The latter is what happens to Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi, a high school-aged Hikikomori. After the death of Meiko "Menma" Honma, Jintan and their four other friends — Naruko "Anaru" Anjo, Atsumu "Yukiatsu" Matsuyuki, Chiriko "Tsuruko" Tsurumi, and Tetsudo "Poppo" Hisakawa — begin to lose touch with each other and move on with their lives. Five years later, Menma's ghost pays him a visit, asking him to help her fulfill a wish. Just what that wish is, she doesn't completely remember, but getting the old gang back together is a start.
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (known in Japan as Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai., literally "We Still Don't Know the Name of the Flower We Saw That Day.") is a 2011 Anime First series shown on noitaminA and produced by A-1 Pictures. It has been licensed for North American release by NIS America in July 2012. There's also a movie of the same name licensed by Aniplex USA which retells the story one year later, which premiered on August 2013.
Aniplex USA announced at Sakura-Con 2017 that they have license rescued the TV series, and it is receiving an English dub via Bang Zoom! Entertainment with Patrick Seitz as the ADR Director.
A special 10th anniversary anime project has been announced for August 2021, likely as a connection to the ending song. It features updated character designs of the cast as adults drawn by the official character designer and chief animation director. More information can be found on Anime News Network
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Viewers in the US may watch this show legally on Crunchyroll and Netflix.
Ano-Hana provides examples of:
- Aborted Declaration of Love: In the movie, Anaru tries a couple times to confess to Jintan that she still has feelings for him, but ultimately decides against it. Instead, she writes it in her letter to Menma, satisfied that she will one day be ready to tell Jintan.
- The Ace: Yukiatsu. However, he begrudgingly acknowledges that even now Jintan has a certain persuasive charisma.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Tsuruko has a crush on Yukiatsu, but he is obsessed with Menma and later considers Anaru to be his Replacement Goldfish. Anaru is in love with Jintan, but the latter is also obsessed with Menma. Menma does like Jintan back, but due to her being deceased, she cannot be with him. The only one among the gang who doesn't seem to be part of the romantic loop is Poppo, but being The Big Guy, it is likely that he will get the short end of the stick. In the end, Jintan/Anaru and Yukiatsu/Tsuruko are given a Maybe Ever After.
- Alpha Bitch: Anaru's friends Aki and Haruna.
- Anguished Declaration of Love:
- Yukiatsu towards Menma when they were kids in a flashback in Episode 5. Anaru towards Jintan in Episode 8.
- Tsuruko does an indirect one towards Yukiatsu in Episode 11 when she rants to Anaru. She wasn't happy that he had a Replacement Goldfish in Anaru when Menma disappeared.
- Animation Bump: Menma's movements rocket up to rotoscope-smooth at the end of Episode 10.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Satoshi Honma is able to drive home to his mother how much she has become so absorbed in her grief for losing Menma that she has been failing to pay attention to him simply by asking one of these.Satoshi: I grew three whole centimeters this year Mom, did you know that?
- Bittersweet Ending: Menma's ghost finally passes onto the afterlife, but not before she and her living friends properly say their farewells. Jintan reconnects to society and was last seen walking to school with Anaru, while Yukiatsu and Tsuruko grow closer to each other, and Poppo continues working part-time but also resumes his studies. The series ends with the five remaining friends gathering one more time at their old hideout to read Menma's letters.
- Bland-Name Product:
- Just from Episode 2, there's the Nindendo DZ, Dojimon, WcDonalds, and Nokemon.
- Rocky anyone?
- Less obvious to viewers outside of Japan is Giselle McBee.
- Anaru and Jintan's game store stocks Quiz Age.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The three girls of the group—Menma (blonde), Anaru (redhead), and Tsuruko (brunette).
- Blush Sticker: Poppo as a child.
- Broken Ace: Yukiatsu looks perfect, smart, hot and all, but he's got massive issues.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Jintan and Menma have this dynamic, since he's the only one of the Peace Busters who can see her. It's a little unusual, given that Menma herself is The Lost Lenore Jintan is brooding over.
- But Not Too Foreign: Menma is half-Russian.
