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OP: 「この青空に約束を」 (Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo) by KAORI
The opening showed scenes of the guy moving in, with some dude that looked like his dad and an oyaji that looked like a perv. Both of them seemed to be making fun of the guy for moving into a dorm with only girls, at the same time wishing they could be in his place. This is about when I start disliking the show, as the guy looks like a stiff (not that way) and a total loser.
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One of the reasons we blog anime is to give potential audiences some preview as to what they’re getting themselves into. In most cases, the show has some redeeming feature that appeals to some people…this is not one of those.
To use a catch phrase right about here would be to say “I want my twenty minutes back,” or just simply “do not watch this show.”
So here’s a summary…
It’s another beautiful spring morning. The forest of pink sakura blossoms radiates against the azure sky, the light breeze and sound of chirping birds comprising a symphonious melody. There’s a girl outside Wataru’s room, telling him to wake up. She’s quite persistent but remains politely outside his door. Turns out Wataru is wide awake, and is sitting on the ground looking quite constipated. He’s grunting coarsely as if he downed a whole bottle of Metamucil the night before. The camera pans down to show the mess he left on the floor…
Oh, it’s a girl. In pink underwear. Sprawled out across the floor with no blanket, she’s still sleeping soundly. Apparently the area is quite toasty at night, which explains the lack of coverings together with the open window. See, this is nothing we haven’t seen before, but previous shows typically had the guy waking up with a set of D cups in his face, then immediately jumping back in flushed shock. At this point the girl is supposed to wake up slowly, then prostrate herself on him as she talks about how much she misses him, and how they haven’t seen each other in so long…etc etc.
No such luck here. Actually, she doesn’t wake up at all, at least not until the girl outside the door gives up trying to coax him with her bad Nayuki impression. She opens the door and walks in – it’s Umi, a not-so-surprisingly cute towheaded girl with turquoise eyes. The poor guy jumps up to try to prevent Umi from seeing anything, but it’s too late. Laying bare on the ground in front of her, in her beloved Wataru’s room, was a half naked girl with bigger breasts, a rounder ass, and possibly less split ends than her. She wouldn’t have any of it.
KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
*cue episode title screen*
KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (another one)
Half-naked girl’s ritalined scream pierces through the thin paper walls to the dining room, where the rest of the residents of the dorm are waiting for Umi and Wataru to join them for breakfast. Strangely, none of them have any sort of reaction throughout the duration of the scream, only perking up when a large WHAP resonates. The purple haired girl inexplicably sprouts cat ears while the brown haired girl burns her tongue on the hot soup. The silver haired girl starts speaking, but the annoyingly slow speed of her speech makes me immediately fast forward twenty seconds to when the half naked girl is back on screen.
Oh, she slapped him. This is, of course, a perfectly natural anime reaction, assuming that what follows it is a flurry of household items being tossed in his general direction while he stumbles outside and slams the door. No such luck here – he’s on the ground and she’s still standing there with her slap-followthrough. Must be some wonderbra she’s wearing, cuz those things are defying gravity. Anyways, she’s pretty pissed, and picks up her clothes and jumps out the window.
“Who was that?” asks Umi. “NFI,” Wataru replies.
“That was the memory of our first encounter,” Wataru narrates in his hideously boring and inappropriately old voice. This should come as no surprise as a quick ANN lookup of his other anime roles reveals such memorable roles as “male student B (ep4)” in H&C II, “friend A (ep2)” in Nodame, and “Ginka Center member 1” in Prince of Tennis. Turns out the slow speaking girl has been cast in one other anime. One. An OVA. The only girl worth noting is the purple haired girl, who has the exact same voice as Primula. But doesn’t look anywhere near as loli.
For the rest of the episode, they stand, sit, and hang out at school. Somewhere in there we find out that the half naked girl is a new transfer student who’s also moving in to the same dorm – big surprise! Normally I would welcome this expected turn of events, save for the fact that she’s a complete bitch with no redeeming qualities other than the little pink bow on the elastic strap of her pantsu. And now she’s got clothes on…ugh. The residents of the dorm hold a little party for the new girl but she bitches them out (not a hint of blushing anywhere) and walks away, leaving poor Umi in tears. Turns out she doesn’t want to make any friends, cuz that’ll make graduating sad, or something stupid like that. Wataru starts talking smack at the new girl and the episode finishes with the two of them locked in one of those staring contests with the laser beams coming out of their eyes. All this while the wind is softly blowing sakura petals across, mind you.
