Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo - General Discussion

[Chaos2Frozen]

Rin vs Mashiro, who would be the better cat (loving) girl from JC Staff this season ?

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Sorata Kanda is your average guy with a strong love for cats, but was expelled from his former school because of that. One day, as he moves to the Sakurasou pension and its problem children's school, he was requested by his teacher, Chihiro Sengoku, to find a young female artist who later turn out to be Mashiro Shiina. Despite being a gift to the art, she's somewhat indifferent and is heavily dependant on anyone. That's why Sorata decides to become Mashiro's mentor. The animation reminds me of K, and the designs are lovely as well. The story, while sounding generic and shameful, doesn't turn too raunchy as I expected, and the fanservice looks pretty nice. The music was sweet and relaxing as well, and I enjoyed the comedy as well. A surprise hit of the season for me that I'm going to follow it definitively.

[bastek66]

Toradora with Inori, this is what I waited for this season.

Spoiler for gif:

[SidVicious]

She's cute.

[DorkingtonPugsly]

I've been looking forward to this for a while so I'm glad it turned out as nice as it did. The art and coloring are all very nice and the music's great too. I liked the ending song as well, very fitting. The voice acting was nicely done as well. The light novels had great ratings and reviews so this should be a fitting way for me to start the week off.

[Insane]

Somehow i feel that Mashiro is some kind of “Inori fan-service mascot” type character and the MC will get dragged into a bunch of problem involving her antics.

[leokiko]

Loved it. Main girl needs more personality though. Hope it delivers.

As a side-note: This had much more budget than Little Busters!.

[EroKing]

Not really a fan of Shiina from what was shown so far. Normal cute girl FTW~ Aoyama <3

[totoum]

That was fun,definatly on board with this a looking forward to more.

Originally Posted by leokiko

As a side-note: This had much more budget than Little Busters!.

I don't really think so, Sakurasou just does a good job at hiding its cost savings

Take 3:15-4:55 , there really isn't that much animation in there (apart from the very begining I guess)

[Lukeman1884]

This looks like it'll be a fun watch. The character archtypes aren't really anything new, but they work. Here's hoping Shiina gets a bit of depth though, "needs to be taken care of" as your only trait won't really be enough for female lead.

Spoiler for Thoughts on ep 1:

1. Poor guy. Waking up with a cat's ass in your face REALLY doesn't seem like a fun way to start the day. I probably would've washed my face afterwards though. Just saying, seems like a good idea.

2. Spring onion innuendo. That's new. Anime's ruining food for me these days, I can't even have a simple meal without being reminded of male reproductive organs.

That last sentence sounds really bad out of context.

3. Our MC spends a good 8 seconds staring at Shiina's naked body before reacting. Hmm. Either he needs his reflexes checked, or he knew EXACTLY what he was looking at.

4. Culture shock. Yeah, I've never been to England before either, but I'm pretty sure they wear clothes there.

Also, I'm wondering that that statue of the guy pointing meant. It looked pretty significant.

[Tyabann]

That was nice. Reminded me of early 2000s anime for one reason or another.

[bimbim]

This is suprisingly good to watch.
Normal guy stuck inside a dorm full of weridos
Well executed, great voice acting , adn soothing BGM.
And the ED(?) was nice too.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by totoum

I don't really think so, Sakurasou just does a good job at hiding its cost savings

Take 3:15-4:55 , there really isn't that much animation in there (apart from the very begining I guess)

More like the vibrant colors of this show gives the illusion of higher budget, and nothing to do with this having a different art team.

I expect we'll see more of such comments soon enough.

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

That was nice. Reminded me of early 2000s anime for one reason or another.

Yeah, it seems a fair number of people have also voiced similar impressions.

Those were the days before my time so I wouldn't have a clue

[totoum]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

More like the vibrant colors of this show gives the illusion of higher budget, and nothing to do with this having a different art team.

Though the vibrant colors do remind me of madhouse productions (like chihayafuru for example) and the director has been working at Madhouse her whole career so I wonder if there's a link there.

[Fnights]

Seems a generic harem with some generic clichè (childhood friend + gay mc + some crazy side characters), but art is very good and plotline is average and fun.

[iCK]

It reminds me of toradora a little..

[CWW]

Misaki does have shades of Minori.

I hope she doesn't suck as a character like Minori did in Toradora.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by totoum

Though the vibrant colors do remind me of madhouse productions (like chihayafuru for example) and the director has been working at Madhouse her whole career so I wonder if there's a link there.

After watching the episode myself... Well, even though I've said all that earlier, I must admit it's REALLY hard not to jump to that conclusion when this first episode of Sakurasou is so damn polished and pretty

As far as first episode goes, this one does a good job introducing and entertaining- How things go from here is anybody's guess, but it would be super lol-tastic if it really end up outshining Little Busters

Originally Posted by Lukeman1884

2. Spring onion innuendo. That's new. Anime's ruining food for me these days, I can't even have a simple meal without being reminded of male reproductive organs.

Go have some Melons, Creampuffs and milkshakes

That reminds me, the one thing I didn't expect was how openly perverted the dialogues could get I mean, 'testicles' in the pilot episode already?! We sure are living in strange times

"This pantsu isn't cute...>.>"

"WHY?! ARE YOU PLANNING ON LETTING THEM BE SEEN ?!"

Oh yeah, pantsu horoscope... Now that's something to keep track of.

[DragoonKain3]

I remember reading the first chapter of the manga, and colour me confused when Aoyama showed up. Who the heck is this girl? Seems pretty important considering you know, she's part of the reason why Hikari got picked up, but got omitted in that version.

And bah, Misaki trying to get her hands on the MC while Jin is fooling around with lots of girls. There is no justice in the world! They did work wonderfully together after that anime, but still...

Overall, it was actually quite enjoyable. There is no plot to speak of, but the quirky cast works.

Finally, as a nitpick, this doesn't look like JC Staff production. As part of the reason I'm a big fan of them, I actually prefer their 'retro' look like the ones they did in Bakuman and Little Busters. >_>

[kobester11]

Originally Posted by totoum

I don't really think so, Sakurasou just does a good job at hiding its cost savings

Take 3:15-4:55 , there really isn't that much animation in there (apart from the very begining I guess)

I actually agree with this, they just used several filters here and there and had unique camera angles (kudos to the director there) but you can still say its jc staff all over it...