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Originally Posted by KaoruAoiShiho
Am I the only one who was completely unwhelmed by this series? I'm up to the second to last episode and it just seems quite dull? I heard that the writer originally intended it to be a raunchy romcom but then the director forced her to change it to some ghost story. Can't help but feel like that destroyed the show for me?
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You'll find mixed feelings on that. Personally I can't picture the story as a raunchy romcom, even though I do enjoy such stories. I think people who enjoy AnoHana are more likely to be attracted to sentimental elements of coming of age stories. In this case, it's honestly rather irrelevant that Menma is a ghost. It's just a plot device which serves to pull the rest of the cast together. This isn't a story that appeals to logic, just emotions, and for many people it hit the right ones.
Other people, such as yourself, were underwhelmed, and that's fine. Different things for different people, and all that.
And yeah, I thought the drama often felt forced and overly melodramatic. I still bawled like a baby at the end.
I didn't want Menma to go! But I really wanted those kids to stop screaming her name!
Ahh, youth.