Golden Time, White Album 2 Recommendations
The plot are amazing, intense drama and appealing and they will make your heart shambles.
If you are a fan of Romantic Drama scenes with a bit of Comedy these two anime should be worth watching to you.
These two are masterpiece in their own story.
I might says. "DO NOT JUDGE THE BOOK BY ITS COVER"
If you want to feel what I've felt then watch this.
Both shows focus on melodrama and romance. There are love triangles in both shows.
This one's kind of hard to put into words, but I think it holds up in the end. If you liked Golden Time, there is a good chance you might enjoy WA2 as well, and vica-versa.
I watched White Album 2 a long time ago, and recently finished Golden Time. White Album 2 is one of my favorite anime of all time, and it left an emotional crater in my chest for weeks after finishing it, which is a very big difference from GT, but while I was watching through WA2, I had a constant feeling of restless unease, as if I internally wished protection on
its characters from getting hurt. My thoughts were screaming at them while I was watching their stories unfold.
I had that same sort of feeling while watching Golden Time, and it reflected in my experience of it.
Both have a prominent love triangle that drives their plot through insecurity. Both are highly dramatic, with fitting comedy bits in fitting quantities. In both, the (male) MC is struggling with his feelings for two girls. Both have very pivotal and blatant climaxes that are reached through sudden escalation and urgency, resulting in an emotional rush that you can't look away from, very much like a car headed straight at a brick wall.
There are some differences between them, of course, so I'll mention them in case any might be a dealbreaker for you.
- WA2 is set in high school, and focuses heavily on musical and wintery themes, especially as the essence of the bonds between the characters.
- In GT, the MC is afflicted by amnesia which accounts for a lot of his indecisiveness toward his relationships. In WA2, the MC is just plain indecisive which may be much less satisfying in terms of realism for some. He's also passive, and people get hurt by this nature of his.
- Lastly and perhaps most significantly, WA2 has a very melancholic and poetically depressing ending. This is probably the biggest difference between the two, impacting so many things about its tone, narrative, characters, relationships, and more.
Bottom line: The way I felt while watching GT reminded me greatly of how I felt while watching WA2, which ultimately was a very powerful enjoyment even if it wasn't a happy one. It takes very good writing and storytelling to have that kind of effect on someone. They aren't "congruent" shows by any stretch, but I believe both are masterpieces in similar but not equal ways. If the differences between them that I mentioned aren't dealbreakers for something you'd watch, it may be highly probable that being a fan of one, you'll enjoy the other.
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