The timeless beauty and horror of the countryside.
I don’t think it’s even possible to be as deeply rural and remote as this in the Netherlands. The village school in Non Non Biyori Nonstop only has five students. Where I grew up there were similar such small schools, but even then the students numbered in the tens. The farms my father’s family ran were a ways away from the villages, but we could still bike to them in less than an hour. The Netherlands just isn’t big enough to have this deep a back country. In any case, such a landscape is probably better enjoyed through anime than by actually living there. The slow, deliberate pace and the beautiful setting are relaxing in twentyfive minute long weekly installments, not so much if I was stuck in it 24/7.
As it is though, Non Non Biyori Nonstop is as calming as its predecessors, a nice way to close out the week with. Renge and the rest of the cast are as charming and funny as ever. No need to watch the first two seasons if you hadn’t already, but why wouldn’t you?
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