Review of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

For anyone who is looking for a good drama anime, this is undoubtedly one of the best you can choose. AnoHana follows a group of high school students who were inseparable in their youth. After a tragic accident, though, this group of friends starts to drift apart. Then, one day, the spirit of Menma, the person who unfortunately had passed all those years ago, shows itself to the former leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, also known as "Jintan." Menma claims to have shown herself to Jinta because she needed her promise fulfilled, which is what ultimately ends up driving the plot of the show. What I likedmost about this anime is how human and real all of the characters felt. Sure, Jinta becoming that much of a shut-in that he needs a disguise to go outside of his house confidently might ber pishing it, but aside from that, all the charters felt incredibly real. All of their interactions felt like something that could actually happen between a group of formerly close friends, reunited years later.
It also strayed away from what happens in a lot of badly-written drama anime, the "cafe exposition" scene. All of the conversations and exchanges never felt like they existed for the sole purpose of info-dumping us to get us caught up to what was happening.