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Perfect 10 | 4 | 14.81% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 4 | 14.81% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 8 | 29.63% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 10 | 37.04% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 1 | 3.70% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 0 | 0% | |
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2013-02-24, 12:44 | Link #21 |
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This was more of a Rin episode than Sasami. Pretty enjoyable, but it doesn't really make sense to include this kind of episode in the middle of Kud's arc which will resume next week. It should have been placed before last week's episode.
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2013-02-24, 18:43 | Link #22 | |||
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While I do agree that this episode should have been placed before last episode, I don't really see it as a problem either. The previous episode was about Kud, but I didn't really see it as the start of her personal arc. The episode did focus on Kud's background and her insecurities, but ended up revolving around the friendship of the Little Busters group (everyone studying and going to the remedial class together).
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2013-02-24, 21:07 | Link #23 |
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This was actually better than I thought it would be.
Rin's appeal hasn't really gotten through to me throughout Little Busters. I mean, I liked her well-enough, but I wasn't sure why she had the honor of being main heroine. She also struck me as being a bit too much in her brother's shadow. That changed a bit in this episode. Rin has a certain Shana-esque bluntness and forthrightness to her that's kind of appealing. Like Shana, when Rin sets her mind on something, she just charges full-speed ahead, like a bull in a china shop with an one-track mind. It's kind of impressive in a way, and it certainly lends itself to good comedy. With this episode, I also see some family resemblance between Kyousuke and Rin. I'm starting to see some personality similarities between the two. Both can become very fiery and passionate individuals. It was cute to see Rin take over her brother's catchphrase of "Mission Start!" This episode also did a lot to humanize Sasami. She came off as something of a joke antagonist before, but with this episode we see that the girl does have a heart and a decent sense of empathy. She's a ham (like many of the characters in this show), and she likes being "the spoiled rich girl" with the "hohoho!" laugh, but she's also a normal girl in many ways. Her crush on Kengo was cute. Speaking of Kengo, it was good to see him play a significant role in an episode without it also involving Masato. Do you know what old, classic anime show Little Busters is starting to remind me of? Ranma ½ Little Busters has a sense of humor very similar to Ranma ½. It also has this chaotic and random feeling, with an incredibly colorful and the over-the-top cast of characters, again like Ranma ½. Sasami having a crush on Kengo, and all of the explosive highjinks resulting from that, honestly reminded me of this one-shot super-popular cheerleader in Ranma ½ who had a crush on another kendo star by the name of Tatewaki Kuno. Pretty neat how Little Busters gave me a lot of feelings of nostalgia in this episode, between the Rin/Shana similarities, and reminding me of Ranma ½.
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2013-02-25, 01:24 | Link #26 | |
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Once I've got over the shock of discovering this show indeed might have an underlying plot point, I searched within myself to see if I really do care for one. And it seems.... ...that at this point I don't really care how those legs came to rest on Hidenori's shoulder. I've said it at the beginning of this series that the legitimacy of a Key story will finally be tested due to the subpar production effort where the challenge is to keep the audience by the merit of the story. And I must say that without dressing it up (as accomplished by KyoAni and Toei), the laid-bare story of this show has been average at best. I'm, in fact, skeptical that if it is even possible for any studio to salvage this story into a decent anime. The story has been pretty ridiculous thus far. That said, I actually enjoyed this episode because it didn't try to reel me in with a plot. It taught me about one more method to concurring the ladies. Case in point: p.s I also hope this director is good at something else to make a living cause he sure sucks at his current job.
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2013-02-25, 02:35 | Link #27 | |
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Anyway, nice episode. I understand WHY they'd put a Rin-centric episode now, since it's Ep 20 and the next episodes are centered on Kud, but, heh.
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2013-02-25, 04:03 | Link #29 | |
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The thing is that I think that Rin's Fastball scene simply coincides with Sasami, which is, i think, the reason they slapped that scene in. >.>
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2013-02-25, 11:29 | Link #30 |
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Okay, I didn't get Rin's appeal before, but her hopelessly blunt personality is actually kind of cute, in a sad way. She really isn't good with bipeds, but she has a determined streak in her once she gets into something.
I enjoyed the light ship teasing between Riki and Rin. Even if I hadn't heard early on that she'd probably be the end-game girl, their relationship really strikes me as one that people on the outside look at and think: "Those two don't know it yet, but they're going to grow up and get married some day." I appreciate how Sasami's sympathy for her hopeless suitor was informed by her own experience with love. And her nearly messing up her own name was a great little bit of "rabbit season, duck season" humor. |
2013-10-04, 01:05 | Link #35 |
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Rin is pretty silly, but I guess I wouldn't be too harsh on her. Sometimes I do that crap too (speaking too fast when excited)
But yea, they actually made good use of Salami. Yea, I know her name's Sasami, but I could have cared less before this, but over all it was a nice side route that gives Rin more stuff to do, and really shows that she's quite the hardheaded person. And the humor didn't suck this episode; you can never go wrong with people trying to rap. And this love thing. Well as we've noted from this episode, the cast is arguably one of the worst to ask about love. Though it's only the second worse by JC Staff standards (Shana's is #1) Mio and Yuiko are just totally out there. Could that be important? Probably.
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