Review of Rumbling Hearts
This anime isn’t going to be your sunshine and rainbows anime where everyone is in a utopia. However, this is not going to be the biggest sob story every(For the most part…). Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien(Rumbling Hearts) is a drama/romance/slice of life telling the story of a group of 4 friends specifically focusing on the hero and 2 heroines. This story pulls us into a realm much closer to that of a real world(in terms of behaviours/dilemmas) then most anime’s would and proves to us all that the much more realistic themes in drama/romance have not lost its lustre. In this anime, we see theimpact of 1 tragedy and how those who are close become affected as well as the relationships between each other afterwards, and have very much to do with “Rumbling Hearts”. As how it was told, the first few episodes are an absolute hook because it leaves you with the complete backstory which is totally relevant to the main setting of the story, which is perfect in hooking the audience. The intermediate portion of the anime focuses heavily on the main characters and their emotional development which will get you thinking about all the possibilities of the outcome, and the conclusion will actually BE a conclusion and will give answers to those questions so it's not going to be one of those "imagine the ending which suits you best".
The hero as well as many other characters go through significant changes over the course of the anime and as their priorities change, what started as interest, may soon turn into obligations and what seemed to be dead end, turn into opportunities as each and every character go through a lot of trama as no one will be the same. With all this happening it can come as an annoyance however try to look past the indecisiveness of the intermediate portion of Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, and see it more realistically and furthermore try to relate because doing so would make this anime much more enjoyable especially because we may in fact have encountered impossibly hard decisions to make where the best solution isn't in fact to choose one or the other, but to wish that time could slightly turn back to a point in which everyone was happy and maintain that instead.
Watching Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien will leave you screaming the question, “can’t everything be the way it was before” as you will be put through an emotional rollercoaster in this short and slow paced anime. For those of you already interest in this type of genre, watch it. And if your not, Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien should be taken into consideration even if just a little.