Review of Waiting in the Summer

Although I enjoyed Toradora and Anohana, Ano Natsu de Matteru was quite a disappointment. This show is loaded with romance. It was too much and way too forced. The steps for falling in love for the two main characters mostly involve blushing, stuttering, and getting intimate while having cheesy wet dreams of each other, which became extremely aggravating after a few episodes. Everyone also seems to like someone else for no apparent reason and are willing to do incredibly stupid and selfless things for them seemingly only for the sake of moving the story along. This detracts from the believability of the situation, so I neverfelt for any of the characters. While I can sympathize with a weeping, heartbroken youngster, in this case, I just roll my eyes because: 1. Romance feels extremely forced. 2. The characters grate on my nerves. 3. I'm not a believer in undying, unconditional love at first sight :D.

The only positives for this show would be art and the supporting characters (Lemon ftw!). Art and animation for the show is well done and easy on the eyes. If most other shows looked like this I wouldn't mind at all.
Because I dislike how the romance is done in the anime, the least romantically involved characters were the ones I liked most. Lemon is an amusing troll, and Rinon is just too cuddlicious