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NEWS: PuraOre! Pride of Orange Game Reveals New Video, March 15 Release




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Foranoda



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 12:59 pm Reply with quote
that explains the bland characters...
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Kurohei



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 2:05 pm Reply with quote
As a hockey fan, I still feel obligated to give the game a try. The anime isn't bad per say. It just wasn't what I was expecting...
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Piglet the Grate



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:01 pm Reply with quote
Foranoda wrote:
that explains the bland characters...


I find Manaka Mizusawa and Yu Kiyose in particular to be cute, and they all looked good playing beach volleyball.

Kurohei wrote:
The anime isn't bad per say. It just wasn't what I was expecting...


I am one of the apparently few people watching and enjoying PuraOre! ~Pride of Orange. Most of the negative predictions made prior to the show actually airing have not yet come to pass.
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puraoreo





PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:55 pm Reply with quote
Most other anime I was looking forward to ended up disappointing me at least a little bit, but Pride of Orange turned out to be a hidden gem for me this season.

The new Lupin is really average, Komi-san is sluggish and it failed to replicate the atmosphere of the manga and the new JoJo just looks visually awful.
I didn't expect anything from PuraOre, but I got a really enjoyable, simple anime that blends slice of life shenanigans, emotional moments and hockey together very well, together with great music and visuals.
The only real fault I can find in it is the idol aspect, which didn't need to be there at all, but it comes up so extremely rarely even that's not much of a problem for me.
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Piglet the Grate



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 5:30 pm Reply with quote
puraoreo wrote:
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I didn't expect anything from PuraOre, but I got a really enjoyable, simple anime that blends slice of life shenanigans, emotional moments and hockey together very well, together with great music and visuals.
The only real fault I can find in it is the idol aspect...


I only started watching PuraOre! ~Pride of Orange out of perverseness to all the negativity and morbid curiosity to see how bad the show really was, and was pleasantly surprised to find it worth watching. I do not really follow hockey anymore, but have seen enough to have no complaints about what happens on the ice (other than the idol dance - did they glue sandpaper to the bottom of their boots?).

My only real complaint is how cute girls turn ghoulish when they put on the hockey helmets with face shields - this part of the character design should have been revised prior to drawing the (virtual) cels.
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