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TopicTazzy Ranks 102 User-Nominated Anime with Write-ups: The Top 20
tazzyboyishere
05/21/18 10:21:26 AM
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6. AnoHana (2011)
Granzon (1/5)
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I think 2011 was a pretty great year to get into watching anime as it aired. It was certainly the first year where I began following multiple shows during a season, and I think, had I not experienced some incredible shows, I wouldve never bothered with it again (Ignoring that I didnt 2013-2015...). 2011 had a lot of classics, but AnoHana was the first one to really strike a chord with me.

AnoHana is heavily reliant on the feels. Its about a guy who starts seeing the ghost of his friend who passed away when he was a child, and he wants to gather his friends together to put her soul to rest. Issue is, these friends have all but grown apart, seemingly no longer affected by the death of their friend so long ago. This is obviously not the case, however, as none of them were able to cope with it in a healthy way, and have just been bottling up their emotions for years. The series follows this group slowly becoming friends again, as they begin to realize how much they missed each other. Its a beautiful story, despite some apparent flaws in the writing.

Its hard for me to really judge what affects me personally. I feel like some of the works that Im aware of having an impact on my personal life made their incisions subconsciously before I really began to think about them. When I watched AnoHana, I was basically Jinta: Unfriendly and reclusive. In middle school, I was pretty friendly, but after the death of a friend, I think I became a lot less involved in the lives of others. I had a lot of friends from earlier in my life whom I still went to school with, but I didnt have many that actually felt close. But something in my personality changed in my senior year. I was still a bit reserved, as I always will be to an extent, but I started socializing more with old friends, as well as new ones. It was a huge year for me, since it felt like I finally came out of my shell, and I look back on those other years and wonder why I ever lived that way. And looking back, I think AnoHana was a big part of what led me to that change. I didnt really value friendship until I had it, and I think thats the main thing this story is trying to get across. There was a movie released some time later, but I never watched it. I think the show is perfect as is.
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