Plastic Memories

It's so beautiful and sad but definitely worth watching, last episode made me cry so much

It's a story that condenses everything quite well into 13 chapters. Themes like love, loss, nostalgia, and connection-what are those feelings that make us human and connect us?-pose the premise, but as in more real life, we don't have an answer; it's something unknown, and its ending is consistent. Nothing is resolved, nor are there twists and turns due to the power of love. It follows a line, and they do it quite well. Reality is what it is, and as far as we can understand it, everything is well-developed, with endearing characters and some comic relief that works perfectly. It doesn't need crazy twists or a soundtrack with epic Gregorian chants for the music to be wonderfully appropriate. The only superficial and "manipulative" viewing anyone can see in this story is from a person too superficial to perceive its background and intentions. Good anime.

A very nice anime, with nice characters, with good protagonists (Isla and Tsukasa) and with a romance that despite lacking in some aspects of depth and development of it makes you love it.

The anime has a huge potential that was not taken advantage of, because of the concept of the giftia and their life span it could have been one of the best drama/romance in history but having only 13 chapters the story and the interpersonal relationship was not able to develop as its best version.

However it is an anime that fans of the genre will definitely love and will undoubtedly leave the vast majority of its viewers in tears.

I don't really know if this show deserves a 9, but there are a few reasons I gave it that. First of all, this is a really good romance story. Everyone always talks about how sad it made them feel, which really just undermines how good the first 12 episodes are, not just the last one. The romance in this is very well done in my opinion, and if the ending wasn't so sad then it would probably be in lots of people's top spots for romance anime in general. Next, while this show is more of a drama than a comedy, there were actually some pretty funny parts. The animation was very impressive too, the still frames all look professional and well drawn, and a lot of the animation is smooth and flows well. Most anime are not animated this well, so I appreciate it. Lastly, while plastic memories definitely has characters that fit into archetypes, there are some fun subversions from usual romance, comedy, or drama tropes that I appreciated.

I know i am very late to this but ive just finished this anime in one night and it had me bawling my eyes out. The design of characters and the plot was absolutely wonderfull and the relationship between Isla and Tsukasa is amazing. The animation while quite different from most animes it was absolutely spot on for this anime and the plot. I know its highly unlikely that this anime gets a 2nd season but if it does i will absoulutely watch it. If i could erase my memory just to watch this anime again i would do that a million times. For anyone wondering if you should eatch this i would certainly reccomend doing that. Thank you Naotaka Hayashi for this masterpiece.