Review of Waiting in the Summer

I really don't like this anime very much, the first is the science fiction component. In itself the incipit of the alien that lands on Earth and enjoys the joys of adolescence together with fresh friends of fresh knowledge is not evil: obviously it is anything but original, but it is one of those bases that does not mind having to see used with such high frequency. Of course, for the first half of the series one wonders why this choice turned to sci-fi, given that, except for some occasional reference, the female protagonist is an alien does not have who knows what great influencesand interests in the unfolding of the narrated events. Then, abruptly violent and bombastic, the sci-fi is the master in the last episodes, in a whirlwind of sentinel robots, spaceships, MIBs, interplanetary travels, galactic alliances and spatial norms. In short, that this component is considered in the series there may also be, but that its presence has such a downturn, and returns to be used so heavily after some time in which it was almost completely silenced, well, in my opinion turns out to be a poor choice, which I don't agree with and which I really don't like.
The second is the vicious circle of romantic relationships between the characters. Now, accustomed to the usual love triangle, at most quadrilateral, used to exhaustion in every scholastic-sentimental comedy, dealing with something different can also be there. A touch of originality and refinement, if well balanced, is always welcome. I find, however, that with this sort of pentagon "she loves him who loves her who loves him who loves her" has put too much in the fire. Certainly one has the opportunity to study with greater ease the array of feelings of each individual character and to impersonate oneself now in that now in that other, but personally I think it turns out to be a somewhat exaggerated and exasperated choice, which sometimes knows a little about forced and cumbersome. Something more slender, less demanding, perhaps less original, I admit but equally acceptable, it would have been a less burdensome and burdensome choice, but it could still have led to something good without necessarily losing out.