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Trainter
Sky of Iriya: Summer on a UFO
In the distant future, the Earth is at war with aliens. Iriya is considered the greatest hope for victory, but she lacks the most important factor: Motivation. So she is sent to a town where Iriya develops feelings for Asaba - a 3rd year student.
“The war has started a long time ago…. It’s just that… people still don’t realize it”
Although there are only 6 episodes, the anime is still very good, looking at the content, you can guess that the movie will be sad, the sadness is expressed throughout, blending with the rhythm of summer. One of the good things about the anime is that the content is set in a big war but viewers never see aliens or warships shooting at each other, it’s like a small side story outside the war from the perspective of ordinary people.…
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Unfortunately, the anime is only 6 episodes long, which means that it's extremely difficult to understand what is going on for half the show if you haven't read the novel. The setting is Japan at war with certain "enemies." The anime's viewpoint is a restricted 3rd person just behind the MC's back, which doesn't help resolve the viewers' cluelessness.
Story: Boy meets girl. Nothing fresh in 2019, but it's as impactful as ever.
Art: Excellent for 2005.
Sound: Great soundtrack, especially the op.
Character: By far the biggest flaw imo. First, all but 3 characters feel irrelevant to the anime (main guy, main gal, and Enomoto); that is, no one except these 3 serves any purpose. The club president feels out of place and retires quickly; Asaba's friends and family get way too much dialog…
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I had Iriya no Sora on my list for a long time. Having greatly enjoyed HanTsuki, six episodes isn't a flaw to me, so I was looking forward to it. What I found was an interesting anime to analyze, one that's deeply flawed yet touching.
Story 6: The story is jumbled towards the beginning. The scene is never truly set, characters react to extreme events and statements far more matter of factly than if it were set in modern time. A large part of this is it being only six episodes so it did not have much of a chance for story development. It feels slightly set in the future, but for the most part the main character is largely in the dark as to what's going on as well, which is why you learn as it goes on. However, there are multiple points in the story where it's easy to tell parts are missing…
Read at the sourceBolt1984
"I don't remember anything. I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING." -Kunihiro Suizenji
What is this show about? No really, I'm not all that sure myself. Something about fighting aliens? I really don't fucking know. There were too many unexplained events to make any sense of it all. Everything seemed to just happen, without any reason as to why it happened. The plot seems to just go all over the place, the characters are a mess, and nothing really makes sense. I can't even describe this show's problems accurately since there's nothing to really even go off of.
Much of the show seems to just exist as filler. Everything just happens for the sake of continuation. THAT's the reason why there's only six episodes..
Read at the sourceIrrelativity
"Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu". I saw this was recommended to people who enjoyed Saikano, so i thought i'd give it a try. Even though the story seemed awkward from the synopsis, i was actually looking forward to it.
My first impression was "Oh, i hate how the main character is drawn". I decided to let it be, that i wouldn't let such a minor detail smuther my enjoyment, since i had heard and read good things about this. Fortunately, he was the only eye-sore. The art was pretty well made, and in the end it was one of the best qualities of this anime.
The setting was the average cliche school drama anime. Girl/boy meets boy/girl under peculiar circumstances, and the next day boy/girl transfers to girl's/boy's class. This didn't bother me at all, i actually didn't even think of it as cliche unt…
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Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu is a 6-episode OVA. It aired between the 28th of January, 2005, and the 8th of July, 2005.
The genres include: drama, romance, sci-fi, mystery, comedy, action.
Story
The two main characters, Asaba Naoyuki and Iriya Kana meet during the final day of summer break. Shortly after, Iriya transfers to Asaba's school, and the both of them get to know each other better, although there are many mysteries surrounding Iriya. When you think it's going to be a sweet love story, it comes with a dark sci-fi spin, though the series mostly focuses on their relationship and their ups and downs, till the very dramatic finish. Although, I have to say, it gets more and more dark and sad with every episode.
Animation
Toei did the animation for this series. It's very nice to look a…
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Overall: Iriya no Sora, was a very touching anime, albeit short with only 6 episodes. I enjoyed watching this series very much.
Story: Its a sci-fi kind of romance story, that I dig, so some people arent into the romance thing, and its up to them if they wish to watch. One thing is that since there are only a few episodes, they didnt do very much explaining, some things are left completely in the dark.
Art: The art was very good, usually pretty colorful and rich, especially in those memorable moments where you feel kinda warm and fuzzy inside.
Sound: Not a bad opening and closing for this kind of anime, and there were no objectionable bgms either.
Character: They didnt have much time to develop the characters, however, the main characters were quite memorable, especially Iriya.
Enjoym…
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Many will say that this looks pretty much like Saikano. Indeed both animes share the same plan.Yes it is a Love story, yes it is quite dramatic,and yes it is spiced with a sience-fiction background. This is where the similarity ends however. Both animes are quite good actually, but they just follow their own routes to achieve a common goal. That is to make the viewer cry.
- The story : not that much original. It's just a love story between a girl used as a weapon to save the world, and a boy falling in love with her and yet confused because he wants to help her and yet he can't do anything to save her. Yetwhat makes it realy good, is infact the way that it is told. In that matter i will say, it is a master piece. To make things clear, if you expect action, crazy mecha/spaceships battles,…
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The story starts out like most other fantasy animes, in something reminiscent of Eureka 7, but as the story progresses,see how the characters affect each other on such a deep emotional level, you'll see that this is not much of a sci-fi, mecha, kind of thing, but a romance and love anime that blows away all others....the ending was so very touching....i caught myself crying, which happens very little for me when watching anime, in fact, i think this is the first time i hav ever cried watching an anime....
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Sounds Saikano-ish? You bet. I haven't seen Saikano myself, but this one gave me a mental breakdown; much less than Iriya herself experienced in the anime, but more than what I experienced after watching any anime (except for Now and Then, Here and There, perhaps) so far.
The 2005 vintage anime is a both sweet and dark love story, intermeshed with sparse humor and lingering suspense that draws you into the story. From episode 1 to 6, the mood changes dramatically, from somewhat ecchi humor in the first, to a quite of a heartbreaking finale. However, the speed is just perfect, not too fast to cram in the plot, but not too long that it bores people. The remarkable thing is the abrupt changes in mood. In one moment you have a sweet scene where Asaba and Iriya is together, and suddenly Iriya…
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