Review of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Anohana is a heartbreaking story. Simple in its concept and yet so powerful. Not an anime that will attract you with an unusual story and exhilarating action. Well-developed characters, good sounds, and great animation makes this series great. The story is calm, with few moments of emotion bursting out. It's much more about internal conflicts. The characters never say what they really feel to each other. They are so well-built, their problems so relatable that we suffocate with them. Sometimes, I felt like the seventh element of that group. As I said, the characters neither speak nor think most of the things directly, so theyput us in their state of confusion. Although, as the omnipresent audience, during the series, the core of the problem is becoming clearer to us and as it happens the situation turns more and more unbearable.
You will not be put in extreme situations by the show, like seeing blood, torture, terrible injustice, screams, anything like that. I would compare it with something I heard once about frogs and pans. When a frog enters in a pan already heated, they feel the heat and immediately go out from it. However, if they enter the pan and then the pan is heated slowly, they don't realize the pan heating and therefore die burnt without reacting. I would say this show is the second pan. Good luck to the frogs watching it.