The policy of letting other bloggers to put toes in the water first works quite well for me: everything I watch pre-selected is excellent. I dropped both Onegai Sensei and Onegai Twins, so nothing is guaranteed, but Ano Natsu opens very strongly. All the right superlatives apply: gorgeous, competent, engaging. Now, the feeling is very different from the co-running Chihayafuru: watching that one is gestalt, watching this one is entertainment in the best sense.

Raw spoiling notes:

• Nice intro. So, what did the camera capture? Something fixed the glasses...(unless it was a premonition - or a random dream)
• Looks very pretty, in anime style. Pre-selection helps, I suppose.
• Kai (Kaito Kirishima)
• Kanna Tanigawa
• Mio - bashful girl with long hair (it's their Mikuru Asahina)
• Ichika Takatsuki -- aaaaand, she's not a teacher! Hah!
• Did she just spell her own name wrong?! 責月 イチカ
• Remon Yamano -- interestingly different uniform. Aaaaand a question! (Chiaki Kurihara may explain)
• Eating carbs, yeah - blogged at Ani-nouto.
• Tetsuro Ichigaki - there must always be one (Toradora's Kitamura, Natsuiro Sudanokey's Takeshi, etc.)
• Ichika went into 3rd year, so there's a gap.
• OMG WTF is with fishing? (something's at the end of the line?)
• The basic opening hook is Man From Mars, In Disguise. Don't remember how Onegai Sensei went with that, and I dropped it too early to find out.
• Love Kai's fantasies. Mine is like: before Approach drops me, I request a handoff to the Center, and then keep to 10.5, navigating serenily over mountains... Reality: I do not know the Center frequency for the area, so I putt along squacking 1200, giving a wide berth to any MOA.
• Chinamini... boku no ie des!
• Nice OTZ
• * Unreliable ads is the worst part of Crunchyroll (audio overlay)
• Magic glasses! Does this mean that Ichika can't write, or does it not?
• Hilarious ep finale, now what?