Review of Waiting in the Summer

If you are now here you sure aren't a completely new weeblet, I bet you have at least already heard of Anohana, Darling in the Franxx and Kiznaiver, you probably have watched one of them and maybe you even enjoyed it, now, if you have watched more of them you may have noticed they are the literal same, mc with family problems falls in love with strange girl (ghost, dinosaur, just a strange girl) and then affairs of the heart come in the group of friends and ruin everything, drama, saddness and many tears flow. Before watching Ano Natsu de Matteru you better know the creatorsare the same of those shows I previously mentioned, and the plot is basically the same, and this is the matter indeed: you can tell more or less everything about how the show will go after just one episode, it's so predictable it's embarassing, it wouldn't even be that big deal if the anime didn't try to make you cry and say "oh no, poor *childood friend* I can't believe *mc* chose the alien girl instead of you". If you want to make me cry you have to surprise me. So told, this is a defect only if you watched those anime before this one, Ano Natsu de Matteru is from 2012 so it came out even before Anohana, it's not his fault, now let's try to analyze the show faking to have previous knowledge of what will happen, as I should have actually done from the beginning.

The art here is the best thing, costintent and beautiful, the animation is good as you would expect from J.C. Staff, the characters designs are nice too

I'm not sure I can talk about the sound part since my knowledge about music is near 0, all I can say is I didn't like neither the opening and the ending, but some soundtracks were ok, take that like a mere personal opinion, you could love the op and ed

The character development could seem good at first sight but no, it sucks, their actions are not always understandable and they just accept some strange facts like they were normal "oh so *strange girl* is *the reason why she's strange*... ok no problem*, it seems like the creators prefer to show character development using love triangles, squares and pentagons instead of things that should actually be the fulcrum of the whole thing and that should actually put their friendship in danger. WHAT IS THE POINT OF MAKING A GIRL STRANGE IF YOU DON'T USE HER STRANGENESS IN THE STORY ARGH, the *strange girl* could also be a normal girl like anyone else at this point

The show is still enjoyable it can be just seen as an unpretentious slice of life, the problem is it IS pretentious.

Watch Ano Natsu only if you have nothing better to do, just like I did

I don't have anything else to say, this was my first review, I hope I'll get better with the time, wish me good luck