Introduction
With summer vacation about to begin, Koutarou Makimura plans to confess his love to the popular Kaho Serizawa. After a strange incident, however, he finds himself traveling through time, experiencing the vacation out of order. When he learns that Kaho is going to die just before they return to school, Koutarou must use his knowledge of future events to prevent her death, no matter the cost.
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Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
SgtSalamander
This is a fun little OVA that is strongly reminiscent of the era in which it was made, conjuring up nostalgic memories of the medium as it was in 2004. This largely unremarkable OVA, more an advertisement for its associated visual novel, still serves as this kind of time capsule for the cultural atmosphere anime existed in back then, as it was going through the first upheavals of a transition to digital animation, and found itself distinctly within the cultural moment known as the "moe boom". Indeed, I'd say much of this anime's value comes in the form of its capacity as an artistic and cultural artifact, but now that that's been addressed, Hourglass of Summer Colors must be examined on its own merits.
Beginning with the story, which is this anime's strongest point, I feel it holds some…
Read at the sourceRavenYami
Wanting to watch something short and potentially entertaining, I have proceeded with this OVA and I wasn't disappointed, but not impressed by what I have seen either, in fact was exactly what I envisioned it to be, a decent romance powered by a sci-fi element, a story that doesn't aspire to be anything more than that and one that you'll likely forget within a week or two.
The summary of the story is in the synopsis already, my opinion about it furthermore is that it works well enough in order to build up the relationship between the main characters, no major flaws in executing the premise, but no revolutionary ideas involved in the process either hence why I gave it a 6 in this department.
The animation is quite consistent for that time given and I could deem it as the highlight of the O…
Read at the sourceCorlupine
A rather typical, yet short and sweet anime for its time era. It is surprising how entertaining old anime can be, especially with the stereotypes current anime have. This is a romance which is quaint and ordinary, yet adds in a time travel element to spice things up. The art is typical of the era, a good recall of the old fashioned hand drawn two dimensional animation. Music is kept to a serene, peaceful quietness. Character development in the male protagonist is profound as he struggles against time to rescue a "damsel in distress" situation; the introduction of the character Ligene provides much needed comical support in an anime which could easily have gone to darker and more deviant depths. Development in Kaho was a bit disappointing, but since the focus was on Koutarou and his attempt…
Read at the sourceBolt1984
This is basically Steins;Gate before S;G was a thing. It's not bad, but it really isn't too excellent. With only 2 episodes, it definitely leaves much to be desired. I understand that there really isn't much they could've done with so little space, but it's still just disappointing.
I haven't played the game, but judging from the story here, I'll assume it's at least decent. The art, sound, blah blah blah, are all pretty ok with nothing too special. The characters do act rather stupidly.
Overall, this could've been a decent series, had they made it into one, but that's not the case..
Read at the sourcehazama
I found this anime just by surfing through MAL and when i read its summary, i got the exciting chills XD Though its just 2 EPs, its worth watching ^^ i mean the anime is just really built well. It contains a big mystery too.. About the art, its good ^^ i gave it an overall of 10 ^^ BANZAI ! Another great experience X)
Read at the sourcesirwence
Well, I have in fact played through the visual novel.. So I can say I enjoyed both though I gave the Novel a 10/10
The OVA Follows as best it can the Kaho Path - It changes a few things here a few things there, and it does change the ending a bit to.
But if you take the OVA for what it is .. 2 episodes - it is well done for that. The characters are surprisingly well done for 2 episodes - as is the general plot explained surprisingly well for such a short ova. (When it was a far longer Visual novel) And the sound track for the OVA wasn't bad either - Nothing I would go run out and buy, but nothing to scorn either , it fit the mood well , and helped the story along.
All and all I would say this OVA is worth the watch , whether or not you have gone through the visual novel- It can stand…
Read at the sourceZovistograt
So I was bored in a free period at school today and I decided to randomly go through MAL pages until I hit something vaguely interesting. I happened across a page on the producer of this and saw this...it sorta piqued my interest, so I watched it.
I am so happy I was bored enough to find this gem.
Natsuiro no Sunadokei, in my opinion, is what a romance anime should be. I really hate romance anime where the guy is a perverted idiot and the girls are stereotypes who throw their fanservice-prone-selves on him either willingly or unwillingly. Thankfully, Kou has a brain and a heart, and it's not a harem, although there are some light complications in the love web. Obviously, they couldn't make a huge mess with only 2 episodes and an overarching plot about time travel, so I'm glad they didn'…
Read at the sourceLivira
Yeah~ I gave this a 10 ^^ I haven't played the game so I don't know if this OVA does it justice or not, but I enjoyed it anyway.
Story
I've never seen anything quite like it. I will not go into what the story is about because it's in the summary up at the top, but it's very different from all those other 2-3 episode long OVAs out there. It is beautiful and different and is very well presented, even though there was only 2 episodes to work with. If it were to become a proper TV series then I'm sure it would be popular :3
Animation
Not particularly outstanding. Like most other short OVAs it had rather beautiful art, but it wasn't that amazing. Some of the characters could have done with a bit more detail here and there to make them pretty much perfect.
Sound
The opening song is by Nana Mi…
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