(L) Mysterious Girlfriend X (Nazo no Kanojo X) [anime]

[sa547]

Wow. This new gem packed quite a punch. And drool.

For Urabe's benefit, it's refreshing for me to hear a rather realistic voice of a typical high school girl. Not cute, but somewhat down-to-earth, a genuine girl-next-door kind of voice. Thumbs-up to Yoshitani... hers was aural sex (and when coupled up with fan-service, it becomes mind-blowing).

I like Tsubaki's dream sequences; reminds me of that one little daydream back at Another, but this time heck a lot surreal, and bigger.

Character design was, for me at least, a homage to the old-school, the kind you see often from the 90s period. But lots of sci-fi shoutouts, too, especially with Tsubaki's movie posters.

Gonna follow this. Probably the best thing I've seen since American Pie (and I remember faintly a movie starring Christina Ricci... yeah, Opposite of Sex).

[judasmartel]

Originally Posted by Funkatron

Animated Noka = FTW. Can't wait to hear her speak, which probably won't be till later.

Erm.. You know she's actually Aoi Yamada, right?

Originally Posted by sa547

Probably the best thing I've seen since American Pie.

Probably the best thing since sliced bread period.

[sa547]

Last time it was a toothbrush that has become a tool of titillation. Now it's drool.

[Funkatron]

Originally Posted by judasmartel

Erm.. You know she's actually Aoi Yamada, right?

Forgive my ignorance but who?

[Kaoru Chujo]

1. I'm really glad that the saliva thing doesn't seem to have turned too many people off. Except for the pool effect, I thought they did a pretty good job getting across the possibility of it being attractive.

2. As usual, I like the untrained voice. However, it must be said that in pure seiyuu terms, she is very bad. There were moments when even I found her flat voice almost unlistenable. And I can defend Omigawa Chiaki.

3. However, as an actress, I thought she painted the strange character brilliantly well. A memorable performance.

3. I'm more or less current with the manga, and I have been losing some interest as we wander off into minor stories, but I think they can make a good one-kuur show. The anime, like the manga, has an "I can't quite explain it" charm. But I think Yoshitani Ayako can add something by giving us a better feeling of Urabe as a person.

4. Further on Yoshitani-san, she started in TV drama at age five and has been busy more or less ever since. Japanese Wikipedia lists her as having been in 35 TV dramas and 14 films. She is 20, like Yuuki Aoi, Hayami Saori, Kotobuki Minako, and Touyama Nao:

[judasmartel]

Originally Posted by Funkatron

Forgive my ignorance but who?

I meant Yamada's VA from Working!~

[Blue-kun]

I didn't know anything about this show before jumping into it other than the character design being sorta old-school looking and the fact I thought it looked great. So, after watching it, I'm seriously having trouble sorting my feelings about it. During the first half of the episode I was pretty much asking myself why exactly people came up with such an abnormal premise such as the whole drool thing, but at the same it was, in a way, somewhat "funny". However, the whole thing sorta grew on me as both Urabe and Akira actually started to interact with each other. They just have their own sort of weird (and somewhat disgusting) chemistry that carried this show forward and actually made me want to ignore the fact that I wasn't particularly fond of how spit was such a central theme of this....

Mind you, I'm still unsure if I'm able to do just that, but the confession scene surely intrigued me. The very very nice soundtrack set up such a tone there that, coupled with the whole weird voice thing, just made me wonder where exactly this show will be going next. It's like, watching that particular scene I didn't feel as if the show is trying to show how "moe" saliva is, but rather how weird and eerie this whole bizarre love story of those two can be. I... think I can get behind that. Maybe.

At the end of the day, though, all that I can think of is that I can't remember a single show that I've watched in the past years that got me so confused about it. Confused in a good way, I guess. I'll be tuning in again next week, and hopefully not be disappointed.

[Haak]

I wouldn't mind the whole saliva thing if it was just Akira licking Urabe's finger. But do they really need to focus on Urabe's incredibly thick and viscous saliva? It's so icky...DX

[Flower]

Wow.

That was ... very well done.

I am absolutely pleased with the adaptation!

Am I the only one who thinks the visuals of the show remind me of older anime series? Somehow a little like ... let's see ... Hime-chan no Ribbon, for example? Which for me is a good thing, by the way....

Interesting ... Urabe's voice was not quite what I expected, but it "worked" for me, too.

This is going on my "actively following" list for sure!

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Flower

Am I the only one who thinks the visuals of the show remind me of older anime series? Somehow a little like ... let's see ... Hime-chan no Ribbon, for example? Which for me is a good thing, by the way....

Let me quite myself: The look of this series is very, very retro – I’m talking seriously old-school here. If you did a quick double-take you might almost think you were watching a Takahashi or Adachi adaptation from the 80’s – that’s how old-school the look is, both in terms of color and character design.

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Let me quote myself: The look of this series is very, very retro – I’m talking seriously old-school here. If you did a quick double-take you might almost think you were watching a Takahashi or Adachi adaptation from the 80’s – that’s how old-school the look is, both in terms of color and character design.

Heheheheh ... looks like we agree on something again.

I take it you also liked it then?

*Heads off to check Enzo's blog page*

Hmm ... sure enough.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Flower

Heheheheh ... looks like we agree on something again.

I take it you also liked it then?

*Heads off to check Enzo's blog page*

Hmm ... sure enough.

"Liked" doesn't cover it. "Bowled over" is probably closer to the mark.

[Metalsnakezero]

A lot of people are giving it positive impressions. Talk about a sleeper hit.

[judasmartel]

And if they play their cards right, this MGX adaptation could well be one of the best anime this season.

[Jerseykid]

This is not a criticism of this anime, I enjoyed the first episode well enough. But is it considered to be too boring in Japan now to have the romantic adventures between people who are normal?

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Jerseykid

This is not a criticism of this anime, I enjoyed the first episode well enough. But is it considered to be too boring in Japan now to have the romantic adventures between people who are normal?

If you factor out one partner being an alien, I think Ano Natsu comes pretty close.

[Flower]

If you mean just anime, I honestly do not know ... but afaik the manga industry is still awash, live and kicking with all kinds of high school romances.

[judasmartel]

Yeah, and annoying Moe Moe Fanservice, too.

[MAX_COLA_POWER!]

Wow, seeing the subs made me think, wow, when Urabe told Tsubaki about that voice in her head telling her that Tsubaki would be the one that she would have sex with, any one of us would not have reacted so calmly like him. Some of us would be in our heads thinking, THANK YOU HIDDEN VOICE!>V<. This may be one of those shows, MAYBE, the only show (focus on the maybe which means not certain) that can talk about the topic of sex and it doesn't necessarily lead to a sex scene.

[Aesthetic Shampoo]

That was so different and so great. Nothing else to it.