After the Rain

(8/10) An emotional slice of life that has a bitter sweet ending and it's fair share of drama. After The Rain was moving due to the losses the characters faced and their journeys to not give up on what they failed at but to go back and see it through.

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.

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

Okay, 4th review so far. This anime starts off with a 17 year old girl who falls in love with her 45 year old boss. There´s no point on giving out more information and, as you will find out if you keep reading, this didn´t seem to be the main argument of this story.

My philosophy: you can always find something in an anime that you´ve never seen before, and for me that´s enough to make it a worthy watch (which is why i´d never tell anyone not to watch an anime). However, there are some things you need to know before you watch. This anime caught me off guard, it´s not finished yet (only 10 episodes so far), but i think i´ve seen enough to make a helpfull review.

I´m new to this genre, but i decided to give this anime one shot mainly because i wanted to see the outcome of the strange situation that it presents. I must say during first episodes i felt the temptation of leaving it. The opening is awfull, it´s childish and stupid, and doesn´t fit for this anime at all. For the first few episodes i felt disappointed because i guessed there had to be a strong reason for this girl being in love with their boss, and i didn´t like the characters nor the way they were introduced.

Having said that, i´m glad i continued watching. This anime is not only about a young girl loving an old man. It´s about an interesting conception of youth and oldness beyond age itself. It´s about dreams and hopes for the future and the way they can affect us. It´s about friendship and trying to move on when we are in a tough spot. I havent finished this series yet, but i will as soon as the new episodes comes out. The last episodes were amazing, showing extremelly mature reasonings from several characters and a way to percieve the world that stunished me.

The more i watched, the more i liked the characters and it´s development. The sountrack is excelent (the opening doesnt count) and the animation is full of detail aswell. I don´t know how this is going to end, but i must say so far i´m pleased. It´s a 9/10 for me, and if you are into this kind of romance genre, i´m sure you will like it. Specially recomended if you have seen and liked the movie "Garden of Words" (and if you saw this anime but you didn´t see garden of words, waiste no more time and watch it, i consider it to be one of the best romance masterpieces ever crafted). Thanks for reading!