Review of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Animation/Presentation: 4/10. The backgrounds are ideal, not being overly clean and usually decently colorful which is surprisingly rare. The character art is not nearly as good, only being about a step above Bakuman which has the worst character art I've ever seen. Everyone's emotions are either mild angst or full out crying, and the 「Sad Piano Music」doesn't make it any less believable or not sad. I do really like the integration of the ED, though opening is unmemorable. Seriously though, I really don't like the look of anyone except for Anjou. For the title of The Flower We Saw That Day there's a complete lackof cool flower imagery! Vlad!

Story/Characters: 2/10. They could've skipped the second half of episode 1 through episode 9 simply by giving the dead ghost girl a fucking pencil to write with. Like seriously, the characters in the show even acknowledged this dumbassery. Everyone in the show is just an unlikable asshole, not flawed, just assholes. I can't stand how there's constant crying for pretty contrived reasons most of the time, and nobody ever feels sympathetic or believable. The closest we get is Memna's mom and even then it was weak. This has a pretty good dub! Also whenever a love pentagon like this is done it's almost always revealed after some random crying all in one exposition dump which ruins it. The best part is probably the last episode which could've been episode 5 or 6 had they cut out all the dumb parts and replaced it with better characterization. If you have no brain and like to cry to people in cartoons crying for no reason, then watch this!