Glasslip trades plot for mood, and for six episodes it's beautiful enough that you don't notice the difference. The summer light through glass, the quiet spaces between conversations, the way characters just exist near each other without needing to resolve anything, P.A. Works animates a feeling instead of a story. Then it collapses into itself halfway through, and no amount of supernatural nonsense can patch the hole where actual narrative was supposed to be.

Touko Fukami comes from a family of glass artisans in Fukui and hopes to become a glass artist herself. Her easygoing life is interrupted only by occasional fragments of images she seems to see from the future. During the summer of her final year of high school, a transfer student named Kakeru Okikura approaches her and says he can hear voices from the future. He soon joins Touko and her four friends at Kazemichi, a café she loves, and his arrival stirs unfamiliar feelings in her. The six face a summer of hope, affection and heartache in a quiet romance with a supernatural edge.