Compared with light changes and comic animations, original animations always look full of expectations because the audience cannot know the development of the subsequent plot in advance. However, original works also have a big disadvantage, that is, the overturning rate is relatively high.
Take "All Evil Jade" and "The Day of Becoming a God" in October 2020, both of which are typical works of bright performance in the first and middle periods, and the high-opening and low-going works of the late plot becoming more and more depressed.
In addition, in 2012 there was a similar and somewhat regrettable original animation - "Waiting in the Middle of Summer".
The game is produced by J.C.STAFF, and the main production lineup is quite luxurious.
The supervisor is Nagai Ryuyuki, who has been in charge of the "Dragon and Tiger" and "A Scientific Super Electromagnetic Cannon" series; the screenwriter Yosuke Kuroda is also a familiar face; the character design Tanaka Shoga is not to mention the animator who has both seniority and strength.
And the actual performance of this animation can not be said to be a rollover, and even in terms of plot setting, it is still very eye-catching. But the portrayal of the protagonist's feelings is slightly hasty; in some cases, the approach to moving the story forward is slightly reluctant.
These are all places that affect the perception.
Just as the title of the anime gives the impression, Waiting in The Middle of Summer takes place during the midsummer season, which is in the middle of July and August, and the story is set in a beautiful countryside surrounded by mountains.
Coupled with the fact that the protagonists are all high school students, the whole work looks summer and full of youth.
The male protagonist is named Kirishima Hiroto, and he is a high school first-year student who is very obsessed with movies. Using the old-fashioned camera left by my grandfather, I always shoot something interesting in my free time, and hope to one day be a director and shoot a movie myself.
That night, when he came to the river as usual to record the footage, an unexpected situation occurred: with a dazzling light flashing overhead, a huge object landed in the river. In the process, due to the impact of the shock wave, the male protagonist also fainted on the spot.
Of course, when he woke up again, he did not come to the other world, but lay in his own home. And there are no other abnormalities except for the inexplicable appearance of a red spot on the body. The camera and glasses are also intact.
At first, the male protagonist thought that all this was just a dream and did not care too much.
The next day, when I arrived at the school, the unexpected happened again: there was a transfer student in the school, and she was also a beautiful girl with red hair.
This girl is also the heroine of the anime, Kizuki Kazuka.
It's strange to transfer at the end of such a semester. Not only that, but when everyone else was busy going home or other activities after school, the transfer student was alone carrying a suitcase that ordinary people could not pick up, and went fishing in the river, looking homeless.
In the face of this situation, the male protagonist naturally cannot sit idly by, and after communicating with the other party, the yin and yang mistakenly bring it to his home.
After this, he experienced the incident in which the male protagonist fainted inexplicably under the influence of the red spot, and the female protagonist helped him heal. The true identity of the heroine has finally been revealed.
It turns out that Ichika is an alien resident from outside the earth, who came to earth without her family in order to pursue the beautiful scenery in her memory. As a result, the gravel belt was accidentally encountered in the middle of the way, and the spacecraft was seriously damaged. Although it finally reached Earth, the spacecraft was badly damaged.
This is also the scene that the male protagonist saw at the beginning of the story, and the reason why he fell into a coma.
As for the spots on his neck, it is actually a unique kissing treatment (alien technology) adopted by the heroine to save him; and the suitcase that Ichika carries with him contains Li Yin, a smart pet who can control the spaceship.
With the revelation of the identity of the heroine, the subsequent plot of the animation also revolves around the slightly entangled emotional story between her and the male protagonist, as well as the other three people around her.
Overall, "Waiting in the Middle of Summer" is a love-oriented work with science fiction elements. Its advantages are obvious: on the one hand, Tanaka Shoka's character design is very distinctive. While being different from those common templated beautiful girls, it can also ensure recognition and conform to the character's own personality attributes;
On the other hand, with the countryside as the stage and the summer as the time background, the whole animation is naturally filled with the color of youth and love. Without any special explanation, the summer sunshine and the cool dress of the crowd have already vividly displayed the atmosphere of the protagonists' high school summer vacation.
But correspondingly, the work also inevitably has shortcomings: in addition to the factors at the set level, it is essentially a work that focuses on the complex and tangled feelings between the protagonists. A bit of a new bottle of old wine.
In addition, in the middle of the story, in order to promote the feelings between the male and female protagonists, from the hazy good feeling to the change of mutual determination of the mind, the male protagonist under the tree was deliberately arranged. And as soon as it appeared, he inexplicably confessed to the male protagonist, and then only appeared in one episode and went offline at the speed of light.
The "tool man" feature is so obvious that it is confusing to see.
It is an original fan with obvious advantages and disadvantages.
Regarding the suggestion of making up the fan, at present, the new fan in January has begun to play one after another, and for the small partners who do not have enough time, it is natural to give priority to chasing the new fan. When the spare time is spent chasing, this animation can still make up for it.