Story 1: Yuuko’s indoor shoes go missing. Her outdoor shoes go missing as well. Her textbooks also get vandalised. “medium bullying” Yuuko says…. “The girls have their own problems, and need an area to vent” Yuuko says…

Story 2: After Mizuki’s confession in the last episode, Kuze ends up avoiding her. Mizuki finally finds out that Kuze actually has a terminal illness, after meeting Chihiro.

Night time, Yuu Himura sends a message through Chihiro: Last chance to listen to Kuze play the violin at the beach. Rushing there, Mizuki listens to Kuze play his last piece, before seeing Kuze burn his violin with kersosene. Initally using her hands, Mizuki finally puts out the fire by kicking the violin into the sea, putting out the fire.

Thoughts

Headache from the special effects.

Only highlight was chihiro’s appearance, but only as a side character.

I wished there was more of Nagi. And not just “i’m painting naked” kind of scenes. No story about her?

Whole episode only had a good 30 sec scene of Mizuki saving the violin + case. Otherwise… Bad epsidoe. 4/10

Story 1: We found out why Yuu doesn’t particularly want to remember about Yuko. Yuu lost his sister in a fire when young, with only a broken watch as memory. He meets Yuko in an orphanage, but Yuko reminds him too much of his sister. Yuko likes to call Yuu “Older Brother”, making it worst. And days after Yuu reveals that his sister had died, Yuko leaves, being adopted by a distant relative.

And on the school rooftop, Yuko tells Yuu that he was her first love, and still is.

Story 2: Apparently Mizuki likes cosplaying, suits Kuze’s fetish well I guess.

As a side story, Mizuki decides to do washing together with Kuze. Renji refuses to let her wash his clothes. End result sees Mizuki stripping Renji naked.

Kuze shares a story of a metronome that inspires him to take up violin. Irony is how the metronome is just ticking away the end of his life now. In fact, Kuze ends up collapsing while with Mizuki once. 

With the end of his life near, Kuze starts preparing by breaking off all his relationships. But his plans are all messed up whn Mizuki ends up confessing her love for him.

Thoughts

That figurine was a cute attention to detail. Fanservice I guess. Nagi is not forgotten about either. The artist who draws “rough” sketch of herself in the “rough”

Nothing deep developing yet.

I find the voice of the characters quite cute. Pleasantly tickles my ears. It’s been a while since there’s such an anime. Anyway, you can see from the various screenshots the variety of “presentation”. This causes some distraction to the flow of the show. But fine with me. I just wished it had less “visual novel-type” kind of shots. 

A tale of Memories impressed me with their graphic and presentation style. It was very varied. The story line doesn’t drag you in, keeping you as a viewer, but it does present something very colourful to view. I also thought that the topics of loneliness and significance was dwelled on very well. I’m hoping that the sequel achieves the same.

As per previous, the anime has two concurrent storylines. Episode 1 basically gives an introduction to both.

Himura Yuu looks for Nagi Hirano, who is painting a nude painting of herself -_- After a quick banter, they end up shopping, after which they end up meeting Amamiya Yuko. Amamiya questions if Yuu remembers her, and he does….

The second story continues from a tale of memories.  Hayama Mizuki, counsin of  Aso Renji, ends up spending her vacation time over at Renji’s house. There, she is introduced to Shuuichi Kuze. She seems to like him, even though he is pretty mysterious, and seems to have some weird habits. Unknown to her though, Kuze is suffering from some illness….

Thoughts

I always thought that the first series had too many scenes that looked like it came straight out of a visual novel. The second series gives the same impression

Luckily, the “innovative” and impressive style of presentation is still there. Some might like it, some might not. I like it. 

I haven’t been watching anime for quite a while. (other than staple stuff like bleach and toradora) . I do hope to get back to blogging with this series. Generally, the first episode leaves me satisfied.