Hello everyone,
Here we are for yet another post about Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai after the last seventh episode I watched some hours ago.
We had many cute moments for both Menma (rolling around the house), Anjou (calling finally Jinta as "Jintan"), and many emotional moments like Menma activating the lights to help Jintan after she notice what they were doing for her sake...
...but yes, my first feeling about the whole pacing of the series is "very slow!".
Please, don't misunderstand me, the series is incredibly enjoyable and I'm really looking forward the new episodes, but my question is "with all this slow pace how they're going to make all the pending plot-line resolve themselves into these four remaining episodes?".
Yes, because this series is strangely long 11 episodes (much like Eden of the East) and unlike many other series I still can't see a solution or a possible ending for this story. (Hell, we still don't know the content of the wish of Menma or even what is her presence into this world after she died)
Into the last episode we see the group working to make fireworks assuming that is the Menma famous wish (even if it's not that as far as the lines revealed by Yukiatsu that probably know already what is the real wish, but can't (won't) tell Jintan because Menma originally told them it was to keep a secret from him (he is a full bastard).
The ending with the mother of Menma blocking the process with her authority was weird, especially if you add to the top of the creepy face the fact that she called Menma "onee-chan"...can't understand why.
Well, we'll probably have more information in the next episode that from the preview looks focused on resolving the last issues of Jintan after his mother death especially if linked to the concept of the fireworks that originally were conceived by the childrens as a way to ask God to heal Jintan's mother.
See you soon,
feal87