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(english is not my first language)

I find this review very difficult to write because what could have been a good product was totally destroyed by the ending.
Now "SPOILER ALERT" specified, we can start with this review.

Tokyo Revengers talks about time travel, personally one of the most complicated themes to deal with, being very easy to fall into errors, plot holes, inconsistencies etc. So it was very brave to choose it as the main theme, let’s see the consequences.
Much of this manga revolves around this protagonist, Takemichi, who wants to save his middle-school girlfriend, Hina, from death seeks at the hands of this main villain, Kisaki. ... And this plot goes on until about chapter 190.
And, I can assure you, until that chapter, the story is good, it makes sense and I could even rate it as 8, so a mediocre manga, but that I appreciated more than others, considering that my average rating is 7.

But before I talk to you about the negative, I want to say a few positive things that led to my vote being a 6 and a not a 3.
Some characters are very interesting and of these are treated some ailments, such as obsession born of a love (Kisaki) and that for money born of a failure (Koko).
Dysfunctional families are treated, with abusive fathers (Kazutora) and brothers (Taiju) for various reasons and trauma from youthful stunts that seem irrelevant.
Congratulations to the author for introducing more sensitive themes and knowing how to treat them while the plot continues.
So I can tell you that, until chapter 190, there are many positive things, interesting arc, well-written characters that make you think that this manga will be wonderful and the end will live up to your expectations.

So what has gone wrong? Oh, man, let me get you a chair, 'cause from chapter 200 on, EVERYTHING is confusing and the ending ruins THE whole manga.
Let’s go back to the initial goal: save Hina. Does Takemichi succeed? Yes. By his own will? So and so, essentially because Kisaki dies, in the most stupid way he could have died, but to that we will return (man, I feel that this review will be VERY long).
Anyway, Hina is saved and Takemichi, back in the future or, better, in the present from which he arrives, being a 27-year-old man, finally manages to marry her. And everyone lived happily ever after? Well no, I think it would have been better though.

Hina is safe, but now there is to save Mikey. And who is Mikey? Mikey is the leader of the gang in which Takemichi, when is a teenager, enters to protect Hina. A character who is more the protagonist of the protagonist himself (and this can make you understand a lot of things) and who lives with a big catch in the heart that is introduced only around the two hundredth chapter and that will "base" the remaining eighty chapters.
So Takemichi comes back for the umpteenth time in the past to save this guy, and here, believe me, you’re gonna start missing shit.
New gangs and TOO many new characters are introduced that will NEVER be exploited as they deserve. Three characters die, of which one important (Draken), one used badly (South) and the third (Kakucho)... Nobody cares about the third one, even though it saved everyone’s life.
I really have a hard time explaining to you how badly is managed this last arc. It’s all so fast, so confused. You do not understand the sides, you lose sight of the goal, the characters react in senseless ways.

Let me give you an example. Draken’s death. You know how important Draken is? He’s Mikey’s best friend, okay? He is literally a character that exist for the entire manga, perhaps the third or fourth most important character. Good. He dies because he gets shot. And you can think, "What a cool death for a character like that!" NO it is not, it dies in the most stupid and useless way possible, it is a death so forced and so random, made only to reunite with her beloved, dead many chapters before.
And then you can think, "It’s a stupid death, but it’s definitely going to save Mikey." No, not again. It doesn’t help, it doesn’t help Mikey get angry or see how much he needs saving.
Mikey only "feels" that something is wrong, but it is not even said whether or not he is aware of this death. Do you understand how Wakui, the author, has wasted a friendship to which he has given, believe me, so much importance?
Even the other characters friends of Draken seems not to have felt the weight of this death. Only one, Mitsuya, falls into a brief depression, which is arranged in literally one chapter. No attention is given to their feelings. The anger or sadness of this death is zero, limited, simply cured of the desire to save Mikey. It’s all so flat and aseptic.
I truly hated all of this. I hated it because I felt very close to Draken and seeing him treated like that just made me sick. From here on my interest in the manga, already low, has dropped.

Take this idea of death and apply it to the other two characters who died after 200. There was no interest in their death. One had no friends, so I can understand, but the other literally died to save everyone, he had many friends there and nobody looked for him, he was simply forgotten. That's so sad and I hate it.

