Anohana

Chiibi said:

Lol you fail at a lot of things.

gabrielrroiz said:

and you fail to answer my arguments because that seems to be your only answer

Chiibi said:


All the kids have TWO personalities; the personalities before Menma died and the ones they gained in adolescence. But the whole point of the show was to tell a story that broke a circle of tight friends and then have them reunite once more as their trauma over one event is reopened, relived, and gradually healed. You seem to be forgetting their relations to each other, however. Maybe you should watch the show again. Better yet, watch the movie.

PoeticJustice said:
Anohana is a terrible show. One of the few shows I have given a one because it is so appalling.

Depressing anime is not something I seek out though, more like try to avoid.

Chiibi said:


Yet you gave GLASSLIP a better score?

That makes me really question your sanity. lol


I don't really consider AnoHana all that depressing though. I think it's more sweet and hits you right in the feels, especially the ending because everyone was smiling through their tears. They knew Menma was happy.

Chiibi said:


YOSHI. NAKAMA DA NE.
XD Oh I have been on MAL quite a while....but sometimes I avoid it because people like gabrielrroizare so ill-natured and trollish. As you can see, they can't express their opinions about ANYTHING without using four-lettered words.
Childish, isn't it?



Menma's final farewell to the five IS A BIG MOMENT and needed to be established as such. It's not forced drama....like do you even get what "forced drama" means?

Here's a better example.

Scene: introduces character we know nothing about.
Introduces more characters we know nothing about.
Suddenly first character dies in a violent way for "shock value".
The remaining group of unknown characters start screaming and crying.

THAT'S forced drama. Trying to trigger a big reaction from the audience without properly explaining why we should care.

Anohana doesn't do that. Anohana character builds and goes into depth about each person so we DO care about them by the end.


They were WELL established outside of their relations with Menma and you know they were.

hoopla123 said:


Glasslip has this tho:

Monstrum said:
Lets be frank, this series is far more better a single movie. The 12 episodes seems to be boredom; discussing shallow puppets arguing about a ghost puppeteer.

nimbussnidget said:


I thought AnoHana was well-paced for an 11-episode series. If all the content had been condensed into a single movie, I doubt that the characterisation and storyline would have been executed as well as the actual series.

gabrielrroiz said:

i agree that it would work better as a movie if it did it would not have to strech plot points like proving menmas existence(that should be obvious)or making the final so long that it stops being sad and just feels forced

Sephiroth666z said:
Im preety tough, i never cry, most likely not about movies or anime.
Im a 23 year old male, my hobbies are sports and yes watching anime.
If my friends or my wife wouldve seen me now they wouldnt have believed their eyes.
I cried about Anohana like i cried when i was a little child.
My face was raining with tears.
I never felt so much emotion in an Anime.
But that an Anime of 11 episodes let my tears drop after the second episode and let it rain while watching episode 11. This is a first timer.
That something so little can bring out so much emotion, thats just amazing.
This one broke my hard shell in no time.
Respect for the devolper of this fantastic anime.
Rating: 10/10

Would i watch it again? Definetly, but alone. The embresmant would kill me to watch it with someone else.

MortalMelancholy said:

Nearly the entire premise was bad; there was no way for it to be good.

I hate menma with a passion.

Holybaptiser said:
People talk about sad anime without having watched Grave of the Fireflies and Now and Then, Here and There.

15poundfish said:
I think it spent way too much time trying to prove Menma exists, I think the show could have been a lot better if Menma didn't exist and the story was about the hikkimori overcoming his issues and bringing the group back together. It would be a lot more interesting than watching characters deny the obvious for 9 extra episodes and the writers trying really hard to make the unambiguous more ambiguous by adding random plot holes like Menma can't draw when the plot demands it but does it easily when nobody is around.

15poundfish said:
and the writers trying really hard to make the unambiguous more ambiguous by adding random plot holes like Menma can't draw when the plot demands it but does it easily when nobody is around.

Okarin_ said:
I feel you bro. Your experience was the same as mine.
I never cried for a fictional show in my whole life and I was known not to be a very emotional guy, I was always a little sceptical about feelings like love, sadness, depression... I thought about them as 'something that my brain should control'. That mainly happened because i never really had a time where i felt the urge to cry or manifest my emotions.
When i started watching anime and I stumbled across Anohana I was a little sceptical and I kept on saying things like "how can you be sad for someone that doesnt't even exist?" and i complained about it on social medias (we all have done that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)), but in the end I decided to give it a shot. MY GOD WAS IT WORTH IT.
It completely annihilated me. It destroyed my heart. It ripped my feelings apart.
I cried non-stop for about two hours and I was sad for the next three months, even now I get a little emotional when I hear Secret Base or Aoi Shiori.
We can say AnoHana broke my indifference shell and showed me a 'whole new world'. I won't say it changed my life, it would be a little too much, but it definitely changed my perspective about things.
Once again, I FEEL YOU BRO.
(C'mon, cry with me one more time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgzuOXKd6Sg)

BurntJelly said:
Let me check my list...

Anohana: Scored 1, Dropped
Grave of the Fireflies: Scored 1, Dropped
Now and Then, Here and There: Scored 1, Dropped

They were all horribly boring.

Neon Genesis IMPACTS only needed 7 minutes to induce sobbing.

jal90 said:

Not that I fully disagree with the rest of your post, but that is not a plot hole and never has been.

There's nothing in the narrative of AnoHana that pointed at the characters being efficient and able to find the easiest solution as soon as they are introduced the problem. In fact they were in denial for a long while, which kind of has to do with their emotional ties and state of mind.

Sephiroth666z said:

But hell jeah, menma was cute, mostly the first episode where she was craving for curry haha.

Chiibi said:


No, she wanted to eat egg-drop ramen....which I'm not exactly sure how to create. XD I think it's how they can put an egg yolk into the broth without cooking the yolk or something. o_o