Wakakusa no Charlotte

I just want to preface this by saying this, this show is not a great pick me up for those who are looking for something good. This is most certainly a kids show, and it shows. The characters are flat, the main character is a mary sue, and this show is very low on the quality standard in many areas. Heck you can't even show this to your kids with the way they teach: "lying is wrong, unless its to deceive someone you don't like". Now as for my reasoning for the 9 is very simple, story fluidity. When you watch a typical anime, the showis split into arcs, and each arc should flow from one to the other well and with ease. What I love about this show is that the story flows from episode to episode in this fashion. Each episode has a purpose of some kind, and is used to build onto the story in some way. In other shows however, it feels more that the episodes are built into these blocks we call arcs, and when we put them side by side to each other, we just expect them to connect perfectly, and on the surface they do, but there is always a space of some sort that keeps it from staying together. That is exactly what charlotte fixes in my opinion. Now if you want to know whether to watch this from a more grounded view, I would say the show presents a journey of sorts for the main character, not to grow, but walk in the foot steps of the people dear to her, and meet people her loved ones had once known. She doesn't show much growth in character development from my opinion even if the show explicitly says it, but that's another topic altogether. Frankly the current summary for this show is not a good fit, because those "arcs" they bring up, while are in the show, are less "arcs" and more so conglomerated experiences that are experienced throughout the show rather than in blocks, with each one connecting themselves to the previous episodes that they are based off of. In the end, it was a pick me up that happened to work for me for what I was in the mood for at the time, and just happen to stick with, so won't be for everyone.