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Spotlight Anime: ef - A Tale of Melodies. MAL Anime Information Page: ef - A Tale of Melodies. MAL Score - 8.24 (37974 users) Ranked - #275 Popularity - #396 Please approach this thread as a critical review of the work in question. Avoid fallacious arguments to the best of your ability while taking these criteria into account. Story: Characters: Art / Animation: Sound / Music design: Other production elements. If you are having trouble writing up a review or coming up with specific pro's and cons, please don't worry. Just do the best you can with it and if you can only write two or three sentences about any of the 4 elements then that's OK. Not everyone here is currently at a level which will allow them to articulate their thoughts and opinions completely. After your initial post is made you can feel free to civilly discuss issues of contention. Everyone has the right to their opinion, please try to be respectful to each others views and formulate constructive arguments in response to the work being spotlighted. |
Rosa_FOEtidaJul 24, 2015 4:05 PM
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| I guess I'll start my review about this series. As personal opinion, this series is one of my favorite titles, prior to its prequel ef: Tale of Memories., an adaptation by Shaft from a visual title "ef: Tale of the Two." First of all, watching this series before the prequel is not advised, it is better to watch the prequel then proceed to this one. Lets proceed to review: Story The story has 2 different plot: Same as the prequel, with different pair of characters. If the prequel runs both plot at the same time, in this case, the other is just a reminisce, and the other is set in present. The story clarifies most questions about the prequel's mystery, because most characters herein are present in the first series, but not explained much of them. The story contains a mysterious fast-paced romantic suspense that has different conflicts, both plot has different conflict to solve, and it is parallel to each other. Personally these plots are one of my favorite plots I ever encountered. It has a nice suspense and the pacing is nice. Though not the best plot prior to the first season, I still value it as very good. It still has flaws like The pacing is really fast, it lacked some development to prolong the romantic scenes, but as a suspense genre, it doesn't really matter. Characters The characters are quite familiar to you if you had watched the prequel. If in the prequel they are just supporting casts, in this series they are the main characters. The characters are quite abnormal in my opinion, being the conflict is themselves, and the plot revolves around them. The development is fine though, and the personality fits themselves. Some characters are quite not developed though e.g. Nagi Hirono, has potential to has some nice story but not really happened. The characters are like a literal character in a story that the author forces them to be something to fit something. Art The art has left an impression to me. The art of this anime is masterpiece. The metaphorical art is very nice, and the characters are mediocre to fine in terms of my taste of character animation. The environment fits the plot of the story. Shaft is one of my favorite studios in animation. Music I really liked the Soundtracks of this series, though not perfect, but the music is really remarkable. There are two versions of the OP : the English version and The Japanese version, both are very nice. Overall this is the one of the best romantic suspense I watched. Though the first series is better, this series serves as a clarification of the questions you will encounter watching the masterpiece of the prequel. Story 9.5/10 Characters 9/10 Art 10/10 Music 9.5/10 Overall 9.5/10 |
| *Note: I watched Melodies quite a while ago, so most of it is a blur to me.* Melodies > Memories It's much richer in content, portraying value of life, trauma, guilt, denial, fate v.s. free will in an incredibly engaging manner, with characters that are easier to get behind than a completely bland guy and two nuts-in-the-head high school girls in a terrible love triangle. The only real concern I have for the series, with respect to this club's tastes, is the very in-your-face drama. The presentation's certainly powerful, but it can be overbearing if your heart isn't in the work. I'd say yes. |
| I prefer more Memories than Melodies, but Melodies is better. Melodies is more mature than Memories and thus explore more interesting themes. The music is beautiful and works very well with the art. Just from the art itself this series will get a yes from me and I think it should be enough to be inducted since it is an exemplary title in anime in this regard. |
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