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It's not really Groundhog Day...but telling more about that would spoil the fun (if they go for the same structure as the novel). So let's just say it's similar, but not.

Maybe since I'm used to Zero Punctuation, I'm quite keen this.

I like the art, but I feel like I've seen enough of it before.
Other than this show's pretentious use of language, it seems interesting.
What I'm wondering about most is what will happen in the next episode. I hope the rewind wasn't just an effect to transition into the ED..
But he most likely fell. :o

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When I watch the opening, I thinking the same, and then appeared the Asian Kung-Fu Generation's credit. :D

Btw. am i the only who thinking Sakamoto Maaya have two similar roll the same season?

As with everyone, the fast text took me out of my comfort zone and questioned why i started watching this. However what i managed to read i liked. (I didn't help that i decided to ignore summaries too.)
I agree the animation looked really crappy, (the first player i watched it on was bad, resulting in bleeding eyes) and i don't think i can accept it for style.

So somebody on page 2 took that screen shot from like 10 seconds in. I didn't go back and re-watch the start, but that helped clarify that random certain sound effect. ty!

Its easy to see that the story this is based on must be very well written; with the comedy, characterization and humor deftly handled by the writer(s). I had to pause more than a dozen times and roll back the vid a few times to catch everything, but it was really worth it. Masterpiece of a first episode, this one.

I'd somewhat built this up in my head over the last few weeks (Yuasa fanboy), yet this first episode was every bit as good as I wanted it to be. I had no idea what it was about going into it, but I'm already hooked on these characters and really excited about how things might go. A surreal, epic, feel good love story awaits! I think if people can get past the surface level idiosyncrasies, they will find some surprisingly heart-felt romance and some delightfully bitter dialogue. This was the best first episode of anime I've seen for the longest of times.

Hoo boy, my brain is overloaded xD Keeping up with this when your native language isn't English = not easy. But I already like it :) And yay, main character's voice is Junpei!
Anyway, a bunch of interesting characters and a very unusual style are definitely a plus in my book. Spring 2010 makes up for my disappointments in winter 2010, so far.

i felt like i was watching something made by shaft

More like SHAFT wishes it could be the powerhouse that is Yuasa/Madhouse.

Victory---> I found a site with the subs. :)
This freaking rocks.

I am a SHAFT fan but ^^This

This is great! Just the kind of anime I need: tending towards slice of life, funny, unusual art, strange/mysterious. Reminds me a lot of Trapeze except less abstract and colour-intense. The fast talking is off-putting but I'll get used to it. (Props to the seiyuu~)

The ED is awesome. Yakushimaru Etsuko; I thought it sounded familiar! She did the OP for Natsu no Arashi S2, which I also liked a lot.

.....I tried. I really did.
I think I'll just wait for PT-BR subs, if someone here will have courage. Damn.

Phenomenal introduction, as expected from Yuasa and Madhouse. It was incredible visually speaking, the script is denser than anything I've seen animated except for Seto no Hanayome (I've NEVER seen that much dialogues being packed in a single episode, simple as that), and at the same time, it's quite clear : a guy will try to find love in living the same two college years again and again, only changing the club he enrolls in at the beginning of the year. Huge potential there. If you add to that two fantastic OP and ED, you certainly have the series of the season. Oh and I'm already quite fond of Maaya Sakamoto's character, Akashi. Then again, Yuasa is a master at creating great and strong female characters.

To sum it up, it was extremely complex, but brilliant, all hail Masaaki Yuasa as usual !

I can't do it. The text goes away too fast or I'm just not a fast reader. I had to pause so many times to catch up, but stopping and starting really takes me out of story. I'm gonna give it another try because it's a entertaining story and the visuals are pretty kick ass. Also I love the ED. The beat is so sick..LOVE IT.

I'm a very fast reader and I still had to pause. Pausing wasn't really annoying, but hearing someone talk so quickly for so long really gets on my nerves. Didn't really like anything I saw either. Eh, it's short. I'll finish it I guess.

I didn't like it much... I can't really pinpoint what I didn't like though (besides the fast talking, of course). I could read the subs easily enough, but it just doesn't sink in when you read them that fast...

OP - first minute is quite bad, last 30 seconds is really nice and catchy.
ED - nothing special.

Word. I had a hard time keeping up with that speedy narration, geez.

It had its funny moments though I'm not fond of the artwork. It's a weird anime and I'm used to weird because I've watched all the anime Kenji Nakamura directed. It kinda has a Kenji touch to it but I'm not sure if that will convince me.

I currently don't know what to make of this series but I'll give it a chance for a couple more episodes.

The ending sounded like a possible opening for Kuchu Buranko XD

I like Kenji Nakamura, especially for Mononoke, but his directorial debut was the Bakeneko arc of Ayakashi, which was released late in 2006, a couple of years after Yuasa directed Cat Soup and Mind Game, and about a year after Kemonozume — and Yuasa had built a career during the '90s as a key animator and such, long before Nakamura ever got his start. So I think you might want to look into those I mentioned, as well as Kaiba.

Okay, I bloody love the animation, OP, ED, but what's really going on? Not that I couldn't keep up with subs but what was actually going on in this? If it's just an intro for the other eps, fine, but it was a little bit confusing. What I gathered, but I might be wrong, is a guy goes to college, he joins a tennis club, he wants to make everyone unhappy so he teams up with a demon faced kid to ruin peoples relationships, something about fireworks, some girl, matchmaking, jumping off a bridge, okay please tell me what is the story in this?