 7 seconds alive. The character strangles us the viewer as they struggle with their inner conflicts and emotions as it all fades to black for us. Only questions remain. Why did that person choose to strangle the other one? Why was it from a POV angle? What metaphors can we attach to this media piece to make sense of it? This animation could be a metaphor for fleeting love if we do not look after it love will die. Perhaps life is too short and we must embrace love before death embraces us. Please give it a watch and try to make sense of it it is only 7 seconds. 0.4/10 G