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finished this series in one sitting. got seriously hooked after watching one episode after another. obviously, i did enjoy this one! i'll probably follow -Riri-'s advice by reading the last volume of the manga.

good one, good one!!

This show had such an unique feel to it. Loved every minute of it.

Seeing them all grown up after 8 years... all those years in high school.. all beautiful memories. :,)

It's over :(

This is the perfect ending, even if for my taste its a little sad.A wonderful tale about friendship and love, but a realistic one. Watanabe and Kanno have made another masterpiece!

I read some comments and some people say it was a perfect ending or even the best ending, but I can't see that, it was a good ending indeed, but it seemed that Sentarou would never come back to his family or reveal where he was, nor will Kaoru go after Ritsuko. It has been 8 years, that's a hell of a long time, it was about time to Sentarou do something, appearing on that picture didn't seem a plan, the odds of them seeing that was very low. Kaoru leaving Ritsuko alone was something I couldn't understand too, I felt bad for her, and if it wasn't because that picture she was going to be alone forever?

I'm not complaining about it (tough it seems so), like I said, it was a good ending, but not the best/perfect one because I think that if nobody who knows them would see that picture, they would stay as they were forever.

At first i didn't have a high expectations for this anime, but when i decide it to watch it.... ..... ...... OMG!

I finished the anime in just 1 day.. x3 (well it's just 12 eps though) xD
this anime giving me the shiver.. xD the song is so good ( i love all Yuki song ) and the story about friendship, first love, family..

my biggest regret is, the ending is not having so much closure.. x3 the three of them are just seeing each other and laugh and then... ... FIN
WTF!! o,O
it is still 1 of the great storyline though.. XD (now onto the Sakamichi no Apollon Manga) x3

Just finished watching the series. A very-very generous rating would definitely be 8/10 from me! (honestly 7/10, but oh man this was so enjoyable to watch!)

But oh man..that last episode.. I cried out buckets, a nice steady amount of tears n' joy.

Of course, the last episode could've been better..but praise God because I haven't cried like that in awhiles :)

I like how this guy makes his first post just so he can use a screenshot of the anime as a meme haha.

This anime was brilliant, but this ending was beyond rushed. Sentaro seriously left his family/friends behind for 8 years after that accident, then they expect to pick right where they left off? It's okay to ditch people who care about you for almost a decade because you'll still be cool just like that?

No dude, just no.

Anime ending adaptation was pretty half-assed, I'm off to the manga to see how the story really ends :)

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that ending was so unsatisfying. The whole of this episode was unsatisfying!

First of all, why the hell did Sen just run off like that?! WHYYYYY?!?!?!? And then Nishimi just became so rude to Ritsuko and also ran away. Felt so bad for her..

And then all of a sudden there's a time skip of EIGHT years?!? That is far too long and it made me feel completely disconnected with them.. I mean, the anime spends the entire time building their characters and you really get to know them, but then suddenly you don't really know them anymore, who knows whats happened to them during these eight year...

So anyway, they meet up and everything is fine and dandy? (I get the feeling that they performed the piece they were originally going to do at the third-year festival)

Man, that was so rushed. So extremely rushed. And that leaves me disappointed. Because the 11 episodes before it were excellent.

wow 12 episodes back to back and finished at 4 in the morning ,did not expect to stay this late but just couldn't drop it, i'm really glad i decided to watch this though i have to admit i would've liked a definite ending but basically the song at the end says that the melody is stuck in the head just like love so that's basically implying the love is still there for kaoru and ri chan (or so i hope) ,a definite 10/10 for me ,packed with great emotional scenes but without forced drama ,a new favorite for me

How come that all anime series i don't expect much of turn out to be great series. Maybe I'm still in the heat of the moment but i fucking loved the ending.

Wow. LOVED the ending. I was getting sick of each one of the characters behaviours during the latter half of the series, prompting me to rate it a 7. They all literally got unbearably stupid in one way or another. This ending though...pulled it up to an 8. It's dissatisfying, I believe, if you want the anime to end like most anime do: happy and perfect with rainbows and unicorns. But it doesn't. From the moment Nishimi left for college, the episode got superb. Ri'ko running on the platform, saying goodbye with a big smile...couldn't have done it better. I didn't expect the 8 year time jump and honestly that's a good thing. A poster here said how the gap made him/her totally disconnect with the characters, and I'm pretty sure that was the point. You're not supposed to know them anymore. It's the future. Things have changed. Life goes on. That's why it's so special when they reconnect. It's like old times...like they're the same people they once were...like nothing changed. I think we all need to get out of this fantasy that two people who meet in high school will end up getting married. It does happen, of course, but often times it doesn't. The way that they dealt with Ri'ko getting married to someone else and Nishimi throwing himself into work was very realistic and unexpected from an anime. I've got nothing but praise for this ending, because even though during the rest of the show I wasn't deeply connected with the characters, I got choked up at their reintroduction. The way they played the theme song when Sen and Nishimi were running freely was perfect and, considering how the last few episodes panned out, nostalgic.

"This melody....is like love."

I was expecting an end of this kind, because it did seem Sentaro wouldnt get the girl.
Overall, 9/10. Really loved it.

Very nice show was happy with the ending but their wasen't enough closure thank god for the manga if anyone else didn't get enough closure from watching the ending like I did I highly recommend reading the manga at least the last chapters and the bonus track chapter it will put your mind at ease ^_^

If you ask me, nothing happened at all in this episode.

The ending with the three of them standing together gave me the shivers <3

all i got to say is that i fucking loved it

I like this ending better than the manga. Having an open end where it's up to the readers/watchers to form his/her own ending based on his/her understanding of the story are the best IMO.