The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity
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| After hearing alot of praise for this manga, Here we are. I haven't read the manga but that might change because this first episode was 10/10. I caught my lonely ass smiling lol. Anime of the season? Quite possibly. :) |
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| Alright, the premise is cute, but it's because of Kaoruko herself. The directing of the first half was great, but the rest was just decent. Can't blame the anime, though; CloverWorks is going all-in with Kisekoi S2 so far. I once laughed at the overhype thread, but I can see why now (though I won't normalize the word 'overhype' over a single episode). 7.5/10 for Ep 1 only. |
| Dear God, Cloverworks is cooking so hard this season. And we are getting peak after peak almost every day of the week! |
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| WAHHHHH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ADAPTION they're so darn cute, beautiful animation from cloverworks as always >3< |
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| Good start to this series that I came into blind but by scanning through the comments apparently the manga is highly rated. I gotta say that the main female character, Waguri, is cute and pretty, excellent character design and it reminds me of Blue Box from a couple of seasons ago (but hopefully no harsh love triangle here). Anyways, I find it kind of strange in having a boy's high school next to a girl's private high school and I chuckled when I noticed that the girl's high school has their curtains closed except at the end when Waguri peeked out. So now that they have both realized that they both go the schools next to each other I wonder how long it will take before they start walking together. |
| Amazing pilot episode. Haven't felt this excited for a romance anime in a long while. Definitely going to be my favorite anime this season. |
| The amount of cheesy tropes in just 1 episode gotta be a world record |
| Floyd Mayweather English Tutor |
| Amazing ep After waiting 3 weeks for it to become available, I finally got to watch it. Damn my favorite romance manga really got one of the best adaptations as if rn. Let’s pray the rest does well. Nice to see our mc and fmc, Rintaro and Kaoruko. Also, his gorgeous mother. Great animation so far. The Chidori and Kikyo beef is so strong, that boys and girl mingling is a sin. Kaoruko is truly a glutton. Man oh man does that cake look good. Love how Kaoruko respected who Rintaro was and you could tell she really wanted to meet him. Clutch save for Kaoruko by Rintaro. This ep adapted ch1. 10/10   |
JayDaAnimeLordJul 21, 3:53 AM
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki |
| This was SO good! It might sound rather cliche to have a delinquent boy from a boy's public high school and a girl from an elite girl's private high school fall in love, but how it's done here is extremely well done. Rintaro is always seen as scary. No matter who it is (other than his friends), whenever they see him, they run. They're afraid of him. The girls at Kikyo shun the boys at his school. They will have nothing to do with them. Enter Kaoruko. She eats regularly at Rintaro's family's cake shop, and seems to be a girl that must be protected at all times. She doesn't see Rintaro that way. She thinks he's kind. So, when he saves her from some punks who want to get to him, she believes he is truly a kind person. And then he finds out that she's a student at Kikyo. This is going to be fun! Also, Kaoruko's voice is done by Inoue Honoka, the daughter of the legendary Inoue Kikuko. She sounds just as soft and kind as her mother. |
| Natsukashii Anime, reviewer of anime old and new, with an emphasis on nostalgia. Natsukashii Anime Reviews |
| This is quality right here. Cinematography is probably my favorite thing about this and dialogues come close. Very enticing and makes me wanna watch more. I haven't started a new anime in more than a year, but I think I'm gonna be glad that I came back with this show. Good stuff. |
"Like rowing a boat, we enter the future backwards. All we see are scenes of the past, and no one can control the views of tomorrow" - Wit Studio  |
| A scary-looking boy from the worst school and a frail girl from a good family who attends the prestigious school next door… so is this going to be some kind of modern Romeo and Juliet? Really strong first episode. |
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| Watching this anime makes me wonder if innocence in an anime character only works if the character has an appearance that makes you feel very tender towards them. Well, while I wait to find that answer, I'll add that I feel comfortable watching this romance. I just hope it doesn't get to the point where the two main characters are so close that they seem to be married, but in reality they haven't even managed to express their feelings, as in a certain overrated anime that I'll mention just in case I read this message again in the future and don't remember which anime I was talking about: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten. |
| I tried to post in Spanish — the mods were not amused. “English only, thank you.” Okay. So much for being used. “Just copy-paste and click,” they smile, like that will make it right, But language gates aren’t freedom — they're censorship in white.  |
