Waiting in the Summer

About Waiting in the Summer

While testing out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito sees a blue light streaking across the sky, only to be blown off the railing seconds later. Just before succumbing to unconsciousness, a hand reaches down to grab ahold of his own.

Waiting in the Summer is an animation, comedy, and science fiction series that ran on TV Aichi and KBS Kyoto. Its one season of 12 episodes was broadcast from January 2012 to March 2012.

The series is filed under science fiction, summer, romance, and slice of life. Haruka Tomatsu leads the cast as Ichika Takatsuki (voice), Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kaito Kirishima (voice), Kaori Ishihara as Kanna Tanigawa (voice), and Hideki Ogihara as Tetsurou Ishigaki (voice).

Urusei Yatsura, Horimiya, and The Quintessential Quintuplets make useful companions to Waiting in the Summer, all filed under alien and japanese high school. TMDB voters put it at 7.7 out of 10 across 62 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.