Ranked #2186

Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka

Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is an anime that hurts itself by raising expectations and failing to meet them like clockwork. It goes out of its way to repeatedly build from mediocrity only to plunge itself back down to the point where you wonder why you even gave it much of a chance. It's someone jumping out of a 3 story building and landing on concrete, only to climb back up and jump over and over again. Until the person's bones are mush and the series limps to its god-awful ending.

As a series in general, Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka (from here on, Akasaka) is passable, I would go as far to say it's decent and occasionally enjoyable. Its gaping flaws are grossly magnified, rightly, by its constant, flagrant disappointment of its viewers. Basically Akasaka is not pure bad (far from it) but the parts that are actually good makes the parts that are bad look really bad.

Akasaka is based off Feng's visual novel released back in 2007. The plot revolves around a boy by the name of Jun'ichi Nagase, who attends a prestigious high school and seems to bear some kind of tough reputation from middle school. Think typical harem school comedy male protagonist. There, I just developed the character to the same degree 12 episodes of Akasaka did. Anyhow, a naive aloof rich girl, Katagiri Yuuhi (CV: Kugimiya Rie), transfers to Jun'ichi's school and Jun'ichi, out of some act of divine inspiration kisses her, causing unspeakable chaos. Then, to close out a rather promising first episode and establish a quite original premise, it turns out that Yuuhi is Junichi's fiancee due to an arranged marriage.

Akasaka's female cast is chock full eye-catching and potentially interesting characters. Expectations: high. The series proceeds to do nothing with all but two of the girls. Expectations: failed.

Like many similar anime, Akasaka's plot (the plot is essentially just the premise) takes a back seat episodes 3-10 for some good unrelated episodes of fun. That's fine! It's a structure that has worked countless times. And by all means it can work here. But instead, Akasaka is filled extremely cliche situations solved in extremely cliche ways. For example, Jun'ichi's sister Minato (CV: Hirano Aya) takes Yuuhi shopping in a supermarket to make dinner. Six minutes of pointless dialogue about how amazed Yuuhi is of instant curry follows. We get it after the first few lines! Yuuhi talks about how she eats at home as Kugimiya Rie butchers French Japanese transliteration. She's rich, naive, aloof, we get that. Is it supposed to be funny that Yuuhi doesn't know about instant curry and thinks that her cooks and servants don't either? How overblown does the reaction and enlightenment need to be? There are lots of girls in this anime, some who look pretty interesting. Are we going to get episodes about them? With curry? That actually would be pretty awesome...

Watching anime should never be physically painful, but that's what I felt as this series slowly killed itself. It's the pain you feel a promising show wastes all the good things it had going for it and falls into mediocrity. Akasaka occasionally strikes silver (no gold in this show, sorry) with a few lines of interesting dialogue and good animation, but after every good or decent episode or plot development the series feels as if it has some obligation to make up for it by spewing crap at our face. It's like you're at an amusement park and every time you have some fun, a burly security guard has to give you a swift punch in the gut. The ending begins suddenly in the last 3 episodes and was likewise promising. Too bad the conclusion of the series was so predictable that I might as well have drawn the storyboards myself and the things that you didn't predict either have no relevance to the plot or are so cheesy and/or wrong you're better off not predicting it.

I'm a little harsh on this series because it really is a shame. Akasaka goes to show you how bad writing can absolutely destroy a series with everything else going for it. The art is good, the characters and landscapes are well drawn and fun to look at. Akasaka has a voice acting cast that would remind you of the New York Yankees, with the resulting mediocrity to match. When we have Kugimiya Rie (Shana, Louise, Taiga), Inoue Marina (Chiri from Zetsubou Sensei, Yoko from TTGL), Aya Hirano (Haruhi, Konata, Misa from Death Note) and Tanaka Rie (Chi from Chobits, Sugintou) in the same anime, we're going to be excited. I had my eye on this series ever since voice actors were announced and some art was available.

In the end, the voice acting was pretty good but by itself it cannot save a series. The music (besides the terrible OP) is good. It better be good when you have five voice actors with best selling seiyuu albums on your staff. Should there be an OVA about the supporting characters I would most likely flock to it with expectations held high. I've heard that the game this is based off was really cool. Too bad I can't say the same for the anime adaptation. read more

There are some shows that really have no business being bad. Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is one of those. When you look at the talent gathered for this series it practically reads as a who’s who of seiyuu talent. Unfortunately it is that talent that is one of the few bright spots in what is otherwise a pretty dismal series.

