2012-10-08, 19:36 | Link #182 |
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Cairo, Egypt
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No point in watching any more episodes of this wonderful series. It’s all done except for the wedding bells.
Holy cow! What a choker ending. Completely unexpected confession from her. Haru is, deep, very deep down inside, a good person – a good man who (appears) to understands Mizu, or rather cherishes her. He’s strong enough to guide her to do something that he know will be for her benefit, but he’s not overpowering her to do those things (like skipping class). This is a delicate balance attempted by many with their female companions, but few actually succeed in (and, yes I include myself in that bunch). It’s easy to intimidate someone to do something, but to gently persuade, to gain their trust and cooperation, very cool indeed. I’m not saying this is a perfect example; each character has their flaws. But there’s some genuine thoughtfulness to this series’ writing and it showed quite well in this episode. I thought the chicken would be more of a stupid gag, but it showed Haru taking care of it, protecting it. I don’t know if Natsume was just for this episode, but, again, her particular dysfunction is/was acted out on-line with strangers. Like Haru’s fighting, Mizu’s obsessive studying, Natsume found her escape though anonymous meetings with strangers – a non-life if you will. With no real personal dynamics in her life, I wonder if Haru intentionally ruined her off-line meeting as his way of protecting her, too? To help her, in the only way he knew how, to grow? I know, I know, it’s only two episodes. But I gotta say that some of the other highly-hyped shows this season have had much weaker starts than this series. Hopefully, this series will continue – now that we have a mutual confession between our main characters, I’m really curious where this will go! My prime concern however........will that chicken survive this season? |
2012-10-08, 19:40 | Link #183 | |
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Your comments on Haru made me suddenly realize- this is a gender switched Manic Pixie Dream Girl plot.
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2012-10-08, 20:24 | Link #185 |
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Gotta love the ever-important chicken. Thus far this show has a nice, light-hearted feel to it, which feels kind of similar to Amagami in a way, but just a little more 'detailed' and serious.
Surely this could be one of those gems of the season, unless it suddenly takes a turn for the worse. |
2012-10-08, 20:48 | Link #186 |
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Another cute episode
I am thinking the series could work well if it doesn't just focus on Haru/Shizuku (I think the reverse pixie romance is spot on here) but focuses on widening their circle of friendship. That is why I like the addition of Natsume. She is an interesting element to the group and I think just romance could get old. We will see where they go with this. I realized Shizuku reminds me very much of Yukino from Kare Kano. Thankfully Haru does not remind me of Arima.
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2012-10-08, 20:56 | Link #187 |
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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'Chicken chicken chicken...'
Wasn't expecting to watch this, but did after hearing how good it was. Wacky bully loves straightlaced girl in a high school romance that doesn't make me facepalm? Sold. Along with pretty gal who would be a NEET if she were a dude....and a chicken.... Damn, I might start getting back in shojo...between this and kamisama.. |
2012-10-09, 00:57 | Link #191 |
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I loved this episode And for those scared that there is nothing more for the characters to do, trust me, there are soooo many things left And I think Haru will become a true character soon enough, well at least he has in the manga.
Anyway, I wonder... those who have read the manga know... while it is cute and fun and stuff, it also has that... I can't really put my finger on it... melancholy feel to it. It never attempted to be deep or anything, but it does go to some... sad (?) places, and I just can't help but wonder if the anime will manage to convey that. And I love Natsume, I'm glad that other people like her too I love Sasayan even more Anyhoo, I hope the rest of the episodes will be just as enjoyable! Last edited by CrowKenobi; 2012-10-09 at 02:57. Reason: Let's keep the manga spoilers out of the anime thread and in the manga thread where they belong. |
2012-10-09, 05:07 | Link #194 | ||
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Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't intended as such but it had all the wrong overtones. I wasn't bothered by the rape line in the first ep (soooo not getting into that debate, though) but that rooftop scene in this ep was pretty creepy, especially since it came out of the blue... for a moment I thought he really was doing something bad to her. |
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2012-10-09, 07:14 | Link #195 |
a random Indonesian otaku
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Xanadu
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some points from episode 2 :
Natsume.... lol! I really like the seiyuu... it's matched with Natsume's character Sasayan is also make his appearance Shizuku's moe face.... ^^ about the confession, I believe in manga the confession should be in later chapter... Is the anime following manga or this is original timeline/stories? time flew fast... last episode = midterm exam... now the final exam already near (or maybe Shizuku just over exaggerates it?) |
2012-10-09, 15:24 | Link #197 |
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I really hope this series doesn't go the same route as Kaichou wa Maid-sama, where an admirable heroine is constantly bested and rescued by an utterly possessive ass with a laughably unrealistic skill set. The whole exam score issue raised some alarms in this respect.
Otherwise, I think this series is a great ride so far. The characterization of the two leads is touching (and no tsundere, thank Amun!), and the comedy is enjoyable without being too gaggy. I like the use of love(/confession) as a starting point rather than a culmination -- it opens up a lot of possibilities not accessible to conventional love-as-goal directed romances. |
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