Where to start with this show. It's another complex love triangle anime involving the common will the child-hood friend win or not situation, much like shows such as Golden Time, or Kimikiss. If you're a fan of said shows, by all means I highly recommend you watch A town where you live.
I'm gonna go ahead and get my review regarding animation & sound out of the way first. I don't have any gripes with animation, as it's not really a heavy detail point for me when a story is written as well as this one. The music and scoring however is near perfect, and I believe it's safe to say even the OP and Endings to this show fit it's theme extremely well. Every musical cue, introduction and fading of background music, it's all tactfully done, and frankly can peel out emotion from those who are sensitive. I binged this show late at night, but I can safely say if I were to be watching this show in a more lengthy period of time, I may have shed a tear or 2. It's also, extremely angsty. I haven't felt levels of tension in my chest watching this show aside from when I watched School Days, or read Citrus.
Now, story-wise. A town where you live environmentally is very pleasing. I'm a sucker for country-side eqque shows, Strawberry Panic, Myself; Yourself, True tears, all those are shows close to my heart. Our main character sets off on a unique route, desperately trying to find his ex-girlfriend from when she visted him in Hiroshima. It's not the run-of-the mill "Oh I'm moving back here" or "I recognize you" situation. Haruto is actively trying to seek out Yuzuki Eba, and it shows in his desperation, his emotion, and penultimately in the questionable decisions he makes in the latter third of the show.
The main moral of this story is, you ultimately can't choose who you love. You can face years of separation, go through multiple relationships, but at the end of the day you'll find yourself still loving the same person after time has passed. It's truly a heartwarming story, A town where you live just handles it in a slightly more tense manner.
For the sake of keeping spoilers out of the show, I won't discuss much in regards to the side/secondary characters, but I'll say they're all extremely important individuals who create much of the tension and emotion that the watcher may face.
I'm off to read the manga now, and I'm just hoping that the show isn't a condensed version of the 261 chapters the original comic has. Have fun watching A town where you live.
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