[DragoonKain3]

Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo

And that's the main reason I have struggled to find any interest in this show, while loving Kokoro Connect from the start.
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But that's just me. Sorry to be negative. I'm still watching, hoping things will start to click for me.

To each their own Kaoru... you can't possibly like every anime in the sun (goodness knows there's a bunch of anime I hate that everyone else loves), so no need to be sorry. I personally love this show because it has such a heavy emphasis on the election part. Which is quite unique as I can't recall any anime like it, but I can understand that not everyone is going to like it.

Originally Posted by Haak

Yes but different types of anime will often have different types of storytelling and that includes how it establishes it's identity

And I didn't say otherwise. I just personally have a beef with how Kokoro Connect did it's identity, as it took way too long.

These are all rather superfluous at the moment. I wouldn't say it's established itself quite well yet. I dodn't even realise there was a love triangle forming. I just thought Oojima was raising flags like normal. And I had no idea that her Choco phobia is tied to her obvious romance with Oojima that way.

If that's how you think... well, there's nothing I can say that will change your mind. I mean, how can you miss the scene where Chisato goes bonkers when Oojima meets up with Satsuki?

Spoiler for comparison to Kokoro Connect:

That's probably because Episode 3 is when it actually started happening when Episode 2 was mostly foreshadowing. There are definitely far less that thought it would still be light-hearted compared to those that already figured what the focus would be.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree here, considering that I can't convince you even when I pointed out that the majority of the 100 or so posts between episode 2 and 3 were still talking about non-heavy drama stuff like "If I switched bodies with a girl, I would be very curious" or my favourite part, shipping. XD

But no I don't think it could've gone either way. Heartseed definitely put a very sombre spin on things, Yui's hints were easy to spot (and were unlikely to be taken lightly) and Iori sealed the deal with her grim philosophical talk on what would happen to their identities. And of course the preview definitely helped.

Really, Heartseed was someone who put a 'sombre spin on things'? Mr. "I'm LITERALLY doing this for the lulz" can't go either way? I... I'm speechless on what to say. I don't think we'll ever see eye to eye Haak.