Forum - View topicREVIEW: Indian Summer [Sentai Selects] Sub.DVD
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Parsifal24
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My mom got me this as part of a collection my Aunt was selling off watched it this made Eiken look good in comparison.
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Animechic420
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Eiken was f*cking hilarious! |
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Saturn
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Maybe it would have been more interesting were it somehow set in Indiana 
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Covnam
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I saw this when it first came out on ADV's (now Sentai) VOD service. It was enjoyable back then, but I guess it doesn't hold up.
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Key
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Yeah, I think I might have given this one a slightly better review if I'd seen it when it first came out. It's not so much an issue of not aging well as the bar being shifted higher since it came out.
Probably me making some kind of subconscious statement since I do, in fact, live in Indiana. 
Anyway, that's been corrected. |
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TnKtRk
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meh, I still like it, all these years later.
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Melicans
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This was both one of the first series I stumbled across online, and the first series I purchased after really coming into anime; the first one I ever got was the boxset of Chobits back in 2006, and this reminded me of that series albeit much pervier.
The first volume of the manga, which is quite different from the anime, was also released in North America and can still be found on RightStuf. Sadly no more of it ever came out; I think the publisher over here went defunct. Good times. |
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leafy sea dragon
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So, why is this series called Indian Summer? Is it set in India in the summer? Does someone think that this is how life must be like in India or among Native Americans? Or is it just one of those word-salad titles that sounds cool to a Japanese person but is nonsense to anone fluent in English?
I always thought of Eiken as a parody, with fanservice elements cranked up to absurd degrees. |
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consignia
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Indian Summer is an English Idiom meaning a summer that stretches into the autumn months. See http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/weather-phenomena/indian-summer for it's origins. It's an adapted title, the original Japanese is "Koharu Biyori". An idiom which means roughly the same thing. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Thank you. I had never heard of this idiom before. I think it's because such summers are normal occurrences for us.
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Key
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I have always understood "Indian summer" to refer to a period of summerlike warmth which occurs after autumn's first bout of colder (or in some regions rainier) weather. If there's never a break in the weather being warm then it's not really Indian summer.
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