History Anime / FlavorsOfYouth

* FashionDesigner: Lulu makes clothes as a hobby and has a sketchbook full of designs. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Shanghai Koi'', she has her own clothing line and Yi Lin wears one of her outfits in a surprise fashion show Lulu helped arrange to get Yi Lin back on her feet as a model.]]

''Flavors of Youth'' (JP: 詩季織々 ''Shikioriori'', lit. "From Season to Season"; CN: 肆式青春 ''Si Shi Qing Chun'') is a 2018 anime film. A Sino-Japanese coproduction between [=CoMix=] Wave Films and Haoliners Animation League, it is an anthology of three short films, chief directed by Li Haoling but each with its own director. It was released internationally via [=StudioCanal=] and Creator/{{Netflix}} as well as in China and Japan on August 4, 2018.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shui Jing inexplicably has purple hair. It's never revealed whether it's natural or dyed, but no one seems to make anything of it.

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'''''Flavors of Youth''''' (JP: 詩季織々 ''Shikioriori'', lit. "From Season to Season"; CN: 肆式青春 ''Si Shi Qing Chun'') is a 2018 anime film. A Sino-Japanese coproduction between [=CoMix=] Wave Films and Haoliners Animation League, it is an anthology of three short films, chief directed by Li Haoling but each with its own director. It was released internationally via [=StudioCanal=] and Creator/{{Netflix}} as well as in China and Japan on August 4, 2018.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Limo [[spoiler:wanting to go to Yangpu to be with Xiao Yu, but failing to admit this to her, and his working his butt off to the point of not finding time for the tape she gave him both contribute to their separation.]]

* AirplaneOfLove: An airplane is shown shortly before the camera pans down to show Limo and Pan in a taxi, with the latter lamenting that traffic jam has prevented them from seeing Xiao Yu off at the airport.

* FoodPorn: Xioa Ming's childhood memories of San Xian rice vermicelli being prepared, both the visuals and his descriptions of the ingredients, make for a positively mouthwatering experience. {{Subverted|Trope}} in a later scene where, as an adult, he orders the same dish at a restaurant, noting that while it's not bad, the factory-precise ingredients and the stinginess of their amounts rob the dish of the things that made it so appealing to him.

* FoodPorn: Xioa Ming's childhood memories of San Xian rice vermicelli being prepared, both the visuals and his descriptions of the ingredients, make for a positively mouthwatering experience. {{Subverted|Trope}} in a later scene where, as an adult, he orders the same dish at a restaurant, noting that while it's not bad, the factory-precise ingredients and the stinginess of their amounts rob the dish of the things that made it so appealing to him as a child.

* BigFun: Pan is gregarious and of great girth.

* ChekhovsGun: In ''Shanghai Koi'', the path to Limo's house is shown to be cracked and passersby are warned about it. Shortly afterwards, [[spoiler:Xiao Yu sprains her ankle on it, necessitating a piggyback ride from Limo home. 9 years later, it's still in disrepair.]]

* FoodPorn: The depiction of San Xian rice vermicelli being prepared and the descriptions of the ingredients make for a positively mouthwatering experience.

* PaintingTheMedium: The camera blurs and shakes to reflect [[spoiler:Yi Lin's poor physical state]].

* TheReveal: The final tape Xiao Yu tried to give to Limo but he'd never listened to because he was too busy studying reveals both {{Internal| Reveal}}ly and externally that [[spoiler:she had given up on her wish to attend Yangpu because she wanted to be with him]].

* ((Fanservice}}: {{Averted|Trope}}; you might expect this in ''Chiisana Fashion Show'' since modeling and fashion are key story elements, but the only scene that might legitimately count is Yi Lin on a treadmill during her HardWorkMontage.