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Eilavel
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Yeah, I can't tell if Kirio is going to just be blandest man as a gag forever or if he's going to be part of love polyhedron drama himself. I'm willing to trust the show to attempt either.
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Yttrbio
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I think he's supposed to be a complete non-entity. Unremarkable with literally no face. I would be shocked if he ever got involved in any of the drama.
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Animegomaniac
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Another twin tails sighting; Three for three so far. If someone likes Nami, my money would be on her as she seems to be stalking the club, not Kirio.
If someone likes Aimi... that would be a miracle. |
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Beltane70
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Whoa, this week’s episode took a turn that I was totally not expecting!
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Edjwald
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I liked it though. Made Kirio seem much less like a blank screen that Aimi was just projecting her feelings onto.
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Yttrbio
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Yup. I definitely read the show wrong.
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DuskyPredator
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Yeah, I certainly was not expecting something like that, at least not by episode 4.
All the evidence had already been pointing that Nami is not into the guy so much as enjoying time with Aimi that they can be silly goofballs. But the truth of Aimi's crush is that it coincided with seeing Kirio going from a happy guy to having his heart broken from his friend dying. Aimi wants to see him smile again. It is in addition to other parts of the show, where Manda could be the guy way too into magic charms, but we have seen that he is a really lonely who really wants friends. It is already having me wonder what Nami's trauma might be, and what happened in the winter of 9th grade that affected her. We are only 1/3 of the way through, so I wonder if it will become more emotional. |
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Eilavel
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I half expected it! Thats, like, half an insight right? I feel like the more serious glimpses between the two suggested it. he's not just a potato; he's a man whos given in to the potato life...
Seems to be mainly a comedy but the side of drama is a serious effort too. I think the comedy is stronger than the drama so far, but the Kirio/hospital sequence certainly wasn't bad (frankly, pure romances regularly do much worse) so I won't begrudge the show trying both. It was interesting how it reused some of the comedy through reframing though- the ludicrously awful song was in fact 50% completely sincere feelings about her encounter with Kirio. Theres something to that kind of shift, perhaps. |
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Animegomaniac
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That mystery girl isn't a twin tail, she's a... rat tail? I honestly don't know what that means.
I did expect the plot development of episode 4, it is a common trope of visual novels after ll. I was wrong about Aimi not knowing Kirio before high school... which unfortunately resets her position back to "unlikable nobody". But if Nami met Kirio while he was going through his experience with Noriko, which would seem to be a large part of his nineth grade experience... Both Aimi and Nami: "I know this dark part of Kirio's life but I dare not tell the other about it." |
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Edjwald
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I rarely look at the anime rankings on this website for two reasons - one being that I usually check in on mornings before work and afternoons right after work, and I have a limited amount of time (weekends being a little better). I usually breeze right past the main page to the forums. The other reason being that I almost always feel mildly disappointed when I do see the rankings and check them.
In other words, I checked the rankings out this fine Saturday morning and Kirio's Fan Club wasn't even in the top 25. Bummer. With the latest episode, it looks like this will indeed be an anime where the various obsessions of various characters cross and overlap each other like different colored threads in the room of a conspiracy theorist. I finally found out why the team manager was recording our protagonists (way back when they were making their love song masterpiece), and it was a wee bit different from what I expected but totally in keeping with the anime. |
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cr1stall
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I've been curious about what people think about this show because it's proving to be extremely clever, even deceptively so, and when it clicked it left me speechless.
Watching episode 1 made it felt like a silly, unorthodox romcom, but then as time went by I realized it was telling a different story. It slowly became a story about how the hidden motivation of teenagers may make you understand their acts in a completely different light than appearances suggests. They can be silly or even off-putting (Aimi), they can act a part (Nami), or just be terribly quiet (Kirio) but inside there's something completely different going on. Ep. 5 made me realize that the show had been dropping hints here and there that let you piece the puzzle together. Seira's story is silly up until this point, but her appearances are not creepy anymore, they were motivated by her weird logic. Nami is clearly in love with Aimi, and there's ominous signs around her (the eraser on which she wrote "let this relationship last forever" breaks while she uses it). Momose has likely a crush on Nami. But the way Kirio is characterized is truly something else. Go back to the first episode, the scene when she's about to ask Aimi a question. Both the viewer and Aimi expect him to ask her out, and when he asks her about counting moles on one's body I laughed. A lot. And I thought it was a very clever joke. It's not a joke, not from Kirio's point-of-view. It took me both ep. 4-5 and the very beginning of ep. 2 to realize it. He's asking something about Nozomi. Nozomi most likely spoiler[died of skin cancer. Kirio wants to know if she could have saved herself. If people usually check their moles, because that's how you spot early stage skin cancer before it gets out of hand]. When I realized what the show was doing it left me speechless. You have to pay attention about everything that's being said, because once you know the context you realize that's not what you thought it meant. I'm sure this also applies to Aimi's weird behavior. After all, at the very end of the first episode the last thing she says is "Dear...", then she pauses, looks at her picture with Nami, and continues "...Kirio". Nothing is as it appears in this anime. It's fantastic, but probably way too clever. I'm sure it will be extremely off putting to someone expecting a regular anime romcom, and it will fly over the heads of just as many viewers. PS: BTW, IMHO we won't get much out of Kirio. He's quiet because he's curled up in a ball of grief for his dead friend. That makes him numb to what happens around him, he probably doesn't even realize what Nami and Aimi are up to, and his friends - who know what happened to him - explicitly state that they don't know what's going on with him. |
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Eilavel
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Definitely turned into more of an ensemble piece this week, and it did a pretty good job blending the drama and the screwball comedy. Theres often multiple levels happening at the same time, its quite a smart show in some ways.
Then we get 5 minutes with Kirio. Who expected to feel so sad for our potato gag character? Really, his lost loves family are not helping at all; he young and needs to move on, not live forever in his grief. |
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Animegomaniac
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Episode 6 did so much that I'd need to write a book to cover it all. But to make a long story short... everyone went off flying in a different direction.
Satsuki likes Momose. Momose likes Nami. Nami likes Kirio.... despite what Seira thinks. And Kirio was in love with a guy. And I'm guessing Nami knows this. The good news is we can see her flashback of her first meeting with Kirio, now that we have a better view of him And no one likes Aimi. It's almost as certain as gravity at this point. Well, that's not fair, I could see Manda warming up to her or Seira's fandom for her going real |
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Edjwald
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Yah, it's like Cupid got drunk and just started shooting arrows randomly.
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cr1stall
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Ep. 7 ending was quite something. At this point I think that the show told us enough about Aimi to figure out that she's not neurotypical, and that Nami knows it full well. Once you peel away the wacky commedy aspects (Aimi is the "unhinged fangirl") you have a teenager who has huge mood swings, leading to increasingly extreme reactions. She can't stop talking with Nami, but she freezes in the presence of others, or repeats pieces of conversation she has prepared beforehand.
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