Insomniacs After School also known as Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia is an anime which started in April 2023 based on the same name manga by Makoto Ojiro. This anime is slowly becoming known as many viewers are speculating that this might become another "Your Lie in April" after watching the recent episodes.
Below are my thoughts on that.
If you're here to find out if the anime is good or not, I'll tell you that it is. It is pretty good. If you enjoy anime which deal with the beauty of night, romance and has good animation, then you should definitely consider watching Insomniacs After School.
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| Insomniacs After School |
Like... The feel it gives, especially at nighttime, it's beautiful. To me, it gives a peaceful feel. So yes... If you're into this stuff, you should check it out.
But something really significant happened in an episode of the show which, for me, completely altered the mood of this anime. I have discussed my thoughts on that later on in this blog.
[Spoilers Ahead]
The anime starts with the story of a boy, Nakami Ganta, who suffers from insomnia, which means that he has difficulty in getting any sleep at night. Surprisingly, although he has difficulty sleeping at night, he feels very sleepy when he goes to school. And because of his sleepiness at school, he chose to skip class one day and head to the apparently "haunted" Astronomical Club's Observatory to sleep. On going there, he finds a girl peacefully sleeping amidst the silence of the observatory.
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| Nakami finds a girl sleeping |
Her name was Isaki Magari. On opening her eyes, she took notice of him and tried to run away but the busted lock on the door prevented her from doing so. On seeing no way out, Magari gave up and both of them had a conversation and he got to know that Magari suffers from insomnia as well and she finds the observatory a perfect place to take a nap. So, to gain access to the observatory to sleep, both of them decided to join the Astronomy Club and started to actively participate in it. From there, their story starts.
But before they decided to join the Astronomy Club though, they used to go there and sleep by skipping classes. Slowly, they started setting up kind of a base there. But unfortunately, one day, the school's nurse, Usako sensei, found them using the observatory without permission. Now since she was a member of the school staff, she couldn't allow them to secretly keep doing what they were doing. Instead, she adviced them to join the school's Astronomy Club so that they could officially use the observatory at their disposal.
After this they joined the Astronomy Club and started their activities. When they were first going to the observatory at night, they were nearly spotted by a policeman cycling by. To hide from the policeman, they hid at a bus stop where Magari kept her head on Nakamis's back as they crouched down in an attempt to hide. At that time when she heard the heartbeat of Nakami, the art style just changed. THAT scene was just pristine. The silence enveloping the sound of Nakami's heartbeat was truly great.
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| Magari hears the hearbeat |
But then... After few episodes... Magari said something I DID NOT expect that I would be experiencing in this anime.
While Magari and Nakami were returning to their homes from their outing one day, to Nakami, Magari said,
Take some pictures of me too, okay? Leave a trace of me behind.
This... This line... It scares me. I do not NEED another "Your Lie in April". Another "I Want To Eat Your Pancreas". It's really hard to swallow these. When Magari said this to Nakami, he could not form any response to that. I have no idea about which direction this anime is going, but I sure as heck hope it's not going to break me.
Anyways...
Few episodes later, just when Magari and Nakami were about to confess after finishing their preparation for the fireworks show on the rooftop of their school, their friends came on to the roof breaking their moment, unfortunately.
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| Magari and Nakami |
In the same episode, after they finish watching the fireworks and Magari's friends leave, we learn that Magari has heart problem which is the main reason of her insomnia. She is scared to go to sleep at night. Scared to disappear from the world while she'll be asleep.
In the next episode though, Magari confessed to Nakami, inside the same bus stop they once hid in to hide from the policeman. She said that after that day, when she first listened to Nakami's heartbeat, she thought of Nakami as someone special to her; and we all know that Nakami was definitely glad to hear it. It was a really good moment. Good stuff. But then their senpai, Shiromaru, a former Astronomy Club member and the one who taught Nakami how to use a camera properly, caught them sitting alone inside the bus stop XD. And then she ran. Always check your surroundings before doing anything guys XD.
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| Shiromaru catches them |
So yeah, this is a very good anime. I really like it. I like Magari, I like Nakami AND I like their bonding. But at this point, I'm just hoping that nothing bad happens to Magari. I'll be devasted and probably start hating the writer idk.
I'll keep updating this post as the anime progresses.
Anyways guys, thanks for reading the blog till the end. Do comment your thoughts on this anime.
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