Gave Rumbling Hearts another chance after dropping it in 2010 for being melodramatic. it's definitely great at portraying the consequences of toxic relationships, insecurities, why some people never get over their first love. Esp if they get hit by a random truck waiting for their date to show up.
everything is cool up until the "doctor" creates an arbitrary rule that forces unnecessary conflict onto the characters. she tells visitors to pretend as if time stopped for the sake of a three year coma patient. it doesn't work because the coma patient isn't retarded and can figure out that time had passed by the changes in her hair and body. the doctor/parents/sister of said patient still pressure a guy in a relationship to go play make believe with his ex to the detriment of his own health and now broken relationship. because of all this you have to watch characters squirm in misery for about 8 straight episodes with zero relief. at a certain point I started to appreciate the extremes of School Days and wished Mitsuki took that route.
after the lying is over the end section is solid. Haruka becomes a real character when you see her struggle with rehabilitation and adjusting to a world that passed her by. The montage of her picture book playing in the credits, inspired by her life was great. Ending would've been perfect if ______ told whatshisface to go fukk himself and left him all alone after all the suffering he caused. Of all characters he deserved a happy ending the least.
giving it a 6-7.
I bought it as one of my first anime years ago and I didnt like the damn ending
They did a OVA with the other route tho which I enjoyed
Oh I also bought dual parallel trouble adventures around that time frame or was this one first then rumbling hearts cant remember
School days was way too much fukkery tho that ending to school days