firehawk12
Subete no aware
The magic of good writing is when the author is able to trick the audience into wanting to see the cliche. There's a subtle line between manipulating someone and giving them exactly what they want.
Look at how they prime your expectations:
1) It's a show about making a movie or capturing memories.
2) You have the characters narrate about "that summer" from some point in the future. They never explicitly say what happens, but you can infer so much from the tone of their voice (which is wistful) and the actual words they do use.
3) You rely on the trope of summer vacation, which even an American audience can identify with.
By the time you actually get to the ending, you know exactly what's going to happen as it happens, but it never feels like you were being drug along to reach that point.
Then, when they do pull the epilogue, it's exactly what you want because the characters are manufactured enough that you want them to reach the point they do in the series but not enough that you automatically assume that the ending is the only possibility. It's masterful RomCom writing.
It's just so surprising how well done it is, because I've come to expect shit from anime scripts nowadays. Especially ones that can't rely on the crutch of adapting a manga/light novel.
