Anime Like Natsu no Arashi! Season 2
Time travel becomes an excuse for slapstick instead of the plot, and that's exactly the point. SHAFT's visual chaos wraps around comedy that lands because it commits fully to absurdity, then pulls you sideways with genuine affection between characters who have no reason to care about each other. The show knows it's lighter than Season 1, it leans into that, abandoning mystery for the messier, funnier work of watching a ghost and her linked boy navigate summer the way anyone else would, except with supernatural slapstick and a best friend watching from the sidelines with increasingly dubious expressions.
SYNOPSIS
Kazehaya's summer stretches on as his connection to Arashi, a spirited ghost from the 1940s, deepens beyond simple friendship. Together with other spectral girls anchored to the present through their linked partners, they slip through time and memory, uncovering pieces of their unfinished pasts. What starts as supernatural oddity becomes something messier and more human: real feelings tangled with impossible circumstances. Caught between his growing affection for Arashi and the persistent attention of Hiyori, a girl from his school hiding under a boy's disguise, Kazehaya finds himself pulled in different directions. The show balances comedy and genuine sweetness, never letting the time-travel premise overshadow the quieter moments of connection between characters who come from entirely different eras. There's romance here, but it's never simple. Instead, the series asks whether love can bridge the gap between the living and the dead, between past and present, and what either party is willing to risk to find out.
