Koi wa Ameagari no You ni, which means Love is Like after the Rain, makes my last entity for the night. The series follows Akira Tachibana, who is love with the manager of the family restaurant she is employed part time at, Masami Kondou.
The first scene shows how unsocial Akira is, she is sitting at her desk with her earphones on to listen to music, when one of her classmates, Takashi Yoshizawa, asks for her contact information she simply disappears. As she walks outside the school premises we are shown the track and field team, while this scene doesn't seem like much, it does well at hinting the things to come.
The next scene shows Akira at her workplace, and after some brief insight into the people that work there she takes her lunchbreak. She walks into the break room to find a little boy there, this is revealed to be the son of the manager, Yuuto, this surprises Akira to think that Masami is married and causes her to drop her plate. This is one of many times where Akira glares angrily at the manager and causes him to think she's mad at him, but it's more because she's embarrassed, not that she realizes how she appears to other people at these moments. She then quietly enjoys her lunch before Yuuto pulls out a flute to practice with, but after being scolded by his father not to do that in the restaurant, Akira takes him out behind the store and teaches him how to play a little, she's happy he was able to play the notes he was learning.
Later, she learns another shocking thing about the manager which would be that his wife left him, causing a repeat of what happened earlier, it was kind of awkward for her to do the same thing twice, or at least that's how I felt. Once she returns to school the next day, her interaction with the other girls in her class doesn't go very well, but later she talks with a member of the track team, Kyan Haruka, who she seems to be on good terms with. It is revealed that Akira used to be on the track team herself but a leg injury slowed her significantly and had no choice but to quit. The rain reminds her of her injury, though it's not clear why.
We are also given a look at how she met Masami, it was raining and she went into the restaurant she now works at to dry off. He gave her a cup of coffee despite not ordering one but he's nice and wanted to warm her up, he also does a magic trick, so with that a better memory of rain also arose. After that flashback, and later, she attempts to obtain Masami's contact information, but with no success, then Takashi shows up again and finds out that she works here and tries to get her contact information again, but she disappears yet again.
So I felt like it was a bit on the simple side, however, this time it wasn't a bad thing. It has a sweet and cute little concept that the writers know what to do with. There's room for more character growth and hopefully we can see some of the other characters' stories in the future. I quite enjoyed it, it was simplistic but relaxing. Thank you very much for reading, look forward to my look at Violet Evergarden, Death March and Märchen Mädchen. Please have yourself a wonderful day.