The story unfolds as your standard harem anime. I always find some of the ridiculous situations these writers come up with quite hilarious. A spoiled rich girl ends up living with a pair of siblings (not related by blood of course, more on that later) who just happen to not have any parents around because they are busy being John Steed and Emma Peel. Of course our rich girl, Yuuhi Katagiri hates our hero Junichi but announces anyway that they are now fiancées. I wonder if this kind of stuff really happens in Japan, because it happens an awful damn lot in anime and manga. So despite me really wanting to like this at the beginning, this show has managed to get itself off to a bad start with me.

However I did start to become pleasantly surprised as the story unfolded. Slowly we are treated to a pretty sweet little romance as Yuuhi and Junichi develop feelings for one another, confess and start down a path I felt was leading to a lovely romantic ending. That’s when they screwed it all up to hell. It’s going to be damn hard for me to express my disappointment with the turn this show made about halfway through without giving away too many spoilers. But it involves the ultra moe sister Minato and Japan's obsession with incestuous relationships involving close family members. Yes the anime does take great pains to point out that Minato and Junichi are not biological siblings. That’s not the point; your blood isn’t the only thing that makes you family. If you’re raised as brother/sister you're brother/sister, regardless of what your birth certificate says. In no way should siblings who know they are siblings be romantic interests. Even though this is a harem romance with many possible choices for the lead to make it very clearly becomes a choice between Minato and Yuuhi. It’s creepy, disturbing, and completely disgusting.

As characters, there is nothing particularly interesting about the three leads. If you have one harem you’ve seen this one. I only found the mains compelling for about the first half of the series before Minato became a love interest. I did find most of them likable in the beginning just not original or inspiring. The supporting cast has little to recommend either and is largely just background scenery. Probably the silliest characters of all are Minato and Junichi's parents as their various spy stories are told throughout the series. These have nothing to do with the main plot and feel totally out of place and stupid. I think it was supposed to be clever and witty. Fail.

As I mentioned, Akane-iro does a great job with its voice cast and music. We are treated to quite a bit of songs, as there are a lot of ending themes sung by almost all of the seiyuu who do singing work. It’s a shame that the story and dialogue were not on par with their talent. I am not a huge fan of the art though. It reminds me a lot of CLAMP, tall way to thin characters that are just too "beautiful". Big eyes, cutesy hair accessories, and gravity defying bosoms and boys who could easily double as girls if you have those boobs and skirts dominate.

In the end this series was a prime example of how to waste great acting talent with a clichéd story, lackluster production values, and creepy plot elements. Giving it a 6 is probably generous to how disappointing I found this series as a whole, but I really did enjoy the first half of this anime a lot. If you simply must see every harem romance out there and are not bothered by incest then by all means watch this. Everyone else should just steer clear and avoid the disappointment.
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Watching Akane-iro is akin to dating the hot blond in class, only to find out that the most exciting conversation they can field is who Britanny Spears will date next.

Akane-iro certainly had potential. Attractive character designs, famous voice actors, a decent sound track.

Sure, like the desire to go out with blond bombshell, the story of a girl forced to move into the house of his future fiancee... who *happens* to be a your average anime guy who just also* happens* to have a hot sister is not exactly original. But you think

"Hey, the voice actors and animations are good, and such stories, no matter how cliched, can be fun."

Too bad that after a few dates (episodes), the shallowness of series reigns supreme. Spas, School Festivals, Guy and girl landing in awkward positions... they're all here. While any anime featuring an over abundance of such scenes will not be a masterpiece, some can execute them well enough to at be pretty good.

Unfortunately, Akane-iro fails more than it succeeds, each filler episode is a cliches of cliches, with as much unexpected events and funny moments as watching your cat drink a bowl of milk. The visuals are cute, but nothing's going to make you stare at for 30 minutes straight.

Are there any redeeming qualities for Akane-iro? It may be worth watching for the few scattered non-filler episodes that are surprisingly good (Episode 5 and 11 on their own would score a 9), but these only serve to highlight how abysmal most of the filler episodes are , (say 4, 6 and 7), which land firmly in the 4 - 6 category.

Akane-iro's deserves only to run as a small window at the bottom corner of your screen, whose only purpose to provide a minor distraction as you try to finish that blasted assignment.
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Well... honestly, I don't know why I enjoyed watching Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka like I did, but here I am. I didn't take it seriously, though, for it was impossible to take it seriously. While I was watching it I was really just making fun of it most of the time. Why, you might ask? Well… it was just so darn stupid. Clichéd. Annoying. You get the picture.

