夏雪ランデブー

NATSUYUKI RENDEZVOUS

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
11
RELEASE
September 14, 2012
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

Hazuki may be near-sighted, but he knows true beauty when he sees it and the delicate form of flower shop owner Rokka draws him in like a bee to honey. So, hoping to cultivate a relationship between them, Hazuki takes a part time job at her shop, only to discover two huge thorns preventing the nurturing of any romance. The first, the fact that Rokka is still grieving for her late husband Shimao, would be enough to snip most men's ardor short, but it's the second that really threatens to make Hazuki's forlorn hopes wilt. Because while Shimao is most definitely deceased, he hasn't yet departed and his spirit is still living in Rokka's apartment! Except only Hazuki can see him, which leads to a very strange romantic triangle indeed. Are Hazuki's chances with Rokka as dead as the man who still lives in her house? Or can he somehow make love blossom even though there's an interloper pushing up the daisies between them?

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

CAST

Ryousuke Hazuki
Yuuichi Nakamura
Rokka Shimao
Sayaka Oohara
Atsushi Shimao
Jun Fukuyama
Miho Shimao
Yumi Touma
Akko
Marie Miyake

EPISODES

Dubbed

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MANGA DramaNatsuyuki Rendezvous

REVIEWS

Tatsable
100/100
Who goes through more pain? The one who's gone or the one who got left behind?
This is the anime I accidentally watched and didn't regret watching it. I think, clicking it by accident is not an accident after all.

SYNOPSIS
Ryousuke Hazuki is a young man whose heart has been stolen away, stopping by the local floral shop daily in order to catch a glimpse of the beautiful Rokka Shimao, the shop's owner. In hopes of getting close to her, he decides to get a part-time job at the shop, but before he is able to make his move, he runs into a major roadblock: in her apartment dwells a ghost who claims to be Rokka's deceased husband.

Atsushi Shimao has quietly watched over his widowed wife ever since he passed three years ago. However, Hazuki is the first person to ever notice him, and the two quickly find themselves at odds: the jealous Shimao attempts to thwart the suitor's advances and possess his body, while Hazuki simply wants the ghost to pass on for good, allowing Rokka to move on from the past and him to be with the one he loves. As both men refuse to let go of their desires, an unusual relationship forms between a troubled woman, an unrelenting ghost, and a stubborn man in love.

THIS IS A DRAMA BUT WITH SUCH CONVICTION
The storytelling is simple yet it touch the right spot of your heart. I can't describe why am I even hooked onto this anime even though I cried really hard after watching this. I think I can relate so much that I don't wanted this story to happen to me.

I'm the type of viewer who likes slice of life and comedy and not this type of thing. I really HATE this kind of anime but it is beautiful so I know I will regret if I didn't watch it till the end. This anime is not FULL OF DRAMA, okay? This have a good balance of comedy too. so don't hesitate to watch this anime.

The ending is good yet I was left still rooting for his dead husband, Atsushi Shimao. but Hazuki's love is pure towards Rokka yet it can't just surpasses my urge to cry for Atsushi every time I remember him loving his wife unconditionally.

This is a great drama for those who like tear jerkers anime with a good story. or for those imagining themselves when they die and would think what it feels like to see your loved one left behind.

To tell you the truth I can't re-watch this because if I did, I will surely cry just hearing its opening song. haha

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ElfChika
0/100
Natsuyuki Rendezvous - A Paragon of How to Completely Destroy Your Own Story
Natsuyuki Rendezvous - A paragon of how to completely destroy your own story. As I write this, I'm still in total disgusted awe of just how badly the writers could defile their own series like this. The series built up tons of promise in the first five episodes, even with the unexplained supernatural element of the manager's ex-husband still lingering around in ghost form because she begged him not to leave her.

Had the series been about the ex-husband helping his widow's latest love interest (the only one who could see him) swoon her so she could happily move on with her life, this could've been a fantastic, heart wrenching tale. Instead, we don't get that. Instead, the writers opted to try and write a story of contradiction and failed miserably at it.

Shimao Atsushi - We have the worst character who pretty much decimated the series on his own. Despite telling his wife to move on following his tragic death, he does the exact opposite and does his level best to come between Rokka and Hazuki. The writers even nonsensically gave him the power to levitate things and shake the surroundings when Hazuki and his ex-wife were about to get touchy-feely, a very jarring moment indeed. Any sympathy you might've built up for him is utterly thrown away when Hazuki lends him his body for the rest of the series. Shimao proceeds to drastically alter his image, cutting his hair, smashes his contract lenses and getting him glasses just so he would look dorky. All these actions made him utterly reprehensible and irredeemable. Sadly, over half the series was spent on the body swap shenanigans. Shimao even robbed Hazuki of his first-time love experience with Rokka, pretending to be him and sleeping with her. Ugh. He was a truly despicable character.

Hazuki Ryousuke - He wasn't nearly as bad as Shimao, although the writers had the disturbing habit of making him completely awkward, bizarrely forcing him to stick his foot in his mouth just to prolong the inevitable completion of his and Rokka's relationship. Like in one episode, he somehow got the bright idea to proclaim out loud that he was going to make Rokka forget about her "pathetic husband" when he was about to take her, laughably forgetting the woman's literally right below him. Ugh. Such blatant plot-induced-stupidity. Sure, the spirit floated above her, but as previously established, he wasn't tangible. Hazuki could've just moved through his head and kissed her anyway. That episode aired before the writers randomly gave Shimao one-time powers of levitation and tremors.
Heck, the only reason he even ended up renting out his body to ghost boy was because again he stuck his foot in his mouth and asked her to sleep with him after ruining his chance the first time. What a buffoon. He knew she was struggling to get over her husband, but he somehow thinks requesting sex when they only had one date was the sensible thing to suggest. He gets so depressed when she rejected him that he downed his sorrows with booze, stumbles back to the flower shop, falls down and drowsily mumbles his consent of letting Shimao possess his body. He spends the rest of the series trapped inside some book Shimao wrote until he gets out and overhears Shimao's and Rokka's last conversation.

Such a frustrating character.

Shimao Rokka - The best of the sorry bunch, but that isn't saying much. I can sympathise with her struggle of moving on, though I do believe it fairly unbelievable that Shimao was her first love considering how pretty she is. Rushing into marriage doesn't sit right with me either. They both knew his time was drawing to a close. What's the point tying the knot when one of them was going to be made a widow? While I do understand they loved each other, they didn't need to exchange vows just to cement that. Marriage should not be a quick thing you do just to check off the list of things you want to do before you die. It's a symbol of commitment you only walked into once you know you're going to spend decades with the love of your life, until one of you depart from the world. Even then, the one left behind shouldn't bemoan the time loss, but instead cherish what they had before moving on, especially when they're as young as Rokka. It was frustrating to see Rokka still clinging to the memories of her deceased husband, to say the least. Even when her and Hazuki declare their love in the final episode and end up together, she still refused to throw away Shimao's belongings.

How creepy is that? Keeping your deceased spouse's stuff having married your new one by the way?

(She also took WAYYYY too long to figure out Shimao was inside Hazuki's body. It should've been completely obvious from just how out of character he was acting. He even called her "Rokka-chan", too, and not manager, upon possessing Hazuki's body, but for some reason it takes the dumb woman five to six episodes more until she realized the person inside Hazuki's body wasn't actually him. infuriating)

Characters - 0/10
Score - 3/10
Animation - 4/10
Artstyle - 3/10

Overall score - 0/10
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