AnoHana stupidity at its finest

Simple, they overdid this way too much... menma died at a very young age which makes it more easier to move on, not act like that..

SymphoniacTippy said:
I think the point of the entire series is just to put into perspective on how much it can grieve someone by a loss? I mean for me it was kinda fine in a way... Let alone I've seen people go through that shit before so I didn't really mind it.

I do admit that the drama could have been a lot better but then again I think it just depends on the person at hand. I can somehow see it working when I see some people going into regret for a long time, I've seen that.

Ulquiorra said:
Seriously saying this.
If you didn't feel bad about poor Menma and all the others, except Poppo, you are heartless and lame.
There is nothing stupid about it, age doesn't make it easier to forget about someone dear that dies.

CheekyKunt said:
Menma is literally my most hated anime character for god know how many years now. Never wanted to strangle a fictional character so badly in my life before.

Excaliburrrrr said:


I did mention I felt sad that menma died.

Barrys said:

I cried for Kimi no na wa, it's not that i'm heartless, i just think this is an unbelievable social situation, i can't put myself in these characters's shoes, thus i can't feel bad at all. (also add the fact that i don't understand how somebody could like Menma).

Barrys said:

Well, i think Menma was way too childish, too naive, maybe the fact that i hated her so much made me dislike the whole anime, that's the main bias i think. Also all that guilt: wtf? they didn't do anything to push her into the river, and as OP said it was a childhood thing: nobody remembers love feelings of childhood, and those are anyway very different when you're a teen/adult, that's another thing i can't relate to.
In kimi no na wa we see a growing love, perfect chemistry (unlike Menma with anybody else: wtf she's a child, ofc there couldn't be any good chemistry with a teen), but they cannot meet, and then they lose the memories of each other's: well, THIS is what i call drama.

Kittens-kun said:
This thread is just a circle-jerk for haters, lol.

Onii-chan said:
Crying over anime? haHAA
Sorry, but crying for anime or cartoon is lame for me. My sincere apology for being rude but that's what I think. Just stated my opinion about this.

I can't bring myself to shed a tears over this so-called "bittersweet" anime. But, doesn't mean this anime is bad. The plot is decent. The story told us how difficult to moven on from the incident when our dearest friend(s) passed away, friendship and how to leave (move on) the past behind. Eventhough Poppoo is a fucking moron and I can't feel sorry how fucked up he is. The comedy is okay, especially the crossdress scene that gave me the biggest LUL.

About how hard Jintan's group to move on, I can understand how difficult it is. Lost my grandma a year ago and I still can't get over it. Everytime I visit my old house where my grandma used to live, always makes me remember how she cared about me when I was a child. Get back the point. The reason is the same as what Ulquiorra explained. Losing someone you hold dear will be leaving a big scar that can't heal over a day and if it doesn't get treated well it will last forever. Actually, it depends how strong your mentallity is. Unfornately, mine is not that strong. I need time to heal my mental/psychological wounds.

ItsNootNoot said:
Do you ever see an anime without characters shouting in front of everybody? Even in the streets & cities! That's just fucking normal in anime are u really that dumb? Anime are movies. You can create non-realistic stories.

isu-j said:
i got into it only for naruko, that's all there is

GoesWithTheWind said:
I have mixed feelings on this series. When I was 10 my best friend died and it was genuinely one of the worst things I've ever gone through. On paper, I should have been able to relate to what these kids were going through (I even looked a lot like Jinta when I was his age.) But I had a few problems with this anime that may or may not be justified.

I do understand that everyone deals with grief differently. No child should ever deal with the loss of a close friend. Yet I didnt feel like anyone's reactions were justified at their age. If I remember correctly they were 6-7 years old when Menma died, and this show takes place a decade later. Which means they've had ten years to process her death, which they experienced as toddlers. The fact that everyone seemed (feel free to criticize me for not completing the show but I was getting too frustrated and angry) to be so weighed down about her feels absurd to me, since real human children can move on. It's not like she was any of their parents or close sibling where the living children would be able to feel her lack of presence throughout their lives, she was just a friend they knew as kids. Please don't take this line as me being cold and heartless, since her death truly was tragic. But I don't think she was that important or special to the kids to have this level of impact, which leads me to my second problem.