The story centers around a seemingly normal guy named Junichi, who rescues a tempered girl named Yuuhi (what is up with that girl’s hair?) from some guys who were trying to pick her up (oh wow, an example of pure originality right there… not), and after misunderstandings arise and a first kiss ensues, it turns out that Yuuhi just happens to be Junichi’s fiancée. So she lives with him in his house under conditions of her father to see if he is a suitable fiancé, along with Junichi’s well-endowed sister Minato, etc, etc, etc. Now, this story has some potential… sort of. But the episodes were filled with so many clichéd moments it was just… bad. You know those moments, the romantic kind maybe where someone “accidentally gropes the girl’s breast” or someone “accidentally falls on top of the other person”. The typical “filler type episodes” are there too, such as a trip to the onsen or the “school festival episode”. These type of things can actually be fun to watch, for though they’re repeated, they’re repeated for the reason that they can bring enjoyment to an audience. However, in Akane-iro, it wasn’t funny or interesting or really…anything.

Now for characters. I am sorry to say there is not one character in this cast that I actually like. I don’t know why exactly, but none of the characters are likeable. None of them are original, though Junichi is a different protagonist than the general guy caught up in a harem of this sort. As the series progresses, you are supposed to either side with Yuuhi or side with Minato. This would make sense, typical love triangle. There is one tiny problem though… Minato is Junichi’s younger sister. Meaning, incest themes abound! For a while I’d thought that Minato was adopted, but I wasn’t sure if it was ever fully explained… so that was pretty stupid. I might have missed something though because sometimes I didn't pay attention. Go watch it yourself and see. Anyway, Yuuhi is the typical tsundere type, which I either really like or just am annoyed by completely. Unfortunately the latter won out the former on that one. Minato is more of a sweet, intelligent, and good at housekeeping type of girl, which also annoys me. Junichi’s friends, the minor characters, were okay, like Fuyuhiko and Tsukasa. The student body president amazed me with her absolutely insane hair. Forget the comment about Yuuhi’s hairstyle, just look at Mitsuki Siina! Seriously, how does she do it? Does she get up at 3 AM and just slap on the hairspray?

Anyway. Moving onto sound, which is the reason I actually started watching this show. I came across it randomly from what I saw a friend was watching and I decided to watch it not only because it was on a whim but because of the popular voice actresses in this series, like Rie Kugimiya, Aya Hirano, Emiri Katou, and Inoue Marina. They all did a good job, all the voices fit their characters. But for some reason, I just could not stand Junichi’s voice at all. I’m not sure why… I guess I just didn’t like it. The music didn’t stand out much, and I don’t really like the opening theme at all, though it could get in your head (regrettably so). I never much paid attention to the many ending themes. They were sung by the various voice actresses I believe.

The animation…it’s okay, but it’s not that good. Movements are generally stiff, the anatomy often looks wrong with people out of proportion. It’s not fluid and it has no flair. It’s nice enough to look at, I suppose.

I was going to give this a 5… but I suppose I shall give it a 6, for I did like watching it most of the time, even though I thought it was terrible.
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Preview:
Suffice it to say that an angry highschool-girl/bear orgy in a hot spring( which totally should have happened in episode 6) would have been a great way to separate this piece of crap from the crowd.

Review:
Witness THE GENERIC HAREM ANIME STENCIL!!!

I have just found a new way of watching anime. Within the first 5 minutes, if i realize that it's a piece of crap, I can skip through each episode in about a minute and just piece together what it's about without missing anything important.
(maybe 10 clicks through the timeline, stopping to watch for a few seconds every now and then)

Using this amazing new technique i can say that this anime is the same as a hundred others. I have dubbed the creation method of this type of anime: THE GENERIC HAREM ANIME STENCIL. ( btw "Beck" is awesome)

So we have two chicks, one the main dude randomly meets and the other his sister (?) and the rest of their class comprising this boring harem. Uhhh....we have some sort of all around infatuation with the main guy im not sure why.

Also the chick he randomly meets gets to (WAIT FOR IT!!!!) randomly live with him for whatever reason. Cause, hey look, you know its hard to write material that generates sexual tension without every love interest living in the dudes house... (stop reading and go watch Beck)

Something concerning military stuff happens during the show...not quite sure why or what but it probably doesnt matter.

