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OP: 「素直になれない」 (Sunao ni Narenai) by Little Non
Watch the OP!: Mirror 1 Mirror 2
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Summary:
Konoe Sunao has a dream about acting in a play that had no audience and where the curtain is dropped down on her. She wakes up and is already late for her first day at her new school. Sunao arrives in time, and is treated to the sight of a girl named Kurogane Otome waving a katana at a boy, and the sight of two girls – second-year Kanisawa Kinu and first-year Yashi Nagomi – arguing. Sunao tries to get them to stop arguing, but both of them want her to not interfere and leave them alone. The stand-off is interrupted when the princess of the school, Kiriya Erika, rides in on her bicycle and causes an uproar among the boys. Once the bell rings and Sunao goes to class, she introduces herself to everyone and proclaims that she loves theatrical plays. It garners almost no reaction from anyone, save for a girl named Nishizaki who takes a picture of Sunao. During lunch, Sunao asks the girl sitting next to her about the theater club, but the girl – named Asada Shizuka – tells her there is none. After getting over the shock, Sunao decides that she’s going to create the club herself. Shizuka tells her that she’ll need to apply with the student government, so Sunao goes to the student government building. She gets there only after having a run-in with a guy named Samesuga Shinichi, aka. the “Shark,” who thoroughly analyzed her body before she rejected him.
Inside the student government building, Sunao finds the president Erika in a compromising position on top of her assistant Satou Yoshimi (nicknamed “Yoppi”). Once things get cleared up, Sunao tells Erika about wanting to start a theater club. Despite Sunao’s enthusiasm, Erika rejects the proposal at first. Erika doesn’t think that Sunao is that serious about it, so she decides to give Sunao a condition: if Sunao can show Erika how interesting plays are, Erika will give her seal of approval. What’s more Erika wants her to do it today after school. Refusing to lose, Sunao decides to go ahead with it and returns to her classroom to practice her Romeo and Juliet. She passes by a boy she doesn’t notice, but that boy turns around and wonders where he’s seen her before. When the time comes, Sunao finds that an entire set has been prepared on the stage, and Erika even has a costume ready for Sunao. As she’s getting ready to go on, Sunao gets stage fright, remembering the time from her youth when she panicked in front of her audience during a performance. Back then, it was the encouragement of a certain boy that allowed her to continue on. However, that boy had also called her “Daikon” because of the way her hair was shaped.
Sunao works up the courage to get on stage and starts her one-woman Romeo and Juliet show. Erika becomes quite impressed by her ability, but then gets interrupted when the boy from before (the one who found Sunao familiar looking) comes in with some documents she needs to stamp. Sunao hears Erika address this boy as Tsushima, reminding her that the boy from her past was named Tsushima Leo. The face in her memory matches up to the face of the boy in front of her, meaning that this is Leo. The realization causes Sunao to lean forward on the castle set, tipping it forward and triggering everything to fall down. When the dust clears, Sunao is sitting on top of Leo after he tried to save her. She notices that he doesn’t seem to remember her. When she mentions it, he has to think for a while before he notices her twin tails of hair and calls her the “Daikon” nickname. Sunao slaps him for saying that and almost starts to cry. In the end, Sunao has to clean up the set after Erika rejected her theater club. Thinking about it, Sunao almost starts crying again, but clears her eyes when Shizuka comes up to her. Shizuka had been watching the performance earlier and declares herself to be Sunao’s fan because of how well Sunao did. An emotional Sunao hugs Shizuka and starts to really cry. After letting Sunao cry for a while, Shizuka asks her what the “Daikon” from before meant. That word quickly gets Sunao angry again.
In the student government room, Kinu comes looking for Leo so that they can go home together. Leo is still sitting depressed over the slap he got from Sunao. As Kinu and Nagomi start arguing again, Leo tries to figure out why Sunao hit him.