But what can be worse than this? Well two things. The explanation of Mikey’s "problem" and the ending.
Mikey’s problem: these "dark impulses" are never explained too much. EVERYTHING revolves around this in the second part and we do not even get a concrete answer.
We are told that they are caused by love, that the reason is Shinichiro, that he is the second traveler, but we do not really understand if they can be resolved, if they were born from a precise moment, why Shinichiro has them, etc. NO EXPLANATION.
You want to know why there are no explanations? Because then it all ends. Yes, that’s right. It ends without explanation.
I’ll give you the ending. Time travel is through a handshake, okay? Good. Takemichi gets stabbed by Mikey with a katana, trying to "control his dark impulses", whatever that means, and here Takemichi is going to die.
While Takemichi is dying, Mikey suddenly returns "healthy", shakes, gets scared and begs him to survive, shaking his hands. And here... Here Takemichi returns as a child. And meets Mikey as a child. Before dark impulses. Yeah. This is the end.
This is the end: Takemichi and Mikey know each other as children, both knowing what will happen from the future in which they arrive, and they found a new gang where there are ALL: friends, enemies, dead and alive. Even Kisaki and Izana, the two main villains. EVEN SOUTH who has no reason to be there, considering that none of them knew him since childhood.
And the end is Takemichi and Hina getting married, with everyone happy to compliment.
It’s so funny don’t you think? It’s the most ridiculous ending that could come out. It is so stupid and makes me so angry, because it cancels EVERYTHING that happens before, as well as being full of inconsistencies.
South is an incongruity. None of them knew his past, so it was IMPOSSIBLE to make him good, considering that he too had dark impulses. But if you want another example: a character, Inui, lost his sister in a fire that caused a scar on his eye.
In this future that fire is not there. He doesn’t have the scar. Very nice, right? The problem is that neither Mikey nor Takemichi knew the story behind the scar, so it was impossible to avoid it.
They are small imperfections, but the umpteenth in a manga that got ruined with his own hands and I hate him for it.

Nothing more to say. Watch One Piece. Bye.

So... I’ve been thinking a lot about whether or not to do this review, but I feel I should give my opinion on this... Thing ???

English is not my first language and I have never played Danganronpa, so I don’t know how much it has in common with the video game.

Where do I start? I have so many negative things to say. I think this is one of the ugliest and most disturbing (I don’t even know if it’s the correct term) anime I’ve ever seen. It started off so well, but it ruined itself so quickly in, like, two episodes.

Let’s start with the worst ... thing: the characters. Holy God, the characters are the most useless and stupid thing I’ve ever seen. In twelve episodes there are many characters and NOBODY has a deepening. There are some attempts, perhaps, but they failed badly. I arrive at the last episode and I don’t know ANYTHING about the characters except small hints. Yeah, maybe I should look at the sequel to figure them out, but seeing how small they are, I doubt they’ll have an in-depth look.
And you can say "It’s only 12 episodes, what do you expect?" And I say that I really appreciated the first season. They were just a few episodes, but all the characters had some specific features that made me remember them and appreciate them all.
Here there is NOTHING of this. There’s a presentation of them, and then they’re literally left there, ruined, destroyed, and to be honest, I remember, like, five characters? And usually just for their looks. For example, I know for sure that there is a pink-haired character (sorry, I love pink-haired characters), but I do not remember the name, I do not know what use he has, I do not even know whether he appears until the end or not. I don’t even remember one of his scenes.
And this is for a character I remember, imagine the ones I forgot...

I search her name because I couldn’t remember, but I’d like to talk about Mikan. I hated the way they made her, I felt so much anger and hatred towards anyone who sexualized her that I had to avoid many of her scenes for fear they exaggerated (they did it).
It’s literally a continual sexualization of this minor, no matter what she does or says. I felt so bad about the way they made her character.
Then, you know, I’m a bisexual girl, so imagine what it was like to see her bisexuality get fetishized like that. Brainwashing is fine, but you can’t make me believe that certain scenes weren’t just used to fetishize her.

It was really disturbing to see, where did the atmosphere and writing that the characters of the first season had?

