This Anime About Millennials in a Small Town Is Too Relatable

The farming RPG Stardew Valley and slice-of-life anime Flying Witch are beautiful refuges from the hustle of everyday life. Their pleasant themes offer a magical perspective on rural living. But as nice as those are, animation studio P.A. Works’ (Shirobako, The Eccentric Family) newest anime, Sakura Quest, has a theme that I find to be generally more relatable and less dreamy.

Sakura Quest’s protagonist Yoshino Koharu puts it perfectly:

“I don’t care about my golden years, I want to be blessed now!”

Like Yoshino, I was desperate to get out of the midwest. I promptly moved out of old Oklahoma the morning after I received my college diploma; I needed to be in the thriving city with all its shining opportunities. Sakura Quest tackles this exact mindset from several different perspectives to challenge the youthful ambition of escaping small town life. It’s humbling, funny, and makes me wish I would have appreciated my time living not too far from cows a little more. Its differences from Stardew Valley and Flying Witch make it a wonderful follow-up to their idealistic rural towns.

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