Only Yesterday and Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju are adult drama anime that uses storytelling and reminiscing to show personal growth, catharsis, and the fluidity of truth. As a viewer, you can appreciate these anime as personal stories, but also as commentaries on life and truth. Storytelling and reminiscing are a reflection of the truth. What you believed to be true in the present can be obscured and reexamined in a new way (reminiscing). How you construct truth for audience can create different interpretations of the same event (storytelling). Neither is necessarily accurate, but they can be correct.