Suffice it to say that an angry highschool-girl/bear orgy in a hot spring( which totally should have happened in episode 6) would have been a great way to separate this piece of crap from the crowd.

Oh right so that hot spring scene i never saw coming...same with those scenes where the main dude is alone with each of the chicks in the rain or in a cave or on a scary walk or a haunted house or uhhhh a farm? Anyway I bet 50 bucks that it happened in a contrived manner which is where I was going with that...

OH YEA. I definitely hear the voice of Asuran from Gundam Seed in this show AND a gundam shows up....and a big octopus....who im sure had insane super-robo sex but again im skipping through.... (are you watchin Beck yet?)

So the last 4 eps were pretty uneventful other than the lucky click i made where the sliver haired chick was in the shower but again i was pressed for time and couldnt watch to see what crazy stuff would happen next.

In summary: more beastiality coulda helped this stupid show. Also I had Dennis Leary's Lock and Load in the background so that made it awesome, hence the 2 out of 10 and not the 1.

One more thing. Go buy or DL Beck. Go see it. Its the opposite of the lifeless drivel i just reviewed. ITS AWESOME!!! WATCH IT IN ENGLISH (seriously its far superior that the j dub) IN ENGLISH THE DUDE WHO DID YUUSKE FROM YUYU HAKUSHO IS IN IT AND HES RAPPING I SWEAR TO GOD. read more

Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is a romance comedy slice of life series that centers among one male lead (Junichi Nagase) somehow ending up in a arranged marriage with a transfer female student (Yuuhi Katagiri). Due to the arrangement, Yuuhi receives permission to stay at Junichi's house where his sister (Minato Nagase) also resides in. Although this series did have its good moments, it was an overall disappointment for the most part.

From the early episodes, the concept between an average guy and a tsundere bride-to-be living together seems like it will bring promising results in the series. However after the early episodes, unnecessary random events (that often failed to deliver good results in comedy) started to come up often in the story. Due to these random events happening often, the main concept of the story was hardly focus upon and it is a bit of a shame to see that happen. From dealing with the unfunny random events in the story, most viewers have to be questioning why they ended up bothering their time with this series.

The characters were also a disappointment for the most part. The male lead Junichi is the usual indecisiveness protaganist that often can be annoying at times in the series. The supporting characters also tend to bring their usual (and sometimes annoying) character traits that often makes them feel unwelcome to the audience. The main female leads Yuuhi and Minato were mainly the only characters that did manage to bring some good moments to the series, even though it was a disappointment for the most part.

The animation was one highlight in Akane-iro I did enjoy. The character designs were provided with good coloring with no corners cut in this series. The backgrounds also manage to bring along good visual results to the audience.

The sound portion had its decent moments also in the series. The opening and ending themes are generally good songs and fit the appropriate theme to Akane-iro. The bgm's tend to be alright and are nothing that special to the series. While the seiyu's are generally good for the most part, it is unfortunate to know that talented seiyu's (like Rie Kugimiya and Aya Hirano) ended up voice acting in a very disappointing anime series.

Despite the fact that Akane-iro has its good moments, the random events and lackluster ending were the main results that made the entire series fall flat from its expectations. To those that are looking for a good story and characters should avoid this series, because you will not find it here. read more

Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is pretty much your basic "harem anime, " and I have to say that it stays pretty tried and true with its formula.

It starts off with Junichi (main male lead) meeting this mysterious rich female transfer student (Yuuhi) who has been forced to marry him by her dad. This happens early on and you would expect the rest of the anime to have them slowly grow close to each other, but oddly enough it doesn’t really do that, even though they are the main couple of the title. For most of the anime it seems to have Junichi and his friends simply messing around having fun, from having parties on a boat, to school festivals and the like. Now I realize that with a title that has "slice of life" elements to it, this would be a standard formula for them to use. The only problem is they tended to stick so much to the gang just having fun, that I honestly forgot that Junichi and Yuuhi were even suppose to get together. There is even talk at the beginning that Junichi has some weird alternate personality to him, (which he does) and at that point I was expecting it to play some sort of key role in things, but again it doesn’t really do that. In fact from what I remember counting, he only shows it about 3 times during the series. And even at the end of the anime I am not quite sure just what kind of "major" role it played in things, as it seems they could have removed it completely from the story and it wouldn’t have mattered. Now things do start to pick up "romance wise" in the title, but that doesn’t happen until around the last three episodes. When I say that this is a harem title that is a bit of a stretch, because out of the nine girls only three actually like him, and one of them it doesn’t really even go past words. Now I have to give credit to them on the ending, I certainly wasn’t expecting it to end the way it did when I first started watching this, and it sure was a different kind than most viewers will be expecting too. Plus it actual does conclude and he ends up together with one of the girls, so that’s a big plus. So you don’t have to worry about investing your time in this only for it to end without any kind of resolve. Even though this title does have some echhi-ness factors, it doesn’t really go too deep into it. You may see a casual panty shot about three times in it, but most of it comes in the form of cleavage shots, and even that isn’t really shown off too much. There is one episode where they visit a hot spring (or take a bath in general), but the steam censors it, at least the version I watched did. So anyway, because it doesn’t really focus on the romance for a good portion of the show, you kind of have to take the enjoyment on an "episode by episode" case. There is some decent humor in this, but I don't think it will be enough to keep you into it. There is a small plot going on about what Junichi actually is, it can get interesting at times as more hints are given out as the story progresses...even if its not really well explained at the end.