I’m not even going to talk about incest between the two sisters, it’s so embarrassing to see the way women have been portrayed in this anime, it was horrendous to watch.

Then, going back to talking about how bisexuality is treated in this anime, we can also talk about the chef. A character who’s probably bisexual, making perverted comments about both sexes. It’s horrible, the most utter crap, I don’t know what anyone who’s done this has in mind, but it’s definitely very biphobic.

Let’s close the character’s speech, I have more to say, but maybe it’s better to keep quiet.


Let’s move on to another problem: the plot.
Seriously speaking, I found it just very confusing and meaningless, it’s as if the initial plot did not like and then they made something extremely devastating happen.
I don’t know if it could have come out something more beautiful, I have no idea, to me this plot sucked, because it lacks meaningful explanations, I found it very fast, very little explained and very causal.
Probably not dependent on who created it, but sincerely 12 episodes for this plot seem to me very few. Don’t get me wrong, I know there’s a sequel, but I’m talking about what’s in between these 12 episodes, not what comes after or before.
I’m talking about more in-depth explanations, better written characters, better explained situations that NEEDED to be explained in these 12 episodes.


The only thing I can say for her is the way Nanami died. Yeah, I’m telling you, it impressed me and made me feel uncomfortable, but that’s my problem, not the animation.
I found it stupid the way the others were handled during his death, but I also found that it’s a different death than the video game, so I don’t know what to say, I’ll limit myself to his scenes during his death, They raised my vow that it would be a one.

Stop, I got bored of this review, I could say more, but I think I will stop. I will not watch the sequel and I doubt I will ever play this game.

(English is not my first language)

[NOT spoiler free]

You know what? I started this anime with the belief that it would enter my top 5. The rating is very high, it is a very popular anime, the plot seemed so interesting and first episodes so beautiful.

So... what went wrong? A lot of things actually. I am convinced that this anime deserved more episodes, at least 24 or 25, not because there was more to tell, it is a story that opens and closes, simply because the things to tell, within the plot, were many more.
First of all, the anime is very slow or, in any case, ... of a medium-low speed for the first three, four episodes. Then, suddenly, everything becomes fast. Everything is fast from the reincarnation of Iwasawa.
Honestly, from that moment on, I didn’t really understand the dynamics and the events. In many scenes I found no sense and many friendships within the legion group were so strange and without explanation.

For example, the relationship between Hinata and Yui. I saw them as friends/enemies, but not as lovers, nothing made me think of it and, in no way, I’m happy with their ending. A marriage proposal? What does it have to do with that relationship, nothing ever made me think they could be in love.
It was unexpected, not in positive, and it left a lot of doubt in my head, because it doesn’t make any sense to me.

Not to mention the ending. The ending doesn’t make sense to me. Kanade must have been there a long time ago, how did she have the heart of a dead person, theoretically, long after you? And, even for them, when should they have fallen in love? In no way there was this possibility.
That ending was really horrible and not at all interesting. I’ll watch the alternate epilogue hoping it makes more sense.

But love does not only have little meaning between them, but also as a response to that world, as an attack to "stop God". It’s a good thing, I guess, but in these 13 episodes I haven’t seen any evidence of anyone’s love, other than some of Hinata’s comic gags, but it’s made for laughing. For me it was really meaningless, a stretch on the plot that ruined everything.

Let’s go back to the ending, because there is more to say. The ending was extremely hasty. The basic idea is that everyone can find peace and disappear, going to reincarnate into new people. And this is fantastic, I expected to be moved, to feel the sadness of the legion in doing so... NO Instead NO. They all disappear in a second, without a greeting, without a goodbye, a hug, except for five characters, or the main characters, I guess, even if some I consider them at the same level of extras.
This has left me really confused. I mean, do you fight for the legion and just accept it? Don’t you think about it? Aren’t you at least upset at the beginning? Where is the character you’ve built so far?
Consider for example "Takamatsu", he becomes a NPC in a certain episode and, in the last one, it is said that he reincarnated like everyone else. So what’s the point of making it a NPC if it then becomes like everyone else? Why don’t you show me how it’s back to being a normal person? What is the meaning of this scene? I don’t understand. Besides, no one seems to mind or care. Ok? It's your fucking friends.

