Sasameki Koto is a unique hidden gem in shoujo ai anime. There are common tropes that most genres eventually fall into and cycle through beat for beat, but Sasameki Koto takes it's story into a unique direction and gives you a breath of fresh air. There are tangible moments of heartache and longing that this series really makes you feel, and often they can come out of nowhere right after you were just grinning at how ridiculous the scene before it was. The set up is always pretty perfect to bring you up and then send you crashing back down. This made Sasameki Koto kind of anemotional rollercoaster at times.

The OP song is beautiful but gets overused in the show itself. The art sometimes has some weird CG and characters suffer a lot from same face syndrome but they handle the ugly cry scenes so well that it makes me want to give it a pass.

There are different levels of relationships explored throughout, but the longing, lonely feeling you get from wanting something you can't have in fear of losing what was there in the first place will hit home for almost anyone who has ever been in that situation.