- By the Eyes of the Blind: Only Jintan can see or hear Menma. Which pretty much scares the hell out Anaru and Tsuruko once the others discover that she is indeed real and can only see things floating whenever she grabs something. Just before Menma finally passes on, everyone can see and hear her.
- Catchphrase: Jinta's dad divides all the world's aspects into cute and not cute.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Jintan and Menma have mutual feelings for each other, but Jintan was never able to confess to her before she died. Anaru and Yukiatsu have unrequited lingering feelings for Jintan and Menma respectively. Yukiatsu lampshades their unrequited positions in Episodes 5 and 9. Tsuruko also has feelings for Yukiatsu.
- Childhood Friends: The entire main cast.
- Creepy Crossdresser: Yukiatsu, to the surprise of few. The hints used to foreshadow this were too large for a majority of the audience.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Menma.
- Date Rape Averted: For Anaru in Episode 5 by Yukiatsu of all people.
- Deadpan Snarker: Yukiatsu can be quite the snarker when he's in a lighthearted mood.
- Death by Newbery Medal: Menma's death actually occurs in the backstory, five years before the first episode, but it plays out all the same.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: Deconstructed. Back when they were children, Anaru liked Jintan and Tsuruko liked Yukiatsu, but both boys liked Menma and the girls, despite caring for Menma, felt that they couldn't compete with her. Menma's untimely death only made things worse for all of them, since such a tragedy tore the group apart and showed that, in reality, the demise of "the person who gets in between" does NOT equal to the others getting together: the guys got so broken (and Jintan already had his own issues) that no girl in their eyes can match the very high standard that Menma had left, with Jintan becoming a hikikomori and Yukiatsu both considering Anaru as a prospect "back-up girlfriend" (and neither she nor Tsuruko, understandably, are happy with that) and wearing dresses similar to those Menma used to wear.
- Deconstructed Trope: The concept of
Purity Sue is smashed to pieces here. Not only was Menma ridiculously pure and innocent (and kinda ditzy) because she died as a child and thus got mentally/emotionally stuck as a little girl forever, but it's made brutally clear how much pressure that kind of character would put on her friends: Tsuruko and Anaru remember Menma fondly but are also jealous and resentful of her because she (unintentionally) left an insanely high standard for them to meet when she kicked it; Jintan and Yukiatsu are very screwed up due to still loving her for a long time after her death, with Jintan unable to function in social situations and Yukiatsu cultivating an unhealthy obsession; and Poppo constantly has to put on a happy face in order to interact with others due to his guilt after not being able to save her life. - Does This Remind You of Anything?: In Episode 3, Menma expresses her desire for Jintan to go back to school whilst straddling him and bouncing. It's innocent on her part. Probably not so much on the animator's.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The ending theme is performed by the voice actresses of the three girls of the main cast.
- Dysfunction Junction: The death of Menma has far-reaching psychological repercussions for the main cast, but some of the underlying problems were there even before she died and the Busters disbanded.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After much angst and tribulation in which the group vent their anger and express their true feelings to one another, they are finally able to overcome the psychological traumas each one of them acquired after Menma's death, and Menma's ghost is able to say one last tearful goodbye to all of them. Jintan stopped being a hikikomori for good and started attending school regularly, and it's implied that he and Anaru will end up together as a couple eventually. The same is implied for Tsuruko and Yukiatsu. Meanwhile, Poppo also has gone back to school (although he did not quit working at the construction site).
- Enjo Kosai: Anaru's friends set up a group date with older men in Episode 5. When Anaru looks like she wants to back out early, one of the men walks her out and tries taking her to a love hotel. Thankfully Yukiatsu noticed her beforehand.
- Ethereal White Dress: Menma wears a white dress with a blue ribbon throughout the series, since that was what she was wearing when she died. A fitting choice, since the color white is usually associated with purity and innocence.
- Evil Phone: Not evil, but in Episode 8, Menma tries making phone calls to the gang to get them to believe in her. Seeing as only Jintan can perceive her, the most they hear is a vague scraping.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Jintan holds up Anaru's plush toy and security towel after she runs away from home, the characters change expression when she snatches it back.
- Fiery Redhead: Anaru.
- Fighting the Lancer: It never escalates to an all-out brawl, but Jintan and Yukiatsu's relationship is constantly on-edge for the majority of the series, with Yukiatsu even strangling Jintan at one point.
