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Edjwald
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Even a Replica Can Fall in Love (TV) Source: Light Novel (ongoing @ 5 volumes, written by Harunadon, illustrated by raemz) Demographic: Animation Studio: Voil Genres: drama, romance, supernatural Themes: coming-of-age, clones, school Plot Summary: When she doesn’t feel well, when there’s a test, when she doesn’t want to go to school... I take her place. I’m her replica. I’m not meant for anything else. But that changed when I fell in love. I wear my hair up so the boy I fell for knows it’s me. We skip school and promise to meet again tomorrow, and every day after. I’m her replica. Everything about me is borrowed and empty, but my heart is mine. Air Date & Platform: April 07, 2026 (Tuesday) Available on:Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending Trailer [EDIT: Fancy opener stuff edited. -TK] |
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smurky turkey
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While the first episode is pretty good and the concept interesting I am smelling tragedy around the corner. I can all too easily imagine it ending in tears with someone disappearing. Because of that I might pick this up later again after hearing that it does not become a tear jerker. |
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zfunk
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You know this would be a great sci fi or even horror anime, problem is, it is a romance anime. You think with what I saw this episode, I care if this copy / clone gets together with this random boy. You think that is the most important? Really, really.
It would be more interested, if the copy smarten up and realize she is doing a better job of living this girl's life than the original, and thus she is not needed and kills her. What I thought originally was this girl was really a twin that the family convinced is a replica in order to cheat the government and only have expensive for one child. That would be a interesting twist, but that is not the case. This series should be centered on the replica and the original and their relationship, and not the replica and this guy. The series has terrible sense of priorities. You have a good story here and you are going in the more boring direction. What really irritates me, this is an ongoing series adaptation, we are not going to get a conclusion. This is a series that should not be adapted until the source material is finished. And this sounds like I hate the series, no I find it interesting, it has prudential. I just don't know if romance is something we need. |
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Edjwald
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In most stories where there's a doppelganger, it becomes a struggle for dominance to see which one will take over the life. The fact that the replica is jealous and hiding money from the original is one of the signs that the relationship described here is turning at least a bit toxic, so I think the relationship between original and replica will be explored more.
What is unusual is that usually the doppelganger is evil, whereas in this anime, the doppelganger seems sweet and the original seems selfish and thoughtless. I do wonder what the original's losing by letting her doppelganger do all the hard work. Is it just the opportunity to mature or develop character, or is there actual life force. She seems kind of joyless and apathetic. I think that's where the sense of melancholy and smell of tragedy that Smurky referred to is coming from. I liked this, but having two extremely low-key romantic leads could be a bit hard to sustain, as if there were two Tani (the quiet male lead) in You and I Are Polar Opposites. Or maybe not if/as they open up a little. The anime was a break from the same old same old and kind of pretty and sweet and sad. I'm interested. |
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Thesarum
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I've read the source LN, and while it is a continuing series I'd regard the first book to be an acceptably complete story in it's own right (and it was written as a one off, only for the publisher to green-light sequels after it was completed I believe). So I expect/hope that's all they'll adapt, rather than getting into the subsequent books that don't come with a suitable stopping point. Though I will have to check back to see if the pace we've had from the first two eps is consistent with that...
Obviously I want to stay away from spoilers, but this is indeed somewhere at the core of what the story is really about, that and as zfunk suggests, Nao working out her own value, though I guess we'll have to see how much the adaptation focuses on those topics vs the romance angle. Overall, I'd say LN1 was an excellent twist on the usual coming of age topics of figuring out who you are, accepting your own value, and yes, figuring out first love as part of that. So I really hope the anime does it justice. That vignette effect is annoying though. |
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Edjwald
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I like this anime, but I'm going to have to drop Eren the Southpaw because of it. There's only so much drama I can take on a weekday, and it feels like the bittersweetness of this show isn't going anywhere.
The Mermaid's Return reference (Haven't read the original) seems to foreshadow a specific melancholy ending, and one of the four ways I can see this going. I cannot, for example, imagine the doppelganger coming into its own life and living happily side by side with the original as her long-lost identical twin cousin or something. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen. I just can't see it. |
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Gina Szanboti
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I'm pretty sure that the Sanada that skipped out with Nao is also a replica. If so, I think rSanada has a better relationship with his original, in that rSanada tells him everything he's done. I was thrown off that idea when we saw him massaging his leg, but when he said he wasn't the one who got hurt and changed the subject, I think before he was just kind of marveling at how his leg didn't hurt after all that biking and walking. He also seemed pretty chill about her weird rules around talking to her, as if having his own secrets to hide. (my theory makes me wonder if Sanada went to the assembly while rSanada skipped out.) Also, "you have friends?" Ouch, girl. In any case, I really like their rapport. He was frank about wanting to initiate talking to her without it becoming tantamount to a love confession or her getting all flustered and blushy that this hot boy wants to talk to her. That alone is enough to keep me invested in this. And Edjwald, Eren the Southpaw is teetering toward my drop list too. I haven't watched E2 yet, because I can't remember why I was interested in the first place. If I don't watch it by Friday, it's outta here. 
