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Perfect 10 | 36 | 49.32% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 15 | 20.55% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 15 | 20.55% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 5 | 6.85% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 2 | 2.74% | |
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% | |
Voters: 73. You may not vote on this poll |
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2010-12-02, 12:02 | Link #42 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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That and Shiori is voiced by Hanazawa Kana, even though it does sounds a little bit different from Kuroneko / Kanade... As for pacing...pretty sure Kanon arc is even slower than this with the attempt to sell CDs... |
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2010-12-02, 12:50 | Link #43 |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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This has got to be my favorite episode of the series so far. The series left me rather indifferent until now, but this episode hit all the right spots. The overall atmosphere of this episode was wonderful. The music, the dialogues, the setting... everything was almost perfect.
Oh god, Shiori is like the second coming of Nadeko. Actually, she's more like a mix between Nadeko and the Literature girl. SO MOE I'M GONNA DIE! I love these type of shy, soft-spoken, cute, petite and smart characters so much. I've noticed many people were disappointed HanaKana got the role, I'd really like to know what you guys' first choices would have been. I can't think of anyone better than her for this role. Then again, I'm one of the biggest HanaKana fanboy around so I'm far from being objective here. Eh, so that's where that whole fire truck meme comes from. Oh, Elsie, you No! Never!
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2010-12-02, 13:00 | Link #44 | |
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It could also be that Shiori fans are just more worked up and vocal, since she's also getting much more "discussion" (more like fangirling) on the various manga-centered threads across the web... MangaFox's spoiler thread in particular is pretty much unreadable...
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2010-12-02, 15:23 | Link #46 |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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I'm sure the next episode will cover quite a bit of stuff happening compared to Kanon's middle episode and this first episode, so I hope it'll be less boring for others.
Not sure about the ending of the arc though. And I can already see people being disappointed with the last episode of the season. Argh, must think positive!
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2010-12-02, 16:41 | Link #47 |
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Oh my god, I think I'm in love. Shiori's so cute. <3
I haven't read any of the manga, and I thought this ep was done really really well to introduce her. I just looked this up. What's kind of funny is that Shiori's VA also does another library girl character in another anime. |
2010-12-02, 16:43 | Link #48 |
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I like how Shiori is always quiet on the outer appearance (and Elsie not finding it out) but inside her mind she is thinking 2x the speed of a normal person (from Keima himself) never expected Shiori to be this cute in the anime
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2010-12-02, 18:57 | Link #50 |
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Yeah, count me in as Shiori fans as well. I mean, the whole shy and intelligent library girl, with the love for books and spending time mostly thinking in her head, trying to form sentences, it really resonates well to me. Perhaps I'm biased because of that, but I don't feel the episode is dragging, sure the whole thinking on her head and books are (everything) may seems long, but it fits her character. But really, not only does the library is amazing to be that big, what's more amazing is that Shiori has read through them all...Is that even physically possible?
Oh, and of course: Firetruck! Firetruck! Firetrucking Firetruck!
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2010-12-02, 22:47 | Link #51 |
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This episode was beautiful and a masterpiece. Shiori was cute, adorable and loveable. Kudos to her VA Kana Hanazawa. This episode had a deep meaning for me as I can relate to Shiori about the beauty of books and the words they have. I was once a shy bookworm who didn’t talk to people that much and I would read books in the library for hours if I had the time. Reading a new book was an exciting adventure for me since I would be engrossed on what was on it. It wouldn’t matter if it was a story, a bio, an article, a subject, history or anything as anything that was on the book was something I couldn’t stop reading. I could understand about her love for books and the worlds they bring you into and the joys they give you. And her pain of knowing to depart good books is something I can relate since it reminds me on how today's society doesn’t appreciate books and the words and feelings it gives. Sure, you can read a lot of books online but nothing beats the feeling of having a paper book in your hand and reading it on your sofa or bed. I would like to thank what books have given us before the internet came and the things it have done for us.
(Sorry for being nostalgic and philosophical.) Anyway, the music used for this episode was beautiful and was perfect for the situation that was happening. And I felt it was romantic when Keima was with Shiori especially when he helped her. Shiori Inner monologues were great since it gives us an idea what she’s saying from her point of view and what happening in the present at the same time. It also helps that’s how I once felt when I was shy and talking to people and trying to find the right words to say. Shiori is indeed the bookworm surrogate. I give this masterpiece 10 out of 10, a reward it deserves. PS: Firetrucks, HO!
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2010-12-03, 00:36 | Link #54 |
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Excellent episode.
