Introduction
“Is there any girl you love?”
By this word his friend asked during the school excursion, the protagonist, Kaizu Takumi, begins to aware of his interest in opposite sex. Of course, there are girls around him, for example, his childhood friend, Hatano Konami, his classmate, Ebizuka Shino, a school idol, Shimazu Kakana, etc. However, he himself hasn’t noticed his feelings until he is asked by his friend. He becomes anxious seeing his friend try to find his girl friend, and he resolves his mind to find a girl friend during the last summer of his high school life.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Motakutan
A bit on the older side and obviously filled with cliches. Of course it is an OVA based off the Visual Novel Game. I saw the drama tag, but there isn't any drama in these episodes at all. This anime clearly attempts to create an emotionally driven show with the main theme of cherishing your important memories because you'll never be able to relive them again with also the hinted love between the male main character and his obvious love interest. While that's nice, everything falls short because of the small episode count. This honestly could have been a really good if it had been a 12 episode series, giving it more time to introduce characters and expand further on its ideas.
Overall the anime is cute however a lot of things are cliches nearly nothing about this anime is truly unique but…
Read at the sourceSayayurin
It's catered more to the customer base who have experienced the eroge that the anime's based on since the story took little to no time to introduce the characters or elaborate in any way further than surface level on their relationship or the attraction the girls have for the protagonist.
The protagonist status of the main character is painfully obvious when every side character and harem member is calling out for his name and attention despite a strong lack of personality. Rather, he's got more flaws than merits.
In comparison, his sole male friend, the comedic relief who gets beaten up most of the time during his screen time, sees things more maturely and clearly than he does yet remains all that he is, as a comedic relief.
The harem members are extremely cliché with the exception of the…
Read at the sourceProxyLain
There's not much to talk about this OVA, because it doesn't really explore what we were introduced to.
Well, in the synopsis it says that the protagonist starts to become aware of liking the opposite sex, but this was never mentioned in the OVA in a clear way, it was not explored.
There is also kind of a romance that is left very open between the protagonist and his childhood friend, Konami. And guess what? It is not explored either.
The protagonist's friend, Osamu, is always after a girlfriend, but never gets one. In the first episode it is hinted that he might have a relationship with Shino, because they are always arguing. This, too, is not worked out.
The characters themselves are not bad, but the plot does not help to have that much attachment for them.
The character design is very…
Read at the sourceHr0n
In confession - what usually catches my first glance when selecting Anime to watch is the title. and "_Summer" was such a unique title, I simply had to watch it - given it was only two episodes, as well. Being Swedish, at first I had some heck of a hard time understanding the alternate title "Underbar Summer", with "underbar" meaning "wonderful" in my language, until my slow brain realized that it was referring to the "_" in front of the title. -_-; "Huh, is the alternate title in German or something?"
If you're into Ecchi, then it's watchable. If you're not, there's not really much else to gather from here. As others have already told, it ends too soon; it's a good setup for a harem kind of anime, and had it drawn on for some ten episodes more, I'm positive it would've gotten much more…
Read at the sourcechichiriNoDa
People might think it's pointless, but I love this OVA!
_Summer starts of in a perverted way! (Ridiculous). Takumi was forcibly dragged by his friend to peek at the girls while taking a bath. (They got caught of course, hahahaha)......
The cast consist of wide variety of personalities. From the main guy who is clueless and slow. The bestfriend who acts cool, who is insearch for a girlfriend. The childhood friend that cooks for him every morning that's quiet. The sister that's outgoing and cheerful. The childhood girl's bestfriend who is agreesive,bossy,loud and shows no interest on guys (tomboy-ish) but deep down ya know. The school girl idol who only talks to Takumi. Of course the most funniest of all, the weird/mysterious/robotic sounding girl, Chiwa (by the way she's my fave!). This m…
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If you'd like to waste 60 minutes of your time, watch _summer. It's not even that it was that awful. In all honesty, there was just no point to it. The ending is just outrageously unsatisfying. They introduce you to some characters, hint at some chemistry between a few of them, then end it with a weak attempt at a moral message. After watching episode two, the first thing that came to mind was "Alright, where's episode 3?" It was as if they decided to simply not conclude it, for the sake of making me angry.
Aside from that, everything else was fine. Characters designs were satisfactory, albeit a little stale. Animation was a little bad for an OVA, but whatever. Music wasn't particularly remarkable but it certainly didn't detract from the experience (although I have listened to musical wor…
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