2014, 13 episodes:
AniDB
Teenage romance and premonitory powers in contemporary small-town
Japan.
Five school friends have grown up together; a new boy arrives in
town, and causes confusion. But he has occasional flashes of what
might be the future, and so does one of the girls.
The early episodes are a little reminiscent of a more rural version of
Kokoro Connect
(2012), but the romantic complications and the premonitions are both
really just background detail and character motivation for the
slice-of-life story about growing up that's really what this show is
about.
With six principals there's never really time to establish any of them
in detail, and the total lack of explanation of anyone's backgrounds
doesn't help: most of the people know more about each other from the
beginning than the viewer will ever learn, which would be fine if we
stuck to the perspective of the new girl, but we don't. The viewer
gradually picks up what's going on as the story progresses, and early
episodes might perhaps warrant a re-watch afterwards.
Where this series does shine is in the art, both the backgrounds and
the details of objects (the female protagonist works in the family
glassblowing studio). The music's reasonably solid too, never
obtruding but effectively setting the mood.
Not a favourite series but certainly more fun than I expected it to be
from the opening episodes.
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