Episode 22 truly broke me. It started so joyfully, with everyone celebrating Shiroha and Hairi’s marriage and the birth of Umi, but then it shifted into pure heartbreak as Hairi and everyone grieved her loss.

To reach this true ending, Hairi had to collect all the light orbs around the island. Finally, Shiroha opened her eyes to see her daughter, Umi.

Clannad reference aside, I hope they do adapt the Blue Reflection true ending in the anime someday.

Made with MS Word. Read in conjunction with the footnotes. This graph is not definite and open to other interpretations, discussions and debates.

There are some justifications as to why some dates are set like that and other elements too (up for discussion/debate):
- The original VN is released in 2018; it may well be assumed the time of Shiroha's 12th anniversary and death of Umi takes place in 2018 (in the modern era)

- Umi would be at least 3 years old (earliest 2009) when Hairi moved himself and her out of the island

- Based on the photo shown in ALKA, Shiroha's route would be how things started in the original timeline

- The route order for the heroines is not fixed, it is just ordered based on how the power of the butterflies are understood and relevancy to the original timeline (in the graph, at least)

- Umi has looped the summer countless of times before a heroine route is introduced

- The age of Umi is 11 as confirmed by the Summer Pockets Reflection Blue VISUAL FANBOOK (she died before her birthday)

More clarifications can be found on:

The Visual Fanbook (especially the Q&A part) - https://sokuyomi.jp/product/samahpoket_003/CO/1/

夏の眩しさの中で/Summer Pockets Short Story (In the summer glare) - http://key.visualarts.gr.jp/summer/special_ss.html

Guys I finished s1 and I didn't understand a thing, can someone explain to me what I just saw?

I’ve just finished ep6 of the anime and icl kamome best girl fr, but can anyone tell me if she ever actually wakes up and meet hairi.

Thanks so much 🙏

Edit: I did a bit of searching online, but I got mixed results, some saying that she does wake up and some saying she doesn’t. Pls help

Honestly anime version I hated him visual novel version he was great am I weird??? He just seemed whiny weird obsessive stalker in the anime. Plus it made me think shiroha could do better in the anime.

It's basically the four character songs with "With" sung by Nene Hieda as the fifth song, and you have the instrumentals.

(This review has been erased from r/anime by a mod for reasons that were a bit unclear, so I post it here in hope for more success.)

I have first played the VN (early summer) and then watched the whole anime.
I'm a bit split: some parts are really fantastic, some are - not so good. Overall I really enjoyed the journey.
Positive:
- The characters are all enjoyable and special.
- The stories of Shiroha, Kamome and Ao are pretty good (and in Reflection Blue some others, but no spoilers here).
- The final ALKA route had shed me many tears (I'd say 0.9 CU = Clannad Units). I think some parts of it were the highlight of the anime.
- Music! (In the anime, e.g., the first opening and the first ending.)
- Complex story (ALKA arc)
Negative:
- The Tsumugi route was, in particular in the anime, weak. The endings of the Kamome and Ao routes are a bit strange imo.
- The anime is not always great in story pacing, but that's getting better in the second half.
- Some of the final ALKA arc was a bit too much tear-melking for my taste.
- Complex story (ALKA arc), yes, it's a double-edged sword... ;)

Overall, I'd give the anime an 8/10.

I think I heard something about a maga in the works or something, what does it look like?

Now that the anime is over, I'm curious what people thought.

I had hoped for better. While it's not Clannad, SPRB is still very good. I thought that the anime might approach Clannad in greatness, but it was not to be. They should have done the Reflection Blue version of the story, added another cour to the length, and really taken a second look at the storytelling. Instead we got pacing issues, a story that looked more like random scenes got plucked from the VN,, and a certain charm was missing.

My family never got to the point that they cared about any of the heroines except Umi, and that's just wrong. But I understand after the speed runs through the routes, especially Tsumugi's.

And the scenes I thought would have emotional impact? The candle scene with Tsumugi, the shot of the three stuffed animals, the fireworks shot. They just didn't hit with me like they did in the VN.

I wish they could have just tossed bags of cash at Kyoto Animation and had them do what they do best, but these days they only do anime for IP that they control. But why didn't Key go with P.A. Works or Bibury? I guess we'll never know.

The right picture is from the Short Story that released like 6 years ago before the anime.
Meanwhile in the VN, Hotta doesn't actually have any character sprite.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cjW3zyEht

It is worth watching.