The history of AnoHana plays in the present and uses numerous flashbacks to the past. Reference is made again and again closer to certain details that make the protagonists of the story itself to the accusation of being responsible for Menmas death.
The childhood of five friends is marred by the death of Meiko Honma, nicknamed "Menma", their playmate. Now the kids have grown up and go to school, but are no longer friends. Suddenly Jinta Yadomi, called "Jintan", who had been the leader of the group, begins to see the ghost of his little friend of many years ago. Meiko seems to want to communicate only with him and want Jinta will grant a wish that she had when she was a child, but which has been forgotten.
