For some people who loves action & fighting anime, they will find this anime boring because it’s indeed focus on story, mood, symbolism, and dialogue. This anime illustrated all of main characters’ feelings perfectly, although underage audience (below 17) will not immediately understand the mood. When I said 17+, it’s not like this anime is full of ecchi or mature scene, it’s because this anime plays with audience’s feelings, therefore the audience must be mature enough to understand everything this anime brought to them.
Have you ever feel losing something or someone that you really loves? Or the feeling of uncertainty like “I will made it tommorow,” but actually nothing happened, no progress, but you still desperately trying to do the same thing like an idiot? Oh yeah, that feeling is really reallly frustrating, isn’t it? If you haven’t, when you finished watching this anime, you will definitely understand that kind of feelings. Yes, even though you maybe haven’t felt that feelings before, you will understand, because this anime is very superb, it could force you to imagine like this “What if I stood at Takaki’s shoes? What should I do?” That kind of confusion, regret. It’s very simple when I told you by words, but what if you feel like that? And yeah, not every slice-of-life anime could done this, only masterpieces that could REALLY play with audience’s feelings. Yep, I mean REALLY. I’ve seen many animes that tried to do the same thing but failed. It made my tears fell down because of laughing, man.. instead of crying.
Beside that story & mood thingy, one thing that make me impressed: the art. The artwork is indeed very detail and beautiful. When a train comes, for example, WOW that’s amazing! The lighting effect is very realistic and beautiful. The event illustration also, especially the ending scene. Damn, it describes the situation perfectly and very fit with the ED song’s lyrics. That’s the first time I paused a scene because I’m crying (approximately 1-2 minutes paused, that quite a long time, LOL).
Alright, this is what anime should like. This anime didn’t have any fanservice, LOL. If it has, it will DEFINITELY ruin the mood. Recent anime makers should take a lesson from this anime. I’m sick of anime that ONLY sell fanservice, not story or other important things like OST. But if that anime have superb characters, I dont mind though, LOL.
I hope there will be an anime like this one sometime in the future. Yeah, I hope! :)
