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InNeedOfAName
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:58 am |
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I've heard lots of good things about the manga, so I can't wait to watch the anime.
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L'Imperatore
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 8:48 am |
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Kinda expected a liiiitle bit more mature voice from a college student...
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residentgrigo
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 8:58 am |
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It's one of the bestselling Shoujo manga and has sales figures comparable to something with an adaptation so this was a given. The team´s other manga aren´t as good but they got better series by series. Can this get more than 1 cour? That is the real question.
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Eddy2
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:00 am |
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Yooooooo another white-haired dude named Nagi??? No way…
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residentgrigo
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:10 am |
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Now that I think about it. Sumire talked exactly once so far, if I remember correctly, and that scene is off-screened. She has an inner monologue of course which the studio decided to voice due to anime being an audio-visual medium. That will be the show´s biggest challenge outside of getting the constant sign language right.
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JustMonika
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:21 am |
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I was planning on buying the manga because the premise seemed quite original so this is good news.
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-Matthew-
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:00 am |
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| residentgrigo wrote: | | It's one of the bestselling Shoujo manga and has sales figures comparable to something with an adaptation so this was a given. The team´s other manga aren´t as good but they got better series by series. Can this get more than 1 cour? That is the real question. |
I also hope for the second season! Finally we will see normal shojo adaptation!
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musouka
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:29 am |
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As happy as I am to see a deaf protagonist, I wish the manga itself was a little more scintillating. I don't need melodrama, but defusing every source of possible interpersonal conflict makes for a pretty dull read.
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manapear
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 11:57 am |
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At last~! I'm so excited for this! I was getting worried at the lack of shoujo announcements. What a way to start 2024. <3
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TsukasaElkKite
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 1:29 pm |
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I am HYPED. I love the manga so I'm looking forward to what the anime adaptation will bring to the table.
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MFrontier
Joined: 13 Apr 2014
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:49 pm |
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One of the most sincere and heartwarming sweet romances finally getting an anime adaption! And it looks beautiful!
I'm hoping they can capture the signing well in anime form.
| residentgrigo wrote: | | It's one of the bestselling Shoujo manga and has sales figures comparable to something with an adaptation so this was a given. The team´s other manga aren´t as good but they got better series by series. Can this get more than 1 cour? That is the real question. |
I thought Shortcake Cake was pretty fun.
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residentgrigo
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:03 pm |
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Short Cake Cake is a 6.5/10. Almost there and I bothered to finish it. Those 12 volumes could work as a 24-ep anime if the fat is trimmed. The manga had 25% needless icing at least and some of the side characters were barely developed despite the length. Others bordered on main characters. Really weird time allotment there and the manga´s half-cooked take on postpartum depression was weird. A bit like Fruits Basket´s infamous parent's flashbacks that raises more questions than anything due to how fast it blitzed through some pretty serious stuff that the story as is isn´t set up to handle.
A Sign of Affection´s one structural fault are Oushi´s later chapters. It would work if the manga commented on his shitty behavior as it is fully capable of social commentary, A Condition Called Love says hello, but nah. I would cut all that out and hand the time to Nagi´s friends to make their drama make sense. They are out of a different manga altogether! Everything with the protagonists, their families and Yuki´s best friend is really good and makes you wonder why this is a Shoujo magazine but I get that Josei doesn´t sell (or get anime). The manga goes from a near masterpiece 80% of the time to 90s to mid-00s Shoujo anime filler when it switches over. Sometimes mid-chapter! Imagine if the anime addressed that. A willingness to recognize faults with subplots, mostly during a potential S2, would lead to a better product.
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Angel M Cazares
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:35 pm |
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I apologize to international fans, but I hope this is the MBS show that Sentai/HIDIVE get for Winter 2024.
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