2009-08-25, 13:07 | Link #4042 |
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Yeah Kimikiss is quite the special gem of a series. Still to this day i listen to the soundtrack quite a lot. & it's doing it's job of reminded me of all those magical scenes.
Wouldn't mind rewatching it at some point in the near future, plus i need to start Various Heroines.
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2009-08-25, 13:08 | Link #4043 |
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Hmm... even though it is a kasai kenichi series I've been meaning to follow for a while, the massive bad publicity that the title received back in the day kind of made me put this title in the back burner. Whatever was that about anyway? I only remember people complaining about an unfaithful version to the original game, a massive backslash in Japan and everything short of posting destroyed Kimikiss merchandise on japanese blogs.
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2009-08-25, 13:10 | Link #4044 | |
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2009-08-25, 13:19 | Link #4045 |
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It was a clever reinterpretation of the source material that gave the series much more life-like feeling with an ensemble cast and multiple relationship threads. I've gotten to the point where I don't understand people who want an anime adaptation of an eroge to just remap the linear-serial "choose the girl" limitations of that medium. It is such a limited simplistic result.
The best adaptations, imo, are the ones that take the source material and adapt them to fit the modalities of animation. Straight romance (Lamune), triangle (Canvas 2) are just much more interesting as was KKPR in its ensemble mode. Frankly, if the studios just want to give the rigid eroge fans "what they want", they should just produce a group of mini-stories - each covering one path to the end. Maybe they get some perverse pleasure over having fans agonize over whether "their girl" will be chosen and having all the "loser girls" just drift in limbo pining for the guy. That last part is really what gets me... none of the unchosen girls ever get to move on with life. Quite cruel and selfish actually.
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Fans were opposed to what they did to some of the characters, they split the male character in two. They changed one of the heroines personalities a little and other small things. I believe kimikiss did well in the raitings, but people that watch TV in Japan rarely buy DVD. Kimikiss DVDs were selling bellow 2000 unit per volume and they were expecting at least 10000 units per volume. |
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2009-08-25, 14:00 | Link #4048 | |
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But yeah, Kasai does yet another outstanding job.
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2009-08-25, 14:39 | Link #4051 |
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Oh, it's interesting to see Kimikiss thread active again. The game thread is more defitine about staying dead, that is.
So, speaking of the anime I can honestly say that it didn't click for me. I found a few interesting ideas and some references that I posted about here in this thread but when looking at it as a whole there's nothing I can do to start liking it. I watched all the episodes with the single idea which is 'there's something wrong with this anime'. I can't avoid game comparisons so I should say that it's really disappointing that now the general public sees Nana and Narumi as stupid girls when they've always been cute and funny. The fact that they threw away tons of jokes from the game doesn't earn the authors any points either. The jokes were partially replaced with new ones but not as good, to my regret. You can guess that the game left a huge impact on me. Now that I look at it I can see that I've been playing it for long 3 years. Of course it doesn't mean I've been playing it every day. I put it aside for extended periods and then returned to it to play a little. It's only this year that I finally found time to finish all the scenarios. Lately I pushed a bit with my Japanese studies and that allowed me to read the script without loosing any words from it. Of course I still have to refer to the dictionary every now and then but the playthough went very smoothly. And I managed to discover quite interesting episodes that people normally miss because you need to go a special route for the event to start. And of course I don't mind the manga. Though unfortunately I generally missed it, only read a few chapters of Futami story. So, I'm posting a small part of my translation of game script from Asuka route for you to get an idea how it looks like. Spoiler for Asuka's route:
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2009-08-25, 15:46 | Link #4055 |
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Well, it depends on your location. In Moscow you can't find it in local shops but the postal service is ready to ship the box for you. And until lately you could find it in a couple of those nice import game shops in NYC, we discussed it in the game thread. And I hope you know Japanese to feel yourself at home here.
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2009-09-02, 15:16 | Link #4058 |
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If we're at it I actually rooted for both "loser" girls when I watched the series. Well, I knew mostly they both going to lose from quite some time, but well I hoped for a "happier ending" for both. Luckily I've got it, though Asuka came out the worst from the 3 even if she suffered the least or so it seemed.
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Spoiler for From other topic...:
Okay, we did not know which was the main girl when the first kiss was stolen. Plus the protagonist kissed the other girl too. It wasn't a traditional triangle, the protagonist had a girlfriend and the girl was sort of seeing another guy.
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