This is the show that makes a grown adult remember exactly how loud their own heartbeat was in sixth grade. Season two picks Hanabi back up right where the first left her, still stuck in that gap where you're not a kid anymore and definitely not an adult, still treating a held hand like a national event. Nothing explodes. The stakes are a note passed wrong, a body changing before your friends' do, a teacher you accidentally saw kissing someone. The art stays clean and unfussy the whole way through, which is the point: no visual noise to distract from a twelve-year-old deciding whether to say the thing. Yes, it's filler-heavy, and yes, the serious beats get tidied up faster than they earn. But if you came for the ache of first love handled gently instead of dramatically, it delivers every episode. Watch it with the lights on and your guard down.

Hanabi returns in this second season of the romance series based on Maita Nao's shoujo manga. She is a sixth-grader who sits in the uncertain space between childhood and adulthood. Her troubles include catching her homeroom teacher in a kiss she was never meant to see and fretting that her body might start changing before her friends' bodies do. The story centers on the innocent worries of a twelve-year-old girl and the first stirrings of love.