ED Sequence
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ED: 「open」 by 詩月カオリ (Utatsuki Kaori)
Watch the ED! Mirror 1 Mirror 2
The OP is as unimpressive as when I saw it on the official website yesterday. I don’t like the song and the images are just taken from the first episode. It remains to be seen if they’ll actually introduce an OP sequence or if they’re just going to use in-episode shots each week. The ending is quite a lot better, but I’m somewhat biased towards slow songs. This one’s lyrics are written by KOTOKO and performed by Utatsuki Kaori, both of whom are from the popular I’ve Sound.
Preview:
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The first episode was alright, nothing to rave about, but not bad by any means. Animation level was right about where I expected, which is decently high. Comedy was a bit on the light side, though it had lots of cute character moments. There was a lot more fanservice than I would have thought in the form of all the eye-catches they threw in (and the yuri moment). Overall, I’d call the first episode average, mainly because this series doesn’t offer anything new or exciting in terms of plot or animation or whatever.
Having said all that, I’ll probably keep watching to see how the story and characters develop. Since Sunao is the main character, I assume the story is going down her path (not that I’ve played the game). This has the potential to be a good series (or that’s what I keep getting told), so I’m giving this series a lot of leeway. It means my Saturdays are now a bit overloaded, but we’ll see how the coming weeks go.
The preview was a bit odd in the sense that it’s not your traditional this-is-whats-going-to-happen next episode preview. It just showed Otome practicing her martial arts with the candles. One of the many oddities of this show, along with the talking parrot and that Nishizaki girl who only goes “kuu~.”
Screams in pain…
Another sub-par harem? Uh oh…
Another sub-par harem? Uh oh…
Well, definitely not sub-par, but there was nothing that really caught my attention from the first episode (no really intriguing premise, no jaw-dropping animation, etc). It was all about average; nothing really good, nothing really bad. I guess that makes it more like par instead of sub-par lol. If this were any other show, I would probably not continue following it because I’ve already got two Saturday series (Blood+ and Tsubasa Chronicle). But because it’s a haremish series and because this was promoted so heavily to me by a couple of people (you know who you are), I’m hanging on for now.
haha ditto above, but all the senseless fanservice is really annoying…
Gah, the animation may be good, but I don’t like the generic design.
Compare to the original game, the anime can’t say it is good. Just like Omni said, everything is average, but from people who already played the game expect more from it. Right now I just saw an average harem “moe” series. Talking honestly, I really can’t say that I am impressive with the first episode rather leaning toward the negative side…(for a lot of reasons)
Yes this is average at best judging from the first ep. This is getting the 3 episode treatment, like you mentioned Omni nothing was really attention grabbing. It’s not a bad show by any means but so far nothing sets it apart from the lord knows how many shows in this genre.
haremish with yuri on the side…. yosh!!!
Love Hina Rip-off
Martial Arts girl
Cute Junior High girl
Pervert Basher with little sister
and over sexyfied crafty girl.
all we need now is the foriegn Ginuess girl.
But i guess I’ll give it a shot…..
With all due respect, I have to say that the game is over-rated. It wasn’t bad but it was nothing astonishing as a H game. It was a second class game with over-use of the ツンデレ elements IMO (you can wiki that if you don’t know what it is). It was mostly a game made for devoted ツンデレ lovers, not as a hentai masterpiece.
Personally I’m not expecting much from this at all, compared to the expectation I have for “Yoakemae yori Ruriiro na” the anime. But again, just a personal taste I guess.
*jaw drops on seeing screenshot #6 (there isn’t a guy on the camera’s location is there?) and #26 (parody of Chocolat from Sorcerer Hunters?)*
Looks good enough for me
O.o whoa…. looks good….
I have yet to check out the episode… but Love Hina ripoff? If I am completely mistaken, at least from ayyo’s blog entries about the game, it’s far from that… It’s not even a harem game… and the girls apparently just really dislike the main character…
The only one who dislikes him is Sunao as far as episode 1 is concerned o_o;
Tsundere ftw!
