YMMV / Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue

• Awesome Music:
  • The opening, "Contrail ~ Kiseki ~" and the ED, "a-gain", sung by Mami Kawada and Ray respectively, for the anime.
  • "Wings of Courage ~ Sora o Koete ~", the VN's PC OP. Again by Mami Kawada.
  • "Crossing Way", the PS Vita OP. Also sung by Mami Kawada.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Masaya to a large extent. Some people think that he adds a lot to the story with his past and character development, another camp thinks that he is an ass with his negative personality and don't think he adds enough to the plot to balance it out. Perception of Masaya will often make or break one's enjoyment with Aokana.
  • Asuka and Misaki, since their differing views on Flying Circus and rivalry in the novel has led to a large disagreement in the fan community, especially among fans of these two characters in particular.
• Broken Base: There exist three separate camps for the anime adaptation: Those who view the anime as crap because it didn't follow the original source material accurately, cutting away certain rules of FC for the sake of pacing, for demoting Masaya's importance and role in the overall plot in favor of Asuka being the main character and for removing the game's romance in all its entirety; those who view the anime as a unique sports anime with awesome moments, good, well-rounded characters, and actually favor Asuka being the protagonist instead of Masaya; finally, those who view the anime as a bad adaptation of the source material but still maintain that it was an enjoyable anime nonetheless.
• Les Yay: Mashiro sure has a knack for attracting this. Her protectiveness of and clinginess to her senpai Misaki, including joining the FC team, taking her own position, and even copying her manner of speech, certainly raises some eyebrows. Her interactions with Rika also resemble this trope moreso than a student and teacher or newfound friends.
  • Thanks to the anime removing the romance aspect completely, the two main female leads, Asuka and Misaki, spend most of their time in the anime growing closer together. A little too close perhaps.
  • Back on the Visual Novel with Arika's clingy relationship with her "big sis" and to some extent Saki and Irina's connection.
• Moe: In the 2014 Moe Game Awards, Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm placed first.
• Narm: Some English speakers have a hard time hearing the words "Flying Circus" without thinking of Monty Python.

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