2011-08-21, 19:21 | Link #782 |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Move along, just a bunch of Yukiatsu cosplayers here. Nothing new.
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2011-08-25, 01:38 | Link #783 | |
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2011-09-28, 13:06 | Link #784 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: a zoo
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Finally finished watching this series and I LOVED it.
Very emotional but very well played. Only thing that kinda broke my suspension of disbelief... I can´t see that bunch of 8-10 years old kids building a secret base as well and as robust as that one. I had a childhood posse myself and we had out share of secret bases and we could only dream we could afford the materials they had. Not to mention the muscles to carry those huge and heavy wooden planks up the hill. Still, great series. Anjo rules! |
2011-09-30, 09:54 | Link #785 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
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2011-10-02, 19:27 | Link #786 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: a zoo
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I don´t think that´s ever mentioned.
I posted a more thorough review of my personal impressions elsewhere, so I figured it´d only be fair to post it here a swell. I liked the fact that each of the 5+1 friends have distinct personalities and their own cycle of character growth. Menma is WAY too moe for my nerves but Anjo and Yukiatsu´s..... interests kept me going for more. Jin-tan struck me as standard issue lead male anime character#2345 but they handled him decently enough, I guess, and the voice talent helped carry him up very well. Initially, I wanted to detonate a small tactical nuke in Tsuruko´s face, but as the story progressed, I´ve come to really like her. She´s very controlled and passive-aggressive but once the cracks start to pile up and you manage to see through to the real her, she´s just awesome. I loved the character designs and especially their transition from childhood to teenage, it´s funny seeing how they change while retaining some base characteristics. They could probably be a bit more imaginative with Menma (a dead girl in a white dress? Really?), but all the others are great. I enjoyed watching Jin-tan slowly but surely regain his life and try to steer it somewhere. I liked the fact that the story takes place in the actual town of Chichibu, meaning that if I were to go search, many of the scenes would take place in actual locations that exist in real life. It´s... cute. I liked the fact that they restrained themselves from fanservice. I WUV! me some Ikkitousen overboard boobage, but in a story like this, less is usually better. I liked the fact that it´s only 11 episodes long. Short and sweet. My brain wouldn´t have survived 26 episode of Menma. I really like the way I discovered this series. I first learned of Zone while looking for j-pop bands my nieces could enjoy. I enjoyed Secret Base before I even know what it was all about. And to learn that it is the ending theme of Ano Hana was the icing on the cake, caught me completely by surprise when the melody starts in Jin-ta´s end scenne of episode #1 and I go:"- WHOA! So THIS is where this music is from!". Highly recommended if you wanna take a break from your usuall shows and look for something a bit more calm and heartwarming. It´s essentially a lovely story with some teary-eyed moments about friendship. |
2011-10-13, 21:09 | Link #788 |
Licensed Hunter-a-holic
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35
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I knew it ...
I watched too many Okada-original to understand that she had a thing for making anime with sexual jokes(just look at her adaption work even) ... I said that the reason why she was producing more sup-par works was due to her Protection from Editors ... Thanks the gods for executive middling.
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2011-10-13, 21:22 | Link #791 |
Licensed Hunter-a-holic
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: United Kingdom
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Too bad it seems like that Ando inexperience with the genre made him trust her more
Anyway, I think that makes it more clear whos the main reason for why Hanasaku turned out to be so unfocused, since apparently Okada just wanted to do what's in her head without any actual plaining ... pity she wasted all the talent of the directors and the large budget of the show to do it :P Meh, regardless, I think things turned out okay at the end ... both shows ended up being at least good in my eyes, but at least we can now put credit where it's due when it comes to the criticism towards the writing.
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2011-10-13, 21:35 | Link #792 | |
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It also completely validates this statement by Yakaman (worked with her on fractale) Spoiler for space:
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2011-10-13, 23:03 | Link #795 | |
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So it seems if she keeps herself under check if she's doing an adaptation (of course she has adapted plenty of echi stuff) but lets herself lose on anime original stuff. Then again,even in sketchbook she did cut out 2 male character and created a female anime original character.
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2011-10-14, 13:28 | Link #796 | |
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2011-10-15, 12:18 | Link #797 |
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Location: Kobe, Japan
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Whether the decision improved the show certainly isn't hard for me to say.
It isn't unheard of for talented people to succeed much better when working with strong source material. Shinbo is much more tolerable, for me, when he's working with either a very strong writer (Madoka Magica) or a mangaka with a very distinctive style (Natsu no Arashi) then when his questionable impulses are allowed to run wild. As for Okada, I think the secret of her success is that she writes great dialogue, and that's a hugely important skill. But unchecked, her sensibilities are clearly problematic. She's a misandrist of the first order, for one. But she also seems to fall in love with slapstick ecchi situation comedy, which she frankly doesn't write well. As we saw with Hourou Musuko, she can be very good with the right adaptation. But as for original material, you'd better pray for a production committee with some balls - both literally and figuratively.
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2011-10-15, 17:49 | Link #798 | |
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So I'm not doubtful that these changes improved the show. Without it, Ano Hana would have probably ended up in the trash can by episode 4.
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2011-10-17, 17:51 | Link #799 |
Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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It's fairly clear from Okada's description of what she intended to write that she had more in mind than a mere "slapstick erotic comedy", but I guess ANN couldn't come up with a headline that didn't puff that angle. Appears to have coloured a lot of ANN posters' impressions of waht she intended too.
I strongly suspect that the AnoHana that could have been would be closer in tone to the AnoHana that we actually got than to your typical dime a dozen ecchi comedy. And while I love AnoHana (first "Key style childhood friends and supernatural events story" where I've liked the writing and not just the concept since EF, Sola, etc. aren't really "Key style" IMO), I can't help but be intrigued by what could have been. And unlike some of you, I think the result could have been pretty good stuff.
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