Something I was always taught as a child was that we hold on to the memories that fill our hearts with joy and innocence, when we are young, and the bad experiences get left behind. Behold, an anime that teaches that that isn't necessarily true! This beautiful story interweaves the memories of several friends who are reacquainting themselves with one another after their ring-leader returns to go to high-school with them, from having moved away when still very young.
A precious, inspiring tale that leads through the lanes of memories - good and bad - to get to the heart of the issues surrounding each of these life-long friends that will leave you wanting to watch the story unfold right to the end! (And do sit through the end credits, too.)

To start things off, if you're expecting a long, well-described review of the story, I would suggest find another review. I don't have the longest attention-span to type out things like these, but I just want to talk about this anime for a bit.

I used to be largely into anime. I watched a bunch of series and spent a good two years at one point in my life just watching and talking about anime. Unfortunately, I grew out of that stage at one point and haven't really taken the time to watch any anime in general. What made me come back? I watched a guy play osu! unranked and saw him play a lot of the opening songs to some anime that I saw in the past. As I'm typing this, I'm recovering from surgery that I had about six days ago, so I remembered this website, which I used to watch my anime on, and decided I would try to finish a thirteen episode series.

When I first saw the title of Myself; Yourself, I remember back in the days when I was browsing this website as this anime was periodically coming out with episodes. It looked interesting at first, but I wasn't entirely down to take a watch from it. Three years later, I decide to myself, "Why not?". The story was actually very interesting and something that I've wanted to watch for some time now. In a nutshell, without trying to spoil too much, the story takes place in a fictional town called Sakuranomori, located in Japan. Sana Hidaka, the main character if you will, at age 11, had to leave due to family based reasonings, which led to his friends to throw a farewell party for Sana, with each giving him a present that he would end up remembering, either mentally or physically.

He comes back five years later at the age of 16 to see that not much has changed with his hometown. As he wanders, he remembers certain areas where he had played with his friends as a child, festivities he went to, etc. As expected, he also reunites with his childhood friends, seeing that there are some things that have changed about them.

I don't want to type for too much longer, but the main reason why I found this anime so good was the fact of how great and engaging the story is. When I took breaks from the series, I kept talking to myself on what was going to happen or why certain characters did the things they did on a certain event. For example, Nonetheless, I've never gotten engaged like that in an anime before. It just feels like this story was done right and had some insane plot twists and events that I wouldn't have expected to happen. I really, really want to see a second season created, or at least some kind of spinoff to Myself; Yourself. The characters were very lively, the atmosphere was great, the story was beautiful, and it was just an all-around great anime. If you have time one day like I do to spend some time watching Myself; Yourself, by all means do it. You won't regret it.

The characters were good, and the animation wonderful; however, this is one of the most depressing anime I have ever watched. It's somewhat Dickensian and the characters are three dimensional, however it was very dark and if you're uncomfortable with dark and depressing stories I would not watch it. On the other hand, if you think you can put up with the darkness, then I would recommend it for its intelligence, art, and depth.

i guess the twins really did bocome lovers, i think it was shuu who loved his sister first then as time goes by i guess shuri aslo loved shu
as for asami in the last episode it was mentioned by aio that it was asami who protected the SAKURANOMORI NATURE PRESERVE
i think she did that because she knew it was a very important place to shuri whom she loved
as for hinako and yota
i guess it was kinda expected cause when yota was little he would cling to hinako right? then it became a hint for me to understand
so for the story line it was unique yet somehow predictable
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as for the animation
it was very nice but in one episode [episode 8]
when nanaka and sana fought
it was kinda messed up a little but of course it was not that obvious
so for the rest it was very nice
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thank you for reading my simple review of
myself,yourself