Title: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (lol it would not fit in the thread title bar)
Genre: drama, slice-of-life
Premiered: April 15th 2011
Animation Studio: Aniplex, A-1 Pictures
Director: Nagai Tatsuyuki (Honey and Clover II, Toradora)
Opening Theme:"Aoi Shiori (é’ã„æ ž)" by Galileo Galilei
Ending Theme: "secret base ~Kimi ga Kureta Mono~ (secret base ~å›ãŒãã‚ŒãŸã‚‚ã®ï½ž)" by Ai Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu, and Saori Hayami
Cast:
Ai Kayano as Meiko "Menma" Honma
Haruka Tomatsu as Naruko "Anaru" AnjÅ
Miyu Irino as Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi
Saori Hayami as Chiriko "Tsuruko" Tsurumi
Takahiro Sakurai as Atsumu "Yukiatsu" Matsuyuki
Takayuki Kondou as TetsudÅ "Poppo" Hisakawa
Aki Toyosaki as Poppo (child)
Asami Seto as Yukiatsu (child)
Kaoru Mizuhara as Haruna
Mitsuru Ogata as Atsushi Yadomi
Mutsumi Tamura as Jintan (child)
Yui Makino as Aki
Plot:
Six childhood friends grew apart in high school. One of them is Jintan, now a shut-in. He gets a request to fulfill a wish for Menma, the only one of their friends to have stayed the same over the years. In order to grant her wish, he will have to find and reunite their old friends.
(Source: ANN)
Thoughts:
Again, I have yet to watch the first episode, will do later today. I heard that it's very sad and depressing, so you might want to have a box of tissues nearby