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Ano Hana

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 The flower we saw that day When I watched it for the first time what caught my attention was the web of love interests. I thought how can kids so young have feelings of 'love'. I remember binge watching it in monsoon of 2014. I also remember my mother scolding me for doing so. I was not supposed to have screen time. I listened to its soundtrack in the summer of 2011 when my sister watched it. I didn't get what made people feel sentimental about it. Cut to 2020 I realised how myopic I was. I completely missed the plotline of how these teenage kids try to cope with the loss of their friend and for some, their love. The way they somehow feel responsible for what had happened and they regret that they carry for acting the way they did. Each one of them trying to not face those feelings and finding an escape. And then she comes again in their lives five years later. Well, I think that she never really left, how can the ones we love leave us? Slowly they come together as a group...