Another thing I really hated is the fact that only four out of twenty characters in the legion are in depth. The others? Why don’t you tell me about them? Why did they die? What are they fighting for? Because one of them has handcuffs around his neck and the other one fights with some sort of halberd. Tell me about them.

My favorite character was "TK" and I was convinced, but really convinced, that he would have his own story, so as to understand why he only communicates using song phrases or because he wears a blindfold on his eyes. When he was alive, did he see anything he weren’t supposed to see? He screamed, but no one heard him, so he’s talking in bumpy, meaningless sentences because, anyway, it wouldn’t change anything? I’ve done a lot of theories, and you know what? None of these have been confirmed or denied. "TK" simply disappeared like everyone else, without explanation. And this has been a waste of character. You can’t create such a special character and not exploit it.


I’m tired of talking about negative things, because in the end, I gave this anime a six, so there must be some good things, right?
Yeah, there are some. First of all the art, the graphics of this anime is something fantastic considering the year of release, I loved the aesthetics of the characters and the attention to the graphics of the attacks of everyone, especially Kanade.

I also loved, as I said at the beginning, the plot, the situation they were in, the ideas they were fighting for and the fact that they were all teenagers whose lives had denied something when they were alive.

I enjoyed the few backstories that were shown, even though they did not make me empathize more with anyone, and I loved the idea that all of them could have the opportunity to try again, to be happy in another life.

Moreover, this anime gave me so much melancholy when, in the end, they got their diploma and said goodbye, promising to find themselves once reincarnated. It is a promise that makes me shudder with happiness and fills me with sadness.
I don’t believe in reincarnation or anything like that, but I like to think that for fictional characters there is this possibility. This possibility of having another attempt to find and be happy together, with a new awareness and another vision of the world.

For this last reason the vote for this anime is six, despite all the flaws, I experienced various emotions in many points. I don’t know if I’d recommend it, but maybe seeing him once in a lifetime would be good for everyone.

(english is not my first language, sorry for the mistakes)
((Instead of calling it "donghua" I’ll call this animation "anime" for the whole review, I hope it’s not offensive))

I started several anime these days, because I wanted something short, but that involved me, nothing too challenging.
I’ve tried all kinds and I’ve put most of them on pause.

I’ll be honest: I gave this anime a chance for the protagonists, I didn’t read anything about the plot.
I started a lot of anime just because I was attracted to some characters (Yarichin B club [...], Haikyuu, JJK and others), but then, no matter how much I loved some ... of them, no one really got me involved, to the point of finishing it in no time.

Well.

I finished this anime in one day. Usually, to see an 11/12 episode anime takes even a week or at least three days, this makes you understand how much I loved this anime.

The plot may seem trivial or obvious or, in any case, very simple at the level of events, but it is simply fantastic as it is structured. Several times my brain froze, no longer understanding what reality was.
There are some interesting paradoxes and you don’t understand if that’s reality or a parallel universe, you can’t understand, if there wasn’t Xiaoshi, what would have happened? If no one had seen it, how would certain things have gone? If he had not changed the past, what would the future be like?
Maybe it’s just me, is my first anime like this, that I get excited about these things, but I remained anxious and waiting for many episodes, arriving, in some moments, to not understand anything anymore.
The ending then is so positively confused, you don’t expect anything to happen and there is this final plot twist that makes you, again, doubt everything you’ve ever seen.
I read that maybe there will be a second season, and I’m really curious since now, considering what happened to Guang, their "magic" can no longer be realized, only in half.

Leaving aside the plot, which is a 10/10, I would like to dwell for a moment on the characters, the two protagonists.
Their relationship is healthy and very beautiful, the difference in their characters is fantastic and the respect and friendship they have for each other is underlined several times, especially in the first episode and in the penultimate.

I have no interest in a possible romantic involvement between the two, so don’t misunderstand what I’m going to say now, but they seem to work together. One is calm, serious and professional in what he does; he looks as a neutral spectator and without emotions, as if he were a robot. While the other is sensitive, impulsive and, in their travels, is the "human" figure between the two, who moves and acts as a protagonist, who hopes to change, with his kindness, the world. So consistent with what they do in the photographs, so consistent with their characters.

