I've been thinking this for a while, and those past pictures clinched it - in spite of notable competition, Ichinose is without a doubt the cutest character Yamamoto Souichiro has ever designed.
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At this point, I'm not surprised.
It actually struck me later that I was probably wrong - that, this series being what it is, the defied expectation was a sort of meta-joke and I was just too dumb to catch it. So... yeah.
I like your undies?
Somehow I don't think that was the original joke...
And Grieja remains my favorite character....
Actually I haven't, but only because I'm planning on binging it.
Surreal idiot humor — series that are surreal, absurd and/or satirical because most if not all of the characters are idiots, and the world somehow matches them.
Examples: Pani Poni Dash, Galaxy Angel, Nichijou, Photon, Renkin Sankyou Magical Pokaan, Robot Girls Z, Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san, Kill Me Baby...
It's strange to wait so eagerly for a 3 1/2 minute episode that's over so quick, but it's worth it anyway.
I'm wondering if there's something to Kurt wondering just who exactly Makina is.
The battle "remix" of Haijo-kun's music was brilliant - that's the kind of touch that makes me eager to see what Yohei Kameyama could do with a bigger budget and more run-time.
Chiharu's thank you was perfect.
And Makina's last line made me laugh out loud.
Now I have to wait a week for another 3 1/2 minutes...
Having just watched it, I find myself wondering why.
It was okay. It tackled some difficult subject matter in an interesting way, and it has a very distinctive and effective artstyle, but all in all, it ended up oddly unsatisfying.
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Glibly, it seemed that the central message was that Shizuka and Marina were both doomed to end up suffering and/or dead unless and until they bonded over the fact that they both had shitty parents. And that Takopi was an annoying idiot.
Or more sincerely, that talking to each other was the key - that life just has ugliness in it, but if we talk and listen, we can maybe cope.
That's fine as far as it goes, but I'm not sure how that rates 9+, much less how each episode does, especially since each episode ended up going somewhere that ultimately didn't matter. Is it just that they tended toward shocking twist endings? If that's the case, a whole lot more people need to watch Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, which did shocking twist episode endings much better.
It was odd enough that it made me think, and is still making me think, and I guess that's something, but I could say the same, just off the top of my head, for Madoka Magica or Kaiba or Wonder Egg Priority or Mushishi.
I dunno. I certainly didn't dislike it - it's among the more interesting and unusual anime I've seen. I just don't get how each episode is 9+.
Me too.
I especially like the meta twist of the manga club audience surrogate/in-universe shipper. I'm curious to see where that's going to go, because on the one hand, they're both entirely clueless even by awkward romcom standards so seem to need all the help they can get, but on the other, they might have to stand up to her and slow things down a bit for their own sakes.
Either way, they're adorable.
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I mostly haven't even been bothering to read this lately, but this was sort of interesting.
My personal obscure favorite, Misuzu, ranked 17, which is actually better than I would've hoped.
I sort of expected Itachi to do even better than 7th - even as an outsider to the harem, she's such a stand-out character.
Nice to see Madoka do well - as the nice girl childhood friend, she gets ignored a lot.
And Hanako won by a landslide, so hopefully she'll get some focus soon. In the manga named for her.