- Five Philosophy Ensemble:
- The Cynic: Yukiatsu.
- The Optimist: Poppo/Menma.
- The Realist: Tsuruko.
- The Apathetic: Jintan.
- The Conflicted: Anaru.
- Foreshadowing: A subtle example in episode 10 that might be missed on first watch: Poppo, normally the most cheerful and upbeat of the group, slows down for just a moment to say that he feels like 'all he can do is watch' the rest of the group. This foreshadows the revelation in the finale that he witnessed Menma's death but was helpless to prevent it.
- Ghost Amnesia: Menma can't remember what Unfinished Business is stopping her from being able to rest in peace.
- Ghostly Goals: Menma reappears to Jintan to have him help her fulfill her wish. Her wish turns out to be fulfilling a favor to Jintan's mother—getting him to stop bottling up his emotions, though Menma ended up extending this wish to the rest of the Super Peace Busters as well because she wanted closure with all of them before she left.
- Girlish Pigtails: Anaru.
- Gratuitous English: Poppo peppers his speech with a few phrases every now and then, which should be of no surprise, considering that he's a traveler.
- Gratuitous Russian: The sign on the gate of the Honma residence lists the family members' names in Japanese and Romanized transliterations, except Irene, whose name is given in Cyrillic instead. What's more, the Cyrillic rendering appears to have been simply transliterated letter for letter from the Latin script spelling as Ирене. While not entirely inconceivable, this variant is highly improbable as a name for someone born and raised in Russia (the most common Russian equivalent to "Irene" is Ирина, "Irina", while the show's katakana spelling イレーヌ, Irēnu, is normally used for the French variant Irène, whose Russified version is spelled as either "Ирэн" or "Ирен").
- Green-Eyed Monster: Anaru and Yukiatsu have had their share of this when it comes to Jintan and Menma. Even Tsuruko has a bit of a moment when she eavesdrops on Yukiatsu comforting Anaru in Episode 9. In Episode 11, Tsuruko admits that the person that she's always been jealous of is Anaru for being his Replacement Goldfish and the person who understood Yukiatsu the most.
- One of Tsuruko's female classmates acts this way towards her because of how close the former is to Yukiatsu, yet aren't dating.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend:
- A shopkeeper mistakes Tsuruko for Yukiatsu's girlfriend. Her reaction is silent but strong nonetheless. Apparently their classmates also assume they're an item too, and Yukiatsu does little to dispel the misconception.
- Anaru also says this about Jintan when her friends tease her about dating him. Jintan's response was to walk home.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Anaru is surprisingly nice and pretty much a huge nerd under her jerkish Tsundere-isms.
- Hikikomori:
- Jintan has a reputation of being this. He is obviously uncomfortable to go outside without glasses and a beanie.
- Mrs. Honma, according to Menma's little brother, refuses to leave the house and doesn't want to see other people.
- Hypocrite: Yukiatsu accuses Jintan of being obsessed with Menma. Yukiatsu is much, much worse.
- Idiot Ball: Menma can interact with physical objects, carry them and can also eat normally but she holds the idiot ball for two thirds of the series not realizing than she can prove her existence by making objects float/disappear or by writing to the Super Peace Busters' members. It later gets lampshaded that Menma and Jintan can be The Ditz sometimes.
- Important Haircut: Tsuruko in Episode 10.
- In-Series Nickname: Every member of the old group of friends has one.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Anaru. In Japanese, l and r are pronounced identically, and n is the only consonant that doesn't need a vowel on the end. Jintan seems to realize it now; Menma doesn't. note
- Jacob Marley Apparel: Menma's appearance doesn't display signs of her death, but she's wearing the same outfit she drowned in (although it's larger, since her ghost looks older and is taller than she was at death) and wears no shoes (which were washed away by the river).
