Review of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Good concept of portraying suffering from death of someone very close. Started with annoying stupidity of major characters, ended with beautiful sad ending. It displays how people's behavior changes because of death of companion. But it doesn't change the fact that, characters were annoying at the beginning and they succeed to maintain it till the very end of the episodes. Idea of putting and spirit and it's functionality in the human world is certainly dull still because of zero interaction or disturbance of the spirt on the physical world is low-key convincible. Story is well written by the end; Art style is astonishing with thesceneries a and the city location drawings. Both opening and ending of the song are good to ear. Just characters aren't up to my expectations but their action by the end was candid for acceptance, little convinced with their characteristics.

An childhood accident cause despair for the Super peace buster members. The group lead by Yadomi Jinta followed by the members Menma, Yukiatsu, Naruko Anjou, Tetsudou Hisakawa and Chiriko Tsurumi. Death of Menma put them to grief, which give rise to fall apart in their friendship. The most damaged person by the death is Jinta, who starts avoiding school classes and interact with people. After certain phenomena, he comes to realize he is the only person who can see and interact with Menma. This new surprise put him into further query of 'What caused Menma to appear in the living world ?'. Some wish of Menma might remain not fullfilled. On his way to send her back to heaven Jinta act as Menma wish. He again start to go to school, true to reunite his old group member. It become tough challenge for him as moat of group members seized to express same filling same emptiness as he used to before Menma appeared in front him. There has been weird love multiangle going on in between the members but it remain unexpressed due to the Jenna's accident. It later revealed as they again come to interact with each other. Yukiatsu has deep love towards Menma while Tsurumi has similar intrest towards Yukiatsu, similar case for Anjou towards Jinta but Jinta used to ignore her. To fulfill her wish they again start acting like they used to in their childhood days and build a rocket for her sake as they did in their good old time. Even after accomplishing with this much effort, result remain invalid as Menma stays in the Living world. Later they they wish their unselfish desire, which brought a good result for Jenna's path to heaven as she remember her wish and promise was to make Jinta cry, which she promised to Jinta's mother before her death.