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ED: 「青空のファンタジア」 (Aozora no Fantasy) by 村田あゆみ(Murata Ayumi)
If the summary seemed quite uninspired to you – well, it’s hard to get excited about something that’s pushing the limits of “suck.” First episodes in low budget animes are typically better animated than the rest of the series, and judging by the paltry quality of this episode, the legendary “cube-cabbage” may make an appearance by episode 4 (at least that show had Feena). Not that I’ll be sticking around that long anyways. It’s pretty obvious now that half-naked bitch will eventually come out of her shell through much non-sexual persuasion and eventually become friends with the rest of the residents, maybe even getting into some sort of love triangle thing versus Umi. Booorringgg
This show is a good example of something that’s better left in the realm of its source material. Had this been a hentai, it would have been quite enjoyable, as the character designs are rather pleasing, the main girl cries a lot, and the rest of the girls dumb enough to make some good moaning sounds. Not to mention, I would really like to slap that one bitch, with either my hand or any other appendage on my body. Unfortunately, this clearly isn’t how this show is going to proceed, and we’re left with a boring anime with odd characters stuck in a story that makes no sense.
For those who didn’t understand what I meant by a lower “sanity” or “moral standard” needed to enjoy a harem show, does it make sense now?
Tuesdays are looking rather thin…
-jaalin
I can’t believed you blog this and not Claymore.
yeah…i would of deffiantly liked claymore better to be blogged. Theres so many shows already like this..not like claymore.
The shear amount of vulgarity you threw around certainly drives home your extreme distaste for this show.
Kou? Who the hell is Kou? I’m sure he’s talking about Wataru.
jaalin edit: good point, i have no idea. not that it matters… anyway, it’s been changed, thanks for pointing it out.
WoW I’ll like this series… It’ll be a bit of fun XD
Well you have to admit. The show managed to hit on most of the harem girl stereotypes. I.E. the silent one, the obnoxious one, the motherly-love one, the I’m a bitch and you’re totally not going to win my heart until the end of the series one, etc.
LOL, man you really hate this show.
Though yes claymore would have been nice
I don’t mean to insult. But it seems that what we have here… Are the braincells of one anime viewer, who is also a blogger, finally working. It’s only a matter of time before the blogging of redundant h-game-based h-less anime stops. I wonder if shows like “Combat Butler Hayate” will be the next to follow. And CBH is pure crap plotwise despite making incredible adult doujin fodder.
On a side note; who else besides Moetry is blogging adult anime?
what is this anime about anyways? lol..so stereotypical
jesus how many animes of this style have to exist before people realize theyre crap
Dude just leave this and do Claymore..
As for myself, I’ll at least watch episode 2 of this anime, although this first episode really really.. sucked -_-
Budget. This what it is all about here.
The original H-game storywriter is definitely one of the best in the business. I guess he actually wanted us to say “Heh, WTF are all these stereo-type thing?” right here. And surely whole a lot more than that are coming eventually, at least in the game.
Still, nobody can deny this anime is poorly directed, graphics-wise and voice-wise. So this is yet another low budget anime based on a good H-game which does negative promotion of the upcoming console version.
screw claymore KISSDUM DUN DUN DUN
Uhhh… I’m stil going to watch this even though it has such a bad rating… as most people suggested, why not blog Claymore instead of this one..?
Main guy goes like OBJECTION at minute 21. Made me day.
wtf? you blog this and not Claymore!?
How come Jaalin doesn’t blog more stuff? He’s funnie ^.
I WANT MAH CLAYMORE!!!!
I hope the actual OP is done by KOTOKO like the game was.
pink underwear… prostrate herself… cute towheaded… bigger breasts, a rounder ass… Half-naked girl’s… cat ears… half naked girl… those things are defying gravity…
Maybe because I have selective reading, or maybe because I’m of the lowest common denominator; but you made it sound full of win to me.
