A tribute to the greatest anime of all time.

Memory. The most precious thing on Earth in my humble opinion. Memories define who we are. Memories tell us who we are. Memory is what records our fleeting existence during our short visit to this planet. Memories remind us of things we do not want to remember. Memories also remind us of all the things we'd never want to forget. What is memory? I ask you again. What is memory? Memory is life.

And the greatest anime on Earth to date is without a doubt:

What would you do if you were caught up in an accident years ago and that accident took nothing away from you. Absolutely nothing, except your ability to record memories. We find ourselves in the shoes of Chihiro, our protagonist in which she can only retain memories for up to 13 hours after which they are instantly erased. She'd take breakfast at 7am every morning, but by 8:01pm at night, she'd have forgotten that she even had breakfast. She goes to sleep at night and wakes up a different person, back to who she was when she was 10.

"Yesterday's me and today's me are two different people. It has always been this way, and it will always be this way."

And that's only the beginning. What if you meet someone today? You'd forget him tomorrow. You'd hurt someone. And not only once, but over and over again. Such is the fate of our heroine. However, there's still hope for her. A link to the future. The knot that ties "today's her" and "yesterday's her" together: Her diary. Every morning when she wakes up, she reads her diary. And she only writes the most important things to her in there, the bare essentials to remind her of who she is.

She spends her time everyday in an abandoned train station, just gazing at the sky. Until one fateful day, she met him. And they grow closer with each passing day. Now, what happens if you gain more memories you do not want to forget?

Her caretaker's advice to the boy:

"Don't get too deeply involved with her. You'll only end up hurting her, and yourself"

What happens when you find someone you love? You never want to lose a moment with them. What if "never losing a moment with them" is not something you're physically capable of? What if you try to take more than what you were given?

What happens is,
It All Falls Apart.

Ef - a tale of memories, a tale of love, found and lost. A tale of hope, granted on a whim and whiffed away on the next. And what's more is, this is only half the story. Two stories run concurrently in this series, and the execution is flawless, causing absolutely no confusion in between and guaranteed to awe. A must watch.

”忘れたくない想い、ありますか？”
－Do you have memories you'd never want to forget? -

Sigh, I so love this show okay? Lookit this pweedy Blu-Ray disc set!

If I could ever have this tim would be such a happy camper D: But let's not get lofty dreams. RM1200 is alot :( Sigh, ahwells :(