Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Be ready to jump on the feels train, because we are going to talk about Anohana today!

"Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day", or "Ano Hi Mita Hana No Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai" in Japanese, is a Coming-of-age anime, manga, movie and live action. I'll be only talking about the short, 11-episode long anime though, as that is the only thing I've seen.

Jinta Yadomi, nicknamed Jintan, used to be an open child who was the leader of his and his childhood friends' group "Super Peace Busters" (which is also the name of the creators of the story!)... until one of the group's members and their fellow best friend Meiko Honma, nicknamed "Menma", died at a young age from an accident that affected everyone in the group and made them quickly and tragically enough drift apart. As time went by, best friends became strangers, relationships develops or crumbles and they grow up to become individual teenagers with individual lives. Everyone is trying to leave their memories behind, but this effort turns out to be futile... especially when Menma's ghost appears one day at Jintan's place! Menma is older too, but looks the same otherwise. What is different is that only Jintan can see her. Menma tells Jintan that she cannot move onto the afterlife until her wish gets granted, though she does not know herself what this wish is, so it is now up to Jintan to reunite Super Peace Busters in order for everyone to help not only Menma move on, but also help themselves move on.

I must say that this anime was funny, romantic, tragic, quirky... pretty much a very well made Coming-of-age story! A very touching story about life and death, which is a topic we all can relate to, making the concept even stronger. I can admit that I cried at the last episodes... so incredibly touching.

I was enjoying the anime so much that I actually did not notice any negative things about it; all in all, I thought only positive things and saw much more pros than cons (if I saw any cons at all, honestly). I would highly recommend this anime to everyone who is looking for something with a little bit of everything in one package, and also the ones who is looking to shed a tear or two! Overall rating of Anohana: 9/10!

Super Peace Busters, left to right: Chiriko "Tsuruko" Tsurumi, Atsumu "Yukiatsu" Matsuyuki, Meiko "Menma" Honma, Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi, Naruko "Anaru" Anjo, Tetsudou "Poppo" Hisakawa.

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