Post 3 : What I did now and then *laughs*
This week I was finally (FINALLY!) stress free. So I decided to finish watching the remaining episodes of Rolling Girls and Saenai Heroine No Sodatekata ( or simply as saekano) that I missed during the airing period and I did.
In addition to that , I also completed Kyousougiga series and Ore no nounai sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love comedy wo Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru (or srsly short as Noucome) this week .
So basically what I am gonna do now is make an attempt at personal reviewing ^^ (nobody's reading this anyway *laughs*)
First on the list : Rolling Girls (RG) 2015
Rolling Girls took place in modern japan where the country are divided into different territory/area. Basically saying each prefectures became independent as a result of a war called Tokyo Great War.So there's this thing about vigilante squad , Best and Rest coming together to preserve peace in their region.The main story follows four girls namely Nozomi , Chiaya (you adorable thing!!), Yukina and Ai who went on a journey around the country to preserve peace in place of a Best (well, simply someone with super ability eg. super fast , super strong or just a hero if you prefer it) that was hospitalized as a result of battling *laughs*.
So off they went to different places and meet different people with different problems and stories.Along the way their friendship blooms.
I really like each episodes . Each different from the others , the place , setting , stories. Every characters has a story which I found interesting indeed and there's messages revolving around them.
I must say there isnt much background story about the four girls themselves but I guess it's fine because the theme wasnt that much related to them rather about others around them.
The art is one of the thing I like alot. Colorful backgrounds : I really like the designs of the different region , each is very unique and I am sure you won't find it boring either.
The seiyuus ... not much to say because I am head over heels with seiyuus . I rarely complain about them haha. Nozomi's voice attract my attention first mainly because I'd recognize that voice anywhere *oh really?* . Nah , its probably because earlier that day I just watched Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Specials and yesh you got it, Nozomi's seiyuu is basically Chiyo-chan's ; Ozawa Ari. Chiaya's voice is so cute as well!!
Oh gosh , I'm so bad at reviewing.
The Op and Ed work for me because they got stuck to my head easily.
Anyway , why would I recommend this series?
Mainly for me , I watched it for its moral and messages sent . About dreams, friendship , parenting and becoming someone strong . (And it's WIT studio first original series haha so I was curious of how it would be like..). Theres some action in it as well (I especially like the battle scenes =w=).
Another thing is the art as I said before , the color really did grab my eyes. Characters are well developed as well.This series may not have a really really main plot (except about the stones which arises on the last few episodes) so if you like random stuffs , y'know not just one story but a whole lot more involving random people then this might just be for you! Oh and not to forget the friendship part!! and the humor are just how I like it *pardon me because I am quite a humorless person*.
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| Rolling Girls (c)Wit Studio, taken from this wiki . |
Rating:7.5/10
Secondly , Saekano 2015 (The title meant "How to Raise A Boring Heroine(sometimes ,Girlfriend)")
An Adaption from a light novel of the same name by Fumiaki Maruto.
Well, from my experience of reviewing (ref up there) I guess I 'll just write what I like about this (I do write reviews from time to time in my diary but I guess I am not on the pro level yet, pro as in able to deliver the almost accurate feelings we got from watching the specific animes. The joy , the flaw and the good haha).
So I found this anime right before its airing date and decided to watch it when its aired. The summary I read doesnt tell much . One thing for sure that almost anyone would be able to tell is that it contains romance-comedy-harem element ( and I'm not exactly lying when I said I prefer harem than reverse harem , and I would leave that story some other time).
Fast Forward and I watched episode zero which started with scenes in a hot spring. well, episode zero is just a filler episode anyway and it's fine to skip it but well I watched it anyway.
Despite the ecchi scenes in that episodes (in which I feel the need to fast forward it if only that button exist),it was that episode where I got the gist of what this story is all about; Otakus and non-otakus coming together to achieve a dream that is to make the ultimate dating-sim game ever!!! And it was that episode that I understood what it meant by "boring heroine" , the sudden appearence of a girl that I didnt see or notice in the first few scenes made me laugh and think "oh so thats what it is".At first I thought of her as an extra but later at episode zero finally figure that's not who she is.
