Natsunagu! is not good, but is not bad too. Is an anime in the media, but not in the negative meaning, it's a work that is maded more to relax in afternoon then see a long (or not) narrative. This serie was maded by Kumamoto Prefecture, in the extreme south of Japan, where have a earthquake in 2016, and has a amateur animaton, nay, a simple animation that is not the same of bad animation.
The serie was maded by Kumamonto Prefecture to promove the city after the earthquake. It's possible found an excessive valorization of the local ambient, scenery and landscape present in composition of the city, in stores and streets, but the scenary and the lanscape of Kumamoto is not only in places, but in the local people too, in their actions, situations, emotions, like in the pictures of Natsuna and Itsuki in the on-line game. All of this to show the beauty of Kumamoto, and the way to do it was thought colors, even if half off due to amateur animation, and open plans like and a low presence of detail plans / more closed. However, it's not meaning the characters is less important than scenary and the anime is only a romantic landscape picture; the characters are part of this picture, like they are the own scenary, and it's the objetive of the serie: show the humanity and simplicity of people.
The simplicity of people in Kumamoto is a contrast comparing with busy and cosmopolitan life in tokyo, where Natsuna lives. Implicity, Natsunagu! is a critic of individualist and frenetic life of urban citys. Natsuna, the girl who has little physical contact with her friends and her best friend is a person in a online game, go to another world with a different reality that she doesn't live in Tokyo. It's a little experience to get out of the frenetic world that we live.
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