Hi i'm Matas, a 17 year old anime fan whose hobbies include but are not limited to: Anime, manga, TCG's/CCG's (Currently Weiss Schwarz and M:TG mainly), DDR/ITG, visual novels, music, drawing, traveling with friends, and recently collecting anime figures.
I'm pretty friendly and will generally accept random friends requests or reply to random comments, so go ahead and do either of those if you want to talk or something.
I also write reviews on here, i'm slowly getting better at them. I like using them to try to increase my writing skills and to get what I think about the anime across.
You won't regret it. There was absolutely no character development in the anime, they just immersed you in this entire circle of friends without allowing you to get to know them one by one. You probably don't know of Yuki-san's more sinister side, you don't know about Chiba-san's soft, protective loving side, you don't know how Nitorin struggled to get to where is is, you've missed everything. You've missed the part where you meet and fall in love with every single character in the story. You've missed their struggles in life, their failures and their triumphs. You don't know who any of them are. You know nothing about them.
Shimura-sensei takes things slow paced, but it's absolutely necessary to build the characters up. It's a character driven story, so without the character development, you have nothing. As someone who enjoyed Haibane Renmei, I'm sure you can understand why a slow start is important to build to something wonderful.
Anyway, sorry for my ranting and raving. lol. I'm just very passionate about Shimura-sensei's work. :P
Absolutely start from the beginning of the manga. The anime did the manga NO justice whatsoever. The manga starts years and years before the anime. The anime is just one short confusing segment randomly taken out of a much larger and more important story. If you've only seen the anime, you probably don't much like Saorin, right? Well, during the anime she went through a bit of a bitchy phase, but she's really one of the best characters in the whole story! Please, please, please start from the beginning. It is an incredible manga and worth every second you spend on it. The anime was a terrible representation of the masterpiece that was the manga.
If you want to look at some of Shimura Takako's other work though, the Aoi Hana anime very closely captures the feeling of the manga, and I was much more impressed with that adaptation. Though there's still no substitute for the whole story.
But please, please, read the entire Hourou Musuko manga from the beginning. It is a work of art, and you should at least do it the courtesy of appreciating it in full. You won't regret it.
Danke! I looked through them, and "Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki" looks like it's perfectly up my alley. I've heard that the .hack series are hit or miss, but I'll look into that one too. Thank you!
5cm/s manga's writing is much better than the movie--mostly thanks to not being so damn constricted for time. The story is fleshed out more and the characters are better developed. You just don't get the awesome animation and music. Though the art is still quite good.
Thanks man. I actually tried pretty hard on it. I even rewatched some of SAO which was especially painful. Your reviews are on point af btw. Except for maybe angel beats, but I haven't seen that yet.
Well, that was a fun ride. A stunning mind trip, to be more precise. Tried to process my thoughts after witnessing the finale as I pushed my jaw upwards after it hung agape. xD
What baffles me in the end was that
Ozu never had an exact monstrous amphibious face but he just looks like an ordinary squint-eyed guy with no good looks. Moreover, he doesn't have this cunning mischievous personality.
The white Hachiguman has finally been returned to Akashi at the end and by doing that, it's like our nameless protagonist has moved forward.
Seeing our protagonist make a trollish amphibious face in the end was like a role reversal for both him and Ozu. Wonderful. xD
The series was very deep and hard for me to follow at times because of our protagonist's rapidfire fast-paced narration. But on the contrary, I enjoyed the series as a whole. It kinda made me reminisce of the days I've spent during my College life, since I've been a College student for 5 years in my life too. (5 years because of the course I've taken :P )
Had to keep all those text in spoiler tags. Don't wanna spoil other users who would accidentally stumble upon your profile. :P
That ending was genius! I doubt I could forget about it, haha! :)
The series is really great and it provides me a huge amount of entertainment for its engaging storytelling. I am watching the series and hopefully I finish all episodes by today to see if our main protagonist will really find the happiness that he's been looking for, despite the fact that he's always been pretty much screwed around by Ozu.
And I really love the animation! :) The animators certainly have put a lot of effort in making the protagonist's narrations become visually creative and attractive, abstract or not. Can't wait to witness how it will all end!
You've given it a score of 10, huh? Hopefully my score would change after I complete it. Maybe!
