Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.

Jinta Yadomi is peacefully living as a recluse, spending his days away from school and playing video games at home instead. One hot summer day, his childhood friend, Meiko "Menma" Honma, appears and pesters him to grant a forgotten wish. He pays her no mind, which annoys her, but he doesn't really care. After all, Menma already died years ago.

At first, Jinta thinks that he is merely hallucinating due to the summer heat, but he is later on convinced that what he sees truly is the ghost of Menma. Jinta and his group of childhood friends grew apart after her untimely death, but they are drawn together once more as they try to lay Menma's spirit to rest. Re-living their pain and guilt, will they be able to find the strength to help not only Menma move on—but themselves as well?

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Honma, Meiko Main

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Yadomi, Jinta Main

Irino, Miyu Japanese

Anjou, Naruko Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Hisakawa, Tetsudou Main

Kondou, Takayuki Japanese

Tsurumi, Chiriko Main

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Matsuyuki, Atsumu Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Yadomi, Atsushi Supporting

Ogata, Mitsuru Japanese

Honma, Satoshi Supporting

Mizuhara, Kaoru Japanese

Yadomi, Touko Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Aki Supporting

Makino, Yui Japanese

Saitou, Shunsuke Producer

Ozaki, Noriko Producer

Nagai, Tatsuyuki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

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Oct 18, 2024

MirkoAnime22

Recommended

AnoHana combines two quotes that I like: the first is mystery and the second is romance (but good romance). The story is so good, that i watched it in one day. All characters are good written. The main character is really interesting aswell as the supporting characters. The fact that this anime not have an open ending is really good. The last scene got me really emotional and I cried a little bit. It is really dramatic, especially in the two last episodes where you have a lot of conflicts between the characters.

I recommend it to everyone who likes drama, mystery and romance. And get ... prepared to cry.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 18, 2024

AniSabii

Mixed Feelings

I wasn’t sure how I felt about this anime at first. I saw this for the first time in HS had to be around 2015 or so. I think the first time I saw this it was rated at a 7 on MyAnimeList. The story for Ano Hi Mita was pretty good one thing I did not really care for was the back stories. I felt like it kind of ruined the pacing in present day. I know that the back story was needed to describe what’s going on with the characters, but I thought it was a little boring to be honest. Truth be ... told though I was never one for backstories or fillers so this is definitely a biased opinion. IF you’re looking for a tearjerker though I will a thousand percent say watch Ano Hi Mita. This anime jerked me and I had no intentions of my tears being jerked.

The Art was amazing I love anime with this style of Art and even more the background soundtrack was nice hearing the insects, classroom chatter, and just filler sounds in general. I feel like some anime forget about this aspect and these sounds really capture the mood more in depth. Favorite character was definitely Tetsudou, I loved the carefreeness and the quick acceptance he took with the whole situation. The rewatch value is pretty decent. I normally never like rewatching things, but I would rewatch this every couple of years or so. Especially if I’m just looking for something quick to put on.

Overall this anime was a cool starter pack. For anybody who has a significant other who isn’t to deeply into anime, but will watch with you on occasion I probably wouldn’t recommend. Mainly because some scenes can come off a little lolicon ish.

No disrespect to the people who put this anime together at all though just a hobby for me. I know how it is to create things and havent it judged harshly just got to keep creating for the love of the craft.

Story: 6
Art:8
OST: 7
Characters: 6
Rewatch Value: 6

Overall Score: 6.6

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Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 9, 2024

ShattenKaramu08

Not Recommended

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Everyone has a lot of shows they hate, but , there has to be 1 show which you hate but everyone loves.
For me, that show is Anohana.


In a nutshell, this series is a mess, a story filled with plot holes and inconsistent, unlikeable characters that only succeeded in capitivating its audience by triggering their emotions.

[Contains Some Spoilers Below To Explain Plot Holes]

The story starts off slow with the MC having problems seeing the ghost of Menma who was in a friend group with a cringe name and died due to an accident. It happening when they were children makes this whole thing way more meaningless ... than it seems. Due to this and uninteresting characters, I struggled with it at first.

At first, no one takes MC seriosuly, in the middle, the MC gradually gets everyone to trust him. Wait a minute, Why doesn't the MC just let Menma write? Apparently, only Poppo thinks of it, but no one cares for some reason. Slowly and Slowly, I liked this show and ignored the plot hole.

Then Ep 8 came, the worst episode I have ever watched.

Something happened which hinders the group from fulfilling Menma's wish. The problem is, the characters discard their will immediately and doubt. In the end, they gang on MC. You have been building up the trust for 7 eps to assassinate all characters in a single ep? That was not even the worst part. Menma then finally uses an object prove her existence. You talked about it back in ep 4 or 5 sth. This is a solution everyone can think about!!! When that moment aired. My mind was in awe.

The absurdity doesn't stop. In the finale, the plan didn't work. Then all characters suddenly have the will to apologize because they realize they helped Menma for their own sake due to a love triangle. Wait a minute, last time something like this happened, you all doubted the MC, why so nice this time? Another problem is a large part of that is developed after ep 8. Making the whole thing seemed rushed. Then they even have a poor poor comedic timing that makes Your Lie in April look like Assassination Classroom in terms of balance between serious/comedy (YLIA is also not a good show, but nowhere as bad as this .) But the audience won't care, as they all cried following the characters. Because they are emotional and lose their brains once there is something emotional going on. This is how this show gets away with everything, forcing the audience to cry so they wouldn't notice the horrid plot. In my mind, I only thought that the motovations and outbursts are all ridiculous (besides Hisakawa.)

Then guess what? Menma suddenly realizes her wish for Jintan's mother has been fulfilled, which doesn't make any sense again. First, she doesn't even fulfill MC's wish at that moment. Second, Menma realizes the wish after looking at the shrine she had been exposed to every single day. How she didn't realize it sooner?

Great, as the ending is so touching, no one is gonna realize this whole thing makes 0 sense.

Yes, this anime has a 8.3 rating on MAL. It has a higher rating than Hell's Paradise, Boku yabai S1, Assassination Classroom S1 and Gosick. Speaking of Gosick, these 2 shows have the same script writer...
What is going on. How can the same person write one of best anime and the worst anime of all time in a single year?

8.3? More like the average IQ of characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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