The stories that are told are interesting, some are unrelated to others, while others are connected. I admit that I almost cried in the earthquake, I suffered so much, I felt Xiaoshi’s despair and his anger towards Guang after having deluded him.
But in the end, Guang had been clear from the very first time he spoke: death is something that you can’t change, no matter how hard you try, and this is sadly realistic even in our lives, that made me think a lot.

Finally, to end wonderfully these eleven episodes, this point of their rules is back in the final scene, when Guang allows Xiaoshi to break this rule and let his impulsiveness and humanity act, preventing his coldness from stopping him.
It’s a risky choice, which questions the boy’s faith on the three basic rules, thinking maybe there’s a way to change the future. And it’s the ending that throws us in the face that no, death cannot be changed, too many things would change and fundamental timelines would be missing. The weight of this broken rule is seen in the final scene, opening to the viewer, new doubts that he thought he had eliminated and ignored, hoping for a happy ending that, unfortunately, as in real life, does not exist.

The only flaw I found in this anime is the lack of explanation of the origin of the two boys' powers. I really want to understand why they have these powers, if they were born with these, how they developed them, why they have them. I hope it will be explained in the future.

I wait with curiosity next season and I'm so sorry that there is not a manga or a continuous that I can read. I hope that a second season will soon arrive and that it will be up to it, so that I can comment with the same love and affection.
I think this has officially become my third favorite anime.

(Spoiler ig)


In its simplicity, I really loved this anime with a open ending.

Did they both die? Did the other survive? Is the blue-haired man keeping him company in his unconsciousness? Does he close his eyes because he lets him go back to the world of the living or because he’s happy that they will always stay together? Why didn’t they get married when they were alive?

There are so many questions, and I wish there was even one more minute to figure it out. I like anime with an open ending and, similarly, I hate them because I’ll never know the truth. In its simplicity, I ... really loved these ten minutes.

The colors are very calm, the contrast between the world of the living and the world of the dead is fantastic and the environment and the characters give me a lot of calm.

(Sorry for the mistakes, I don’t speak English, I try my best)

You know what? There are many reasons why "harem" and "reverse harem" are the genres I hate the most. For example: the plot is absent, the female protagonist has no emotions, the people in love with the protagonist are all the same or, mainly in the "reverse harem", they all follow some stereotypes; the ending sucks, the story is basic, often set in a school, the nonexistent plot.

Usually, however, in the few "harems" I saw, there were only two or three features I wrote. This... thing has them ALL. All of them, from first ... to last. That’s just the weirdest, most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.

I don’t even know where to start, nor if I will really explain the reasons for my vote, which is 2 only because Kiyoura is very beautiful and at the beginning was a good character. Otherwise it would have been a 1, with a request for where to buy a good bleach for the eyes.


In short, the "plot" of this anime falls irretrievably from mid-season onwards. The first part’s pretty quiet, actually. The usual love triangle that, though boring and trivial, made sense and could be cute, I guess. Then one of the two girls in love with the protagonist, advances to this amoeba (Because that’s what he is) the proposal to learn things about love relationships from her (When she has never had any).
Jesus Christ, from here on, believe me, nothing is understood anymore. Absolutely nothing at all. The two of them start to see each other, they have sex every time, he is a SICK sex, he continues to ignore his girlfriend. And what does his girlfriend do? Absolutely nothing. It is an obedient puppy that nods and smiles. What sadness of a woman.

The worst part is, it doesn’t end with the girlfriend cheating. NO, this guy starts LITERALLY having sex with any girl.
And you can say, "It’s a harem, what do you expect?" Yes, plankton, you’re right, I have little knowledge of harem, so I don’t know if in all of these, men are sex-sick and women are sex machines used just for that.
Maybe it is, but even if it is, I’d at least like this guy to have some kind of connection to these girls, but he never even spoke to some of them, so why the fuck is he in his bed in that scene?

I’m not going to talk about the ending, because it’s really the grossest, most meaningless thing I’ve ever seen. Really, what the hell am I seeing? I was really shocked, it’s all so out of character.

I imagine the author who writes the ending in a hurry, like when I do my homework the night before the delivery. All in a hurry, hoping no one will notice, but then I write: "Water the dog and lead to walk the plants".

