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View Poll Results: Toradora! - Episode 16 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 108 | 61.02% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 47 | 26.55% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 10 | 5.65% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 8 | 4.52% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 3 | 1.69% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 0.56% | |
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2009-01-21, 20:08 | Link #24 |
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*facepalm*
though it's the sentiment of maybe one person thankfully in this thread. Yeah seriously we should make an Ami show.. someone want to do the drawings and scripts for it? :V All Ami all the time. Spoiler for ep16 2nd half:
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2009-01-21, 20:47 | Link #26 |
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Dude, aren't you kinda being just as bad? You're personally responding to each and every person that mentions it. I have a feeling this is going to be a looooong season for you.
In this episode, the cut/change wasn't as egregious as the previous by the way guys... Spoiler:
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2009-01-21, 22:21 | Link #27 | |
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Yes. I adore Ami.
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2009-01-21, 23:03 | Link #30 |
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That's a difference between East and West, I guess.
In the East, if two people want to come together, they would want to have the approval of everyone around them, their blessings, their support, their acceptance etc etc. In the West, who cares? |
2009-01-22, 00:37 | Link #33 | |
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2009-01-22, 01:09 | Link #34 | |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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I find Sumire fascinating but I have no desire to see the story shredded for her, nor would I be fond of a "popularity-driven" storyline that bounces around in response to polls. "Never ending serial adventures" are down the hall...
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2009-01-22, 01:56 | Link #36 |
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I would like to wonder if people still think the pace of this anime has compromised its meaning. Even with the skipping of so many scenes from the novel, it still manages to capture the emotions in their true glory. Whatever messages that JC staff can't fit into the 24mins, they make them subtle, or up to the viewers' interpretation. As far as I can tell, the series is solid, and few emotions, if any, have been lost.
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2009-01-22, 02:00 | Link #37 |
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From what I've read of the novel so far..... its a shame that they only got two seasons, they're doing a remarkable job of capturing the *spirit* of the story. Yet it is still only a dim reflection of the story.
In other words, they've done almost as well as one could hope given the constraints. If it gets people to buy the novels (or the manga) then its a flaming success.
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2009-01-22, 02:14 | Link #38 |
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It seems something which is given less to start out with and given less attention will always triumph over another which is bathed in funding and attention. Yes, if they ever create a season 3, I hope JC staff will create it with the same spirit as they did with the first two. With the increase in "attention", somehow it could get messy.
Toradora! is like a fantastic product, but not advertised or publicized a lot. Great, but will it sell great? |
2009-01-22, 06:40 | Link #39 |
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This is a general point, not specific to episode 16 but it addresses some comments I've seen in this thread.
Translating written works to drama, whether live action or animation is not an easy process. There are time constraints involved -- people I know who write screenplays for a living say that a page of text in a book on average equates to a minute of screen time, and I've read the same thing elsewhere. The makers of Toradora! have 24 episodes each with 20 minutes of story-time to fill -- that's 480 selected pages of text excerpted and modified to build into a consistent engaging story on screen. Something has to be cut at every step to make the anime work, and since different people like different bits of the novel storylines some of them are going to be disappointed as their favourites get the chop. I've not read the light novels but the Wikipedia summary lists a bunch of characters who have not made the cut into the anime (Sumire's sister, for example). Sub-plots have been minimised (the homeroom teacher's love life) and details removed where they don't advance the story (Kitamura's motorcycle, the Sumire family's fear of snakes). These cuts are necessary to make space for the stuff that matters. That's just how it is, folks.
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2009-01-22, 07:31 | Link #40 | |
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There's no text like that in the English translation of that scene: Spoiler:
Nothing like what you described is mentioned (Ami being angry with Minori being carefree.), is there a problem with the wiki? |
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