“ーーある雨の日に、1人と1匹は出会いました。”
ずぶ濡れの帰り道、藤は少し変わった「犬」に出会う。犬はフリップを使って「拾ってください」とアピールし、藤に折り畳み傘を差し出す。でもこの犬、変わっているというよりも……？なんてことない毎日に現れたちょっとおかしな相棒一緒に四季を感じながら食べたり、おでかけしたり、おしゃべり(?)したり…“あともうちょっと”がほっこり尊い１人と１匹のたぶん、なかよしなふたり暮らし。
ドラマ・アニメ化された映像作品と原作・関連本と読み比べて、オリジナルならではの違いや描かれなかった裏設定、より深い世界観を独自の視点から楽しみましょう。
+1音楽: 石塚玲依
制作会社: Lesprit / Shin-Ei Animation / NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan / Kodansha / Crunchyroll / jeki / TV Asahi / THE KLOCKWORX / BS Asahi / FuRyu
With You and the Rain _(Ame to Kimi to)_ is in a word, **slow**. It is - I guess - what it wanted to convey. That tone being a quiet rainy afternoon indoors, sipping hot tea and reading a good book. ...and it proved to be just about as lively. The series is about a young single woman who is a novelist, Fuji - no sur/last name - and a small animal that could be a cat, dog, or racoon. The small "ca-do-coon" is sitting in a box in the rain when Fuji happens by and it ask her via notebook if she would take him home with her. Fuji seems to have as much intellect as she does emotional range, and takes the animal home regardless of his highly unusual ability to communicate to her through written word. I wish I could say more happens, but that is about it. The show doesn't give any definitive hints where the animal comes from, what he could be, nor does anyone look into it. There isn't much more to Fuji other than her being functionally autistic. She doesn't get angry, sad, anxious, or much of anything else. There is no explanation as to why she likes the rain. She does laugh but that is in the very last episode and it's with her and the animal,"You" or "Floof," playing in the rain. The show never really bothered to name the animal, and the names here are the ones a character, other than Fuji, named it. And the first name, "You", I pulled from the closed caption. There is not a lot going on with this title. Not much comedy, no particular interest for the MC, no romantic interest, interaction, or discussion. The pet's only talent seems to be writing. That doesn't go anywhere either. All in all this is a really cheap knock-off of _The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today_. If you pass this title by then you're not missing much at all. But, you be the judge. -- Bob --