I am shocked.

I think this review will end here and I hope I’ll never be in touch with this anime again.

*THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS*
(Sorry for the mistakes, I don’t speak English, I try my best)

I finished reading it yesterday, after seeing anime and, honestly, the more I go on, the less I like it. I don’t understand, first of all, its popularity. It started out as something interesting and innovative, but it all went missing, but I’ll try to go, somehow, by levels.

1) The protagonist. Izuku Midoriya is the name of the protagonist and appears, at first, as a child terrified of the world and without quirk, and then get it and enroll in the school for heroes. And up to here, everything’s fine. It’s ... nice. But going forward, it’s all a bit confusing. I mean, it took you 200 chapters to learn how to use one quirk, and now, in ten chapters, you can use even three or four at a time? Are you kidding me? I do not find the sense, it is so hasty, its change is immediate, there is no growth that makes it what it has become. It’s all fast, sudden. It seems that he, a 16-year-old boy, can do what many experienced heroes can’t. He’s such an obvious protagonist.

2) The story is monotonous, flat, boring, there is no development of the characters nor of the events, it goes on all slowly at times and then too hastily, you do not understand many points. The arc of the war was very strange, very fast in some points, without making it clear who was fighting against who and then slowed down in the final part, but also there a mess of events one above the other. It’s all so messed up.

3) The characters. Jesus, the fucking characters. Do you know what it means if I tell you that I empathized more with the villains than with the protagonist? Izuku is a sun, Okey? He’s always happy, radiant, optimistic, but he’s got no growth, one minute he’s so human, the next minute he’s a hero who can do everything himself. He does not have a specific characterization. He is simply meaningless.
Leaving aside him, the whole class is boring. The only one who has a character development is Bakugo and NO OTHER. There are attempts on Shoto, quite bankrupt, other attempts are made on the characters of Denki and Momo, but it is all created, premised and then left there to die, as if there was no time.
Really, villain have a lot more development. I’m not kidding. It’s very sad how what, you know? Succeed in villains and fail in the protagonist.

4) Villains. In fact I found them interested as I said, but often little deepened or deepened on the wrong points, leading not to appreciate them always so much. Despite that, I suffered from Twice’s death, so, you know, at least I empathized with them.

5) Backstories. Jesus. They are so hasty and so short. You don’t understand anything and they transmit little. There is no past with which I have empathized, they have also interesting, like that of Hawks, but it is as if they were interrupted on the most beautiful or remained incomplete for boredom of the author. How can you make a manga like that? If you don’t want to, please don’t.

6) I don’t really know if there’s anything else to add. " Small" defects such as the continuous sexualization of women, the existence of Mineta, the exaggerated speed with which everything continues. Not to mention many plot holes, things you don’t understand, exaggerated and unbeatable powers.

The more I read, the less I understand why this manga has all this popularity or is even compared to One Piece. I mean, I’m sure One Piece isn’t the best, but it’s definitely on another level and you know what I’m talking about.

I will continue to read it for a slight interest and because I like characters like Bakugo, Denki, Tsuyu and Toga and I would like to give them a chance, but there are not many other reasons at the moment.

(english is not my first language, sorry for mistakes)

It's MONTHS that I have to look at it and, finally, I managed to start this anime. I found it thanks to One Piece, because many people say it may be its heir, so I said, "Why not look at it?"

Anyway, let’s move on to the review. I found it very interesting and good although, in just twelve episodes, the ability to give a full review obviously does not exist. So I’m going to be very brief, without spoiler season two.

The characters are interesting, although still not very thorough, they are all different and all have their ... characteristics and peculiarities. I find it very interesting that any power has its own weakness or side effect, remind them that they are still human.
Despite this I find many differences between the powers and the difference in strength at times, it is really a lot, for example between Shoto and Tsuyu, the power of him is double and useful in every context, while she is useful practically only in a certain place.
For what little I have seen of villain, they seem to me very beautiful aesthetically and interesting character, as well as the good characters, like the professors, and I hope they are not superficial.

