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Forum - View topicInterview with Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Creator Sunsunsun
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LukaTheLancer
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the Suou family Drama is some of the better things i have read in a modern day romcom setting. So i am glad that it was planned out before hand.
I would have loved to seen a question about the Authors decision to give Masachika and Yuki so much more character then genre normally gives to these tropes, since it is one of the aspect i feel Alya is something else in the romcom space. and that is having a male MC more flashed out then the heroine |
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MFrontier
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Now that he mentions it, it does feel like the Heroines' family drama is usually more relevant than the MC's in a romcom. By contrast to the Suo's, Alya's family seems perfectly normal.
Also I love how even the author thinks there's so much Isekai these days that there isn't any point in throwing his hat in the ring. [/list] |
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ElFacilNoEiyuu
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didn't the staff of the site in general gave a pretty middle of the road review to almost every aspect of the anime? lmao
well, i can respect the grind for the bag |
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L0ken
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This series is like a Heisei-era style romcom mixed with COTE, it's more interested in doing rather boring and ridiculous studco and family drama then fun banter and comedy between in main cas which most people had fun first. Delving into the novels hoping for impovments, while there is character development and good moments, it's not really my style of romcom, not to mention slow romantic development pace
 Also since I know Russian natively I checked it out expecting at least minimal focus on language and culture to showcase it's gimmick - but there is practically none of that, "Russian" part is entirely irrelevant. Now looking at the interview I get why, it wasn't made with intention to go any deeper token phrases, Alya's language and country of origin could have been random and you wouldn't notice a difference, she is just Japanese highschool girl that sometimes speak phrases in foreign language, that's it.
Anyway for those who wants COTE-style Heisei era romcom it pretty solid, but for me it was severely disappointing. Looking at season 1 reviews many felt so too with this ridiculous studco election plot (which boy, is still not over with 10 LN volumes), so those who expect improvements in season 2 might not get what they want
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ANN_Lynzee
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Whether our critic(s) like something or not doesn't change whether we, more broadly, can acknowledge that our readers enjoy a particular work and would, likewise, want to hear more about it from the creators. It has nothing to do with "the bag." Editorial doesn't solely publish what qualifies as our personal faves. |
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Hellsoldier
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You'd think people would distinguish the personalized take of a reviewer from a general stance of a website or a website's task of giving its audience the content that it wants. Anyways, seen a few minutes of the show, and know people who like it. It looks amusing, the characters sound amusing. But it's probably not for me. Still though, I gotta respect the creator's choice of stepping away from isekai. As things stand, only approach that genre if you feel you have something really interesting to offer. In fact, reverse isekai might be a better path, as things stand. |
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xxmsxx
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According to this interview: https://mypage.syosetu.com/mypageblog/view/userid/1184911/blogkey/2735973/, the author considered both English and Chinese before choosing Russian. So, it was never about the language itself. I totally agree with you that it is highly tokenistic. If it really wanted to talk about the language, whichever they chose, they will have to do real research about a language they are less familiar with. And that would be too much work, wouldn't it? 
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