{"id":393,"date":"2012-03-30T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animationrevelation.com\/readables\/?p=393"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:04:28","slug":"end-of-season-review-ano-natsu-de-matteru-daemoncorps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationrevelation.com\/readables\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"End of Season Review: Ano Natsu de Matteru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last year, I was getting caught up on one of the Summer\u2019s better anime titles: We Still Don\u2019t Know the Name of the Flower we Saw that Day<\/em><\/a> (or Ano Hana<\/em> if you like fake Japanese shorthand). At 11 episodes total, I was able to plow through the episodes in less than a week. The series was about a group of estranged friends trying to get over their differences after the ghost of one of their other childhood friends comes back in hopes of fulfilling a wish in order to cross over. While the death of their friend left the rest of the cast with some obvious flaws character-wise, you were still able to care about each of them, having been shown what their friendship used to be like oh so many years ago.<\/p>\n

Not true for We’ll Be Waiting that Summer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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We’ll Be Waiting that Summer<\/em> (or Ano Natsu<\/em> in fake Japanese shorthand) is a short 12-episode series about a group of teens, and shares the same director as Ano Hana<\/em>. Sadly the list of similarities stops there.<\/p>\n

The main protagonist is Kaito, who essentially looks and acts exactly like Kensuke<\/a> from Evangelion<\/em>. For reasons initially not explained, he has an obsession with recording everything on an 8mm handheld camera. He\u2019s out recording one day when, in a plot twist similar to that of a certain Abrams\/Spielberg movie, he happens to be caught in the middle of an alien ship crash landing to Earth. He wakes up the next day at home with no recollection of the crash, and heads to school where he\u2019s introduced to a foxy new transfer student. In an attempt to get closer to the student, Kaito\u2019s friend asks some upperclassmen (new transfer student included) if they\u2019d like to make a film with them over break.<\/p>\n

Up until this point, the series does a good job of setting up the cast of characters and how the viewers expect them to act. However, things take a turn for the trite when the gang conveniently wins a vacation to Okinawa, where the majority of the series\u2019 love triangle nonsense happens. This, not-so-coincidentally enough, is also where the series begins to falter and I immediately start to lose interest in any of the characters. Normally when it comes to character A liking B, but B liking C, types of stories, even in the case that the ship you support fails, the story is still able to make it up to you by having the unpaired character finish their character arc in a way that isn\u2019t just essentially saying \u201cdeal with it.\u201d Not true for Ano Natsu<\/em>. Once hints of characters showing an interest in other characters show up, the entire cast begins to act frustratingly irrationally to the point that you\u2019re not just questioning their actions\u2014you\u2019re completely in opposition to them. With three episodes to go, I could barely stand where the plot has brought the characters, and things were only made worse when I was reminded that the series was also part sci-fi.<\/p>\n

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\nBy the end of the series, there\u2019s something that some people might suggest resemble a conclusion in which focus goes to neither character A ending up with character B, or A with C, but the entire cast as a whole, with all loose ends tied up as the credits roll. It\u2019s one of those series I would<\/em> recommend if there wasn\u2019t any other series that did a better job with the same theme, but since there are then I\u2019ll just say skip this and watch Ano Hana<\/em> instead. At least then you\u2019ll cry for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late last year, I was getting caught up on one of the Summer\u2019s better anime titles: We Still Don\u2019t Know the Name of the Flower we Saw that Day (or Ano Hana if you like fake Japanese shorthand). At 11 episodes total, I was able to plow through the episodes in less than a week. The series was about a group of estranged friends trying to get over their differences after the ghost of one of their other childhood friends…<\/p>\n

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