Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. Movie

I'm a big fan of the Ano Hana series, and rate it in my top 2 most tear jerking anime. When I heard that a movie was coming out, which was a gonna be a recap from a different perspective, I was a little apprehensive to say the least, whether or not they would be able to come anywhere close to how good the series was. Let me tell you I wasn't disappointed. Without further adieu let me start the review.

Story 8/10
Now this movie isn't flawless, but none the less very enjoyable. To give you a summary, it basically revisits the major events of the ... first series while adding to it bits and pieces of additional story, giving it a refreshing new feel. Half way through the movie, I was like this is pretty good, but no way is it going to make me cry like the series did. Boy was I wrong! The ending really lets loose those tears even though you know exactly whats going to happen. That just goes to show how well they executed it. The one thing which I didn't really enjoy was the fact that they kept jumping to and fro in the story line, which although has its own charm, still felt a little confusing.

Characters 10/10
From the new parts added giving us a behind the scenes look at what each person felt as they were writing their letters to Menma, it really managed to achieve a level of character development not seen in other recap movies. What most of us would like to see if the original series had continued was probably how the relationships between the characters would change after Menma moved on. Though not much, the movie does touch upon this, and I'm glad it did.

Art 10/10
Wow! Not a lot of series can boast a bright and colorful animation style quite like this series had, and the movies does just as good a job, if not better. The character designs are still flawless, and the kids still just as cute. Nothing to complain about here.

Sound 10/10
Although I did miss the opening and closing music that I loved from the parent series, the background music and voice acting in the movie are impeccable, with not much left to improve on. Moving on...

Enjoyment 9/10
What can I say?I'm not gonna beat around the bush here, I came here looking to board the feels train, and I got a first class ticket.

Overall 9/10
A great new take on a classic. Has its ups and downs but still worth the ride. If your a fan of the series, give it a watch. And just to let you know there's a little bit left after the credits, so be sure to catch that too.

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Review for Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.Movie
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The low score is because of my personal experience of the movie

If you have just completed watching the anime,I don't recommend watching this, I have watched the complete season of Ano Hana over the coarse of a couple days, and after watched this movie, This is my mistake for not reading the synopsis.

This movie is essentially retelling the important events of the season. It may be a great conclusion to the story but watching it with the season still fresh in mind means watching scenes you have already seen over again.
Honestly ... most of this movie are scenes from the main season.

But if you enjoyed the season enough to want to sit through that then go ahead otherwise I recommend watching this a few weeks/months/year(s) or after watching a couple seasons of something else.

I just watched this film at the Aniplex showing at the downtown independent. There was no reason for this movie to exist other than as a cash grab. The movie added nothing to the series except tacking on that menma was apparently a loner? Way to tack on the typical pseudo character development cliche onto a character that still remains completely shallow. This movie wasted its opportunities of having character development in all sectors. They turn popo into a running gag instead of developing him (granted they did 2 good scenes showing off his character)and Jintan remains just as shallow as menma. They act all ... "buddy like" but we don't even see much bonding. Outside of the shack we see them split off into pairs, never venturing off together outside of 1 shrine; as if to say if there wasn't this dead girl we wouldn't even be friends. To top all of that off they leave anaru where she left off in the series because"friendship", if they were gonna go that route why bother teasing us with a few scenes of her anyway?, really faulty logic there. It really does pain me to write this because i really enjoyed the series but this movie was such a huge let down and was made for the wrong reasons.