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Well, considering this is my first review, let’s see how we go!

It’s time to delve into the world of a high school student who has an activated 6th sense. Every day life for her is a mixture between making new friends and catching up with many other interesting people she has met over the course of her life. For Amami, this life of communicating with the living and the dead is all she has known. Her gift was passed down from her mother when she was born, who is just as kind and compassionate as she is.

Fast forwarding into her schooling life where she is ... introduced rather abruptly to her new best-friend-to-be Inoue. Mix in an ex-Yakuza member, a furious blogger, the girl who has a knack for finding the adorable in everything and an energetic high school boy for a healthy balance and there you have the ingredients for a rather heartwarming show.

Each episode takes you day by day into the life of these teenagers, exploring many different scenarios relating to the living and the dead. It shows you grief, sadness, acceptance and introduces you to many interesting characters who are from the other side of the veil.

As much as I seem to be chatting this show up right now, I wish I could put more substance into this review than what I am. Unfortunately, that substance isn’t apparent because that is all the show is. High school students roaming around the city and dealing with events surrounding death and loss.

Don’t get me wrong. Each episode had something which most people can relate to. The sudden death of a loved one, coming to terms with a person lost a long time ago, moving on and finding acceptance in someone’s passing. However, out of the 13 episodes this show had to offer, only two of them actually made me care about what was going on. This for me is a little upsetting, because this show could have had so much more going for it. Instead, it turned into background noise while I played a game in another window or browsed my Social Media outlets.

The characters, even though were enjoyable at the time, in hindsight are just the typical anime characters you see in every school based slice of life. Each episode seemed like a repetition of the same typical genre points and the only episodes which seemed to have any kind of working plot line where two towards the end. Which in turn forces me to leave this review here rather incomplete and unsatisfactory, likely to coincide with how I felt about the show.