Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo: Youkoso Tsugumi Ryou e

One morning, Wataru Hoshino found a sleeping girl—in nothing but her underwear—in his room. When she woke up, she quickly escaped by jumping out of the window, but not without punching Wataru in the face first. This girl, Rinna Sawaki, ends up being a transfer student of Wataru's school, as well as the new roommate of Wataru's dormitory.

Wataru lives with four other girls and their school teacher, but due to Temizugawa Heavy Industry's cancellation of their aviation branch—South Sakojima Island's major company—the families involved with the corporation have to be evacuated in one year. As a result of this, the four girls have to leave the island in one year's time.

Knowing this, Rinna refuses to become friends with Wataru and the other girls, because of the pain that she might experience as a result of their eventual separation; however, Wataru disagrees with her, and over the course of the year, tries to convince her otherwise.

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Adaptation:	Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo ~melody of the sun and sea~
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Asakura, Naoko

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Orikasa, Ai
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Rokujou, Miyaho

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Nakata, Junko
Japanese

Hoshino, Wataru

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Nakamura, Yuuichi
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Hayama, Umi

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Morisawa, Fumi
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Fujimura, Shizu

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Hitomi
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Kirishima, Saeri

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Miyabi, Shion
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Sawaki, Rinna

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Koorogi, Satomi
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Mitamura, Akane

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Nazuka, Kaori
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Hishida, Takenori

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Iwasaki, Masami
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Kamiyama, Junji

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Sonobe, Yoshinori
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Itou, Makoto

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Iwasaki, Atsushi

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Yabuki, Tsutomu

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Hamano, Kazuzou

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"Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku o" by KAORI

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"Aozora no Fantasia" by Ayumi Murata

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Nov 23, 2011

FalseShepherd

Recommended

I got to say based on this anime it's basically about friendship and how nothing can break the bonds between friendship. This anime is by far one of the most interesting anime I've seen so far give this 10/10 (my opinion). So basically this anime tells story of a guys who gets in this one club and one day wakes up finding a half naked girl in his room before the girl ditches off she slaps him XD. But then soo on as the sory progress further it tells about each side of the chracters.

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Jun 4, 2011

Nasty001

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Ok, so I’ve just completed watching this anime, frankly I think a “Slice of Life” genre should have been added since this anime, I don't know about you guys out there, but I find this anime good, my ratings:

Story: good no.7.

As indicated in MAL’s info, the biggest employer in Minami-sakou Island, Demizugawa Heavy Industries Aviation branch is packing up and most of the island’s residences are moving out as well, the only ones who will remain are the island’s original inhabitants and among them is Wataru and Sae-chan (because she’s a teacher at a local High-School). The main theme is focus on the tenants ... of Tsugumi Dormitory, whom are due for eviction since the school has no reason to maintain it, however the place holds dear to their hearts since they have establish a close relationship with one another in that very place. What makes the story good is how the muchacho (male lead) describes his memoirs with each members of the dormitory leading to the final days of their stay and how everyone struggles to make the most out of it. As to story goes on it does make you feel the days when a sad good bye is imminent and somehow will put you in the same scenario as they where. The harem genre of this anime is unique, co’z this is probably one of such genres were the chiquitas (female cast) are not competing for the muchacho’s affection, here, the muchacho is one with the girls, the romance part is petty much trivial and in fact only one of the chiquitas has feelings for the muchacho, the rest only maintains a sister and brother relationships with the muchacho.

Art: Good no.7.

All I can say is that I like the way the characters were drawn and the background as well.

Sound: Mediocre no.5.

I simply have nothing to say here, but I do have a comment with the voices of Sae-chan and Naoko, in my opinion, being a teacher Sae-chan should have had the voice of Naoko and Naoko should instead have Rinna’s voice.

Character: decent no.4.

