Review of Rumbling Hearts

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien belongs to a rare, endangered breed with the likes of School Days and White Album 2. All three of these are highly controversial works due to a simple powerful emotion that they evoke in the audience. Anger. The reason countless people give them shoddy ratings isn't due to poor writing. Because the writing isn't poor. Any writing that can evoke such a powerful emotional response from the audience cannot be poor. The reason people dislike this feeling is because it reminds them of the cruel unrelenting nature of this world that will kick you when you're down. Part of the reasonpeople enjoy watching anime, is because it offers them an escape path from all of that. They can forget all the unrest in their lives and sink in the universe of what they're watching. Kimi ga nozomu eien doesn't provide that escape. And that is what makes it great.