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Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
An excellent, excellent start. From the OP music and the Japanese typeface, I was hooked. It took me about ten seconds to get used to the flat look. (And I noticed Studio 4°C in the end credits, so Mochizuki went to the source.)
Lovely adult tone, perfect background music. Nice visual compositions and visual and aural rhythms. The ebb and flow of the personalities worked. And the voice acting really worked: Sakurai Takahiro as Yaichi was particularly good. Hypnotic.
As MikaMiaka says, a definite feeling of Mushishi -- but I liked this first episode better, myself.
Now we'll see where Mochizuki takes it -- and I do mean him, since he both wrote and directed the show, to say nothing of being his own sound director.
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The manga it originated from was made by the same manga-ka who did Ristorante Paradiso. Same art style and maturity, for sure.