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crosswithyou
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I gotta admit that Miyata's voice did have a large part in my opinion of Nitori. Miyata's a great actor (and a really funny person) but guhhhh!! This one voice of his is just so annoying. ^^;; It's (probably) fine when it's for an animal voice or something but when it's for a human character... yeah..... |
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getchman
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and wouldn't you know it, spoiler[he's got a girly name as well]
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Crisha
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Yeah, my dislike for Nitori is in large part because of his voice. I don't want Rin around him because I don't want to hear Nitori. His whiny, plaintive voice nearly drove me up a wall. If he was quiet or subdued, that would be one thing, but he was always trying to chat up with Rin in whatever scene he was in and demand his attention.
But there's another reason I didn't care for him, and it's how the senpai/kouhai dynamics are portrayed. The kouhai is this cute, innocent kid who's always trying to get the senpai's attention and please the senpai. His entire world is about getting in his senpai's favor. In whatever scene he was in, Nitori's entire focus was on Rin, whether it was trying to cheer him up or boost his ego. There really wasn't anything else to Nitori. Rin/Nitori borders too close to seme/uke, which I really don't care for in BL or yuri couples. I dislike it when the dynamics and power between the couple are too uneven. Rin and Haru are a lot more on an even playing field, in comparison. Yeah, I could have gone about explaining my dislike of Nitori without the bashing, but I couldn't help letting out my immature, inner thoughts. Being the type of show this is (with a lot of fanservice for females), I reacted accordingly, letting my "inner fangirl" be more free to express herself, so to say. I don't often get the chance to fan over couples (especially BL couples), at least on this site. It was nice to have fellow fans to do that with.
You're right, seme/uke is really popular among many BL fangirls. I just personally don't care for it. Seeing those dynamics between Rin and Nitori turns me off from them as a potential ship. |
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Mr. Nescio
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sakuragtin
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I see the Nitori hate as one part 'his voice is annoying' another part 'he's interfering with my ship!' I personally like Nitori and think he's adorable. Yes, his voice gets on my nerves after a while but I think he really does care about Rin and is trying to do the best for the senpai which he admires with the bare minimum information Rin gives him about his problems.
As for the ship, as the series progressed I began to lean more and more toward Rin being a porcupine uke-type character that switches on the occasion versus jerkish all the time seme, so Nitori tops. Mind you this would be on down the line, nothing happens now. I've been reading yaoi for years so this is a fun pairing for me but I'm also partial to ReiRin but it's really whatever the scene or episode fancies me, Kyoani is that good. 
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Knoepfchen
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Finally found the time to do some catching up on the 10+ series still waiting for me to finish them, first one being Free!, because it makes me the happiest.
That was a very nice show, pleasant on the eye, lots of lovely moments and fuzzy feelings. I could have done with less backstory drama, I think, as I found it hard to follow the oh-so-big drama emotionally (that, as it turns out, spoiler[wasn't so huge in the end after all]). Still, I didn't think It would be possible to make me care so much about swimming, which really isn't even close to any kind of sports I'm even remotely interested in. But they made me care, and the animation of the swimming scenes was just gorgeous. Not really a shipping fan, but I felt the Haru/Rin dynamics were overshadowing all possible other pairings by far. I'm rating this show good and will watch a second season if and when it should come out. Oh, and Rei is a total hero for his actions in the last episode. |
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MaxSouth
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What a weak pathetic capricious selfish hysteric looser diva drama queen the red-hair is. Authors did not disappoint me with how much thoroughly annoying, obnoxious, unbearable he was right to the very end of the series. Even Bunny in Tiger and Bunny anime was fixed towards the end, but it did not happen here. You disdain the character as strongly as ever with unparalleled passion.
This anime is a disaster on character part (even other characters are pathetic for turning all of their lives to babysitting the useless red-hair character), but otherwise is good enough. |
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Vaisaga
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Glad to see KyoAni hasn't forgotten that men like this show too.
I'm pretty stoked for season 2. |
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crosswithyou
Posts: 2892 Location: California |
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IT'S BEGUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!
And one more-- DON! XDDDD 
Not even 10 minutes in and I'm already laughing my head off. EDIT: I lied-- Two more from the ending because it was awesome! 
AAAHHHHHHHH!!! And now it's time for sleep. |
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CrowLia
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I was about to go to sleep and saw this was up and literally lost my shit. I'm now waiting for the episode to load. IT'S FINALLY BACK!!!!
This episode.This show. My heart. I just can't. |
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Stark700
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Free: Eternal Summer episode 1:
WOW. That was glorious. Well, okay I liked season 1's OP song better but it was still fairly good. So we get an reintroduction of all the main characters in style. spoiler[The way the crowd were like WTF made me chuckle a bit. It's kinda funny how the rain just came down at that moment though. Bad luck much.] I'm curious to see spoiler[what kind of relationship this new guy named Sosuke have with Rin. Inb4 some flashbacks. I bet he's a talented swimmer as well.] Good episode. Oh wait, that ED song. WOW. Just wow. |
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ookamigirl
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It's BACK!!! spoiler[Another summer of boys in bathing suits, nice ^^ Hoping to see more competitions this season. Haru is amazing as usual ^^ Looks like Samezuka-Iwatobi relationship has improved significantly. It was nice to see Rin promoted. Getting new members... such a pain again this year. New characters are always welcome though! This is gonna be an awesome season! Will be watching this ^^ ED is great, totally loved it.] |
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sakuragtin
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This episode was beautiful. I'm so happy it's back!
I really love the new ending theme song. spoiler[Sexy cop Rin was awesome and Makoto makes an excellent firefighter!] It's gonna be a long wait till next week. spoiler[Maybe Sosuke will have more then two lines in the next episode.] |
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WhiteHairGirls
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Damn I thought the new main character would join Iwatobi swim club. Looks like they will be forever 4 members.
Also this Rin ending song scene lmao. |
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Vaisaga
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It's like it never left...
Many laughs were had. Gou's fetish is so powerful even her brother can't escape it Wednesdays can't come fast enough.
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