Ok, I only gave the rating because I really don’t know how to describe the author’s mixed-up of the character’s personality and charcteristics ………what I mean is, that Sae-chan who’s is the tenant dormitory teacher should have had Naoko’s character or should I say that Naoko should’ve have been the dorm teacher and Sae-chan should have been the dorm sempai, as for Rinna, she should have Shizu’s personality since at the beginning of this anime she was such a klutz for sleeping besides the muchacho (lead male character) in her lingerie, Shizu on the other hand, should be the one who is sullen and obstinate to the dorm residence since she’s the one who’s parents seemly abandons her. Umi should’ve been the patient and calculating Miyaho instead of an emotional and sensitive girl who clings on to the muchacho for comfort, her character should go to Miyaho, because since she grew up in a life of comfort and suddenly at a young age has to get her hands dirty managing the dorm which is establish by her grandfather, despite the fact that she has a butler. She tasked herself the moment she came to the island to find out everything about her grandfather which didn’t come easy and has felt frustration upon doing so fortunately she has the muchacho to help her out. They author did nail the muchacho’s character right aside from casting him as narrator he’s kind hearted (as usual) and is all too willing to go into great lengths when helping the chiquitas even if it gets him into trouble.

Enjoyment: good no.7.

Well, watching this anime really is enjoyable in the sense that you can empathize yourself with the characters. Even if it is a short novel, it is worth watching.

Overall: good no.7.

The author did a good job as to how this anime goes, I guess just watching it make us realize that we should make the most out of a good thing (I’ve may have already said that), But you know, the slice of life of this anime really does reflect to everybody, I mean, one way or another we may have experience a sad goodbye and wished that it could have lasted forever, but we just can’t, and all we can do is preserve in memory the good things that we’ve experienced. And that is what this anime is all about, mediocre maybe? But it is a fact of life.

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Apr 13, 2021

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

Recommendation: This series does nothing with an interesting premise. Skip it.

The biggest problem with Kono Aozora is its structure. It was immediately apparent that this was lazily adapted from a visual novel, even though I didn't know that going in. Instead of a coherent plot, you get 2 episodes each with each of the 6 girls in the main cast. The stories are unconnected, contradictory and not even really in chronological order. Without having played it, it's obvious to me that they just adapted a 2-episode-sized chunk of each girl's route from the visual novel and threw them all together ... as a sort of collage, with a common ending for the final episode. It becomes confusing when things happen in one arc but are contradicted by events in other arcs. One example is Shizu leaving the island at the end of her arc, but then appearing in the arcs following that as though nothing has happened. It makes no sense when you try to watch it as a coherent story instead of a compilation of routes from the VN.

It's a shame because there's a kernel of an interesting idea here. The central idea the series is structured around is the transitory nature of life. In one year, the 5 girls that share a dorm with our main character Wataru will leave the island they live on forever, following the closure of the island's main industry. There's a lot of potential here for philosophical meditations on the ideas of friendship and love, and how they can change with time and distance. Unfortunately this series isn't interested in any of that. It's mostly just cheap melodrama and the boring kind of slice of life nothingness that leaves no impression on you. The idea is supposed to be that they're making memories with each other that they'll remember even though they'll never see each other again, but mostly all you see is them fighting and crying and sulking. Aside from a few parties, the happy memories are mostly offscreen as we're treated instead to mediocre drama about neglectful parents and unrequited love and plots by the evil principal to shut down the dorm. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the plot, such as it is, takes no turns at all, and simply ends with them all graduating and leaving the island. You might get a bit wistful is nostalgia is your thing, but that's the end of it, there's no epilogue, or them doing something special to stay together or anything like that. It's just over. Felt very pointless and like they never made a good case for why making those memories together was so important.

A series like this could have been salvaged with good characters, but there aren't many here. Most are either dull (Wataru, Umi, Shizu) or unlikeable (Naoko, Rinna, Miya). All the typical harem tropes are here. The sporty tsundere, the innocent childhood friend with perfect housewife skills, the emotionless loli that gets clingy when she opens up, the domineering student council president, and the klutzy rich girl. Those one line descriptions basically tell you everything you need to know about them. The one exception is Saeri, the dumb and immature teacher that comes through in the clutch when they need her. She's easily the best character in the show. Normally I would find a teacher being part of MC's harem kind of icky and objectionable, but it sort of works with Saeri because she's less mature and responsible than her students and both students and teachers alike treat her like she's still a student herself. Saeri alone isn't able to make this series worth watching though. Pass on it.

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