Japanese anime always give viewers a strange feeling of friendship, love, and sweet family affection in addition to beautifully drawn surreal backgrounds. Especially with anime set in summer, it reminds viewers of a beautiful summer feeling. For many people, summer is probably not the most beautiful season of the year. Hot summer days, there are rainy days that make people feel uncomfortable. However, the summer in the best anime will surely evoke anyone, no matter how much they do not like summer, will rush back the best, unforgettable memories. Referring to the best anime that remind you of the beautiful summer feeling, I can't help but introduce you to the following summer anime. Let's take a look at me!
1 Summer Wars
Summer Wars - the best anime about summer. Image source: oOo VnSharing oOo
Summer Wars - Trailer
Kenji Koiso is a mathematical prodigy. One summer day, an upperclasswoman, Natsuki, dragged him back to her hometown to "work part-time." There, Natsuki's family is busy preparing for the 90th birthday ceremony for Sakae, the oldest of the family. And Kenji soon discovers that his part-time job is pretending to be Natsuki's boyfriend during that celebration. In 1 night, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone. With the curiosity of a mathematical prodigy, he solved it. Unfortunately, that's the code that cracks into an online world. A clever Virus sent it to him and took that code to infiltrate the operating system, turning the world upside down and greatly affecting the outside world. How will Kenji and the Natsuki family fight the Virus? Inviting relatives to watch the movie will be clear.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Premiere: August 1, 2009
Duration: 114 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
2 Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?
Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom? - One of the best anime about summer. Photo credit: Fotogramas
Fireworks - Official Trailer
The story of a sunny day, a boy is planning to go with his friends to watch fireworks from the lighthouse where he lives when he receives a message "take each other to hide" from a beautiful girl he has a crush on. The boy's name is Norimichi and the girl's name is Nazuna. Two young people accompany each other on a magical adventure when time is turned back and reality is changed with a mysterious crystal ball of color. From there they find the most beautiful thing about youth, youth. Norimichi and Nazuna's summer days are strange, dreamy with beautiful, wild illusions away from harsh reality. Their story is told with vibrant colors of hope, with clear waters, blue skies, golden sunshine and clear eyes, containing so many emotions of Nazuna that make Norimichi vibrate.
Genre: anime drama, drama - romance
Director: Akiyuki ShinboNobuyuki Takeuchi
Country: Japan
Premiere: 8/18/2017
Duration: 90 minutes
3 Summer Days with Coo
Summer Days with Coo - the best anime reminiscent of summer. Image source: Google Play
Summer Days with Coo [Official US Trailer]
Director Keiichi Hara's movie anime tells the story of Coo - a Kappa who lives from the Edo period, because of an incident, sleeps until modern times and meets a kind boy named Koichi. Then together they embark on a journey to find other Kappa fellows, experiencing very troubled but also joyful summer days.
The story focuses on the beautiful friendship between Coo and Koichi, thereby conveying many meaningful life lessons. The content is simple, easy to understand, "permeable" in harmony in the beautiful context, lyrical scenery. Each frame highlights the beauty of summer with sunshine, ticks, blue skies and cool streams. "Summer Days with Coo" is a very beautiful and interesting childhood summer with the story of Kappa, a mystical creature in ancient legend.
Director: Keiichi Hara
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Premiere: 07/28/2007
Duration: 138 minutes
4 Into the Forest of Fireflies Light
Into the Forest of Fireflies Light - the best anime reminiscent of the beautiful summer feeling. Image source : Pinterest
Into the Forest of Fireflies Light - Trailer
This is a mysterious, pure, lyrical and sad summer story.
When it gets summer, schoolgirl Hotaru boards a train back to her hometown for summer vacation and finds Gin, a mysterious masked boy who lives in the deep forest. Years ago, Hotaru got lost in the mystical forest and was lucky enough to befriend Gin, accompanying him on exciting adventures. As time went on, each year, the two spent the summer together and their friendship grew. Then when Hotaru becomes a young woman, vibrations begin to appear between the two friends, but unfortunately Gin is a soul who, if touched, will be broken, disappear forever.
The story between man and soul seems destined for an unfulfilling ending. His story with her is like a sweet fantasy summer night's dream, but when we wake up, it will make us regret and torment.
- Genre: Anime Odd, Shoujo, Romance, Supernatural, Drama,
Director: Takahiro Ômori
Country: Japan,
Duration: 45 minutes
Language: Japanese
Premiere: Fall - 2011
5 My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro is a best anime set in summer. Image source: Phimsieuhot
My Neighbor Totoro - Official Trailer
My Neighbor Totoro tells the story of Kusakabe's family moving back to the countryside. The new house they moved into was rumored to be haunted. The sisters Satsuki (11 years old) and Mei (4 years old) are extremely curious about it, here they meet the kind old neighbor and her nephew Kanta.Once running in the forest near their house, Mei came across the satyr there, who is a very cute big-bellied animal, she calls it Totoro after the beast in her picture book. After hearing Mei tell her about meeting Totoro, her older sister Satsuki also wishes to meet Totoro. And the sisters meet Totoro again when they go to the bus stop to wait for their father. From there their lives begin to change and their amazing adventures begin...
