Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Vintage:
October 4, 2007
Status:
Completed
Summary:
Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and gambling. This results in fights between the two until Tomoya's shoulder is injured in a fight. Since then, Tomoya has had distant relationships with his father, causing him to become a delinquent over time. While on a walk to school, he meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeating due to illness. Due to this, she is often alone as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out and slowly, as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction.
The backgroundstories of the girls are really good, only Tomoyo was a bit disappointing. An other good element is that the background explanation of a girl can sometimes be many episodes apart from the introduction of that girl which gives you the time to first "get to know her" so you can fully sympathise with her.
The dialogue can be really good and funny but the comedy parts are too far apart for my taste.
Nothing special was done with the animation which is good because it would only ruïn it.
Even though it wasn't humorious enough to be my kind of series, I still enjoyed it.