YMMV / Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

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• Awesome Art: The manga adaptation, which accurately recreates, and even improves some of the frames from the anime.
• Awesome Music: The opening theme song, Aoi Shiori by Galileo Galilei. And also the ending theme, "Secret Base."
• Crossover Ship: After this AMV made the rounds of the con circuit, Menma started being shipped with Aisaka Taiga.
• Genius Bonus: The world map shown in Poppo's introduction scene is both this and a Freeze-Frame Bonus; any viewer well-versed in traveling and/or geography will recognize that every circle shown really does correspond to a real-life town or city, a few of which are relatively obscure.
• Jerkass Woobie: Yukiatsu may be an elitist asshole who lives to show Jinta up, but Menma's death left him a whole mess of emotional issues and he does realize how pathetic he is. He does start to get a bit nicer after he is outed as the fake Menma.
• Moe: Menma. Also the kids when they were young and Menma's little brother.
• Narm: All the crying and screaming in Episode 11, while not being totally uncalled for, can reach a point where it just descends into this and melodrama. It's either made more effective when Poppo opens up over his trauma or made especially melodramatic given how he's screaming every line at the top of his lungs while sobbing.
• The Scrappy: Viewers seldom have kind words for Aki and Haruna, who for the majority of the series are one-note Alpha Bitches and awful friends to Anaru.
• Signature Scene: The ending of Episode 11.
• Spiritual Successor: It really comes off like part of Key/Visual Arts' canon, what with the focus on family and relationships, the Magic Realism, and the drama calculated to make the viewer cry.
• Squick:
  • Was anyone else a little weirded out when Poppo invited Jinta on a "Jungle Cruise" while pulling down his pants?
  • Seeing Yukiatsu sniff out one of a sundress that he bought which looked very similar to the one Menma used to wear weirded out quite a few people.
• Stoic Woobie: Tsuruko, although she doesn't seem like it until much later on.

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