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Genre: Animation
Duration: 90 minutes
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Premiere: 1988
6 Waiting in Summer
Waiting in Summer - the best anime about summer you should not miss. Image source: RamenParaDos
Waiting in the Summer Official Trailer
The Waiting in Summer anime is only available to audiences over the age of 14. Ano Natsu De Matteru talks about Kirishima Kaito testing his camera one dark night in a small city, when he is damaged by a strange explosion. But strangely enough, he woke up the next morning and nothing had happened or remembered anything about last night. He went to school as usual, and he made a movie with his friends and invited two Senpai, Takatsuki Ichika and Yamano Remon, to join him. Unexpectedly, Kaito's older sister had to go abroad on business and Ichika came to live with him. And the secret of Ichika is also gradually revealed. Let's enjoy a summer with this crew!
Genre: Casual, Love
Duration: 24 minutes
Episodes: 13
Production year: 2012
Country: Japan
7 Anohana
Anohana - one of the summer anime not to miss. Image source: Game4V
Anohana The Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day Official US Trailer
A touching story about a group of six childhood friends who lose contact with each other after one of them, Honma Meiko (nicknamed "Menma"), dies in an accident. Ten years after the accident, the group's leader, Yadomi Jinta, gives up socializing and lives as a recluse. One summer day, Menma's ghost appears before him and wishes to make a wish, on the grounds that he cannot go to the afterlife until the wish is fulfilled. However, she couldn't remember what her wish was. Jinta regrouped her old friends, believing that they were the keys to Menma's dream. The group reluctantly joins but things get increasingly complicated when people assume that Jinta can't get over Menma's death and always wonder why Menma only appeared in front of Jinta. From there, they realize that not only is Jinta in trouble, but all the other members of the group blame themselves for Menma's death. The hidden emotions of each are aroused, together they fulfill Menma's wish and help her to transcend and reincarnate.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Tragedy, Everyday life
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Episodes: 11
Duration: 24 minutes
Release: 2011
8 Natsuiro Kiseki
Natsuiro Kiseki - funny anime about summer. Image source: AnimeTVN
Natsuiro Kiseki Trailer
Natsumi, Saki, Yuka, and Ringo are four best friends. The four grew up in a country town, going through everything together, both happy and sad. But then, Saki is transferred to another school and decides to do it secretly - without saying anything to anyone. But then the secret was revealed, and this long-awaited summer turned from happy to sad. Rinko is very worried about her friends and therefore decides to use magic. From her father, she learns about a magic stone, which, according to legend, fulfills the wishes of four friends, if they wish together and sincerely. The girls make a wish and their lives are suddenly filled with little wonders that help them get the most peace and fun as this is their last summer.
Genre: Animated, Comedy
Duration: 24 minutes
Episodes: 12
Release: 2012
Country: Japan
Director: Seiji Mizushima
9 Grand Blue
Natsuiro Kiseki - funny, everyday anime that calls for the best summer memory. Image source: VietOtaku
Grand Blue Trailer
Kitahara Iori longs for a fresh youth on the Izu Peninsula as he prepares to start his college life there, staying in a room above his uncle's "Grand Blue" dive shop. However, he was quickly shocked when he met the local Diving Club, a group of young men who spent part of their time drinking, partying and being naked rather than professionally focusing. Despite his efforts to stay away from the group, Iori quickly gets caught up in their antics, while his cousins try to show him the wonders of diving into the seas and oceans.
Genre: Humor, Everyday Life
Release: 2018
Duration: 24 minutes
Episodes: 12
Directors: Katsuyuki Konishi, Masamitsu Utsunomiya, Nana Mizuki, Shinji Takamatsu
Country: Japan
10 Free! Eternal Summer
Free! Eternal Summer - is one of the summer anime series that you should not ignore. Image source: CDOV Forum
Free! -Eternal Summer - Trailer
Free! Eternal Summer is Season 2 of Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club.
Although it has been a year since the Iwatobi High School Swim Club was founded, the new members have yet to join the club. Now, Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana are seniors, along with their young friends Nagisa Hazuki and Rei Ryuugazaki, they must find a way to attract new members. Otherwise, the club will be forced to close next year due to a lack of members.
Meanwhile, with graduation coming up, it's also time for seniors to decide plans for the future. Unlike their friend Rin Matsuoka, the new captain of the Samezuka Academy Swimming Club, who is determined to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional swimmer, Haruka and Makoto are unsure of the career path they want to take.
Genre: Anime series, School, Slice of Life, Sports, Comedy,
Director: Hiroko Utsumi
Country: Japan,
Duration: 24 minutes
Episodes: 13
Release: Summer - 2014
