Natsuyuki Rendezvous

Ryousuke Hazuki is a young man whose heart has been stolen away, stopping by the local floral shop daily in order to catch a glimpse of the beautiful Rokka Shimao, the shop's owner. In hopes of getting close to her, he decides to get a part-time job at the shop, but before he is able to make his move, he runs into a major roadblock: in her apartment dwells a ghost who claims to be Rokka's deceased husband.

Atsushi Shimao has quietly watched over his widowed wife ever since he passed three years ago. However, Hazuki is the first person to ever notice him, and the two quickly find themselves at odds: the jealous Shimao attempts to thwart the suitor's advances and possess his body, while Hazuki simply wants the ghost to pass on for good, allowing Rokka to move on from the past and him to be with the one he loves. As both men refuse to let go of their desires, an unusual relationship forms between a troubled woman, an unrelenting ghost, and a stubborn man in love.

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Hazuki, Ryousuke Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Shimao, Atsushi Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Shimao, Rokka Main

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Shimao, Miho Supporting

Touma, Yumi Japanese

Customer Supporting

Nakamura, Chie Japanese

Akko Supporting

Miyake, Marie Japanese

Kamata, Hajime Producer

Yoshizawa, Takashi Producer

Ozaki, Noriko Producer

Takahashi, Atsushi Producer

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Oct 20, 2022

VanAugur

Recommended

Great music, anime is filled with emotions. Loved the show. It's lenght is ideal. Hazuki's adventure inside that dream world was unnecessary and too long. But after all anime is only 11 eps so nothing takes too long to watch. It tells the sadness of someone lost and also the difficulty to love again, mixed emotions about loyalty, love of a young man etc. Story is unique as far as I know. We all have seen animes with talking ghosts but its focus is different from other shows like this. Art style and songs are fitting for the story, they are perfect. Characters were well ... rounded. I dont't see any plot holes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 24, 2024

theffingmonster

Mixed Feelings

I think I hated this show so bad because it was made well. I could've also hated it because the plot is genuinely bad and unenjoyable.
The husband being there just made the first half of this series so uncomfortable to watch. The second part was just upsetting, dragged on forever, and felt quite pointless and had many random things going on. Maybe these are the feelings that they meant to stir, maybe it was just bad.
Either way I'm sure there are people out there who would like this but this is not for me at all. The characters felt quite awkward and stiff ... and the feelings with hazuki seemed a bit forced. I'm just glad it's over at this point.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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Oct 22, 2020

BlackkSakura

Not Recommended

I will make it SPOILER FREE and SHORT

I thought i will never give an anime such a low score but this one deserves it aand i will tell you why.

Story starts pretty solid from first episode, you get some introduction and actually has a potential to be something promising. Aand it lasted whole episode, in the second one plot is turning to a flat line of nothingness. Does not develop from that in any smart way. Plot is full of illogical twists, besides, it has link to wonderland (it is not spoiler but you have to be prepared, you need special mind set for that ... and i am not even joking).

Art is just poor, unfortunately it was nothing special to me and animation was often blurry. In one episode i almost got seizure when image per second dropped to 0.5ish.

Sound was also something poor, it is like putting icing on a ruined cake, in a few moments it did emphasize melancholy but other than that it had no 'character'. It was as plot, just a strait line.

Characters... Oh my.. where to start. Well we have some basic 'stereotypes', like boy in 20s who has split personality between obsessed teenage boy and sexual predator. Another boy and that one is definition of pathetic dude in every way possible and in the end a retarded girl who don't know how to express her feelings, sorry for expression but i am so mad writing this... THERE WAS NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, NO SIDE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.

I did not enjoy single second of watching after 1st episode.

This anime is illogical, unreal and so twisted up it makes me sick. It has no point what so ever, except to kill yourself or be immoral and stupid. Anime which relies and has base on reality and relationship between people in one second and few minutes later makes contradiction without explanation why in the first place and then continues expanding deeper meaning in opposite.
The only good thing in this anime (for me) was the idea how it all started and that is why i watched till the end. I would have dropped loong time ago. This was just waste of my time.

If anyone says that this anime make sense please do private message me explaining me how. Maybe i missed something or i am just too plain stupid for this one. I would write more but i will stick to that spoiler free part.

I will throw a bone here, just to explain my claims. How can u differentiate love from obsession? Can human have no emotion seeing girl he think he loves?

Hope this helped,
have a good one

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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