(L) Jinsei (La Bonne Vie)

[MisaoFan]

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Original creator (light novel): Ougyo Kawagishi
Original character design: Meruchi Nanase

Plot summary: The story centers around Yūki Akamatsu, a boy who joins the staff of his school's second newspaper. The editor-in-chief Ayaka Nikaidō immediately assigns him to the life (jinsei) advice column. Three girls — the science representative Rino Endō, the liberal arts representative Fumi Kujō, and the physical education representative Ikumi Suzuki — answer requests from students about whatever is troubling them.

Note: Kawagishi started the light novel series with illustrations by Meruchi Nanase in 2012. The December issue of Shogakukan's Sunday GX magazine teased that an "a__me adaptation" project was in the works yesterday.

Well the premise is kinda like a mishmash of Medaka Box and GJ-bu and I like the character design too. I don't have any expectations until they announce the staff but I can say the premise sounded nice.

[Articalys]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-22592.html

Main staff
Director: Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Nyan Koi, OniAi, Sket Dance)
Series Composition: Naruhisa Arakawa (Maoyuu, Spice and Wolf, Outbreak Company)
Character Designer: Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman, BlazBlue Alter Memory)
Animation Production: feel. (Outbreak Company, Minami-ke S4)

[MisaoFan]

Official website with staff and broadcast confirmed:
http://www.vap.co.jp/jinsei

[MisaoFan]

Character lineup:

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[Kakkou]

Staff:

Author: Ougyo Kawagishi
Original Character Designer: Meruchi Nanase
Director: Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Series Composition: Naruhisa Arakawa
Script: Naruhisa Arakawa, Keiichiro Ochi, Go☆Tamai
Character Designer: Tomoyuki Shitaya
Art Director: Naoko Kosakabe
Art Setting: Masahiro Sato
Colour Designer: Hiromi Iwaida
Photography Director: Rieko Koike
Editing: Daisuke Hiraki
Music: Hidehiro Kawai
Sound Director: Satoki Iida
Animation Production: feel.
Animation Production Assistance: Millepensee
Production: Jinsei Production Committee

Cast:

Yuki Akamatsu: Yasuaki Takumi
Rino Endo: Hiyori Nitta
Fumi Kujo: Moe Toyota
Ikumi Suzuki: Ayaka Suwa
Emi Murakami: Saori Onishi
Ayaka Nikaido: Rena Maeda

Source: http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-24658.html

[bastek66]

YouTube

https://youtu.be/5R2V7Lu1RT8

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[MisaoFan]

Character profiles in color

[MisaoFan]

http://yaraon.blog109.fc2.com/blog-entry-25055.html

13 episodes confirmed, as expected from feel.

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

My expectations for this anime stayed the same while watching episode 1. It's like GJ-bu in that the main character is interacting with the girls of the same club and do everyday activities when answering questions to others, except it added more fanservice to please the crowd as well the studio in charge (feel.). For a studio who excels at doing great backgrounds in their works, I feel the ones shown here are way too simplistic and there's some bad animation errors since it's obvious feel. put more effort into Locodol than this. At least Naruhisa Arakawa is writting this anime so I'm expecting something dramatic to occur later in the anime.

[jeroz]

I'm still scratching my head as to what this show is suppose to feel like. The best one I can come up with is watching a radio show where they move beyond the studio. It's obvious they are aiming for using "life wisdoms" as the smart part, but overall the character interplay feels laboured.

The girls are cute though, well drawn and has a tinge of ero, so I guess that's a plus? I really like the colour palette in this show.

[Random Wanderer]

Amusing, has cute girls, and mild fanservice. I'll take it.

[Dop]

My favourite part was the "indecisive club" segment and I do wonder if they're going to examine some of the consequences from their advice.
That said, the characters haven't really gelled for me, so not an instant like, but needs more episodes to see if it grows on me.

[Flower]

Also liked the Indecisive Club sequence, but also admit to scratching my head a bit - the cameo appearance of the tiny figurine of the GJ-bu President at the top of the jenga tower is one hint, I guess. In that light GJ-bu worked pretty good for me, but it was not really something I eagerly anticipated week after week nor that has a lot of re-watchability in my good. I have a feeling Jinsei might turn out to be cut from the same cloth.

Will give it a try, I guess.

[HandofFate]

What's the connection to GJ-bu?
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Anyway, interesting 1st episode.
Shows you the pattern and formula each episode is going to be.

The conversation style reminds me of GJ-bu, and also I'm getting a very Minami-ke vibe from the character designs.

Favorite is the sporty girl.
Also they're really pushing the two glasses characters together.

[Master_Yoma]

Well not to bad but that was a nice water balloon fight

[FlareKnight]

That was overall a pretty enjoyable first episode. Nothing mindblowing, but just something nice to spend time watching.

Will say I'm somewhat surprised they dodged a possible harem situation by pretty much pushing those two together almost out of the gate. Nothing firmly set yet, but certainly didn't expect to even see that much develop in the first episode.

In the end, not bad.

[Flower]

Spoiler for Specific comparisons and speculation of Jinsei and GJ-bu "starting points":

Will be really surprised if they do not go the harem route, but one (again) kinda like GJ-bu. The lead in that series liked them all, but definitely had a favorite if I remember correctly. Same thing might happen here, though perhaps with the twist that the others may come to like this MC unexpectedly. In GJ-bu everyone was fond of the MC right out of the gate

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by HandofFate

What's the connection to GJ-bu?

Both comes from the courtesy of GaGaGa Bunko, also involved in Sasami-san, Oregairu among others. They are known for adaptations based on high-quality light novel stories.

It's not just that, both series are pretty much CGDCT 4-koma manga adaptation lookalike but with a male lead, there's little romance as well.

[ZeKeR]

well this is something.

I wonder if he his integrity didnt break at all...

[bastek66]

I'm surprised that anime is pushing one girl and others are supporting her.

I wish their classroom for talks was looking more lively, like GJ club room, for example.