Minase Koda's life is going through a rollercoaster and it only gets rockier as she somehow gets a radio director for her to have her own radio show since she's is extremely talkative about her private life, everything from her job to her love life, now her undertaking a radio job all under that whilst juggling everything else, this is Nami yo Kiitekure.
For the most part, Nami yo Kiitekure's story focus is mainly on our narrative focus and main character Minare Koda a person that talks before thinking but it THAT that is both the charm of this anime as well as her surrounding herself in her hectic life she puts herself in, from her oblivious feelings for Chuuya Nakahara voiced by Masaaki Yano, Yoshiki Takarada voiced by Bin Shimada, the owner of the restaurant Koda works in having an accident and both Chuuya and her having to manage it, the radio job given to her and being a complete amateur getting to grips of it as much of a natural she is and all the crazy hijnks she gets "just to get a story".
Right from the off, since radio is something of a "dying medium", Nami yo Kiitekure looking into what makes radio radio is interesting and how they explain things is in similar respect, how they do it naturally like Shirobako with anime. The better part of this is, is that Kanetsugu Matou voiced by Shinshuu Fuji the manager of Koda's radio show likes to be unconventional with how Koda's show is, one part reflecting in Koda's life...you know what they say about the best acting coming from your own experiences and two Matou seeing Koda's life already hectic and crazy with Koda herself perpetrating many of it, will in turn makes for good stories thus translating that into radio is GOLD and to this end is what kept LA interested even more with this anime.
Sure Nami yo Kiitekure is mostly about Koda's crazy life with the radio job being almost secondary to Koda's personal problems but it the outlet that makes the radio element flourish alongside Koda's hectic life as a result, nonetheless is a good combo let alone the fact that Koda herself is an utterly outspoken person with no qualms at saying what she needs to damn the consequences.
Now the minor characters do gets some focus and development here and there, namely Chuuya and his psuedo relationship with Makie Tachibana voiced by Mamiko Noto and Koda essentially being in a love triangle though Koda is the oblivious one, all three of them trying to keep the restaurant afloat, Madoka's own problems with her brother, Mizuho Nanba voiced by Manaka Iwami the assistant to Matou and generally having Koda's back looking up to Koda while having her own problems, namely Katsumi Kureko voiced by Kazuhiro Yamaji the writer for the radio station and to which the sound enigeer Ryuusuke Koumoto voiced by Kaito Ishikawa has quiet feelings for Mizuho. All in all, these characters have their own little problems that are more or less dealt in the background of Koda's hectic life, some subtle, some not so but at least the minor characters goes along with Koda's crazy life.
The animation done by Sunrise was done pretty consistently and decently enough, good backgrounding and good character designs. Sunrise's crazy reactions to most of the characters namely Koda was done pretty well and overall when the atmosphere was needed, Sunrise took the right tone in animation, expected of Sunrise, really the animation was decent to great.
However the voice cast was something else, especially with Riho Sugiyama as Minare Koda as this is one of her first main roles (she did mostly bits parts in other anime) and this showed Riho's RANGE if anything with her as Minare, so easy MVP goes to Riho Sugiyama, but the rest of the cast was good as well, from Mamiko Noto as Makie, Shinshuu Fuji as Matou, Masaaki Yano as Chuuya and Manaka Iwami as Mizuho. Since Nami yo Kiitekure IS a look into radio life, expected they got some great veteran talent alongisde new blood who also blew LA's expectations with Riho Sugiyama pretty much holding the anime together.
Nami yo Kiitekure was a decent but mesmerizing anime focus on an extremely talkative but highly interesting Minare Koda's radio, romance and daily life and her hijinks she gets up to with all the characters surrounding her getting wrapped up in it all. Sure it looks at radio and the somewhat inner workings of it but Nami yo Kiitekure seems a little bit more interested in Minare but to be fair Minare herself is uniquely interesting herself.
All in all, Nami yo Kiitekure IS Minare Koda's story and life and due to this you're perspective of this anime will entirely depend on Minare Koda and as for LA, Nami yo Kiitekure was a decent romp into Minare Koda's life, quirks and all but was it a "masterpiece"?, well...it was merely decent, interesting in certain angles but nonetheless interestingly decent, much like Minare Koda's daily life as a radio jockey.