There are two things I don’t like at all, the first is the existence of Mineta. That character is USELESS, hideous, annoying, not funny and, if you find he funny, please, think about your concept of fun, he’s really stupid and I don’t understand why he was created.
The second thing, which I can already see, is how Yaoyorozu, and probably other women, are sexualized. What’s the fun in that? They’re minors, please stop. It’s embarrassing.
I know you could be like, "Bro (sis*), it’s just an anime." Yeah, "bro," but if you want to see half-naked women, there’s ecchi and hentai for that.

However, apart from these personal things that don’t spoil the plot, I can say that in context it seems like a good anime and the relationship between the characters is good. Right now Bakugo and Shoto are my favorite characters and I know they’ll get better again, so I can’t wait to see them.

This special is, to say the least, fantastic. I found it so adorable and interesting in its simplicity.
A classic and serene situation of two groups of friends who play together like children with water guns, with mixed groups and different characters.

I loved the chance to see some insights into the relationships between the characters, such as between Nagisa and Momotaro or Rin and Rei. Not to mention the scenes between Haruka and Sosuke, but I’ll talk about it later.

As a personal appreciation, I can say that I loved the presence of Kisumi, there just to greet his friends and found himself involved in their adorable ... game. I really loved him!
I also really liked the small scene between Sosuke and Gou, I appreciate their relationship and I’m always happy to see their moments.

Okay, now I can talk about it: the relationship between Haruka and Sosuke. I REALLY LOVED seeing them collaborate, especially given the obvious premises where they were not so happy to collaborate. They were small scenes, but very pleasant and important to understand their relationship.

I really have nothing to say, I enjoyed this episode and I think I will gladly see it again.

(English is not my first language. I apologize for the mistakes)

I have been seeing gifs of this anime for years and, often, I was presented as one of the most beautiful and most painful. I’ll be honest, I had higher expectations, but it didn’t totally disappoint me, in fact.
I mean, I haven’t suffered or found it among the best I’ve ever seen, but it’s got a lot of strong points I’d like to report.

The story revolves around this group of high school kids who face, in a different way, the school and its problems, creating a "group" with five totally different elements, which are always ... the classic characters all different: The silent protagonist, the chaotic protagonist, the shy girl, the girl who wants to be alone (in love with the professor) and the boy in love with the lonely girl.

Explained in this way it seems, in fact, the classic story with clichés and, in fact, some clichés are there and some scenes are predictable. But what made it so that I didn’t drop this anime?
There are some very significant moments and phrases.

It probably varies according to personal experience, but I found myself in the protagonist several times.
Especially when she wanted to pretend to be someone else so as not to be taken in dislike and, above all, not to be ready to let go of the past, because unable to accept this sudden present of a childhood friend found totally different.

Adolescence is contained in this anime in a wonderful way: leaving behind being children, to face growth, personality change, the pain of death and farewell, the different people that exist, the first loves and the first jealousies. Interface with the adult world and, at the same time, not be alone in this journey.
There is so much in this anime and I recommend it to everyone.
Moreover, many sentences reminded me of those years, which are not so far from me, realizing that if I had thought that way, many things would have been different.

"There are things you can only achieve together. So that someday when you look back, the people you experienced it with will see it as a happy memory with the same warmth that you do." - Kou Mabuchi
"To let my heart be moved, to laugh from the bottom of my heart, to find meaning in everyday life. I wanted to be given permission." - Kou Mabuchi

I reported these two sentences of the protagonist because I feel very much my own and to give you a reason to look at it.

To close the review, and be as honest as possible, I will say that there are also things I enjoyed less. One of these are the stereotypes of the characters: while they are deepened the protagonists, who is background remains secondary, without a characterization, and this is a shame, but maybe in 12 episodes you can not do much.
In addition, moving on to the protagonists, I found interesting the short development of the girl alone, but her person is little in-depth , on her relationship with the professor, which was forgotten and resumed only at the end, and the one with the character in love with her, he’s totally lost when it could have been more interesting.
Finally, I found heavy the two triangles between the protagonists and the professor, although one had a positive side, useful for the growth of the protagonist, but maybe I do not like these things regardless, so someone will have found them interesting.

So, I recommend this anime, because I liked it a lot, although I don’t totally love this kind of plot, but, at the same time, don’t expect anything totally innovative, a simple anime with which to spend time and in which you could find yourself.