Ano Natsu de Matteru

 
 
 
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Genre: Comedy, Love-Romance, Science-Fiction, Ecchi, School Life
Status: Licensed
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Kit-Tsukasa
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Jun 5 2012 08:41 PM
Ano Natsu de Matteru, a show that is brought to us by the original character designer of Onegai Teacher from 2002. Furthermore, Toradora and Ano Hana staff members Tatsuyuki Nagai and Masayoshi Tanaka returned for this show. So how did this show do?

Well to start the story started off typical “sudden girlfriend appearance” but what made it much more interesting is how she ended up being an extension of a longer love polygon. The love polygon was very big in this series and likely the biggest eye catcher when you actually don’t have much mutual feelings going on between any two parties (obviously except between Kaito and Ichika). The drama that poured out in the middle of the series (starting around 4) and all the way through episode 10 was what really defined the series. Everything after that was primarily rubbish. In those six episodes, we received strong character development and a strong sense of emotion equivalent to that seen in the recent Ano Hana. So what went wrong? The ending… I’m not too strict about Ichika returning, which was definitely expected, but I was very disappointed with the way they handled how everyone made it out of the conflicts…i.e. the whole MIB business. Yes…as big of a troll Lemon is, I was quite disappointed that the show went from what could have been a “relative slice-of-life” title into a completely supernatural one. While the show was supernatural to begin with given the alien premise, it could have easily been overlooked had it not been for all the wacky stuff at the end. I will say, however, the Mizuho-sensei reference at the end was very nicely done and basically revealed that this series is indeed an indirect sequel of Onegai Teacher. While that was hinted at since episode 1, I’m actually kind of glad that they threw in the easter egg anyways.

Art was very nostalgic that made the series feel more retro than present day. This is likely due to Taraku Uon as the original character designer, which certainly was not a bad thing. J.C. Staff as animators wasn’t too bad for this show. Certainly better than some of the stuff they’ve recently done though. Not much to say here.

OP/ED were both very nice and the background music was quite fair too. Seiyuus were the big highlights for this show. A nice mix of long-time veterans, such as Haruka Tomatsu as Ichika, Hideki Ogihara as Tetsurou, Kana Asumi as Mio, and Yukari Tamura as Lemon, and new seiyuus such as Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kaito and Kaori Ishihara as Kanna. For a drama show with much emotion the casting was nicely done and the seiyuus all did a great job in their respective roles. Very nice to also see Yukari Tamura as Lemon given her strong resemblance both physically and behaviorally as Ichigo Morino in Onegai Teacher. Furthermore, recasting Kikuko Inoue as Mizuho in the final few moments of the series was a big plus.

Enjoyment? Well I can’t say I looked forward to this every week after a certain point given how long it took me to finish this after keeping up with it early on.

Overall, the Ano Hana staff got too greedy is what I think what happened. They tried to make another heart-wrenching series like Ano Hana yet decided they had to throw in another supernatural phenomenon. In the case of Ano Hana it was a ghost girl and here it’s an alien. Supernatural is nice and all, but there are times when slice-of-life drama does not mix with it and it’s a very thorny path when you start going down it. The series didn’t fail per say and if anything I’d say it was much more emotional than Ano Hana in various aspects. I can’t help but reiterate “the ending killed it” for this show though and it’s definitely going to haunt this series.

Preliminary Score: 8/10
Final Score: 7/10

Killer_Ossi
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Apr 8 2012 10:09 AM
I really liked the ending until the very last minute, but the very last minute totally killed it. I knew they would destroy it again with bringing Ichika back after she was gone for good.

Overall this eries was not as good as I hoped.
I loved the drama, but the comedy totally sucked.
Characterwise everyone was ok except for Lemon. Unlike everyone else I wouldve wished for her to not be in the anime since she destroyed a lot of good scenes (and the van was a totally horrible idea -.-).
The main negative point of this show is that sometimes things were totally ridiculous like people popping up whereever its convinient as if the whole cast were hardcore stalkers or Lemons stupid van.

6/10 from me, it couldve been far better.

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Norren
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Apr 2 2012 02:05 PM
That reminds me of something that nagged at me the whole time - they had a good reason for the protagonist's retro camera, that being that he found it in his parents' stuff.

... but absolutely none what so ever for Lemon's retro camera.
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Apr 2 2012 10:14 AM
Yayyyy i finished watching this one too. This was a nice mushy series that tugged at you all the way till the last 10 seconds. While none of the individual concepts were new, it wrapped everything together nicely into a solid package. Rinon was such a troublemaker, and its no surprise that they used the mib bit after referencing it so many times and lemon being such an opportunistic troll. The ending felt a little rushed and there was an excessive amount of angst in the series, but it ended how a series like this should, on a happy heartwarming note. Im also gonna dock points for the use of a black turtleneck, thick glasses, and a retro camera to try to make it "cool and unique." I think the series coulda been a bit better if kanna didnt run away after saying something all the time too. Geez girl, you dont give people the chance to talk!

8/10, i like sappy animes that end well
Hyuuga
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Mar 27 2012 11:13 AM
I have to agree the series overall was very good but the ending tying everything together with Lemon-Chan being MIB was great!!!


Also the fact that Tetsurō's sister husband is MIB explains alot especially the fact that Tetsuro's sister and lemon knew each and Lemon's commment "forever seventeen"

But the best quote of the last episode was tetsuro's sister and Kanna in the car being chased and she yells for her husband to save her because "this thing is going to rape me"



Kid-Wolf
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Mar 27 2012 09:43 AM
Okay so this whole series was kind fo a side story of a cerain MiB agent Lemon afterall. Although if you ask me it does explain a whole lot of things as to why they were pulling a bit of a running gag from that setup though.

In any case it fully explains as to how Lemon was at the right place at the right time most of the time. Not only that, but how she had the right equipment for the job as well.

Anyways prety much the ending was to be expected along with the ending at the end of the credits as well. As for cute alien girl series it was an okay series, granted it was mostly all about that one summer that they all had together.
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Mar 27 2012 03:12 AM
QUOTE (Norren @ Mar 26 2012, 11:02 PM)
From the random MIBs to the movie review to the subtle finale with it's callback quote.


Ah...yes! The subtle sweetness of I-chan standing there...Rimon on her shoulder and that fine Bolivian vest... well done! Bravo! Encore! Ah well...
Ausdoerrt
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Mar 27 2012 03:05 AM
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in case I'm wrong also they never said the words "Men in Black" or what those letters stand for there ¬¬


I believe they did spell it out the first time it came up.

EDIT: Barbo checked the wiki faster than I did

EDIT2: The new MiB movie trailer makes it look amazing btw.
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Mar 27 2012 02:49 AM
QUOTE (Norren @ Mar 27 2012, 02:02 AM)
That was an awesome ending. From the random MIBs to the movie review to the subtle finale with it's callback quote.

On MIB: Isn't MIB a comic first, movie later? The comic companies have been working with Japan here and there in recent years, ne?

It was a comic first from the early 90's, but after some googling apparently the MIB mythos, ie a secret organization dealing with UFOs and the like in black attire, goes back to the 50's and 60's too.
Norren
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Mar 27 2012 02:02 AM
That was an awesome ending. From the random MIBs to the movie review to the subtle finale with it's callback quote.

On MIB: Isn't MIB a comic first, movie later? The comic companies have been working with Japan here and there in recent years, ne?
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