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View Poll Results: Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Next Season~ - episode 1 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 10 | 14.71% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 10 | 14.71% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 15 | 22.06% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 10 | 14.71% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 13 | 19.12% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 1 | 1.47% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 1 | 1.47% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 1 | 1.47% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 1 | 1.47% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 6 | 8.82% | |
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2007-12-20, 12:02 | Link #1 |
Lost in my dreams...
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Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Next Season~ - episode 1 Discussion / Poll
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2007-12-20, 17:54 | Link #5 |
"Show it to me"
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Screenshots of ep. 1 courtesy of Random Curiosity. Look at it at your own risk!
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2007-12-20, 22:24 | Link #7 |
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Well, I didn't find the animation very pleasing, and I did feel as if it was a bit slow, but overall it gave me a good hit of KgNE goodness -- or should I say melancholy.
Spoiler for ep1:
It would be reasonable to see differences in animation between this show and the original: the studio and staff are quite different. The original was from Studio Fantasia, with Watanabe Tetsuya as director and Kikuchi Yoko as "main animation director" and character designer. This new one is from Brains Base, with Takayama Hideki directing, and different names credited for animation and character design.
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2007-12-21, 01:41 | Link #9 |
Lost in my dreams...
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Although this OVA starts on a rather shaky ground (meaning we don't get an explaination on what led him to meet Haruka at the hospital ...unless some past events are assumed to have never happened/altered), i was fairly pleased with what i got. It was slow paced and very Haruka centric, but that much was expected and i wouldn't have it any other way. I am surprised Takayuki seems so clear-cut about his intentions this time, even though Mitsuki's shadow is still haunting him. Rather surprisingly decisive .... oh well, seems he has learned his lesson not to be late as well.
As i have been expecting, it doesn't look like the romance will be the driving force behind the drama - but rather Haruka's insecurities and coping with the situation and her feeling that she is being a burden on Takayuki. (Possibly some "guilt" that she is "taking him away" from Mistuki () as well). Though nothing spectacular, a decent buildup for the new issues to be solved and i enjoyed the episode, even if i think Haruka could have done without her doubts ... but then it wouldn't be Haruka i guess. And now, the wait is going to kill me.
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2007-12-21, 04:49 | Link #11 | |
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As for the pandering, so what? In this market, there're countless drama CDs, fan disks (which may include after-stories for different endings), novels, and other types of merchandise. ~Next Season~ (and the original anime for that matter) is just another example. If you don't like the Haruka ending, you're welcome to pass on any products directly related to it. Last edited by rg4619; 2007-12-21 at 05:45. |
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2007-12-21, 13:50 | Link #14 |
Lost in my dreams...
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A question to all you "disappointed people" ... i am kinda intrigued. Just what exactly were you expecting when a "Haruke route OVA" was announced? From the reaction of some people here one would think this thing suddenly sneaked up on us and hit us on the blind side
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2007-12-21, 13:55 | Link #15 | |
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2007-12-21, 14:02 | Link #16 | |
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It feels cheap to be missing out on the development. Though perhaps if they did show how mitsuki was used then discarded - fans would be in an uproar ^^
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2007-12-21, 14:10 | Link #17 | |
Not Enough Sleep
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*glance over at stock pile of pitchfork and boiling pitch Never happen, we are all reasonable people
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2007-12-21, 14:14 | Link #18 | |
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Considering how the OVA is named 'next season', I was somewhat expecting a continuation / divergence from the TV series at around ep.13-ish (Basically at the point where Takayuki had not said goodbye to Haruka....) Right now, I'm finding it hard to relate to the 'next season', even though I've played through the game. It just seems too weird to have Takayuki with Haruka even though they finally said their farewells in the TV series... Hopefully they'll patch it up somehow... (though at the same time I would dread recaps of past events >< ) |
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2007-12-21, 14:41 | Link #19 |
阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv180
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... it has been ages that these OVA will be around Haruka, and what would actually happen if Takayuki aims for Haruka.
Remember that japanese can use engrish like any plot device, and that "next season" doesn't have anything to do with the content. It was announced as "haruka's route" on age site since... well the announcement, so no surprise. And considering it is an OVA, I don't exactly get why they should actually redo things the audience obviously know. It isn't anything like a series you know, so budget and time constraints are even more pushy here. I would believe it would be quite slower if they try to reinsert the "common starting point" and stuff.
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2007-12-21, 14:50 | Link #20 |
Lost in my dreams...
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Well, the "~Next Season~" , while indicates a sense of continuation, appears to be nothing like that, and seems more like a parallel universe instead. So just treat it that way - same universe setting, but not the same. Don't get so focused on the label (which can mean anything)- watch the story instead the way the writer wanted it to be, instead of what you expected it to be. It seems to me that people are claiming this to be bad simply because it is not what they had assumed it has to be, not because it is actually bad in itself.
The way we saw Mitsuki's and Taka's past relationship makes me doubt even that is the same in this universe - we saw her supporting him, but we didn't see anything indicating they had a relationship. So for all we know this isn't even following the same events - just similar ones. Don't get so caught up in the somewhat misleading title that you condemn the show because of it - we were never promised a continuation, just a "Haruka route" ... just because you interpreted that wrong doesn't mean the story is bad.
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