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Edjwald
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I've thought about the Sanada being a dupe angle too, but I didn't notice the small details. I just felt he has a similar, slightly blank feel to the MC. There was a Jack Whitehall movie called Robots...I never saw it, but the trailers suggested a similar scenario. I'm editing it in.
Robots I also considered that the doppelganger is a multiple personality rather than a supernatural entity, but I don't think that's the case, especially not after that The Mermaid's Return reference. Whichever, whatever, I'm digging the show. |
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DuskyPredator
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I didn't consider it until I started episode 2, that while I am not too into the who clone that is not a real person but a manifestation thing, that the premise could be read that there actually isn't a supernatural aspect. It could actually just be a case of dissociative identity disorder (DID), with the replica actually being an alter that she swaps with the main as a defensive mechanism. Even elements like wearing her hair different kind of feels along those lines.
Even if it does turn out to just be exactly what the premise is, it maybe points to at least an allegory of the story, for a person with DID, and just it is used in the story like its a replica. The guy also saying he wasn't the one hurt while having some sort of leg injury, also makes me think is in the same situation, that he created a replica (or alter) after experiencing some sort of trauma, which maybe gets to exist without the circumstance that caused the injury. Likely getting off topic, and look silly for looking to a silly show like it is fair representation of it, but I am reminded of aspects of the Moon Knight show, which I would like to think did justice for DID alters. |
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Gina Szanboti
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If it's not dissociation, I've also entertained the idea that what's going on is some phenomenon akin to the Adolescence Syndrome in Rascal Does Not Dream. Hikikomori Syndrome? Dissociative personalities made manifest?
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Edjwald
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Love the Rascal series!
I'm not an expert (feel free to throw in an "obviously") but I think dissociative identities can sometimes remember the main identity's memories while the main identity can't remember anything the alternate personality did or said. And I think sometimes there are shades where the main identity hears voices and allows certain personalities to take over with varying degrees of awareness. The Rascal thing where the doppelganger legend and psychological phenomenon intertwine - I'm thinking of the episode where Futaba split - is probably closest to what's going on here. |
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Thesarum
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I think "Adolescence Syndrome" is a good parallel - it's both literal and metaphorical, and there's always at least a little ambiguity as to how literal. It's not traditionally supernatural, but it sure ignores a lot of laws of physics.
Nao and Sunao exist as a manifestation of competing desires - to reconcile but not admit fault for example. Sunao herself is an absolute mess of these conflicts, she's the one who sends Nao in her place when she doesn't want to engage with life, but when good things happen as a result of Nao putting herself out there and being open, Sunao feels those opportunities were stolen from her. Is Nao really real? She certainly seems to have a real physical presence (the bag dropping to the floor when Sunao un-summons her ) but she's also our perspective character, so of course she seems real to herself, despite the way she reminds herself constantly that she isn't. |
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Edjwald
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Episode 3 has me curious about two things:
(1) What's up with Sunnao's change in mood regarding Nao? (2) How is Sanada Sr. using his replica to get revenge? Did Sanada Jr. just give the original an alibi by hanging out in a public festival? |
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Thesarum
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So, I did go back and check, and the answer is that we're about 2/3 of the way through LN1 here.. so no. Which is kinda odd pacing... I doubt they'll cover all of the events of the last 1/3 in one episode, which leaves us finishing up LN1 probably somewhere in Ep5 before embarking on a longer arc we can't possibly complete for the rest of the season... There's a bunch of stuff left on the cutting room floor as a result - I guess I can see dropping the alternative perspective chapters (LN1 has a short intermission chapter from Aki's perspective that occurs between eps2 & 3 while OG Sunao isn't calling Nao for example) as they don't really move the plot, but they do fill out the other characters a bit. But we're also skipping a bunch of other scenes, which I think leaves everything feeling a bit thin.
She's a mercurial teenage girl? I checked the LN here (since I was checking where we were up to), and that doesn't actually offer any more explanation at this point. Nao remarks that Sunao had worked through it on her own "somewhere I couldn't see", but the two don't talk about it. |
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Gina Szanboti
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So if Sanada has never left home since he was hurt, why does Aki limp sometimes and sometimes not?
Again, I like how normal their relationship is. When they did the slushy tasting, there was no freak out over "OMG, indirect kiss!!!" just a brief startled blink from Nao. But the guessing part was odd - weren't they together when they ordered them?
I don't know about an alibi. If Aki will be no longer needed, it sounds like Sanada needed him to physically assault the guy since his injury made him unable to do it himself. And since he hasn't left the house even to rehab, I can't see him suddenly willing to go to school now. It sounds more like he's expecting to be arrested, or worse, suicide. I can't help but think their earlier conversation wasn't just idle chat about a novel. |
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