Now, I'm definitely going to sound pompous here, but I've always thought that I had a pretty good taste in anime, but at the same time, never so elitist that I fail to just enjoy an anime without trying to criticize it to death. Well I was starting to become a bit more elitist, and then this anime came along. It really resonated with me.
You see, one of my friends had just committed suicide. Suicide. Effing SUICIDE. You always hear the stories of people whose lives were taken by their own hands, and you think, that's so sad but oh well its just some stranger in the end. And then it happens to someone you know. Someone you PERSONALLY KNEW. Someone you had talked to often, though eventually you drifted apart.
Then, as if by some divine intervention, the day after I got the news, I watched the episode where they almost committed suicide(the first time). I won't lie, it hit me. I bawled like a baby. I even felt guilty for crying, because I thought, I never really reached out to this guy, I never really tried to understand him, so I don't have the right to cry. He'd probably even laugh at me up in heaven if he saw me.
And precisely THAT is why I rated this anime so highly. Maybe it was just my own personal experience, but if that's the case, you can just treat this review as a extremely subjective opinion. This anime is amazing because it made me feel emotion that I hadn't felt in the last hundred anime I watched. It's amazing because it gave meaning to a life I didn't pay enough attention to.
