Hello all the anime and manga fans! I hope you are all doing just fine and having a great time everyday. Now, I am here again to review another manga series and today it is a new and exciting one. Summer Time Rendering is the name of the series, a fantastic science fiction, thriller and supernatural mystery genre manga and anime of Japanese origin. The story is about a place where there is mystery, supernatural activities and time has its structure tightly knitted together. It is derived out of the eponymous manga written and illustrated by mangaka Yasuki Tanaka. It is my pleasure to tell you about my experiences, opinions and interest in this series. and that you may be as much interested in this mysterious adventure as I am.
Summer is holiday, warm weather, beach air and youthful delight. This color of summer is also spread in the morning sunshine of the little island of Hitogashima, in the sound of the sea at dusk and in the garlands at night. It almost seems there is nothing wrong here when one looks around. Nevertheless, this same summer, a horror of mystery starts, which transforms everything on the island.
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The novel starts with a young man Shinpei Azushi. He goes back to the Island of Hitogashima after quite some years in Tokyo, the news of the untimely death of his childhood friend Ushio Kofune reaching him. The whole world believes that Ushio died in the sea in a simple accident. Shinpei is not satisfied: he has questions. Her younger sister Mio says that the death might have not been an accident, but Ushio had some unusual injuries on his body.
Shinpei eventually and gradually notices weird things occurring on the island. Others are abnormal and their eyes and faces are unfamiliar coldness. After sometime, he is informed that a bad life referred to as Shadow has prevailed in the island. These shadows are able to stalk a person, mimic him and then murder him killing him off. They are sector by sector in the silent business of conquering the island population.
Even more events occur when Shinpei abruptly realizes that he can survive through moments in time when he dies; there is a kind of time loop he is engulfed in. He returns every time he dies and tries to transform the flow of events. Shinpei attempts everything in his power to prevent the shadows once and again using this power. Nevertheless, this battle is not simple. Although he gets back every time, time does not remain in the same spot, it keeps advancing gradually. But later on it dawns on him that the future of not just Ushio, but that of the whole of the island and even the whole mankind is at stake in this incident.
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The summer atmosphere is not simply the background to the anime, but it is some sort of sign in it. Peace seems to be reflected in the sun, the blue sky, the noise of the sea, the atmosphere of the festival with its bustle and bustle. However, behind this calm, there lies the shade, death, and horror. It is summer and we get to sense the contrast in light and darkness even more. After some time, the battle involving Shinpei, Mio, and others turns into a time and life battle. A novel of tension that works well to manipulate relationships, sacrifice, recall, and future and which will stir you. This is an awful mystery anime depicted in the light of a summer day, which reminds the questions about death and ends in depths of life.
Summer Time Rendering – My Learnings, Experiences, and Opinions.
The most significant thing that I received after watching this anime is the influence of actions and time. In this movie, time does not serve as a backdrop, but rather, we see that time is a tool by which the lead character, Shinpei, keeps going back in time with the hope of making it in the future. It makes me understand that our simple actions may lead to significant outcomes in the future.
Shinpei returns because of hearing the news about the death of his childhood friend Ushio. However, he understands that this is an unnatural death; there are weird things going on in the island. Then there starts the unveiling of unknown something named "Shadow", who impersonates the fake man and kills the real one. This theme of the Shadow is louder and loud, fearful, disoriented and the clash between the reality and the unreality.
Every episode was a cliff hanger and that made me want to keep watching. In spite of the fact that the time loop part of the story arrangement is near a bit to Steins;Gate or Re:Zero, it possessed its dissimilarities. Summer mood of the island, the light at the sunset time, the smoothness of nature, on the one hand, leaves peace, and on the other hand, this raises the feeling of a mystery and fatal threat.
As an individual, I believe that Summer Time Rendering is an ideal mystery-thriller. It has very good screenplay, music and character development. There are living breathing characters such as Shinpei, Ushio, Mio and Hein.
A moving experience of friendship, sacrifice, the desire to live, and an evolving attitude concerning the time is not the only thrill built into this series. Summer Time Rendering is one of the anime worth watching especially by those who enjoy complicated stories that are time-based and would want to engage in deep thinking.
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