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Gem-Bug
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I still need to go back and finish the season; fell off real hard. :/
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Yune Amagiri
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This series is the perfect answer to a recurring debate a friend and I have had for a long time, "Do romance series really need to have romance scenes when such moment are more often than not for self insert purpose only?"
Kirio Fan Club replies : No need. I hope this series's author will create a new work soon enough. |
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Joe Mello
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This definitely sounds like my jam.
That feels like an awfully cynical way to view both the creation and consumption of fiction. |
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Eilavel
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I'd agree this is fairly reductive, but beyond that I don't think Kirio is a suitable response to that; its sometimes framed as a romcom but its actually just a dramedy- some characters have romantic feelings but there is no actual romance. |
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Nom De Plume De Fanboy
Exempt from Grammar Rules
Posts: 684 Location: inland US west, pretty rural |
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An excellent show. I was conflicted watching it, as I thought it was a farce comedy at first, and at a painful kind of level of stupid; then the drama got a bit more serious, mixed with plenty of stupidity; and then it went full drama. Hard to watch but worth it. I really want to buy it, but honestly it might be a while before I could re-watch it.
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Dark Mac
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The drama with Kirio didn't do much for me, sadly. Never made me feel sad or anything. The humor was rather better. My favorite scene was the friendship breakdown in the park in the middle of a police sting.
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Edjwald
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I loved the show for the way it lurched wildly (maybe erratically?) all over the emotional spectrum. It always caught me off guard even though I started expecting to get caught off guard. The show got me laughing out loud, grossed me out, made me feel uncomfortable, and struck me as ridiculous, but the anime always had a strange sort of...I don't know...authenticity? Narrative integrity?
It stands out as unique, at least to me. I'm still not sure how much of it was artless luck and how much was a planned result. Was this a story punching the accelerator without any fear and swerving all over the place and somehow surviving...or was that the result of a thoughtful, skilled author who wanted to make the story feel that way? Either way, I think the reviewer's framing of this anime as a great metaphor for adolescence is spot on. |
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15891 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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It is definitely a hidden gem. I too didn't notice Aimi's neurodivergence until the class trip, it being one of the parts of the show that suddenly has you looking back at the rest of the show to recontextualise things. It never really even straight up says it, just an episode that focuses on her repeating niche facts, clearly has trouble socialising and has a meltdown.
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Joe Mello
Posts: 2567 Location: Online Terminal |
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My response wasn't as much a comment on romance (though it did play a part) it was more the idea of scenes or stories solely as things for people to place themselves in vicariously. I won't deny that it doesn't happen, but to immediately assume something exists as an excuse to for the author or viewer to "self-insert" feels like a bad faith viewpoint and possibly an illiterate one. I don't watch or write stuff because I want to be the characters, I do that because I want to see the characters exist in a world and do things. I don't want to seek this show out because I want a girl to kiss me, I want to seek this out because I want to see a bunch of kids try to Human. |
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PRIZER
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This show is sort of a defining "not for everyone" series, but it's one of the reasons I watch so much anime. I have to assume that because it doesn't cost so much to produce a series, if someone has a passion project that they'd like to bring to the screen, it's not impossible to gather the funding and find a timeslot to do it.
Kirio Fanclub, which I should make clear that I adored, is proof positive that the best comedies frequently have a melancholic undertone. In its bawdy absurdity and strong current of grief and longing, it reminded me quite a bit of another recent and underrated comic gem, Ninkoro, though Ninkoro seemingly had a much bigger budget and substantially more viewers than Kirio. Long may anime keep churning out moving, heartfelt, and funny shows like Kirio Fanclub, even if the only place you'll likely ever meet another fan is on the internet. |
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chrisb
 Subscriber Posts: 767 Location: USA |
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This is one of Hidive’s better dubs and I like that they actually dubbed the Licky Licky Song with decent singing.
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Eilavel
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Oh yeah, I agreed with you and everything in your second post reflects my own media experience also (who am I supposed to be self-inserting as in The Summer Hikaru Died...? though, its obvious self-insertion is an important motive for some); I'm just noting even if we accepted the framing as reasonable Kirio wouldn't be a useful response to it. I would also note that Kirio probably had the best OP and EDs of the season. Underrated, at least. |
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