Oct 20, 2009
School Days
(Anime)
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At first, one would think of School Days as another romantic comedy in a high school setting, and it does start off as such. Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, and girl goes to same school. Although he meets a matchmaker with seemingly no reason to help him out, it initially sticks to the cliches of its genre (even showing signs of becoming a harem show early on). As the show goes on, however, the tone changes. It becomes less of a romcom and more the degradation of many characters. By the end of the fifth episode, the main character enters a downward spiral that
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Sep 16, 2009
To LOVE-Ru
(Manga)
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After finishing Black Cat, I decided to check out some of Yabuki Kentaro's other works. Since I never found Yamato Gensouki, I figured I'd settle for To-LOVE-Ru, even though he only did the artwork and the premise was practically a carbon copy of Urusei Yatsura's.
To be honest, I actually found the first few dozen chapters to be fine. The jokes were largely hit-or-miss, but Yabuki's artwork and the chemistry between the characters kept me reading. All-in-all, it was a typical ecchi harem that didn't really wear out its welcome. But then, at some point, writer Hasemi Saki lost steam. Her jokes grew more and more bland, ... |
