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A Mystery
 Posts: 1886 Location: Netherlands |
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I never really liked Shaft works, but I adored this episode, despite not being that original in a lot of aspects (though the main characters didn't have a seat near the window
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getchman
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eh, this was ok. Not entirely sure what I was expecting, but I blame Neon Alley for making me expect anything
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Animegomaniac
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I liked what I saw but as a Shaft fan, I believe it's mandatory for me to like it although everything's a lot more normal than usual. What's worrying me is the WSJ pedigree; I'm not a fan of their approach to managing stories.
Also, I don't expect things to play out according to what we were shown. I have to say seeing reviewers in the Spotlight think it was "simple as that " was heartening in a way. Good comedy, good acting, great direction, questionable source material ... can you spot the weak link? I see there are fans of the manga here but ever since Bakuman's "WSJ is your god and master" story, I stay away from all of their series. Personally, I'm expecting this title to pull a Medaka around episode 8 but just maybe people didn't vote for mindless, tedious excitement/comedy. *looks at show where girl punched, kicked and almost punched again male lead* Well, there's always the direction. |
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Bango
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<---SHAFT fan. Naturally I loved the visuals and directing style. I love the funky architecture, the quick scene cuts, the odd-angled close-ups of people turning their heads as the wind blows. Yeah, SHAFT fan.
The show itself wasn't bad, I guess. The big problem is that I'm already tired of the two leads. I'm hoping it builds well enough soon. I mentioned in the predictions topic but now that I know spoiler[everyone gets keys I'm not looking forward to being dragged around by the nose as it spends time with each girl and how they're all potential "girl from his past" no matter how much this episode made it look like it's totally the classmate.] The overall plot and characters have to be extremely interesting for me to put up with that again. I'll give it 3 more eps because SHAFT gets special treatment and the episode wasn't exactly bad. |
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WhiteHairGirls
 Posts: 4713 Location: New York City |
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Well to be fair, one of the reasons I liked reading the manga was because there is no clear-cut main girl. Most harems I have seen has a girl that is going to be the obvious winner from the first episode, even if it ended with a harem ending. Honestly any of the females have a good shot at winning. |
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Bango
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I'm glad to hear that. Three of my favourite plot twists are "it's NOT the half-sister!?", "it's NOT the violent tsundere loli?" or "it's NOT the childhood friend!?"
Seriously, spoiler[Shuffle may not have been amazing but when Rin said "Forget you, childhood friend. You're a $#%ing psycho. I'm going for the girl who's not even one of your two major rivals!"] it blew my mind. It morphed my soul. I knew... I knew that there was hope. That somewhere in Japan there were writers who say "let's spice this up!" |
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WhiteHairGirls
Posts: 4713 Location: New York City |
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I know that was exactly the reason why I loved that show and why I enjoyed spoiler[Mashiroiro Symphony] |
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getchman
Space Cowboy Posts: 9120 Location: Bedford, NH |
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Visual Novel Kaede is calm and boring. haven't finished her route yet, but I like her anime incarnation better
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Bango
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All that was anime-only? Wow. I'm super glad because that was fantastic but I'm still surprised. Now I'm wondering if spoiler[Gift] was the same because, while I barely remember it, I remember thinking one girl's breakdown seemed a little odd.
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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The plot of this one so far is pretty standard fare but the characters so far are likeable, or at least interesting, which is always nice.
The definite selling point now is how good it looks. I didn't find it distracting at all and the obvious sign of effort increases my faith that the series will be wel handled. Definitely one of the ones I'm most interested in this season after episode 1. |
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ookamigirl
 Posts: 2274 Location: Croatia |
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#2
spoiler[Decided to give this one another chance. The way those two fight, it's obvious they like each other. Darn, those yakuza are scary. They are totally stuck with being a couple lie. Well, it's not like they completely dislike each other. Their date was a joke. Looks like those two have reversed the roles. Poor Onodera got caught in the middle of their farce. Well, I'm dropping this for good now.] |
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Megiddo
 Posts: 8360 Location: IL |
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Finally watched the first episode. Seemed decent but as soon as I saw spoiler[the two keys] in the ED I didn't feel like watching more. The premise was stupid enough and spoiler[the HanaKana girl not being able to say anything despite already knowing how much the lock and the promise meant to the dude] was already making me hate the show, but that was just too much.
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Stark700
 Posts: 11762 Location: Earth |
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I'm still kinda getting used to the Shaft style.
The latest episode was amusing though with the spoiler[pretend couple and darling talk.] Chitoge's face expressions were glorious especially when spoiler[she hates getting being hit on by other guys.] The OP song is pretty nice as well and I'm liking most of the characters besides Raku so far. Hopefully they introduce more soon but looking forward to next week's episode! |
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WhiteHairGirls
Posts: 4713 Location: New York City |
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Was he trying to feed a snake dog food?
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Blood-
Bargain Hunter Posts: 23776 |
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I can see the premise getting pretty old fast unless they throw something new into the mix. You have to pretend to be a couple to avert a gang war but supposedly you don't like each other. Got it. Next?
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