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Lemonchest
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That's a bit of a shame. I was hoping for more than just a random series of vignettes that didn't make it into the first series, which is what it sounds like this is going to be. Still, hopefully there will still be moments like Renge making & losing a friend her own age over the summer that at least momentarily make the show feel more than just a sleepy walk through the countryside. I hope there won't be another "you're so developed for your age, Hotaru" bikini beach episode, though. There's only so much :Japan: I can handle atm.
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Angel M Cazares
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I pretty much agree with everything Paul writes about Non Non Biyori as a franchise and the first two episodes of Repeat. I am a bit upset by the rewind, but I can forgive the production if the episodes continue to be well made.
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mgosdin
 Posts: 1302 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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I enjoyed the first series, it's portrayal of country life resonates with my own rural Oklahoma background, and have no problem with the second going back and covering events from the same time period. It's all good as far as I'm concerned.
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JaggedAuthor
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I'm totally cool with this season sticking with the same time period in which the first series was set. The alternative would be a Suguru-less school - a prospect which probably bothers me more than most fans.
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Merida
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You're not alone, silent!nii-chan is the best! 
I usually get easily bored by this type of show but Non Non Biyori is just too adorable, i don't really mind the "repeat". |
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wastrel
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I admit I was very concerned after the first episode, which made it clear exactly what they actually meant by "Repeat". I was afraid they'd be replaying the same events from a different point of view or something.
The second episode has made it clear, though, that although they're covering the same time period, the events depicted are going to be different (or at least, so I interpret it). That's fine with me; just some more slices of life to enjoy. |
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Mikeski
Posts: 608 Location: Minneapolis, MN |
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Worked fine for Hidamari Sketch. If you need to have your episodes in order, you're not slice of life enough.
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leeoflittlefaith
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The first episode was confusing initially but it was such a good episode that I completely forgive it. Several funny moments and some quiet, poignant ones too, I just love Renge to pieces. The second episode was cute but less memorable. I'll keep watching because this show is always beautiful and capable of real emotional impact.
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Via_01
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The only thing I hate about this show is that someday it'll end, and that I'll lose my weekly dose of Ren-chon, whom I had missed so much, returning my life to it's usual state of bleakness and despair.
...in any case, I actually really like that they decided to go for a "repeat" of the last season. It's convenient, actually: they can't use seasons like winter or autumn again without making us go through the terrible, terrible experience of seeing Nii-chan enter high school and possibly leaving town for a while. |
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rikku45
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I don't like the idea of a sequel not actually being a sequel
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Alan45
 Village Elder Posts: 10018 Location: Virginia |
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@rikku45
They didn't call it a sequel. It is a repeat. It is not as though there was an ongoing plot line that needed to be resolved. |
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JaggedAuthor
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The new season's narrative approach reminds me of Hidamari Sketch - in a good way. Granted, Hidamari has a slightly more extensive time period with which to work.
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4536 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I admit that I was surprised that they went with the "same year, different days" format. I'd call it a "side story" format, but I don't know if you can really call anything that happens in the verdant fields, paddies, and hills of Asahigaoka village a "side story" if there isn't really a "main story" as such to be had.
I was expecting a season where everyone was a year older than at the beginning of the first season, but I don't mind the "Repeat" format as it does enable Suguru to be around. Given a choice between a "floating timeline" show, where everyone stays the same age and in the same year of school without any explanation given and the "same year, different days" format, where they make it explicitly clear that it is new stories set over the same time period, I'll take the latter. I think my biggest reservation about the "Repeat" format is that there may be more "filler" not directly based on the manga, though I'm presuming that Atto himself may have a hand in the writing of stories original to the anime. I rather wish Kyoto Animation had done the same thing for a hypothetical third season of K-On!, specifically covering the first two years of school, which were all crammed into a single-cour-plus-OVA 14 episodes, whereas the third year of school got 27 episodes and a movie. I presume KyoAni felt they needed to start the second year in the middle of the first season just so the otaku audience wouldn't complain about having to wait for another season (that might not have been made if the first season's physical media sales had been poor) to see Azusa, but the downside is that the first two years of high school really seem rushed compared to the third year in retrospect. |
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AnimeAddict2014
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i'm new to this series.. but is this similar to Haruhi 2009 ? |
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Megiddo
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Loved the first two episodes of NNB Repeat. It's definitely my favorite iyashikei series/franchise of the past couple years. Just watching the "class" play a simple game with rulers and pens put a smile on my face.
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