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EP. REVIEW: After the Rain

Can we just stop and talk about how amazing the soundtrack is in this show?

It looks like I was right on the money in terms of Akira's obsession with Kondo stemming from her lost love of track.

Honestly, the most concerning thing about Kondo's conduct is that he seems enamored of his ability to influence a young woman.

To me this hawk-like hyper-vigilance against the slightest misstep seems really overblown, and it's really tedious to read. Just calm down and wait till the story screws up before taking it to task before it even happens.

To me this hawk-like hyper-vigilance against the slightest misstep seems really overblown, and it's really tedious to read. Just calm down and wait till the story screws up before taking it to task before it even happens.

Gina Szanboti wrote:

To me this hawk-like hyper-vigilance against the slightest misstep seems really overblown, and it's really tedious to read. Just calm down and wait till the story screws up before taking it to task before it even happens.

I completely agree, and would have commented something similar had you not beaten me to it. This walking-on-eggshells style of review is really starting to grate on me, to the point that I will most likely stop reading these reviews in the future if it continues. I get the reasons, really, I do, but that doesn't make it not annoying, and, quite frankly, excessive.

The subject of love between a child and an adult with a significant age gap is not new. The story of After the Rain could be likened to the somewhat relatively unexplored story of Otonashi (nee Chigusa) Kyoko and Otonashi Souichiro in the manga and anime 'Maison Ikkoku' by the great Takahashi Rumiko.

Sahmbahdeh wrote:

Gina Szanboti wrote: To me this hawk-like hyper-vigilance against the slightest misstep seems really overblown, and it's really tedious to read. Just calm down and wait till the story screws up before taking it to task before it even happens. I completely agree, and would have commented something similar had you not beaten me to it. This walking-on-eggshells style of review is really starting to grate on me, to the point that I will most likely stop reading these reviews in the future if it continues. I get the reasons, really, I do, but that doesn't make it not annoying, and, quite frankly, excessive.

Giving additional agreement to these sentiments, and will also add my own two cents.

I hope this ends with the two falling in love and getting together. Do you know why? Because it's fiction, it's fantasy. it's not real, and I don't see what's "problematic" about this story eventually moving into more romantic territory.

Do you know who else wants them together? My wife, who is obsessed with the 'chasing older men' fantasy. Also, her group of female friends who all additionally hope that the main characters of this series hook up.

All of them are adults with healthy relationships and are able to make the distinction between a fictitious work of romance and reality.

I know that there are worries about the content becoming "problematic", but please understand that it's okay to have such fantasies while also making the distinction that it wouldn't be as okay in reality.

I don't understand why there's this belief that even having forbidden love stories such as this is a serious problem that will somehow cause us to regress as a society.

A lot of women are into this, and men to a lesser extent. We are enjoying the gorgeous visuals, storytelling, and the tantalizing forbidden love.

I can understand the reviewer's personal feelings on the issue, but I don't know if I'll be able to continue reading these reviews if we're going to be dissecting whether or not Kondo has become a creeper yet in every episode. "Okay, he isn't completely creepy yet, but X may become problematic..." please don't do this.

Also, she's SEVENTEEN! It's highly likely they could have a slow build up and she could be eighteen before anything happens at all.

Whether they get together or not, I don't care in the end as long as the quality stays this high. But for all that is sacred, can't we just enjoy this show as a romantic piece of fiction?

It's not like we're watching Koi Kaze, or that it's a thirteen year old middle school girl pining after the man.

Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest.

There's also Card Captor Sakura. spoiler[Fujitaka, Sakura's father, married Nadeshiko, who had been his student, at her age of 16. Not to mention Yoshiyuki, teacher and in his mid-30s, and Rika, Sakura's schoolmate aged of 10 at the beginning. If there was any doubt about the latter couple, she receiving a ring from Yoshiyuki in the manga should blow those out...]

This reaction (not only here) took me by surprise. I was happily expecting this anime to start airing and see people talking about it... but not this way, not to see irate people almost wanting to burn it to the ground. Even more when some other "problematic" series didn't received the same treatment.