Before I start I need to address the elephant in the room. The shows English title is really ragebaity which Im pretty sure literally everyone has said already but the actual show doesnt do anything egregious and the fact that shes an elementary schooler means theyre talking entirely about wholesome love and nothing physical so you can kinda give it a pass. Theres definitely freaks in the audience that took it further than that you just have to ignore them and let the writer cook because morally I dont believe they do anything wrong in the end. Okay now onto my actual thoughts. As a reviewer I tend to value the story itself more than anything else in a show. The narrative here is about moving on after the loss of someone really important to you. Its quite possibly one of the worst things a human being in most developed countries can go through and its something a lot of people can relate to. Ive personally yet to experience a rough loss but my infinite sympathy goes out to those who have been through this before. Im not really one to talk but the story feels as though it was written with sincerity from someone who has experience with this. Characters in narratives are all about trauma and how they learn to overcome it not necessarily always trauma in the therapyneeding sense and this story tackles a really difficult one. This is probably the 2 anime Ive cried to most. I cried a lot for Your Lie in April I reckon this is 2nd place. I always find the topic of loss really tearjerking and this anime is a rough exploration of what it means and how it can affect your life. I really appreciated how it handled the concept while still taking interesting turns and doing novel but still thematically appropriate things with it. Continued with spoilers on Takaes new family covered relatively early in the anime in the next spoiler I only really found one thing sorta clunky about this the end of the final episode. Continued in the next spoiler Its not like perfect Spoilers for stuff throughout the entire show in the next spoiler By the end of the final episode Keisuke chooses... Continued in the next spoiler This show shines for its narrative in terms of the other stuff art animation music voice acting nothing really stood out as a weak link nor particularly remarkable at any point. I do recall that the music was doing a good job enhancing the emotions of the scenes toward the end. Again as a reviewer I tend to care most about the narrative so these reviews arent usually the most balanced. Anyways rare wellpaced singleseason anime rare anime that actually ends rare complete absence of degenerate bullshit beyond the title we cannot take these things for granted. It makes me wonder if these stupid anime titles are just the meta for creating media in Japan. But yeah if youre looking for a bit of a cry if youre the sorta person that does cry and a story that actually earns it or want to watch a good exploration of loss give it a shot.