Fiji said: What an epic failure! Ahahahaahha.
Fine, different people have different tastes. Congratulations, now you can spend your time watching things you like and not waste it watching shows you don't like and posting about how much you don't like them on internet message boards! :)
[If you have specifics that you wish to discuss that detract from your enjoyment of the show or questions that, if cleared up, might change your opinion of the show, that is fine. Hate-trolling is not.]
Lirina said: I don't know about this. The song was really lovely but I don't actually enjoy watching cute girls doing cute stuff.
Well, that isn't really what this is. It is a slice-of-life drama. There are boys too. They have been more in the background up to this point, but it appears that Taichi will step to the fore in the next episode, according to the previews. So far this has been more 'cute girls confronting personal fears' than 'doing cute things'. If the fact that the girls are cute is the problem, I don't know what to tell you. In any form of TV show, you either have cute girls, sexy girls, beautiful girls, or all of the above. (Unless the show is only about boys, but they are unlikely to be uniformly unattractive...)
Marow said: The first ten seconds scares me. What the heck was that? o_o
Just like in the first episode, we get a glimpse of one of the main characters as a child. The first episode was Sakai playing with her mother, the second was Konatsu dancing to what appears to be her father or grandfather's excercise video.
Marow said: Great episode otherwise, but it felt a bit rushed. Perhaps this is just meant to be taken as a sort of prologue to the series. Otherwise I'm not sure how to feel.
See my comments at the end, which address this comment... :)
mdz said: I like the music, but what the fuck is wrong with their faces
Nothing from my perspective. What did you find wrong?
arrozykamehameha said: I was waiting for the rest of the choir to join in when they arrived.
By the way...
How come that she needs at least 5 people to make her choir club and the other guy is in the badminton club just by himself?
(I was too... thinking they would walk in singing and join in on the 2nd verse or something, like it was planned that way.)
My bet on the batminton club is that it was an existing club that he joined when he was a first year and the club keeps going unless there are no members. A new club has to show sufficient interest in it to warrent formation.
amc9988 said: And I was right that Sakai has something against music because of her mother, who most probably dead, too predictable.
Well, that much was in the articles about the show when the first PV videos started coming out, so it isn't like it is a big secret. Just because it is a commonly used plot element doesn't automatically make it bad, it all depends on execution. The way that the song was used to introduce the fact that her mother was her musical influence was done extremely well, in my opinion.
holypoop said: Wtf why am I enjoying this so much.
Because it is really good? Just sayin'... :)
chanotek said: Am I the only one who likes Sawa a whole lot more than Konatsu?
I mean Konatsu is fine, but I seem to like Sawa more. Favorite character is still Wein though.
I don't know if I like Sawa more than Konatsu, but I absolutely adore her! She is not at all what I expected that character to be from the previews! She is far more spirited and proactive. I expected her, frankly, to be like Nako from Hanasaku Iroha, with Sakai being Minko, and Konatsu being Ohana. As it turned out, that superficial similarity did not predict anything with these characters. Konatsu is nothing like Ohana. While Sakai seems to be abrasive like Minko at first, she is really not. And Sawa is absolutely nothing like Nako. The three characters are really nothing like the Hanasaku Iroho characters with the exception of the fact that they share the same character designer. (Though the original character designers were not the same, just the one doing the production of the anime, who is also the animation director.)
Several people commented on this feeling rushed, which I find hillarious, since most of the time shows like this get knocked for being too slow. This episode totally threw me for a loop! I was also expecting the show to be about the five main characters forming Konatsu's choir in order to sing in this district wide festival. Of course, that wouldn't really be a choir. The fact that they had so many people sign up to be in the group, making it a real choir, was a surpise, as was the fact that they went straight to the district wide concert as opposed to having the show be about practicing to get there. This leaves the rest of the show to explore the characters, their lives, and their friendship as it is brought together by music. The fact that the singing ensemble that will be the primary focus of the show is NOT Konatsu's choir club, but a private thing that comes up after that group has done their concert, never occured to me. Being totally surprised by a slice-of-life show's plot development is a rare event, indeed. Bravo to the writers! :) |