Summer Time Render

Summer Time Render is a decent mystery drama that managed to hold my attention for the entire 25 episodes. It tells an interesting and meaningful story that incorporates some tricky themes, such as time travel (more specifically, traveling between different realities), without the story falling apart or coming across as silly. The ending was pretty satisfying, and the final episode was a nice touch. It may not have been as intense for me as, say, Erased, but it still had its powerful and thrilling moments and situations that seemed almost hopeless, yet the characters always managed to pull through in a fairly logical manner. I was decently entertained most of the time, looking forward to new episodes to see how it would all turn out. The very ending (everything about the "Haine dimension") seemed a bit far-fetched, and it was probably the only moment in the whole series where I wasn’t sure if the writers would manage to hold it all together, but they did. Admittedly, the ending was a bit too idealistic for my taste leaving no possibility for a sequel, but as I said, it didn't fall apart and at least it was a single coherent story. The characters were interesting enough for me to relate to, but not enough to actually make me fear for them and become more engrossed with the story. The animation was decent, the series managed to sell me on many of the locations, and the fights looked very good as well. The soundtrack was okay. It wasn’t striking enough to affect my overall impression, but it complemented the individual scenes quite well. All in all, satisfaction prevails, it was a pretty decent series. 7.5/10 (30.09.2022)