Review of Rumbling Hearts

rumbling hearts. just watched it a little while ago and this really made me fucking sad and depressed as hell in a good way, this is pretty refreshing to me haven't watch an anime that is pretty moving and at the same time a story close to real life. rumbling hearts is an anime that reminds me of how being an adult really fucks you up so bad and events in your life that you think is irrelevant at first could drastically change your life and shape you to a whole new person. plus it reminds me that the past will bite you inthe ass.

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synopsis:
rumbling hearts revolves around 4 ordinary students.

Narumi - really nice guy. kind but too kind. guy that i'm sympathetic with. you won't get a hint of douchebaggery on him. his put with so much shit that he completely becomes insane in some point

Mitsuki - athletic beautiful long haired girl. many guys courts her but he all refused them. Haruka's best friend. swimming prodigy champion been on news papers and expected to be on the Olympics when she graduates

Haruka - fragile high-school girl who loves to read books. secretly in love with Narumi.

Shinji - Narumi's bestfriend very supportive with Narumi. This guy is a bro. (BRO'S FO LYF MOTHAFOCKAZZZZZZ!!!!)

they are all experiencing the so called rosy high school life, but it seems that having a rosy high school life sometimes is a pain in the ass when friends hides somethings from you, as they say too much kindness is cruel.

story:
it's starts with Mitsuki befriending narumi and shinji to let Haruka become closer to Narumi, in the end Mitsuki succeeds after 5 freakin years and the 4 of them becomes inseparable. 1 day Mitsuki called out Narumi and said that she needs to say something important. narumi waited on his favorite spot, a tree in the back of his school with a really good shade and view, while waiting for Mitsuki.

Narumi is thinking that Mitsuki might be confessing to him but rather than Mitsuki appearing, instead haruka appeared, narumi thought it will be a meeting of the 4 of them but instead haruka confessed to him narumi didn't answer. haruka started crying, then narumi remembered mitsuki's face as we now know that narumi really likes mitsuki but still said yes to haruka's proposal seeing Haruka cry, Mitsuki being the one who planned this for them, the poor bastard narumi can't really refused now since in narumi's head that's a sign that mitsuki has zero feelings for him and just sees him as a friend as kind as a person narumi is he accepts haruka feelings and moves on.

but what narumi doesn't know is that mitsuki has feelings for him secretly. everything is fine and dandy and everyone is ready to move on but a certain tragedy occurred and that's where the shitstorm starts.

while dating, narumi and haruka was supposed to meet in a certain place. accidentally, narumi bump into mitsuki and they had a little chit chat. like friends narumi teased mitsuki how is she with his boyfriend, mistuki answered that she has none and got no time for that, but she likes a boy who said that her hair should look good if it's shorter (which is not . F-U! narumi!!) then narumi said that he and haruka is on a date and haruka is waiting and natsuki told narumi that it's her birthday today they chat and chat and narumi said she'll just apologized to haruka and explained that it's natsuki's b-day today after all haruka had the same experience before about narumi being late because of natsuki asking for narumi's help and of course haruka will understand since natsuki and haruka has been bestfriend longer than narumi and shinji.

narumi and Mitsuki kinda stroll a little bit and Mitsuki saw a ring being sold in the streets and joke around if narumi could buy that for her since it her b-day. narumi refused sarcastically but in the end he bought the ring for Mitsuki and they laugh and parted ways. while in the train-station narumi hurriedly go to the meeting place where he and haruka is supposed to meet.

Narumi was looking for Haruka he saw some people pilling up in a certain area, he saw an ambulance and kinda wants to see what happening there, worried, Narumi try to force himself inside the crowed while searching for Haruka, he shouted for Haruka's name but no reply then he saw the scene. he saw a phone-booth nearly crushed with blood all over the place and he saw a familiar thing a ribbon that looks like from Haruka then a paramedic confirms who was the victim and Narumi in his head prays that it isn't Haruka but when the paramedic read the school I.D it confirms that it was really Haruka.

the 3 of them rushed in the hospital including Shinji. while waiting for any news Narumi blames himself for being late(that's why Japanese people are always in time) if he came in time or earlier Haruka wouldn't be in this situation. while Narumi is thinking like that, Mitsuki is blaming herself because if she hadn't delayed Narumi's date with Haruka this wouldn't happened.

3 years has passed. the 3 of them has moved on. but unlike before there is something that change the relationship of the 3 of them. while Haruka is on a coma Shinji is kinda much more distanced with Narumi and Mitsuki. of course this will happened because Shinji is 1 of the guys that confessed to Mitsuki in her high-school days and got turned down. (to be clear Shinji confessed to Mitsuki when he heard that Haruka and Narumi is dating. BRO'S FO LYF MOTHAFOCKAZZZZZZ!!!!!!) and to give Shinji a reason to go far away as much as he can it's because that Narumi and Mitsuki has become lovers that it's so close that they are like wife and a husband. there relationship is so serious as fuck that it reeks with maturity and when I mean mature they work, they talk, they have sex,they support each other in a very mature way, YOU WON'T SEE ANY ECHHI HENTAI CLICHE SHIT ON THIS ONE. no daame! Iyaaa! Narumi-kun ecchi tehee! shit like that in this one. they ARE REALLY FUCKIN SERIOUS WITH THERE RELATIONSHIP.

now for the reason why Mitsuki and Narumi got together, blame the parents of Haruka.

Mitsuki is so broken that I wanna give her a hug shiiiiiittttt. she lost everything and the most broken character in the series. T.T

now that's just a summarizes pretty much the story of rumbling hearts.

rumbling isn't for everyone. i believe rumbling hearts is much enjoyable to watch if your age is on the verge of transitioning to adulthood or higher it will really make you connect with them but if you are old and jaded It can't do shit for you man. you watched to much real drama in real lyf. lol

reaction and negative criticism:

rumbling hearts can be a masterpiece if they kinda make the scenes much more dramatic and other scenes should be more explained. like for example. the coma of haruka- they should have made a scene that haruka known the truth that it already passed 3 years now but she becomes unstable and her memory resets when someone tells her the truth. and that where narumi enters and haruka gets better and remembers more better when narumi visits and lies to haruka that it's only a few months since the accident.

for an anime like this. it's pretty old like old as hell they use betamax tapes for this one and some viewers may not like it because of that.

if rumbling hearts had a scene that kinda like in clannad that everyone turns back in time but not literally but just thinking of what if. what if Mitsuki was honest in her feelings in the first place. what if narumi confessed to Mitsuki. what if Mitsuki didn't bothered narumi on his date going to haruka. what if they are all in the same university. what if they are all the same like before scenario.

not sure if the Bluray and the normal episodes are different but i suggest you watch the blueray one since it has the sex scene of haruka and narumi before the accident and that's pretty crucial. and some other sex scene on why akane hates Mitsuki.

about Narumi visiting Haruka in the hospital. remember that he is doing this for months or even more. just think about that. that's why Narumi and Mitsuki is beyond their wits that they feel like going insane, scared ,pressured, responsible sometimes doubt i wasn't surprised when the two of them breakdown to the pressure.

if rumbling hearts have a little bit of emotion squeeze on it and a scene like that just like Mitsuki is always saying this anime will surely be a masterpiece for me.

special mention for Daikuuji YEAHHH Daikuuji for the win!!![/spoiler]