We learned back in March that Koi wa Ameagari no You ni, which translates as After the Rain, will be getting an anime adaptation. While we’re still waiting on the details of the production itself we now have the first key visual illustration piece for it and it’s a beauty. One that you can see being really welcome as a part of the winter 2018 season on the noitaminA block, which should keep it under the distribution of Anime Strike overseas if that deal continues to hold into 2018.
The manga comes from Jun Mayuzuki which began in the summer of 2014 and has its seventh volume coming out on March 10th, 2017. The series has over 1.5 million copies in print so far.
Plot Concept: Akira Tachibana is a soft-spoken high school student who used to be a part of the track and field club but, due to an injury, she is no longer able to run as fast as she once could. Working part-time at a family restaurant as a recourse, she finds herself inexplicably falling love with her manager, a divorced 45-year-old man with a young son.
Despite the age gap, Akira wholeheartedly embraces his mannerisms and kind nature, which is seen as spinelessness by the other employees, and little by little, the two begin to understand each other. Although unable to explain why exactly she is attracted to him, Akira believes that a concrete reason is not needed to truly love someone. On a rainy day, she decides to finally tell her manager about how she feels…but just how will he react?
