Slow Start

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English: Slow Start

Japanese: スロウスタート

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 7, 2018 to Mar 25, 2018

Premiered: Winter 2018

Broadcast: Sundays at 00:30 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Houbunsha, Kansai Telecasting, Lawson, Kinoshita Group Holdings, Drecom

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: CloverWorks

Source: 4-koma manga

Genres: Comedy, School, Slice of Life

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.03¹ (scored by 21,887 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #3554²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1972

Members: 64,927

Favorites: 149

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Synopsis

Hana Ichinose, a 17-year-old high school student who is not only introverted, but also insecure and timid, has just moved and will be attending a new school. To make her situation more difficult, Hana is a "slow start," which means that she missed a year and worries about attending a class where everyone is younger than her.

During her introduction, the teacher reveals it is Hana's birthday, which gives her the jumping-off point to meet three of her classmates: Tamate Momochi, a charismatic and extroverted girl; Kanmuri Sengoku, who is shy and small; and the popular and pretty Eiko Tokura. Not wanting to lose the chance to make new friends, Hana's interactions with these three mark the beginning of some beautiful relationships that will change her life.

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Staff

Hashimoto, Hiroyuki

Director

Aketagawa, Jin

Sound Director

Shinohara, Masahiro

Episode Director, Storyboard

Aiura, Kazuya

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"ne! ne! ne!" by STARTails☆ (Reina Kondou, Ayasa Itou, Tomomi Mineuchi, Maria Naganawa)

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Ending Theme

#1: "Kaze no Koe wo Kikinagara (風の声を聴きながら)" by Sangatsu no Phantasia (eps 1-11)
#2: "Yuuyake to Issho ni (夕焼けといっしょに)" by STARTails☆ (Reina Kondou, Ayasa Itou, Tomomi Mineuchi, Maria Naganawa) (ep 12)

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Mar 24, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Fircoal (All reviews)

86 people found this review helpful

With the massive amount of shallow school-based CGDCT that exist you'd be forgiven for thinking that Slow Start is another one of those. While there are many shows that try to take a simple gimmick and turn it into a CGDCT show, that isn't the case here. It may look like it, after all the fact that one character is a year behind seems like a nice basis for a show so that it can set itself apart that little bit before going back to the old tropes.

Except it's not a gimmick and it's not treading the same ground. Rather it's going farther than most read more

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Mar 24, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

RPWPA (All reviews)

46 people found this review helpful

Slow start is one of the most disappointing anime I have seen in the "Cute girls doing cute things" genre and you will see why.

When I started watching slow start I was ready for another relaxing cute anime with cute characters but this was just not like that, I'm all for trying new stuff but that doesn't mean that when it fails then them trying will make it better than it really is.

Most of the characters were bad, 3 out of the 4 MCs are bad, first the MC is probably the most forced always worrying like character with most of the time all she is doing is worrying about the stupidest shit, then we have the loli character which at this moment feels like a child just staying with them and I'm personally starting to dislike her VA because of how overused her voice is tbh, then Eiko which I don't really like or hate her but the way she interacts with other characters is weird specially with her trying to act flirty and normal at the same time which made it look random and weird, Also the overused joke of how she gets every girl is annoying, repeating jokes is ok and it is necessary at times but when it happens every episode about 3-4 times that is just annoying, it's not funny listening the same joke again and again every week.

There are still good characters like Tama,Landlady, Hiroue and the teacher, they gave out the most enjoyment out of the anime and made it kinda bearable to watch when it started feeling like a chore rather than an enjoyable anime.
The times where Eiko tries to get the teacher to lover her and the teacher always making the comeback so easily was also kinda enjoyable.

Now the worst thing about this anime is the interactions, at times you are watching friends playing together then 1 second later and it almost turns into a full-on Yuri action which made the anime all over the place.

The art, designs (specially the teachers's and hiroe's design) and animation were outstanding specially the animation and how fluid it is, the interactions may have been horrible but the way they were presented was great, the attention to detail is perfect and it wasn't like lots of other anime where a character stays in place for 1 minute to talk instead they were moving and walking around the place which made it seem like a normal real life situation, there was that 1 scene where Tama moved her hand to tell Eiko to set down while Eiko was talking which was rare to see other characters moving freely and normally even though they aren't talking, it may not seem impressive but I thought it was a very nice touch.

Overall I would give the anime a 5/10.

I wouldn't recommend it.

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Mar 24, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

MetaThPr4h (All reviews)

29 people found this review helpful

Funnily enough considering the title of this anime, Slow Start went from an entertaining but mostly just good watch to one of my favorite series of this winter 2018 season as it progressed.

This story is focused on Hana, a shy girl who easily gets worried that she is a year behind the rest after not being able to do the exams for high school. That affected her and she couldn't handle thinking about what everyone else would think of her, so she ended up leaving her house and went to live in the apartment of her cousin Shion to start a fresh life where read more

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Mar 24, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

AmericanSomnium (All reviews)

16 people found this review helpful

"Slow Start" is true to the name in that not much of substance really happens over the course of the whole show. I enjoyed it. I liked it. However, I just want this to be at the forefront for those who are thinking they'll see obvious and planned character development over the course of the season. The entire season seems more like stage-setting rather than altering character, mostly to show the quirks of each character in a much more magnified light.

That being said I'll need to admit two things: This is really the second CGDCT I have ever watched, and I found myself in love read more

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