Natsuyuki Rendezvous - 05

They certainly took a strange turn this week by banishing Hazuki to a sketchbook world drawn that Shimao, complete with a miniature Rokka!  I'm not really quite sure what to make of it so far.  Guess we'll have to see what next week brings us.

Natsuyuki Rendezvous - 03

I'm going on vacation in a couple of days and so I've been delaying watching certain episodes because I want something to do while on the plane.  Natsuyuki Rendezvous, however, was one that I probably shouldn't watch while in the company others; I've either cried or teared up at each episode, and this is only the third one!

While Shimao acts like a whiny child, throwing tantrums and refusing to move out the way for Hazuki, I can certainly empathize with him.  If I was in his place, watching my spouse in the arms of another in my old bedroom, I'd probably cause an earthquake as well.  But most of all, I feel for Rokka.  Even without Shimao around as a supernatural element, Rokka's conflicted feelings are so genuine and real that I completely understand her reluctance and confusion at the thought of being with anyone else.  To think, this was only the third episode.  I have a feeling it's going to be a tearjerker.

Natsuyuki Rendezvous - 02

I didn't write a first impressions introductory post, and chances are I won't be blogging this regularly, but I wanted to mention how impressed I have been by the first two episodes of this anime.  The love triangle with a ghost seems, at first, kind of ordinary even with the supernatural twist.  However, by this second episode, my emotions have gone through a roller coaster ride already.  It's wonderful and very refreshing to see an adult romance cut through all the bullshit and deal with some very real issues that comes with love, life, and death.