- Jerkass: In his first modern-day appearance Yukiatsu has the gall to mock Jintan for not getting into a good high school and for mourning Menma. Then, in Episode 4, he tries to manipulate everyone into not working toward Menma's wish. Following Episode 5, he starts showing his Hidden Heart of Gold more frequently, only to eventually relapse into full Jerkass mode in Episode 10 when he sets a cruel trap for Jintan to get him to either confirm or deny his love for Menma, even emotionally manipulating Anaru into assisting him with this, and vows to get Menma's spirit to Heaven just for the satisfaction of knowing that Jintan can't have her for himself anymore.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Yukiatsu's haughtiness gets broken in Episode 5 after everyone finds out that he's crossdressing as Menma and he breaks down, blaming himself for Menma's death. In the same episode, he later rescues Anaru when she gets sexually harassed by a guy intending to take her to a love hotel. Even when he acts like a jerk at other times afterwards it's usually for reasons that he believes are right and would be helpful to others.
- Keet: Poppo.
- Last-Name Basis: Some members of the group have stopped using their nicknames or given names with each other on the few occasions they meet. As the group is getting closer again, this might be reversed, however. For example, Poppo calls some attention to Anaru referring to him as "Jintan" when the latter isn't around in Episode 7 and Yukiatsu calls attention to her almost saying "Jintan" but changing to "Yadomi" in Episode 9. By Episode 11, everyone has gone back to referring to each other by their respective nicknames.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo:
- Episode 2 has Jinta and Anaru trying to get a rare Nokemon.
- And in Anaru's words: "Who the hell buys Nokemon Gold?"
- Other famous titles, such as Dojimon and Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo show up in Anaru's manga and game collection.
- Friendly or not, there are insanely blatant posters of Wandering Son, Sekirei, Sound of the Sky, Black Butler, and Wagnaria!! in the shop Yadomi and Anaru work in.
- Limited Wardrobe: Averted. There are school uniforms, of course, but the characters (barring Menma) have consistently worn different casual clothes. Consider Anaru, for example.
- Longing Look: Both Anaru and Yukiatsu still have feelings for Jintan and Menma respectively and are very obvious with their feelings (at least, to the viewers). Yukiatsu, however, leans toward the obsessive side with his gestures, such as deeply inhaling the scent of one of Menma's old dresses and crossdressing as her.
- Love Hotels: A guy attempts to take Anaru to one in Episode 5.
- Love Dodecahedron: Jintan and Yukiatsu are both in love with Menma, who reciprocates Jintan's feelings. Meanwhile, Anaru and Tsuruko are in love with Jintan and Yukiatsu, respectively.
- Love Hurts: Almost every character, with the exception of Poppo, is in love with another, and aren't very happy that their love interest likes someone else.
- Male Gaze: Mostly on Anaru.
- Malicious Slander: Anaru suffers through this in Episode 6 when rumors leak out that she went to a love hotel with an upperclassman. It was a Date Rape Averted, and Yukiatsu bailed her out.
- Manchild: Poppo is a bit younger than most, but the fact that he lives in his old clubhouse suggests that he hasn't really matured since the gang split up.
- Market-Based Title: The localized version of the series is called anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, presumably due to the long original title.
- Maybe Ever After: The epilogue and the movie drops some hints for Jintan/Anaru and Tsuruko/Yukiatsu.
- Melodrama: The final two episodes.
- Missing Mom: Jintan's late mother Toko.
- Moving Beyond Bereavement: The plot concerns five high school friends coming to terms with the death of their friend Menma, who died in an accident five years ago. The sudden appearance of her ghost to one of them brings them back together and allows them to admit and work through the guilt and feelings they still have about her and each other.
- Muggle and Magical Love Triangle: The two girls with romantic interest in Jintan are the Cute Ghost Girl Menma and the still living Childhood Friend Anaru.
- Multitasked Conversation: Menma talks and talks...
- My Girl Is Not a Slut: Invoked by Jintan in Episode 6 for Anaru, though they are not a couple.
- My Greatest Failure: Poppo was unable to save Menma when she drowned.
- Narm: In-universe—in Episode 11, Anaru's false eyelashes detaching themselves is enough to cheer everyone up after their extremely tearful confessions.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: Menma died before Jintan could confess to her properly or apologize for lashing out at her when put on the spot.
