Six childhood friends grew apart in high school. One of them is Jintan, now a shut-in. He gets a request to fulfill a wish for Menma, the only one of their friends to have stayed the same over the years. In order to grant her wish, he will have to find and reunite their old friends.
Most hardcore anime fans have seen this already but i've been saving this til now and i have strongly regretted it.
(There are no spoliers in this review)
After seening just the first episode, i think i know how Elizabethans felt when they first saw "Romeo and Juliet" where it's not a feel good story but a story about life and human psychology which are relevant 500 years later. I've been hunting animes with good storylines for many years now and this one has touched me on a emotional level just by the first episode.
Just by watching the first episode anime fans and story hunters will see that this anime is in a completely different league than your everyday service/fetish animes.