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REVIEW: Kanon DVDs 2-3

I'm watching this series right now and I have to say the comments about it being a series for fans are absolute bs.

My first impressions of the show were "omg this is so lame, the eyes are huge and like a foot apart on all the characters faces, and what is with the premise? It's like a harem for otaku girls"

I was very wrong. After you get a few episodes into it you realize it's not really a harem at all (and you get used to the bug eyed animation). It's an amazingly heartfealt story that will toy with your emotions. I'm a guy and I still cried numerous times in this series (and no i don't do that on a regular basis).

I still have 4 episodes to go but this was probably the biggest suprise any show has had in store for me because I expected it to be a boring harem style show.

Definitely disagree with the review on this one (although the review was for the DVD and it wasn't negative or anything). This show deserves no less than an A. And there's nothing wrong with the soundtrack, I thought it was quite good, and it only gets better from here on out.

It's like Haruhi meets Honey & Clover, and it's not a fan show it's just an amazing show. Definitely worth watching.

I'm watching this series right now and I have to say the comments about it being a series for fans are absolute bs.

My first impressions of the show were "omg this is so lame, the eyes are huge and like a foot apart on all the characters faces, and what is with the premise? It's like a harem for otaku girls"

Dammit, the more replies I read, the more impatient I become while waiting on my order of v 1 & 2 to arrive . I actually had a tough time time trying to find a place that had them in stock; I finally settled for Rightstuf. And of course, my local Best Buy had vol 3 on the shelf, but not 1 & 2, which are backordered on their website. I should have checked this series out sooner ...
Oh well, so long as I get them (soon)!

hogkill3 wrote:

I'm watching this series right now and I have to say the comments about it being a series for fans are absolute bs. My first impressions of the show were "omg this is so lame, the eyes are huge and like a foot apart on all the characters faces, and what is with the premise? It's like a harem for otaku girls"

No, it's a harem for otaku guys. The ones who are too afraid to approach an actual girl, so they make games featuring a plethora of cute, unthreatening ones who can't solve their own problems so the main character (player stand-in) can instead and be rewarded by having sex with them.

It's more than chick fights and panty shots than some other trashier harems, but it's definitely a harem.

Considering both this and Air are based off of the original dating sim games of the same name, I'm surprised to hear people mention that they find this unrealistic. I mean, duh, of course it is!

Considering both this and Air are based off of the original dating sim games of the same name, I'm surprised to hear people mention that they find this unrealistic. I mean, duh, of course it is!

belvadeer wrote:

Considering both this and Air are based off of the original dating sim games of the same name, I'm surprised to hear people mention that they find this unrealistic. I mean, duh, of course it is!

Any anime fan complaining about Kanon being unrealistic needs to step back and realize that that's the whole point of anime. Aside from the historical films like Grave of the Fireflies, you'd be hard pressed to find an anime that IS "realistic".

I think, in terms of anime romance, the point is that there's a difference between Kanon/Air romantic escapism and, say, 5cm Per Second.

The same can be said about the English script, although hopefully an explanation will be coming soon about why Sayuri always speaks in the third person in English.