[kuromitsu]

I just watched the first episode, and hmmmmm, it's not exactly what I'd been expecting...

Spoiler for ep 1:

In a way it's a pretty cliché setting, with Izumiko and Miyuki who are supposed to be "hime" and "knight" (sorta) but of course Miyuki is a rude teenage boy who doesn't believe in her and keeps putting her down, and of course Izumiko is this terribly shy girl who lacks self-confidence but is actually really powerful and in the end she'll try to prove herself to Miyuki who will have to protect her blah blah blah and they're shown kissing in the OP so presumably they'll fall in love, coming of age story and so on and so forth... not bad, per se, they can still do interesting things with this, but I kind of expected something less "seen this before."

Anyway, the rest of the setting is actually pretty good so far, the cast looks interesting, so yep, watching the next episode, too.

One thing that bothers me, though, the voices. Somehow there's this total disconnect between Izumiko who sounds like a ten year-old (even if we take anime voice tropes in consideration) and Miyuki who sounds more like a fifteen year-old. Maybe this is deliberate, but they simply clash and not in a good way, they're like from two different series, if it makes sense. Also, Fukuyama Jun should really just stop using this voice, it's so fake. :/ It's okay in something like Ixion Saga but not in a serious show. And Kugimiya Rie should stop trying to voice teenage boys, period.