The animation was good in this, while nobody ever really moved around enough to get a true judging on the whole "fluidity" aspects of it, the characters did come off with a certain charm to them. And I have to say that some of the hairstyles on the women were kind of bizarre--yet oddly charming. You get a lot of sunset scene here and it looks good enough to at least make you take notice of it. But the character design is probably the best thing regarding the art, while they weren’t really drawn highly detailed, they did have appealing qualities such as (again) the hairstyles, expressions, and the clothing that they wear. The backgrounds never really stand out though, they are not drawn badly by any means, but not detailed enough to really take notice of them. Which in turn could be either a good or bad thing, because it makes you stay focused on the characters themselves.

The opening and closing theme were pretty nice, they both contained a bit of a happy--yet sincerity style to them. For some reason the opening makes me kind of sad, not because its bad, but just the way the music is displayed. Now I have to talk about my favorite aspect of this anime, and that was the voice acting! I won’t go as far to say that it was spectacular or anything, but I did feel that each characters voice matched beautifully with the characters. Especially with a female named Minato, she had that kind of "nice girl" personality to her, and her voice actress complimented that very well for her. Nothing really worth mentioning about the background tracks, nothing there is particularly memorable, in fact even now I can’t really remember much of it.

There are over twelve characters in this anime, but unfortunately you only get actual character development with three of them. Even to this day I am still unsure as to who some of the supporting cast members actually were, due to the fact that some would only show up every now and then as the story progressed. Nobody should ever really come off as annoying to the audience, though some people may be turned off with Junichi. Because despite his whole "double personality" ordeal, he doesn’t really have much of an impacting persona, and seems to just kind of, well...be there.

So in conclusion, Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka isn’t the worst of the harem titles out there, it really isn’t even a bad anime in general, the story is what really brings this title down. Though I did end up finishing this, only because I don't like to drop something when I am well into it already. (again you can't anticipate any of the overall story since it doesn't really build much up, you just have to enjoy each episode as it happens if at all possible) If you’re a hardcore harem fan and want something that is unique to the genera, then you probably should just look elsewhere, because this one is pretty standard fare. But if you’re looking to maybe get into the genera, or are willing to go in with lower expectations, then I think you should be fine.

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Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka is the newest eroge adaptation by TNK, which are more famous for their work in School Days. Oh, another eroge made into an anime...inb4lameharemrite? Thats probably one of the first thoughts what will cross your mind when approaching this title, and to be honest you are not that wrong. If you cannot handle these times of anime, then you might as well give this a pass.

Story: The story is nothing out of the ordinary for this anime, it follows a lot of cliches many animes have done in the past for this genre. The main heroine Katagiri Yuuhi, gets into trouble with some strangers, and gets rescued by the main lead Nagase Junichi. After a series of misunderstandings we learn that Yuuhi is Junichi's fiancee as decided by their parents. And now they must learn to get along while Yuuhi lives with Junichi and his sister Minato.

Art: In terms of art this showed a lot of promise. With interesting and beautiful character designs that look perfect as long as they are still shots, because unfortunately throughout the series there were times where the animators got sloppy and the characters looked distorted and sometimes plain ugly.

Sound: In terms of sound, this is probably where most of the people will get drawn into the show. The voice cast of this anime is just something to make your jaw drop, we have top quality voicing from Kugimiya Rie, Hirano Aya, Hirohashi Ryou, Tanake Rie, Katou Emiri, Inoue Marina, and more playing major roles in this show. And they all portray their characters very well as expected by such good seiyuus. On voice cast alone the sound part would get 10/10 but VA is not all there is to an anime. The actual music used for the anime is rather simple and none really stand out much. So 8/10 is a fair score to give this show.

