Story - 8 - For me the story really started to shape in the latter half of the series and the real meat of the story became rushed in my eyes due to that which kind of limited the depth into which the story could proceed. I felt as though there was a little bit of filler, or at least I didn't feel as though the episode in question had any real bearing upon the totality of the story. My dilemma with the story was that it started slow and ended fast so the pace was quite off but I think the melding of those moments of lightheartedness with those of gloom offset my complaint about the pace.
Art - 6 - Overall the art wasn't something special to me but I think more than the art, there were certain moments which were brilliantly drawn, mainly the flashbacks and being a not very detail oriented person, I didn't notice anything that was out of the ordinary with the style of art.
Sound - 6 - I think the voice acting was decent although the change in puberty for one of the characters was a little bit exaggerated. The OP and ED were alright although I prefer the OP much more than the ED. I absolutely hated Aoi's voice .
Character - 7 - I definitely enjoyed the characters and honestly, there isn't much I found that was disagreeable with me in the characters. I think they did a pretty good job with developing the back stories of the characters except for like one.
Overall - 7 - It was an alright anime overall nothing too special, and I think that's only because I saw AnoHana before I saw this. I think the least enjoyable part of the story was the ending or just how the ending was put forth. It didn't really match the rest of the story, well at least the presentation didn't.
