History YMMV / AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay

* CrossoverShip: After [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-PIXu6ccA this AMV]] made the rounds of the con circuit, Menma started being shipped with [[LightNovel/{{Toradora}} Aisaka Taiga]].

* TheScrappy: Viewers seldom have kind words for Aki and Haruna, who for the majority of the series are one-note [[AlphaBitch Alpha Bitches]] and [[PoisonousFriend awful friends]] to Anaru.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Both Jintan and Menma fail to just have Menma prove her own existence to everyone else by simply lifting an object or two in someone's direct line of sight. It's especially noticeable at the end of episode five, when Poppo is intentionally seeking out Menma because he wants to help her grant her wish. Instead of trying to interact, Menma cries over not knowing what she wants to do and instead [[ComicallyMissingThePoint wishes that she could talk to her friends]], leaving Jintan to angrily tell Poppo to stop. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:Menma ended up revealing herself in such a way in episode eight.]]
** It's ''somewhat'' more understandable when Menma says she ''has'' tried to do the same thing in her house, but it doesn't always work. (And it's speculated that this may be because [[spoiler: her mothers's grief is too intense to allow Menma to contact her -- "Mama gets really sad", remember?]]). She could have simply assumed it wouldn't work with her friends either, specially considering how much they changed and grew apart after her death, [[spoiler:and episode 8's revelation scene came during quite the crisis between the former Peace Busters so she likely used it as a desperate measure.]]
** Jintan has a subconscious desire to keep Menma to herself here amongst the living that he struggles with, and thus monologues that he doesn't really need to think about it; Yukiatsu later discusses this possibility with the rest of the gang after [[spoiler:Menma's ghost is proven to be real]]. Menma simply desires to stay with her friends and also monologues that she doesn't really need to think about it, but she comes to acknowledge that she needs to pass on and fulfill her wish for everyone else to move on. Both were basically ObfuscatingStupidity as to find an excuse not to change the status quo and move on.

* GeniusBonus: The world map shown in Poppo's introduction scene is both this and a FreezeFrameBonus; any viewer well-versed in traveling and/or geography will recognize that every circle shown really does correspond to a real-life town or city, a few of which relatively obscure.

* GeniusBonus: The world map shown in Poppo's introduction scene is both this and a FreezeFrameBonus; any viewer well-versed in traveling and/or geography will recognize that every circle shown really does translate to a real-life town or city, a few of which relatively obscure.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening theme song. And also the ending theme, "Secret Base."

** It's ''somewhat'' more understandable when Menma says she ''has'' tried to do the same thing in her house, but it doesn't always work. (And it's speculated that this may be because [[spoiler: her mothers's grief is too intense to allow Menma to contact her -- "Mama gets really sad", remember?]]). She could have simply assumed it wouldn't work with her friends either, specially considering how much they changed and grew apart after her death, [[spoiler: and episode 8's revelation scene came during quite the crisis between the former Peace Busters so she likely used it as a desperate measure]].

* {{Narm}}: All the crying and screaming in Episode 11, while not being [[TearJerker totally uncalled for]], can reach a point where it just descends into this and [[{{Wangst}} melodrama]]. ''Especially'' when [[TheBigGuy Poppo]] opens up over his trauma.

* MostAnnoyingSound: ''Jintan. Jintan. Jintan. Jintan...''
** In episode 11: ''MENMAAAAAA!'' ''I'm not ready yet!'' ''MENMAAAAAA!'' ''I'm not ready yet!'' ''MENMAAAAAA!'' ''I'm not ready yet!''