When the Opening song came , well obviously she was there but I seriously had a hard time figuring which of the girls in episode zero she is .
Even though this heroine (oh you'll get it once you watch it and do watch it) throughout the series seems very very extra -despite the title featuring her- she actually plays a great role in motivating the protagonist (Aki Tomoya *salute*) to move forward.
I enjoy this series very much . The comedy is to die for (again , it might be just me). I laughed quite alot at the character's eccentrics .The characters are well developed -though I would love for this series not to be rushed into only 12 episodes to see more of it.
This anime is about creators ; game-developers, doujin artists , author and musician - and otakus (plus non-otakus) so I find it easy to relate to and no, I didnt say its limited to those people-alike that I mentioned. In fact the story and comedy (and romance) is very understandable and easy to follow and my dears, dream no matter what it is , the journey and hardships we endured are there (well some people may have it harder than most) so this story is relateable to us.
The most character that I could relate to is probably Eriri . The childhood friend of the mr. protagonist (with a dere persona (/w\) . Not only she draws (which I can understand) but to be honest her friendship with main Character (MC) is another thing I can understand.
In this story I could feel their passion and even though their friendship is odd but its there and its strong.
The art is so-so .I have no problem with it (though yes , i must agree if sometimes anyone complained the characters are quite flat).And to be honest I think people would like it more if the anime follow the original illustration of the LN (*v*) but no, I have no rights to ask for more than that because overall the art(better than mine duh) and animation is pretty good. The music is also pretty good. The Op and Ed are lovable.
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| SaeKano LN's illustration (c)Kurehito Misaki taken from this blog |
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| Saekano (c) A-1 pictures Animation, taken from this web |
Rating: 8.5/10
3rd Kyousougiga (Capital Craze)2013
This anime is crazy complicated if you ask me and I have to rewatch some episodes (and watch the review episode) to get the whole of it. And I did get the whole story except that I won't be able to explain to anyone *laughs*.
I picked Kyousougiga in 2013 . i watched the first 3 episodes and unable to understand I gave up. However , the anime itself is beautiful , great bg and art . It has an interesting and fun animation to watch. The animation is shown in different angles and such so it was very amusing! It was indeed a unique series.
I learnt two lesson after that year;
1. never judge an anime after just watching the first 3-5 episodes because for most animes the great part came around after those episodes (and yes, I always drop anime before episode 3 for various reasons of course).
2.I watched kyousougiga knowing it would be a complicated one and yet gave up because I couldnt catch up the first 3 episodes.Now, that is very wrong! Of course I couldnt know what the heck is actually going on or going to happen ( I have this habit of producing my own theories as I watch animes) unless I continue watching and pick more information. And so the lesson learnt from this was to "Keep calm and just continue watching)
And so I follow the second advice as I rewatch it this week and truely I was be able to pick up more information (and combining with my own theories(wrong or not) that i produced over the 2 years gap) as I watch the episodes. Each episodes is a confirmation of each mystery arise from the previous and I felt a sense of completion as I watch the last episode mainly because I survived that crazy yet unique plotline and understand it.
Kyousougiga is a story about a broken family (of human , spirits) when their parents abandoned them for vague reason. As I watch this series I found out that the reasons aren't that simple as it seems in the first few episodes. It is also a story about choosing to live (because there is people that love you and just being there with them won't do any harm and such). The main character is Koto(love her voice , Kugimiya Rie) and Yakushimaru which later would be refer to as Myoue. A story about parallel worlds, burden and love. It really is a great series , beautiful and touching. Great art as I mentioned. A combination of modern and traditional Japanese environment. Somehow theres alot of mentions on Alice in wonderland haha.
This is a totally recommended series . Despite its complicated story , its worth watching . I found myself be able to relate to this story for reasons I may not disclose *laughs* . Its full of weirdness and randomness and yes , there are weird characters but oh am I so glad I didnt give up on this series completely.
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| Kyousougiga (c)to the respective artist , taken from this web . |
Lastly, Noucome 2013 (title mean My mental choices is ruining my school life romance comedy)
Also an adaption from a light novel. I watch this simply because I was killing time and it happened to be in my anime collections. First episode impression was that it's another weird series (and oh how it reminded me of Gaworare/Kanojo Ga Flag O Oraretara / If Her Flag Breaks) with harem(the probability its in my anime colle due to this is very high *laughs*).
