Throughout every single episode, you'll be laughing, crying, pondering, and a bunch of other "-ing"s, because it's just that good. I simply cannot praise it enough. I'm so sad it had only 11 episodes, but I also believe that if they dragged it out, it would ruin the show. Nevertheless, I would have liked if they had made 2 or 3 episodes more, but that's just me.
The immense awesomeness of this series made me seriously want to become one of those old-school bartenders, much like Ryū is (none of that club-bartending for me), or at the very least learn how to make coctails for friends. And that's when you know you have a good anime. When you aspire to be like one of the characters, while still retaining a sense of realism of your abilities. I mean... a lot of people would like to be ninjas, but that doesn't mean they're going to Kage Bunshin no Jutsu their way out of going to work/school any time soon (I just broke someone's hopes and dreams, didn't I?).
It is that atmosphere of "unrealistic realism", in the sense of "everything you see, could very well happen in everyday life in a bar. It's not very likely, but gosh I hope it does" that helps set the entire mood. It's calm, welcoming, and the setting just affects you somehow on an emotional level without you ever really noticing it until that one tear rolls down your cheek. After a while, you want a bar like Eden Hall to exist and you want there to be a bartender like Ryū to serve you cocktails and to whom you can open up to. Anywho, in conclusion, watch this utterly, utterly awesome anime, I'll guarantee you that you'll like it.