Character: This is probably both the best and worst part of the anime. The characters are diverse and interesting, and you feel like you wanna learn more about all of them. However the anime only focus on the main heroine Yuuhi most of the time leaving the rest of the cast in the shadows. And then the anime proceeds to throwing away all effort they put in character development with a very disappointing ending. It feels like the anime wasted a great cast of characters.

Enjoyment: I would be lying if I said I didnt enjoy the show somehow. It certainly wasnt that great of an anime, but it had its moments where I honestly had fun watching it. It depends on your tolerance with these types of animes.

Overall: The show was nothing out of the ordinary. A lot of stereotypes and pretty terrible writting and producing turned this anime from something that had a lot of potential into something mediocre with not much to remember. It feels like this show could've been much more that it ended up being, and its a shame that wasnt the case. If you are looking for something that is different from the rest of the shows out there, this show is not for you. If you are looking for a show to waste some time, then by all means go ahead and give this anime a try. read more

Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka is a Romantic, Comedy like any other. That’s pretty much all there is to describe this mediocre anime series and if that doesn’t satisfy your information needs then by all means continue with this review.

“Seen it, been there, done that…” Those are the thoughts that came to mind whilst I watched the first episode. It starts of ordinary enough when some posh girl (Yuuhi) is helped out by some guy (Junichi), who’s pretty well-known for some stupid rumour. Well at the beginning of the new school semester it comes to no surprise that said girl transfers to Junichi’s school and thus begins their rocky relationship. Now I’ve got to say the end of the 1st episode was pretty funny because it was rather unexpected but after that brief moment this anime soon reminds us that sticking with the norm isn’t always the best choice. Here we have a barrage of anime tropes & clichés however I think this anime goes out of its way to contain every single romantic comedy cliché imaginable, including the arranged engagement between Yuuhi & Junichi and the two living together.

For the most part it is a series of random misadventures ranging from stuff like the old abandon school expeditions and even these mundane moments could have been more interesting if the characters weren’t so ordinary. There are a whole bunch of characters here, like the typical nurturing sister whose name I forget but the only ones worth mentioning are the main pair Junichi & Yuuhi. Like a lot of people I absolutely hate the loser type protagonist that appear in the romance genre, which is why I should like Junichi for not falling into the category but sadly apart from some amusing moments I just can’t seem to get used to this guy who always seems to have a chip on is shoulder. It doesn’t help when there’s a heroine like Yuuhi, where you just have to think of her as an older version of Nagi (Hayate no Gotoku!).

Well it’s no surprise that Nagi comes to mind as they both share the same voice actor and there are also other similar voices to be found here, seeing how this anime has a lot of well-known VAs and sadly that’s what stands out and not the music or the cheesy SFX. The animation on the other hand just doesn’t stand out at all. With a very similar look to anime such as; H20 & School Days, the only feature that seems to stand out are the girl’s exaggerated hair that no one could find appealing.

Overall Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka actually had a decent romance going on at some points but the random misadventure only proved to be a great annoyance to the story & the romance’s progression. Stuff that’s supposed to be funny just wasn’t but at least there are a few random things to chuckle at. In the end I was driven to despair, because this anime actually had some potential but did its best to ruin it every step of the way. read more

Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka has potential, but fails to deliver it throughout the episodes. The first episode sets up the story, and it is certainly interesting. However, unfortunately from there, it goes downhill. From a great introduction, Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka then becomes dully episodic, and most of episodes have little to do with with the actual story. The plot is really only addressed in the last 2 episodes, which, I have to admit, does do a decent job in wrapping everything up.

The characters are unique, but their development throughout the anime is pretty bland.You can just expect how each character would act in any given situation. Yuuhi is the obvious tsundere would would always deny her true feelings and make it obvious that she's doing it. She almost does this in every single situation... It's interesting to watch her in action the first few times, but afterward, something new is needed, but never comes around.

Sound and art are decent. Nothing bad, but doesn't deliver anything amazing or new either.

The comedy is decent, but good scenes that really makes you laugh out loud are rare and infrequent.

Overall, Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka had potential, but the anime in its entirety does not meet up to expectations it sets in the beginning. I suggest this only if you've ran out of other things to watch. read more