History Anime / AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay

!''Ano-Hana'' provides examples of:

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In Episode 3, Menma expresses her desire for Jintan to go back to school whilst straddling him and bouncing. It's innocent on her part. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Probably not so much on the animator's.]]

* Foreshadowing: A subtle example in episode 10 that might be missed on first watch: [[spoiler:Poppo, normally the most cheerful and upbeat of the group, slows down for just a moment to say that he feels like 'all he can do is watch' the rest of the group. This foreshadows the revelation in the finale that he witnessed Menma's death but was helpless to prevent it.]]

* SixStudentClique:
** The Head: [[MagneticHero Jintan]].
** The Muscle: [[TheRival Yukiatsu]].
** The Quirk: [[ManChild Poppo]].
** The Pretty One: [[TheCutie Menma]].
** The Smart One: [[SugarAndIcePersonality Tsuruko]].
** The Wild One: [[FieryRedhead Anaru]].

* TragicKeepsake: Yukiatsu's keepsake is [[spoiler:a pin just like the one he offered to Menma when he confessed. Tsuruko seems to have the actual one.]] At the end of the series [[spoiler:Tsuruko is shown wearing the new hairpin that Yukiatsu had, heavily implying that they are now dating and he gave it to her as a gift]].

** the chick: Menma/Anaru

* WhamLine: Near the end of Episode 4, Tsuruko calls out to the "Menma" that's running away from them, and [[spoiler:calls him "Yukiatsu," revealing that she's on to him]].

* WomanInWhite: Menma wears a white dress with a blue ribbon throughout the series, since that was what she was wearing when she died. A fitting choice, since the color white is usually associated with purity and innocence.

* WalkingTheEarth: Seems to be Poppo's ambition. The mapping of his travels looks quite impressive. According to the map shown in his introductory scene, he's been to Merida, Venezuela, Quito, Ecuador, Lima, Peru, Santiago, Chile, Brasilia, Brazil, Guadalajara, Mexico, San Diego, USA, Okhotsk, Russia, Matsuyama, Japan, Qingdao, China, Manila, Philippines, Kimann, Papua New Guinea, Makassar and Bima, Indonesia, Kuala Dungun, Malaysia, Phuket and Bangkok Thailand, Nha Trang, Vietnam, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai, India, Dubai, UAE, Salalah, Oman, Adana, Turkey, and Athens, Greece. [[spoiler:All this was meant to forget his bitter memories of ''seeing'' Menma drown and being unable to help.]]

* WalkingTheEarth: Seems to be Poppo's ambition. The mapping of his travels looks quite impressive. According to the map shown in his introductory scene, he's been to Merida, Venezuela, Quito, Ecuador, Lima, Peru, Santiago, Chile, Brasilia, Brazil, Guadalajara, Mexico, San Diego, USA, Okhotsk, Russia, Matsuyama, Japan, Qingdao, China, Manila, Philippines, Kimann, Papua New Guinea, Makassar and Bima, Indonesia, Kuala Dungun, Malaysia, Phuket and Bangkok Thailand, Nha Trang, Vietnam, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai, India, Dubai, UAE, and Salalah, Oman. [[spoiler:All this was meant to forget his bitter memories of ''seeing'' Menma drown and being unable to help.]]

* WalkingTheEarth: Seems to be Poppo's ambition. The mapping of his travels looks quite impressive. [[spoiler:All this was meant to forget his bitter memories of ''seeing'' Menma drown and being unable to help.]]

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Tsuruko has a crush on Yukiatsu, but he is obsessed with Menma and later considers Anaru to be his ReplacementLoveInterest. Anaru is in love with Jintan, but the latter is also obsessed with Menma. Menma does like Jintan back, but due to her being deceased, she cannot be with him. The only one among the gang who doesn't seem to be part of the romantic loop is Poppo, but being TheBigGuy, it is likely that he will get the short end of the stick. [[spoiler:In the end, Jintan/Anaru and Yukiatsu/Tsuruko are given a MaybeEverAfter.]]

** Tsuruko does an indirect one towards Yukiatsu in Episode 11 when she rants to Anaru. She [[LoveHurts wasn't happy]] that he had a ReplacementLoveInterest in Anaru when Menma disappeared.

* GreenEyedMonster: Anaru and Yukiatsu have had their share of this when it comes to Jintan and Menma. Even [[TheStoic Tsuruko]] has a bit of a moment when she eavesdrops on Yukiatsu comforting Anaru in Episode 9. In Episode 11, Tsuruko admits that the person that she's always been jealous of is Anaru for being his ReplacementLoveInterest and the person who understood Yukiatsu the most.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: In Episode 9, Anaru admits that she thought Jintan would like her best after Menma died, but he didn't, and Tsuruko loves Yukiatsu and believes that he will never feel the way because he sees Anaru as his "back-up".

* WomanInWhite: Menma wears a white dress throughout the series, since that was what she was wearing when she died. A fitting choice, since the color white is usually associated with purity and innocence.

* WomanInWhite: Menma wears a white dress throughout the series since that's what she was wearing when she died. A fitting choice, since the color white is usually associated with purity and innocence.

* WomanInWhite: Menma.

** Episode 7: Anaru's workplace has a ''Manga/{{Working}}'' poster near the register. A television show features a ''female'' pug named [[Manga/RoseOfVersailles Oscar]].

* RealSongThemeTune: The ending theme is a cover of Zone's "secret base ~Kimi ga Kureta Mono~ [[note]]What You Gave Me[[/note]] (10 years after ver.)" by the three leading ladies.

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from top left: [[TheQuietOne Chiriko]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality "Tsuruko"]] [[{{Meganekko}} Tsurumi]], [[TheHero Jinta]] [[{{Hikikomori}} "Jintan"]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Yadomi]], [[OtakuSurrogate Naruko]] [[JerkassFacade "Anaru"]] [[{{Tsundere}} Anjo]], [[DeadToBeginWith Meiko]] [[GenkiGirl "Menma"]] [[AllLovingHeroine Honma]], [[TheRival Atsumu]] [[{{Hypocrite}} "Yukiatsu"]] [[JerkassWoobie Matsuyuki]], and [[{{Keet}} Tetsudo]] [[ManChild "Poppo"]] [[WalkingTheEarth Hisakawa]]]]

* JerkassFacade: Anaru is surprisingly nice and pretty much a huge nerd under her jerkish [[{{Tsundere}} Tsundere-isms]].

* NotWhatItLooksLike: A classic one for {{UST}} purposes in Episode 7, where Anaru slips and falls into Jintan, dragging them into an intimate position. Then Poppo walks in, sees them... and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny promptly beats a retreat]].

* GhostlyGoals: Menma reappears to Jintan to have him help her fulfill [[UnfinishedBusiness her wish]]. [[spoiler:Her wish turns out to be fulfilling a favor to Jintan's mother--getting him to stop bottling up his emotions.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yukiatsu's [[BreakTheHaughty haughtiness gets broken]] in Episode 5 after [[spoiler:everyone finds out that he's crossdressing as Menma and]] he breaks down, blaming himself for Menma's death. In the same episode, he later rescues Anaru when she gets sexually harassed by a guy intending to take her to a love hotel.