Opening: "Hikari no Kisetsu" by Suara Short Summary: Shouko and Hiro meet studying abroad in the United States of America. They fall in love, even live together. Suddenly Hiro gets a call and flys back to Japan. He promises to return soon, but after months of waiting Shouko receives a letter he will never return, because he has to take care for his little sister Karada. Four years later Shouko and Karada meet each other at a little shrine with a stone thats supposed to fulfill wishes. Through his little sister Shouko remeets Hiro and gets into a fight with him. She can't understand why she "lost" to his sister and says something that hurts Karada so much she wishes to be an adult fast. Again at the shrine the prophecy and so Karadas wish comes true...the only problem is Shouko turns into a child, although she did not wish for it and Karada has to cope with the fact she looks like an adolescent person, but her brain is still that of a young girl. She's afraid of confessing to Hiro what happend, so she stays at Shouko's flat and the two try to master the situation as good as they can. My opinion: Asatte no Houkou is different from other shows. Its quiet though not peaceful; J.C. Stuff did once again a beautiful animation job with backgrounds that look like watercolour. The tension between the characters was feelable from the start, even before the magical touch of Shouko and Karada's transformation came in. While the childish Karada panics Shouko's phlegmatic character is the strong opposite. Together they make an intersting couple. Spiced up with the background of Hiro and Shouko being lovers it gets even more interesting. But what interests me the most now, at the end of episode three is what consequences the revelation of Karada being not related by blood to Hiro will implicate. May it be he falls in love with her, who looks like a young woman now? Or will this be no topic at all because she's only his little sister too him. Will Shouko and Karada stay in their current form till the end of the show? How will Karada make it to go for work instead of Shouko and when will Hiro cut his hair? When his eyes fall ill with an inflammation I guess... Ending: "Sweet Home Song" by Yuumao
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