| The first encounter between Rintarou and Kaoruko. I was planning to read the manga, but when they confirmed the anime, I decided to wait. I really liked the first episode. I liked Rintarou and Kaoruko. And Kaoruko is very cute. They both go to schools that are next to each other, so let's see what happens now. The opening and ending are very good.  |
| It was alright I guess? Certainly expected more since this got hyped quite a lot. There were a few things I did not like, but overall it was not bad. Romance so far feels quite forced and a bit too fast. |
| That was a good first episode and those pure smiles from Waguri melted my heart. |
| After properly watching Episode One, and also watching My Dress Up Darling S2, I can tell MDUD is the studio's passion project, sadly at the expense of this anime and perhaps Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus, which I haven't started yet. The telling sign is the inconsistency of animation quality: Rintaro's CGI walking sequence at 0:40 of the OP, juxtaposed with the scenes depicted just eight seconds later, made me cry inside at the what-could-have-beens. This team can draw excellent animation if enough resources are given. See Akebi's Sailor Uniform. Here, they have to be selective on where to spend their time and money, For example, car animations are... ass, like they used Blender to move them from point A to point B and call it a day. On the other end of the spectrum, the sakuga moments like what the other users shared before are absolutely brilliant, like I can count the number of shows that have better shots than those with only one hand. Kaoruko's reactions and faces are some of the most expressive I've seen yet. Other stuff I noticed: - Episode structure, eyecatch, and title card is reminiscent of Your Lie in April. I was half-expecting wacci's Kirameki to play in the ED. - Just like MDUD S2 is Bocchi-fied, the gags include artstyle changes to a lesser extent. I hope it's not overdone here. KaoruHana's story feels like it should be taken seriously. - Kaoruko's face looks like a grown-up version of Akebi Kao's in some ways As for the story itself, I need more time to digest it. I just finished The Dangers in My Heart and am feeling kinda empty right now. By Cloverworks standards, the quality could be better. And yet at that state, it's much, much better than other shows out there. That says a lot about what the studio's capable of. The BD release may contain quite a bit of cleanup work. This show more than deserves to be a moving artbook! |
mo_laveSep 7, 7:40 PM
| Extremely predictable start. Cute girl likes sweets, scary-looking guy is actually nice, girl doesn't think guy is scary, guy heroically rescues girl, yada yada yada... Random bad guys immediately jumping Kaoruko before she even walked a block was eye-roll inducing. And of course, they immediately spot each other at school the next day. Kaoruko is very cute, that might be the only positive so far. But she's also almost impossibly sweet? Kind of disappointed for now, but I'll wait and see. |
| I'm loving this anime, I hope the next episodes are just as good. But I don't understand why people are so afraid of rintaro :( |
Reply to perseii
Extremely predictable start.
Cute girl likes sweets, scary-looking guy is actually nice, girl doesn't think guy is scary, guy heroically rescues girl, yada yada yada... Random bad guys immediately jumping Kaoruko before she even walked a block was eye-roll inducing. And of course, they immediately spot each other at school the next day.
Kaoruko is very cute, that might be the only positive so far. But she's also almost impossibly sweet?
Kind of disappointed for now, but I'll wait and see.
Cute girl likes sweets, scary-looking guy is actually nice, girl doesn't think guy is scary, guy heroically rescues girl, yada yada yada... Random bad guys immediately jumping Kaoruko before she even walked a block was eye-roll inducing. And of course, they immediately spot each other at school the next day.
Kaoruko is very cute, that might be the only positive so far. But she's also almost impossibly sweet?
Kind of disappointed for now, but I'll wait and see.
| @perseii this show is EXTREMELY vanilla, and almost every plot point is completely familiar/predictable/obvious. It's been one of my favorite this season for its visuals and production (and because I'm a sucker for Romeo and Juliet-type stuff), but this show will disappoint you further if you keep looking for surprises. |
Reply to eksratu
@perseii this show is EXTREMELY vanilla, and almost every plot point is completely familiar/predictable/obvious.
It's been one of my favorite this season for its visuals and production (and because I'm a sucker for Romeo and Juliet-type stuff), but this show will disappoint you further if you keep looking for surprises.
It's been one of my favorite this season for its visuals and production (and because I'm a sucker for Romeo and Juliet-type stuff), but this show will disappoint you further if you keep looking for surprises.
| @eksratu Appreciate the heads-up. I wouldn't say I'm asking for "surprises." Just something for me to go, "huh, that's neat" about. If not in the story itself, then in the way it's told, or in the characters. Still, I'm a little more into it after Episode 2. And it sure is pretty. |
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