Also with its (unbearable) ecchi scenes (non-stop) , I found myself curious of what of to happen to this MC.
MC namely Amakusa Kanade is cursed with something he called" Zettai Sentakushi" . Its a particular situation from in a chess game in which the player needs to make a decision/move to stay on the winning track/alive. So this "Zettai Sentakushi" (loosely translated as Absolute Choices) would appear from time to time (only his voice though, am not even sure if its a person) and gave our MC (usually) two choices (in which neither choices are good nor (always) clean). Nobody could hear the voice in his head and if he were to not make any decision , his head will suffer from pain. Due to having to choose , and due to the choices being odd (very very) his classmates isolates him (except for this two not surprisingly, weird girls namely , Yuoji Ouka and Yukihira Furano ) and he was put into the school list of Fail Five (lol).
Then One day , a choice he chose made a girl fall from the sky. This story follows up after that/ The girl was a messenger and was there to help him lift the curse by completing (weird and ridiculous) missions.
So why exactly did I watch it (despite the choices I was given at the end of episodes whether to continue or not)(and despite the unbearable (oh, for me) ecchi scenes , I-couldnt-get-the-puns and the super weirdness and randomness that made me Not exactly like Gaworare)?
First of all , it was because this anime was something I pick randomly and watch to appreciate.It was something for fun with its randomness and all.What made it different from Gaworare (despite me feeling how similar they are) is probably the comedy. Noucome made me laugh quite numerous of time. Despite Furano's puns and jokes that I couldnt catch, I still found some scenes funny and its probably because this Kanade guy is surprisingly a positive person even with Zettai Sentakushi haunting him .From time to time , he would crack a joke (due to choices from Zettai Sentakushi) which none of the characters laugh to but I sure did. Moreover he has this dramatic ouji-sama personality. Like Gaworare , there are alot of different types of people in this series . Mostly weird but unique. I really like Konagi-tan (so moe) and Yuragi, the everybody's little sister (yes she can be scary sometimes). Furano , the always cracking up joke classmate but in truth always hiding, is another surprisingly favourite character from this series. Sometimes her joke just fail but some of it -with lots of dramatic effects- made me laugh.
At the end, I was quite disappointed on how it turns out. But it was worth the laughs .
All in all , I did watch it because Kanade is such a good boy hahaha . Some main guy characters just deserve and earn the harem ! (and unfortunately some don't)
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| Noucome (c) Respective artist , taken from this web |
rating: 7/10
That is a pretty long post and at most silly and full of nonesense. All in all I enjoyed my anime session this week ^^ . I hope that you (anyone) would pick any one of these , of course there's many other series worth watching and you can find people and pro reviewers recommending them on the net easily.
Apologies if theres any mispelling or such. Credits to all owners and people owning the pictures above.
Well then, my back hurts
Aniyuuki.
Listening To : Himawari no Yakusoku - Motohiro Hata
Quotes of the day:
I'm gonna pick quotes from the animes above!
RG: Boy:"I like racing but lately there's no one to compete with,"
Girl: "I really like making shachihoko but I was too focus on surpassing my dad"
Both:"But I still really do love them!"
SaeKano:" If you think you're already good then the next step is to become great...," Aki Tomoya
Kyousougiga: "Eating Dinner together, watching the sunset together, getting home 5 minute earlier from work, laughing over trivial things, arguing over stupid stuffs, That Is love! you taught me that then why is it that all you want is to just disappear?" Koto
"I'll finish you whenever you want. But even if its selfish of me, I was hoping that you would stay longer. Choose to live , Myoue," Koto
"Myoue, move forward . Be yourself. Don't ponder over the past . Its no harm desiring for a future , it never mean to betray your past," Kurama
"I envy you Myoue .You had a past to cry about. I only have a future. To keep moving. Why is it that people keep asking things from me ? I also have things I want to know!" Koto
Noucome: "Life is a series of choices. Each choices you made will change the course of your life. But no matter what choices I have , I'll make sure that I choose one that I won't regret," Narrator (lol) and Kanade.