AnoHana makes Menma the best and sweetest and most important girl to have ever lived, and her death the worst experience of all time. I don't really have an argument here, this just annoyed me.

All in all, I think AnoHana handles the topic of childhood death incredibly immaturely

Isabee said:


They have every reason to be depressed over Menma's death for they all believed that they played a part in it, that Menma wouldn't have died if they hadn't done what they did (try checking my earlier post for a more elaborate explanation). They were all so young, they didn't know better. They believed it's their fault, so they grew up blaming themselves for it.

6 to 7 years old isn't a toddler any longer. These are already thinking children, innocent and frail that can be easily influenced and affected by this sad cruel world. When I was 5, I got chased by a dobermann, and believe me, I'm in my 20s now and I never got over it. I still freak out whenever I see a huge intimidating dog coming my way. And (as I've mentioned already in my earlier post), believe it or not, I actually know a boy who had a couple year of professional help after witnessing his best friend die from an accident.

In reality, when a child experiences a traumatic incident such as this, it is best that they get professional help, or at least be helped by their parents to pull themselves away from the wrong thoughts that could have formed in their minds from such experience. This may be an odd example, but you know how in some parts of the world, there are these farmers who grow square-shaped watermelons (google it, if you're unaware)? For the watermelons to turn to square, they put a square-shaped container on it while growing so the watermelons will take after the shape of that container. Loosely, that's how the minds of these young innocent children works, too (and not only children, even some adults as well). Young minds are like watermelons, and every experiences they get are like that square-shaped container that shapes them to becoming whatever person they will be. Our minds take shape after our experiences. But sadly, in Jintan and his friends' case, nobody told them that what happened wasn't their fault, that what they believed in was wrong. They never had any professional help, and probably not even their parents were aware of how they truly felt about all of it, and how affected they have been from it. Do you still think the level of impact they had was unreasonable?

Also, excuse me, but I need to call you out on your statement: "real human children can move on". Hell no. Not all. That is one of the most ignorant arguments I have ever heard (and I say that not to attack or demean you, really. I'm just stating it matter-of-factly because that's what that statement is matter-of-factly). If we go by your argument, then there should be no mental institutions, no mental health studies, and no mentally ill people, for if every human (child or adult) can easily move on as you say, or as predictable as you imply, then 100% of the population of this world must have a sound mind. But no, that's not the case. Mental health studies exists, mental institutions exists, because mentally ill people exists. Because not everyone is fortunate like you who can easily move on from a traumatic experience. Because every mind works differently (you claimed you know this, but the whole of your statement says otherwise). Every person walks a different path. The human mind is unpredictable so you don't get to say that a person should be okay after a decade of processing a traumatic experience. Believe it or not, some even get to live in their old age and die without being able to get over from an incident that happened many years back. The human mind is gazillion times more complicated than just easily moving on, as you put it. So please, please, understand and remember all these so you can refrain from making such insensitive and ignorant statement ever again.

Of course, the incident in Anohana is bizarre, it's fiction after all, but not really that impossible. I have a family who suffered from mental illness. At a very early age, I became aware of how seriously affecting every traumatic experiences can be no matter how small or insignificant they may seem, thus, I get very sympathetic and protective over stories like this. Believe me, human minds are unimaginably complicated and unpredictable. It can turn to every bizarre case possible. Hard to believe, but it's actually happening. Science backs it up, you know. And you don't have to experience it firsthand (let's hope to God not), or anything serious like that just to be aware of it. Simple googling will suffice. You have time to watch anime, so maybe find time to read to be aware of the more significant things that goes on in this world, at least...? Well, just a suggestion, but whatever.

Skittles said:
Menma is literally my most hated anime character for god know how many years now. Never wanted to strangle a fictional character so badly in my life before.