Anime Discussion Thread - Page 3100

The best thing in the anime, is how they handled its’ outro; it actually started while the episode was still rolling, so every time that melody started up, I was like „oh sheeeeet, drama incoming”. And it came, and it delivered. Whoever came up with this idea is a genius, I’m a sucker of it.

The whole concept is like a reversed Clannad. I’ll spare those references that would spoil Clannad, so I’ll just mention the fact, that while in Clannad friends grow up (high schoolers --> young adults), in Ano Hara friends actually go back in time in a certain way (high schoolers --> little kids). In Clannad they are like a big family, with some occasional fallouts, in Ano Hara they are alienated and they have to rediscover their affection towards each other. Hell, I have to mention this spoiler: + Show Spoiler +

Menma was great, and thank god she loved Jintae! I was so afraid she would friend-zone him. Can’t say that I expected all those feels when she actually said she loves him in a „let’s marry”-way, though. Makin her character likeable was the make or break for this anime, and I think they did a very good job. She was still a somewhat idolized person (aka almost perfect), but they used it well to reveal how broken everyone else are. The light of her kind heart just made everyone's shadows crawl out.

The jokes were much more down to earth, compared to Angel Beats’, which is sad, because I just loved AB’s totally off the charts comedy Still, it made me laugh pretty hard at some places; like when Menma was so proud she managed to screw up the cooking, even though it’s just been said how easy it should be.

I was holding my ground strong until the very end of episode ten, but when they lit the fuse and the ending song started up, I knew I was going to lose it, lol. Srsly, so cheap… I assumed the very last episode was going to show us the flashback of what happened exactly back then, but by the end of the episode I felt like a moron, since the whole point was to show, that it’s not about who should be blamed for that, but to honor her memory as a friend AND IM ABSOLUTELY NOT GETTING TEARY EYED WHILE TYPING THIS, ROFL, S1 CRACK A JOKE PLZ

Anyway, it wasn’t the only message of the anime, howewer I’d like to talk about something else now. I was wondering that how would someone feel watching this anime, who had experienced something like that. I mean, losing someone from a group of friends, maybe even as a very young one.
I think it must be easier to get over it if it happens when you are still very young, but if you think back about that person, let’s say 10 years later… that must be much more heart-wrecking. Menma had a whole life ahead of her; the only things she did is learning to use the toilet, and making friends. Maybe I’m wrong – hadn’t lost anyone around me –, but if she died 15 years later, I think it would’ve been much less depressing for everyone in the long run, even though they’d understand death better.

So yeah, back to my point… I’m not sure if this 11 episodes would be a relief or salt int he wounds for someone who went through something similiar to this.