The camera pulls back. Snow begins to fall over Tokyo. Inside the studio, the cast sings a slurred, off-key version of “Jingle Bells.” And in the parking lot, Naozumi Kamura sits alone in his black car, watching Sana laugh.

Sana’s eyes widen. “My… father?” She has always been told her father was a “kind man who went to the stars.”

sheds its purely "gag comedy" skin. It introduces a more cinematic, dramatic tone and establishes the "Sana-in-the-mountains" storyline, which is one of the most emotional and controversial segments of the anime among viewers. or the specifics of the movie role Sana accepts?