- No Antagonist: The main obstacle that needs to be dealt with by the still living main characters are themselves and how they come to terms with a tragedy from their childhood that they never properly coped with. The characters closest to antagonists in the story are Yukiatsu and Irene Honma, but both are sympathetic characters whose antagonism comes from the way they've mourned Menma's death, and the only real Hate Sink in the whole series is a single Jerkass upperclassman who tries to take advantage of Anaru in episode 5.
- Nosebleed: It was a normal nosebleed, but Jintan getting one gives Anaru the wrong idea.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Jinta thinks Menma is a figment of his imagination. She's not.
- Not What It Looks Like: A classic one for UST purposes in Episode 7, where Anaru slips and falls into Jintan, dragging them into an intimate position. Then Poppo walks in, sees them... and promptly beats a retreat.
- One Head Taller: Menma is much smaller than all the rest of the Super Peace Busters, allowing this to be invoked with any of them, though it's usually with Jintan. Averted with each implied Official Couple, who are roughly the same heights as each other.
- Pair the Spares: During their childhood, Tsuruko saw this as probable scenario between Yukiatsu and Anaru after Jintan and Menma would get together. Five years later, Yukiatsu himself started to see it as a good solution. It probably didn't end this way, though.
- Palette Swap: Discussed. Menma wonders if Yukiatsu had really seen another apparition of her. And if so, would that make that apparition the "Menluigi" to her "Menmario", and if its possible she was wearing "second-player colors".
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: Anaru, based on her attitude towards Jintan. Tsuruko towards Yukiatsu.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Used in-universe. Anaru invokes this by calling Yukiatsu/Tsuruko as Yukiatsuruko, though they're not a couple.
- Putting the Band Back Together: Menma can't remember her wish but believes that it would be a step in the right direction for Jintan to pull this off.
- Puppy Love: All over the place. The unresolved romances of the Super Peace Busters are a main driving point of the plot.
- Real-Place Background: The series takes place in the extremely scenic town of Chichibu, in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan.
- Reincarnation: The name of the anime is about this. Jintan's mother told Menma about how a person can be reincarnated as another creature (such as a cat or a flower) after they die, and this becomes Menma's objective after she remembers her original wish. She wants to be reincarnated so she can be in the same world where her friends are.
- Replacement Goldfish: In Episode 9, Anaru admits that she thought Jintan would like her best after Menma died, but he didn't, and Tsuruko loves Yukiatsu and believes that he will never feel the way because he sees Anaru as his "back-up".
- The Rival: Yukiatsu towards Jintan.
- The Runaway: Anaru stays out at the clubhouse in Episode 6, fearing reprisal from her mother should she go home. She returns to her house and gets her anticipated chewing-out and decides to make her stay at the clubhouse a bit more permanent until Episode 9.
- Rule of Symbolism: The name of the flower they saw that day? Forget-me-not. They adorn the OP and ED, and pop up frequently in the anime. It also makes Jintan's words about fulfilling the wishes of those flowers all the more meaningful.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Tsuruko gets them momentarily to intimidate Anaru away from the subject in Episode 9 when the latter comments that she never expected to hear Tsuruko talking about cute things.
- Second Love: Hinted at in the ending with Tsuruko for Yukiatsu and Anaru for Jintan.
- Ship Tease: As children, Jintan and Menma had feelings for each other with Anaru crushing on the former and Yukiatsu crushing on the latter, and Tsuruko crushing on Yukiatsu. In the present, Jintan and Anaru share a bit of UST while Yukiatsu and Tsuruko are usually seen together and are twice mistaken for a couple. Yukiatsu also attempts to pull the Pair the Spares route with Anaru by asking her out, and Poppo has declared a slight interest in Tsuruko too, which would make Love Dodecahedron complete.
- Shout-Out:
- Episode 2: There are Wandering Son and Sekirei posters in Anaru's workplace register. The Sekirei one returns in Episode 8.
- Episode 6: Jintan is watching Occult Academy at the beginning of the episode. Anaru is shown to have carved a Hamtaro into one of the pillars of the clubhouse.
- Episode 7: Anaru's workplace has a Wagnaria!! poster near the register. A television show features a female pug named Oscar.
- Sleep Cute: Jintan and Menma in the second episode.
- Stepford Smiler: Mrs. Honma and Poppo.
- The Stoic: Tsuruko.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Tsuruko has grown into one.
