After the Rain

You might get impression that this is about some unconventional love story between an middle age man and hopeless teen girl , but its deeper than that and you need to give it a chance with open heart to understand it on next level than just a romantic manga.

For me this story is lot more than just a love story , its a story of down and ups and hope and sadness and you will realise it as you gear towards the end, i really cant eloborate more than this due to spoilers .

For the people who found it boring might not be patient enough for actual good and deep story for them i tell that give it proper time and attention and it will be the best story you ever heard .

Starts off slow and at the beginning you feel as if you've walked into the middle of something. But then you're "caught up" and can follow along. I think the themes and feelings are extremely relatable for anyone - whether young or old. Binged watched it on Amazon Prime as I simply couldn't stop watching. I'm extremely happy that I did! My only disappointment was that there are only 12 episodes as I want to continue to see what happens to the characters. I'm another old dude that is finding myself drawn to not just your action-packed anime's but to this genre as well. And for me, this one didn't let me down.

I watched both the subtitled Japanese voiced and English voiced versions of this show. While the essence of the show is still the same. I have to say two huge different experiences.

The first obvious is that the script is actually a little different which leaves alternative empact to the audience, especially on a romance genre. Obviously in most anime the jokes are changed to target toward western audiences but in this case they added subtle ones that make it much more funnier during the awkward and slow moments.. The voice directing and voice actors in the English version went above and beyond and it defininately shows. In the Japanese voice cast there is a lot of silence in places where there could have been more emphasis making the show feel a little slow paced at times and I understand why some people are saying they don't understand why the show was rated so high.

Usually watching two different versions of an anime never really has a dramatic difference but this one definitely did. I would say if you are going to watch this sure be sure to watch the English cast version it is just so much much more colorful and lively.

I stumbled upon this one in amazon Prime and can't recommend it enough. The topic of loving someone older/younger than you is a sensitive subject, but most of us have had crushes on teachers or bosses at one point or another so its easily relatable for most of us I would say. It is handled with innocence and well just perfectly (this isn't a trashy anime). The underlying theme is of dreams and what happens when we give up on them (I won't go into details of those hopes/dreams to be spoiler free). Akira and Mr. Kondo are both dealing with loss of hope or loss of dreams. Mr. Kondo is awakened to possibilities (brought back to life you might say) by Akira's reminding him of what it felt like to be young. The romance/friendship is sweet and innocent and just makes me laugh. The writing and voice acting are just out of this world good! Maybe its just the time in my life and this is the story I needed to experience right now (a small theme in one of the episodes btw) but I haven't enjoyed an anime quite this much in a while. I'm currently 10 episodes in and absolutely enthralled! Highly recommended for anyone who has had dreams that weren't realized or love that you just couldn't get out of your head. Oh the music and art are amazing and really do amazing things to my heart strings. Try it! Yes I'm an older dude who likes anime. Sue me. Japanese anime culture is just fascinating to me.

This anime is about unusual relation between 18 years old girl with 42 years old man maybe at first you think its foolish but after you watch this anime you will change your mind beautiful storyline with 2 stranger character but as long as story go ahead you will know this characters and you will love them