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REVIEW: Mysterious Girlfriend X episodes 1-6

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

bemused Bohemian wrote: I suspect the timeline has to do with the communication equation. Cell phones were not as omnipotent in everyday speak then as they currently are. Using '80's or early 90's era it is easier to establish a continuous character interaction instead of a colorized time stop motion study of frozen frame characters texting or performing single digit speed typing while communicating from afar. As viewers we would be spending most of our time interpreting flat panels instead of analyzing teenage interactions up close and personal. I've often wondered what fiction is going to do about mass personal communication and how it affects drama. So many films and stories could have had their conflicts avoided or ended quicker by the protagonist having a cell phone. Of course, this would just lead to writers making them conveniently not have a cellphone, which tends just irritate me to no end. The most common one is "oh no, no connection, out of service range!" I guess it's easier and more genuine to just write the characters into a time where those devices and attitudes don't exist, because cellphone connectivity and longevity is only going to get better.

I'm afraid that Ueshiba had expressed that he made everyday items in the manga anachronistic on purpose. If the anime covers spoiler[Urabe's idol "twin"] arc you'll see large flat panel TV in electronic stores and homes, yet cell phones are still nowhere to be found.

Do they turn into tang and suddenly know everything about each other?

Earlier,zensensei said that I'm a troll for criticizing the presence of drool in "Mysterious Girlfriend X." He's entitled his opinion and so am I. So here is a description of a scene from "MGX" and let me ask him a question,does this in any way sound romantic to you? The male lead of this show goes over to the girl's desk and finds that she has left. Her drool is left behind. He takes some of it on his finger and drinks it. He gets sick. Later,he goes to the girl and they drink each other's drool.
To me,this sort of scene inspires many things,but romance isn't one of them. Nausea is a more apt description of my feelings about this particular scene. Forgive me for saying this,zensensei but the drool aspect of this series is pretty darn impossible to ignore. If that makes me a troll for pointing that out,then I'm sorry. But,that's what the series is built around. Magical drool. zensensei,forgive me for saying this,but I find magical drool less than appealing for a romantic series. It may appeal to you,but not to me.

Earlier,zensensei said that I'm a troll for criticizing the presence of drool in "Mysterious Girlfriend X." He's entitled his opinion and so am I. So here is a description of a scene from "MGX" and let me ask him a question,does this in any way sound romantic to you? The male lead of this show goes over to the girl's desk and finds that she has left. Her drool is left behind. He takes some of it on his finger and drinks it. He gets sick. Later,he goes to the girl and they drink each other's drool.
To me,this sort of scene inspires many things,but romance isn't one of them. Nausea is a more apt description of my feelings about this particular scene. Forgive me for saying this,zensensei but the drool aspect of this series is pretty darn impossible to ignore. If that makes me a troll for pointing that out,then I'm sorry. But,that's what the series is built around. Magical drool. zensensei,forgive me for saying this,but I find magical drool less than appealing for a romantic series. It may appeal to you,but not to me.

Earlier,zensensei said that I'm a troll for criticizing the presence of drool in "Mysterious Girlfriend X." He's entitled his opinion and so am I. So here is a description of a scene from "MGX" and let me ask him a question,does this in any way sound romantic to you? The male lead of this show goes over to the girl's desk and finds that she has left. Her drool is left behind. He takes some of it on his finger and drinks it. He gets sick. Later,he goes to the girl and they drink each other's drool.
To me,this sort of scene inspires many things,but romance isn't one of them. Nausea is a more apt description of my feelings about this particular scene. Forgive me for saying this,zensensei but the drool aspect of this series is pretty darn impossible to ignore. If that makes me a troll for pointing that out,then I'm sorry. But,that's what the series is built around. Magical drool. zensensei,forgive me for saying this,but I find magical drool less than appealing for a romantic series. It may appeal to you,but not to me.

It does seem that most of the people who appreciate the series understand that the drool is at least partly meant to be taken symbolically. Since I started looking at it that way, it hasn't bothered me at all.

There is anime sold in video stores but a lot of them are 'fake originals', ie. the companies got the license not from Japan but from pirates across HK, China, Taiwan etc. I used to buy them but I don't anymore.

It's only drool if it's been drooled. Otherwise, saliva is a better wordchoice.

My favorite anime of this season and the main reason is Urabe. I agree wholeheartedly that's she's the most unique female girlfriend in years. Usually I'm one to want things eventually explained , but in Urabe's case I'd rather her motivation and even her background, not. With Oka as an experienced? manipulator on the sexual side of things it's nice to see an anime where it's on a tightrope and you're not sure if a line is going to be crossed. It's towing the line so far and I'm hoping it continues to with it's throwback innocence design helping. I look forward to reading the manga after it's over.

Keichitsu0305 wrote:

She is, in fact, very weird and she does some 'odd' things like placing scissors in her undies which magically never cuts her. (O_o)

The scissors or her panties? In the back of my mind I keep thinking any panties tight enough to hold a heavy pair of scissors in place would seriously have to be cutting off some circulation.