Anime Like With You: Mitsumeteitai
Three people who were supposed to stay together forever get six years stolen from them, then spend two episodes trying to remember why they mattered to each other in the first place. The supernatural elements aren't window dressing, they're the only language left for saying things reunion can't say out loud. It's restrained enough to feel like actual romance instead of exploitation, even though it came from source material that had no reason to be.
SYNOPSIS
Three childhood friends share a bond forged in innocence, until life pulls them apart. Six years pass in separation. When they reunite, the connection remains unbroken, yet something fundamental has shifted between them. One carries feelings buried deep, another has built a life elsewhere, and the third exists caught between loyalty and longing. The reunion isn't a simple homecoming. Supernatural threads weave through their story, mysterious and unsettling, as though fate itself refuses to let them simply move forward. Questions emerge about whether they're truly meant to be together, and in what form that connection might take. The atmosphere balances between wistful nostalgia and creeping uncertainty, between the warmth of rekindled bonds and the cold reality that people change. What was simple as children becomes impossibly complicated as adults. This OVA captures that painful moment when the past crashes against the present, when love cannot be neatly divided among three people, and when the supernatural might offer answers the heart cannot reach alone.