Plot-wise, I admire how carefully detailed and smoothly developed everything has been in this anime so far, and this episode is by no means an exception. However, one of my concerns after the very fast-paced first episode for this anime is that it would become the romantic comedy/eroge equivalent of the "monster of the week" formula so common in magical girl shows. In other words, instead of a "monster of the week", we'd have a "girl of the week", which for me would really take away from the overall impact of this anime. By slowing things down a bit and giving each girl some chance to shine, it's made their respective arcs that much more gratifying and rewarding, in my opinion. I particularly found this with Kanon, and I'm confident that I'll find this with Shiori too. I loved all the internal monologue that we had from Shiori. It really helped to flesh out her character. Her thoughts on books were very compelling and poetic, and is probably the best argument for reading books that I've seen since I watched LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow as a kid many moons ago. Overall, a truly wonderful episode.
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2010-12-03, 01:42 | Link #55 | |
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The real stars of the show, though, are Keima, Elsie, and the small band of irregulars (that eventually grows not so small) that do reappear from arc to arc. It's in many ways the anti-moe series, in that it uses its snarky, genre-savvy lead to poke fun at the very moe archetypes he's made to capture, both overtly and subtly. I'm not supposed to watch this series and go "d'awwwww...", I'm supposed to watch it and either laugh my ass off (sometimes at the expense of those who do regularly go "d'awwwww") or cheer Keima along in his magnificent (if inconsistent) bastardry and overblown angst at being forced to kiss cute girls. The anime adaptation is turning this series into something it's not, and that is why it's failing in its pace and in the ratings. Its wrongheaded execution is excellent nearly without exception, which only makes the lost opportunity more heartbreaking. You don't have to look any farther than a character poll on the author's website, that, even though it was clearly flooded with anime watcher votes, still ended up awarding 2nd place (10 votes behind Elsie) not to a capture arc heroine, but to one of those aforementioned "irregulars", who hasn't even shown up on the anime yet. Cute girl anime are a dime a dozen. TWGOK is (was?) something special. When will adaptations learn not to stray from perfection...?
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2010-12-03, 02:34 | Link #56 | ||
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Anyway, I might be in the minority in liking Kanon and Shiori and their arcs (so far in Shiori's case), but if so, so be it. That's not going to change what I like about this anime. This anime is suffering a bit right now, at least in part, due to simple competition. Having this released the same season as Ore no Imouto came out was simply bad timing, as both shows have very similar sorts of appeal and target audiences.
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2010-12-03, 05:52 | Link #58 | |
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My main regret about this anime adaption is that Manglobe are idiots. When so many shows are fighting to give material to their viewers while not catching up with the manga (the top 3 shonen to illustrate a little), we have a 120+ chapters manga adapted at the same snail pace. Why is it so hard to use 60 chapters for a single season, wait some time (let's say one year), then go again for 26 episodes, and so on. We would have got a wonderful adaptation here, but Manglobe are (is?) loosing it all, because they planned it as a usual success anime, with a usual 1 chap = 1 ep non-sense.
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2010-12-03, 09:46 | Link #59 |
Cross Game - I need more
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Interesting.
I consider TWGOK to be a light-hearted parody of moe, not anti-moe, and not pro-moe. More of an affectionate mockery of moe. So we get to have our cake (moe girls) and eat it too (laugh at the silliness of it all). I will admit the anime so far has toned down the mockery quite a bit, but it is still there. For example in this episode when Keima was complaining to Elsie about the proper traits of a sidekick character and Elsie replies that it makes Keima the perfect sidekick. Keima then gets angry at Elsie making herself the main character. Except, that you could easily see this as Elsie being the main character. She has a quest. She's a bit of a bumbler, but is making up for it through determination and by recruiting a competent sidekick... That's some good meta humor there about the silliness of the "normal" male main character at the center of the Unwanted Harem genre. Why is he never interesting himself? How does such a boring character become the center of a show? It's always the sidekick characters that are interesting. But not in TWGOK. I think the extra episodes are fine from a pacing stand point. I don't mind giving three episodes to Kanon and Shiori. My concern is that the arc I wanted to get to would make a really good hook to draw viewers in for the next season, and would be something fans can point to to show that this is more than just a moe show- thus allowing word of mouth to be more effective at drawing in new viewers. If we could go 14 episodes and get it all in I'd be perfectly happy. Unfortunately it appears they will not be doing that. Still the second season is already planned, so we'll have to wait for that to set the hook- it's just I'd prefer for the hook to be set in the first season. I think even people who are enjoying the current arcs can understand this concern.
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