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**** In a less crass sense, the way the city Naota lives in appears to the viewer reflects Naota's state of mind. As a kid, all you ever know is the places you've been. You don't have any sense of the world outside your locale beyond what you read in books or see on TV. Random people out there don't matter; you probably can't look them in the eye anyway, so they aren't really distinct. Tall buildings are just ''things'' that have no meaning. The scenery reflects this: the definition literally stops and becomes a fuzzy beige mass outside the city, there's a fog everywhere (representative of confusion and lack of understanding), and there's pretty much nobody around except for Naota and the people in his life. Fast forward to the end of the series. Naota's in his brand new middle-school uniform, walking to school. Suddenly, the world is cleanly defined, there are people and cars, you see people coming and going through the buildings, and you can see more of the world in the background (which was strangely absent before this). It becomes obvious that Naota's way of seeing the world has changed.

** It always annoyed me in the ending where {{spoiler|Mamimi leaves Naota after saying "so long"}} because of the way she reacted to not being around him before and then suddenly being fine with not being around him. Then I realized she called him Naota not Ta-kun like she had done for the entirety of the series signifying that she had got over her love for {{spoiler|Tasuku and had stopped using Naota as his substitute}} meaning she could move on with her life, making a once sad scene a happy scene.

* In the first episode, one of Naota's shirts shows a right angle. It seems just like a simple math thing but in reality, it's what he think he is. He think he's ''correct'' or right and more mature than most of the grown-ups he knows.

* The day-old bread that Mamimi took in the first episode has some symbolism. Ever since Naota's older brother left, she's stuck with Naota. Naota and the day-old bread are the same thing: ''leftovers''.