- Survivor Guilt: All of the main cast are lamenting and blaming themselves to some extent over the death of Menma, due to actions that occurred on the day of her death. Jintan and Menma had crushes on each other but both denied it. Tsuruko told Menma about Jintan's feelings, and then Yukiatsu and Anaru attempted to make Jintan confess his feelings about Menma in order to express their own feelings to the two, but Jintan ran off in denial. Yukiatsu then awkwardly confessed to Menma, but she runs after Jintan, before falling into a river and drowning, which was witnessed by Poppo.
- Symbolic Cast Fadeout: The opening credits show the main cast as kids, then as teenagers, but missing Menma (whose death as a child broke up the friend group and drives the entire plot).
- There Are No Therapists:
- You'd think that someone would suggest that Jinta should see a therapist, being a shut-in who obsesses over a friend who died back when he was little and all.
- In general, just looking at the Super Peace Busters and Mrs. Honma is enough to make you ask yourself "Dude, where are the grief counselors?"
- This is weird by Anglo standards, but not by Japanese ones. Japan has more sex therapists than it does counselors and psychologists - psych problems and mental illnesses are still taboo in Japan, doubly so for conditions that bring shame upon the family like being a shut-in. The same goes to Mrs. Honma.
- Third-Person Person: Menma refers to herself in the third person, both as a child and as a (ghostly) teenager; in the present, this shows how she's still as childish as when she was alive.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Menma was an unbelievably cute Cheerful Child who always put her friends before herself and rarely considered her own feelings. Of course she had to go.
- Tragic Keepsake: Yukiatsu's keepsake is a pin just like the one he offered to Menma when he confessed. Tsuruko seems to have the actual one. At the end of the series Tsuruko is shown wearing the new hairpin that Yukiatsu had, heavily implying that they are now dating and he gave it to her as a gift.Inside the pouch, Poppo is always carrying around his neck are flowers, specifically the flowers that were blooming on the day Menma died.
- Triple Shifter: Jintan works both during the day at the store with Anaru and at night as a construction worker. And this he does in order to save up the money for the fireworks. The lagging school work issue is justified though, considering he was a Hikikomori to begin with.
- Tsundere: Anaru. Jintan tsuns back at her quite a bit as well.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Jintan and Menma, Jintan and Anaru, Yukiatsu and Tsuruko, and Yukiatsu and Anaru.
- Walking the Earth: Seems to be Poppo's ambition. The mapping of his travels looks quite impressive. According to the map shown in his introductory scene, he's been to Merida, Venezuela, Quito, Ecuador, Lima, Peru, Santiago, Chile, Brasilia, Brazil, Guadalajara, Mexico, San Diego, USA, Okhotsk, Russia, Matsuyama, Japan, Qingdao, China, Manila, Philippines, Kimann, Papua New Guinea, Makassar and Bima, Indonesia, Kuala Dungun, Malaysia, Phuket and Bangkok Thailand, Nha Trang, Vietnam, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai, India, Dubai, UAE, Salalah, Oman, Adana, Turkey, and Athens, Greece. Later shots in Episode 4 also include Havana, Cuba, Khartoum, Sudan, and Maintirano, Madagascar. All this was meant to forget his bitter memories of seeing Menma drown and being unable to help.
- We Were Your Team: The group drifted apart after Menma died and Jinta broke down.
- We Used to Be Friends: At the start of the series, it's most apparent between Jintan, Anaru, and Yukiatsu, whose relationships are the most tense. Everyone mostly gets along with Poppo, and only Yukiatsu and Tsuruko remained friends.
- Although, there's some question of whether Jintan and Yukiatsu were ever really friends, as the flashbacks indicate that the latter was always rather resentful of former. Even more so than Anaru and Tsuruko were of Menma.
- Wham Line:
- Near the end of Episode 4, Tsuruko calls out to the "Menma" that's running away from them, and calls him "Yukiatsu," revealing that she's on to him.
- At the end of Episode 7, Jintan, Poppo and Anaru have gotten enough money for their fireworks, only to find that an official is refusing to approve their plan. Jintan then asks for the person's name.Man: It was... Manabu Honma
Jintan, Anaru and Poppo gasp.
Jintan: Menma's dad...
