Refrain Blue
Matsunaga Yoshihiro is the chaperone for a group of high-school students on a summer trip to the beach. One night he saves one of the students, Morisawa Nao, as she attempts to drown herself. She had been on this same trip a year ago, with her fiancee, who was later killed in a plane crash. As these two get to know each other, we find that Yoshihiro also has a painful secret from his past. Watching over everything is a mysterious young girl who somehow is always there at decisive moments.
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| Romance, 3 eps | |
Takes place at a beachside hotel on a weekend in August. Tenjouin Matsunaga comes back to work as a tour guide 7 years after his girlfriend breaks up with him at a nearby hotel, and he hopes against hope that he'll see her again. Nao Morisawa comes back on a high school trip with her classmates- her visit here last year is the last happy memory she has of her boyfriend, who was later killed in a plane crash. With the help of a mysterious little girl they meet at the beach, will they put aside their bad memories of loved ones no longer with them, and find happiness with each other? With only 3 episodes to work with, this title wastes no time with all the standard and predictable obstacles that most romance titles trot out to pad their length- and that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it! The downside to it is that most of the other dialogued characters are basically window dressing with no real impact on the story. Of course, these characters are likely more important in the anime's source material- a game of the same name by Elf- which tells you what kind of game it is, natch. I'm not a heavy drama or romance person, so all I can say is that the anime didn't suck. However, I'm pretty partial to the rich, melancholy electronica BGM they usually use for the scenes between Matsunaga and 'Beach Girl' in ep 2. |
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Refrain Blue (game) created by Elf. Anime rights belong to Pink Pineapple.