Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (Japanese: あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない。, Hepburn: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai, "We Still Don't Know the Name of the Flower We Saw That Day") is a Japanese anime television series created by Super Peace Busters (超平和バスターズ, Chō Heiwa Basutāzu), an artist collective consisting of director Tatsuyuki Nagai, screenwriter Mari Okada, and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka.

[3] In Chichibu, Saitama, a group of six fifth-grade-age[4] childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko "Menma" Honma, dies in an accident.

Five years[5] after the incident, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has withdrawn from society, does not attend high school,[6] and lives as a recluse.

A novel adaptation of the anime written by Mari Okada was serialized in Media Factory's Da Vinci magazine between the March and July 2011 issues.

[12][13][14] The 11-episode Anohana anime television series directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and produced by A-1 Pictures[15] aired in Japan between April 14 and June 23, 2011, on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.

[16] Aniplex of America announced they would re-release the series with an English dub at their Sakura-Con panel on April 16, 2017,[17] and it was released on October 31, 2017.

During the film there are many memory bits of the joys and trauma they went through and flashbacks, many to the events in the anime series, some new or expanding on what was previously shown.

Appearing one year afterwards are the five surviving Super Peace Busters, Menma's brother Satoshi, her mother Irene, and the owner of the game store where Jinta works.

[31] In a quarterly financial report, Fuji Media Holdings singles out Anohana as one of their top anime properties, calling it a "big hit" and announcing that the first DVD volume sold 56,000 copies.

[34] Crunchyroll also included it in such a list; reviewer Daryl Harding commented that the anime "blew the tear buds of people all around the world" and that "Somehow the team can just pull at your heartstrings so much that even nearly a decade on, I still feel those tugs".

[35] Writing for Forbes, Lauren Orsini considered it to be one of the five best anime of 2011; she wrote, "Anohana is a moving journey about the ties that bind even beyond the grave that will leave you misty-eyed".