“For those who didn’t understand what I meant by a lower “sanity” or “moral standard” needed to enjoy a harem show, does it make sense now?”
Unfortunately, I would have to say yes.
I guess everyone has a reason for making a point. It’s just some are much quicker at drawing proof than others… >.>
Hmm? I can’t really say that the show is bad. I was thinking to watch it, but decided not because I don’t have enough time to watch with other shows.
I guess, that if you played the game, you might understand the anime. The fans, who played the game thought the first episode was so-so. The animation and story wasn’t great, but they’re thinking to watch the next episode and see how it goes.
As a person who has played the game, I know this story is more about friendship and ties of friends, than sex and panties, even though it’s an H-game. It’s also about to protect your territory, the place you want to live, from bad guys who want to take it away.
Now I don’t know how much they can show you this aspect of the story in this anime, but i hope you will see that eventually.
jus cuz u dont like it dont blog it or flame it, there are ppl that enojys it rofl
Hey this whole ” I AM A BAAAAADDDD GIRL ” SUZUKA style is irritating man!!!
The formula = ” THE PUSSY IS ANGRY GO THERE AND CALM DOWN HER SHUJINKO SAN ” don´t impress me anymore and this whole women will save the world or Kids will save the world is bullshit dudes!!! Come on do something original in story like engage planet or heroic age or even Gurren lagann but DO something to worth my time!!!
Wait I WATCH EVERYTHING IN ALL SEASONS SO WHAT´S THE PROBLEM???
YEAH I AM A PROFESSIONAL OTAKU AND GAME PLAYER TOO SO I CAN SAY WHAT´S WRONG( CLICHE OR COPIES ALL THE TIME ) OR WHAT´S GOOD( ORIGINALS STORIES ( EVEN WITH A LITTLE THIS AND A LITTLE THAT OF CLICHE SCENES) AND PERFECT ANIMATION).
By the way animation wise in most animes from this week are PERFECT……better wait to see the next weeks…..
OSHIMAI!! T_T
Jaalin, I love reading your blogs. They really make my day. Keep up the good work.
Um… Omni? why arent you doing heroic age? i just saw episode 1 and i thought it was awesome. not what i expected….
I love the way you blog this, the way you type it out makes it so cool!!!
about claymore, i read the 1st ep. of comic
wow, this look good
about claymore, it hav in animesuki, if u guys want it, go there and download it by urself
Why the hell is jaalin blogging these shows when all he can do is pan them? As if the FreezeForwards weren’t bad enough.
dang. . i wish u blog claymore than this.
I thought jaalin had redeemed himself, but it seems like I was wrong.
Break out the Naruto Chair, for he’s gonna be in it for a very long time.
Rock on Jaalin, how right you are.
OMG, what a shitty anime…
This is like Shuffle but with no magic from what I see from the screencaps. So it’s pretty boring then. The main guy kinda reminds me of someone I’ve seem in an anime, I forget his name a lot thou.
man soo watching this
this series is nice.i suggest u continue watching it it even if u dont like the 1st ep.
You all sucks! Most of you only watched the 1st episode & then threw the rest of the series away. Just because the animation isn’t from KyoAni, just because it doesn’t have tons of panty shots / fanservices, just because it doesn’t have magic/aliens/cheesy romances or epic storyline, just because it doesn’t have crazy otaku characters, you’re saying that it isn’t worth of your time?!
This is definitely a rare gem & it’s really enjoyable. I especially like the male lead (which I found to be much better & enjoyable than Kanon 2006’s Yuuichi or Clannad’s Tomoya), & the girls are being developed quite nicely (especially Shizu & Saeri) & it’s good to see that none of them is above another (which means that they are all equal as main characters, not support or sub-characters).
The final episode is one of the most touching moment that I’ve ever seen & it’s quite a tear-jerker. I can sense the strong bond between the characters there. The only pity thing is that they didn’t show what happen afterwards, like somewhere in the future where they all reunited back on the island or something. (I don’t give a damn care about who Wataru would be pairing up with)