Is it me or…the caracther looks like Shuffle/Da Capo. Well….the girl with the red hair looks like Sia.
Hard for me to give a real opinion on this. Just like it says on moonphase, it’s really hard for anyone who’s played the game to enjoy this.
But it really wasn’t THAT bad….maybe not enjoyable, but not worth all the abuse it’s getting everywhere else.
Hmmm….I’m surprised and glad that the anime didn’t exactly follow the manga. Now…..I’m just wondering…how the hell is Tsuyokiss a harem anime when the main character is Sunao? Reverse harem!?
I loved the show, yet… so many bad things said about it.. :/
Well its only 13 episodes I hear, so i hope that it has some story to it in the end and doesn’t just go for comedy.
Another Big Harem… where it will apears?? maybe animeyume or animesuki… ?? seems fun
I have to agree with one of the other comments that all those extra fan services is annoying, I hopes that they will remove them in later shows.
If this anime is 13eps I have doubts that it can really cover all the characters shown in the ending, never mind the developments for them
TK is no harem. If anyone at all has a “harem” of sorts, it’s Hime – but definitely not Leo 😉
Those three people I know who played the game – including me – found the first episode fairly enjoyable. This is not going to go down as an anime masterpiece, but you can expect a good light comedy with good characters. Nothing more, nothing less. Just what I want right now.
I warmed up to the “new” character for me – Nao – fairly easily. So I’m not worried if she becomes the centerpiece of the show, which is – as far as I can tell – the first show of this kind I remember in which the focus is not on the MALE lead, but rather one of the girls of the romantic interest selection.
So I guess I’m looking forward to lose all the smart alecks who skillfully manage to (mis)judge a show after some screenshots and enjoy Tsuyokiss with the rest which remains.
Not that interesting at the moment but I will still wait for a couple of episodes to judge whether it’s a worthwhile anime or not.
Tsuyokiss is about Hime’s dysfunctional school council
Impressions of the anime:
Everyone looks much younger. (due to the animation, of course)
Sunao seems to have become not only the main heroine, but also the main character altogether. (but that’s only for a while, right?…..right?)
So much fan-service, not surprised that a lot of people have gained the first-impression of it being a harem series.
I don’t feel much resemblance with Love Hina besides the sight of Otome and her katana.
Someone seemed to have noticed that Sunao dislikes Leo, that’s basically her status in the re-make of Tsuyokiss – “Main-character-hating type” (she was not in the original game).
No use predicting how it’s going to develop just by the first episode, just sit back, relax, and see how the next episode goes.
just a bunch of fanservice strung together as an anime…. boring as hell…
doesn’t seem like ur usual boy like girl and extra extra extra….seems more like a yuri series…
At least it looks good…
It may look like a harem but it’s really NOT a harem series. :/ This series is based on a game that I heard is different than other series.
I thought the Pia carot 3 movie was one of the first to have a female as the main character.
So this couldnt be the first one.
Anyway I’ll give this a go like I do with other Bishoujo anime and see how it turns out.
The Anime Elitist need to get off their horse about this series. The first episode was very funny, and who cares if it has fan-service. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it . . . .
Who are the ellitists?
People need to watch the first episode to have an opinion, don’t you agree?
Then they share their opinion on this comment board, no?
IMO it’s crap and I won’t watch the rest, so be happy! You’ll be able to enjoy the rest with your non-ellitists friends!
Is there a Sub from this episode
This going to be one of those shows that shows the perspective of the “girl of the week”?
Who needs this when you have Zero no Tsukaima out tsundere-ing it? You don’t need to be an “Anime Elitist” to realize that this series is going to be pretty crappy.
I like the ED song, it’s really sad! >o
harem meh. its not anythin 2 do wif harem at all. but its one nice anime wif a pwetty nice endin