Adaption source: Manga written by Hiroaki Samura

Synopsis
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Restaurant worker Minare Koda has recently been through a bad breakup. Heartbroken and drunk after a night out, she rants about her misery to a complete stranger—Kanetsugu Matou, a radio station director local to Sapporo, Hokkaido.
The next day at work, Minare is shocked to hear a recording of herself from the previous night playing over the radio. Flustered, she rushes to the radio station in a frenzy to stop the broadcast. As she confronts Matou, a chain of events leads to her giving an impromptu talk live on air, explaining her savage drunken speech. With her energetic voice, she delivers a smooth dialogue with no hesitation, which Matou recognizes as raw talent.
Minare soon becomes a late-night talk show host under Matou's direction, covering amusing narratives set in Sapporo, all while balancing her day job and personal life to make ends meet.
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QUOTE
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't
What if a fiction is trying to portray that truth is stranger than fiction. Take that Mark Twain.
Nami yo Kiitekure has a likeable protagonist and extra punch of Japanese puns that the make audience laugh while crave for the next episode.
Personally, it a very entertaining watch for me every week, even though I had started reading the manga after episodes 2 and finishing them within few days.
Here is a review from MAL if I am not convincing enough. (warning: wall of texts)
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This kind of series is target for a very specific adult audience.
The main protagonist's dumb antics are painfully relatable only if you have experienced them before.
Koda Minare. Our MC is basically the main attraction of this show.
Rather, she is the show itself.
We follow her daily life.
Feisty, strong personality, drunkard, a little bit of a dork.
The life of an adult, that struggles, that get's drunk quite often because she has bad luck in men and has a massive hungover and still needs to be on time at work, and after she spent all her money on drinks the night before, she realizes that she does not have enough money to pay for rent.
It's clear that her life is not in order by any means.
Does that ring any bells? I think we all have been there.
Suffice to say this series is not for everyone.
Hence the low scores.
Which is sad, since I honestly believe that this is one of those hidden gems that appear every season.
It has, what it could be among the Top 10 or Top 20 OP & ED of the whole year. Despite still being quite early to say but i doubt that it could fall from those ratings.
Yes, that good. If you don't believe it, go ahead and listen to it.
I do hope that more people watch this show...
At least, give it a chance.
If the first 5 minutes of the show don't get your attention, don't waste your time and drop it, since this might not be for your taste.
Should you watch Nami yo, Kiitekure?
How can I give you a proper review without giving a massive spoiler for the series?
I will give you a comparison instead.
If you are a sommelier, a connoisseur if I may add, and by that I mean a full on weeb that has watched a fair share of anime then it will be pretty easy for you to understand the reference and what I am trying to say.
Do you remember Hayami Saori's role of Hatoko in Inou-Battle?
Do you remember the "I don't understand" scene?
That 2:50 of one of the greatest voice acting masterful performances, ever.
That. Exactly, that.
Think along those lines.
Sugiyama Riho is attempting to emulate or recreate what Hatoko's VA did and provide something similar in Koda Minare's (MC) performance throughout the whole show.
The concept of the radio exists in the story.
My opinion of it is that the radio was not the whole point.
Just a mean to an end.
What the author might had envision is something different.
Let's take it as a metaphore, since it's only the medium for your words to be heard.
Nowadays, nobody speaks their minds.
We follow protocols. We have become accostumed to a living, to a pattern, to what is the norm in society.
But there is always something that we have thought. "If I said that before, will things have been different?"
So what would happen if we have someone who does not force herself to follow said rules and is not bound to them either?
The ability to convey powerful and impactful emotions through the use of your words.
So, the main question is, why does her words echo in others?
This post has been edited by akhito: May 4 2020, 06:02 PM