Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai Episode 7 Discussion

chaelmi said:
menma's mom talking at the end then suddenly she said fuzaketeru wa ne (with a straight face) and i was like O.O its kinda creepy, cause i always heard that line when someone is fighting, and saying this with a mad face is normal thing but with a straight face is uh-uh. scary-creepy

kiba1996 said:
I agree , there have been times when Menma hugged someone and they said they felt weight. Simply put he should have said oh Menma is hugging you

rlime said:
My guess on what Menma's wish is about and why she gathered everyone that day:

rodac said:
Poltergeists don't get dirty hands. When you offer food to non-corporeal beings, you don't expect it to be slurped up like Menma's noodles. Although pretty clearly Menma knows she's not alive (sometimes this knowledge is enough in itself to send a ghost on to the next plane), she certainly seems to be more than a simple ghost (or an hallucination). While it could be that the animators are simply modifying the characteristics to fit their plot, I suspect (and hope) that they have something more up their sleeves.

zimno said:

Why the conference(1.) without jintan? (and why jintan was there?)

Yumekichi11 said:
Well we can't do anything, he's one of those care free fathers. Yeah, I'm with you that it's fathers like him that lead some kids in delinquency hence trouble maker kids.

entropy13 said:
Please make this only 12 episodes long so that they'll just cram everything in the remaining 5 eps.

Yumekichi11 said:
The mother at the end does seem suspicious. Is it possible she wants Menma to stay forever around her till she dies? She seems to be hiding something as a means to thee end of not having Menma cross over IMO. Could it be that she believes that Menma is still around spiritually from the home incident she cause and does not want her to leave? I wonder about that.

Oosran said:
There's not that much that they'd need to cram it into 5 eps though, is there?
I'd even go as far as to say that a skilled director could probably wrap this up in another 2 episodes, without it feeling rushed.
But alas, we're not blessed with a director of that skill level, huh?

jdizzle123ify said:
Jintan's father reminds me of Tomoya's dad from Clannad, he doesn't care about his son, he's always somewhere that u never know, but Jintan doesn't seem to care

TeaAnyOne said:
If only getting a job was that easy.....

Balakirev said:
A few more things:

I'm surprised no one brought up the fact that even though yukiatsu claimed that Jinta wasn't invited, Jinta was still there on that day.

Why is that?

Also, I would be very dissappointed if this was Menma's wish. And I doubt that it is. I mean evidentally they were all together having fun the first time they sent their rocket, so why would Menma exclude Jinta the second time? It doesn't really make sense.

Menma's mom isn't necessarily evil. There's a reason why minors aren't allowed to handle explosives. Can't it just be, that Menma's mom doesn't want the kids to get hurt?

My guess:

Balakirev said:
A few more things:

I'm surprised no one brought up the fact that even though yukiatsu claimed that Jinta wasn't invited, Jinta was still there on that day.

guava said:
Why is everybody assuming that Menma's mom is the one stopping them from the fireworks thing? The ending only seemed to imply that she knew about it (as she would because her family is involved with the festival), not that she was doing anything to stop the group. Unless I missed something, the ending seemed open-ended in its implications, but everybody here is jumping to conclusions.

Balakirev said:
My guess:

LightningRamiel said:
I also love YukiaTsuruko (and that portmanteau); I wonder if Yukiatsu knows that Tsuruko likes him but doesn't act on it due to his own insecurities/lingering neuroses regarding Menma.

Anders39 said:
I'm kinda jealous of Jintan, being able to get a part-time job in a split second despite his social anxieties and all that. A good episode by the way.