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Tsuki ga Kirei emerges as a soft and refreshing return from recent anime’s of its category. Like new camera models incorporating older designs, Tsuki ga Kirei goes back to basics, focusing on the innocent, nostalgic, and far less melodramatic relationships of old that we recall in our own lives. Free of the hum drum of mainstream anime and its recent ubiquity, the story unfolds honestly, consistently, and with light and subtle flourishes. The combination of these features and the absence of ridiculous progressions (or hindering) in the story and characters allows for an experience that is far more satisfying, in-depth, and true to nature than ... the quick hit, quick elation, anime’s of the same genre.

Looking at it from a much more critical perspective of its work, the art and music flow well with the storyline that the anime endeavours to pedal. A softer approach to art and its muted colour palette, produces a visual aspect that is consistent (something lacking to anime as of late) to the story yet pleasing to the viewer. In regards to the soundtrack (which have always been of heavy interest to me), Tsuki ga Kirei plays the melody of the march it weaves particularly well. It does well in matching elations in sound and in story or contributing curiousity, the spirit of youth, and sheer beauty of life in the peals of its piano strikes, its long and short draws of string, its ambient sound, and/or its use of deafening silence (see wind chime tunnel scene, 14m13s, in Episode 8).

Tsuki ga Kirei is a welcome departure from the status quo but at the same time, its stripped-down view of a pure relationship and the simple and even, nostalgic, story and storytelling warrants a warm and hearty: okaerinasai.