You know I wonder who exactly commission this to be an anime. I mean really, there are plenty of other ideas out there that are much better. Really, everything about this anime is weak. The premise, the girl who is rediscovering her social needs and her friend who pretends to be an outdoors person. The journey of the main character as she slowly makes new friends and grows as a person into a normal functioning person. You know instead of a craft otaku who has no friends.

I think the worst part is the weak main character. I mean most main characters are like her. However, at least they are funny or something like that. I really think this is an anime where the main character is almost... crap normal. I guess that anime does not always have to be fantastical... but... you know there is a reason why we make anime characters obnoxious. After all, when you really sit down and look at real life it is actually really boring. Especially when you are a really boring person.

I am not going to say that I am some kind of amazing and interesting person. However, at least I am not as dull as the main character in this anime. I mean holy crap, I can at least find things to do that give me stories.. sometimes. I mean I can relate to a lot of the stuff she is going through, but I know a boring person when I see one and I have to say she bores the crap out of me.

Then there is the whole.. I guess I Will call it functional depression. You know that is the favorite theme of american romantic comedies. Where the male or female in question lives their life and appears content, for all intensive purposes. Then someone else comes along and shows them how incredibly depressed they are. Not because they are actually depressed mind you. No it is because they are not social. This person has no friends and is all alone. She functions and keeps to herself. Then someone comes along and decides that is wrong. So this other person guilt trips the main character into whatever plans she originally has. Granted this is the first one where more than one person has the same problem.

What about all the vanishing and reappearing characters? That is another big problem that I have with this anime. You have a cast of characters. However, you rarely see them at all. You mainly see the main character and her friend. There are plenty of other characters in this series. Even worse those characters are kind of important. However, they show up, say their bit and then vanish for a while. Sometimes they show up, to provide fan service, then vanish again. Till they show up at the very end like they were a part of the group all along. I just do not get it. What is it a requirment that when you are making new friends you make more than one at a time.

So really when I sit back and look at this anime.. yeah you know... we need to do something about how lame it is. I mean if the anime did not center around the main character and her insecurity so much. The anime would have actually been enjoyable. If they focused on the hiking/climbing portion of it. Then this anime could have been a really good one. Too bad they decided that a girl being confused about her life was a getting anime than an anime about hiking.