After the Rain

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.

Always had interest of the taboo of high schoolers dating older man, knowing that most of the focus goes to the scandal that re published in tabloid, there's hasn't been good story about it except Lolita(the book not movie).

But here's anime caught my interest in very good way with ending that I can enjoy, let's not waste words read the review: Love the simple setting that it sets in family restaurant where former tracker runner working as waitresses Akira spends her time the things change when she falls over hills to Mr. Kondo he's boss.

Enjoying there dynamic of this relationship turning into something else of love into what we left behind as passion. That's where sold me, Akira struggle of leaving her all tracking field team focusing on falling to Mr. Kondo But how her best friend Kya don't wanna separate just for that's, like the discussion she has in the festival, n how make her remember.

N Kondo struggles to not fall in love with minor but remembering about he's youth n what he left behind n what price he paid for following.

Meaning both this characters had their own challenges when they declared just been friends.

The ending was awesome Alonso finishing he's first draft with same title.

The characters styles re 60's anime looks ala Lupin 3rd very stretchy but goes along well.

The rain plays huge part of the anime specially when Akira goes to see sick, high feverish Mr. Kondo the first affection they share.

So conclude awesome shojo different plot cause said at beginning was interesting on this taboo topics, is nice didn't went Lolita but instead where passion re left.

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 .

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.

A heartfelt story of two characters who find each other at different stages of their lives. Both had given up on their dreams but after meeting each other, they develop a new zeal for life. The story cleverly weaves humor amid a tender emotional backdrop. Plenty of suspense as plot keeps you guessing. Highly recommended watch.