Forum - View topicREVIEW: The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan BD+DVD
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chito895
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Kyon x Yuki was my personal ship for the franchise, so when I heard the news that there was an actual spin-off about them I was reaaally excited. My excitement went overboard when I started watching the series, as I was getting what I wanted. It was all good, until they decided to pull off *that* annoying ending.
After building up the romance greatly during the Disappearance arc, I was expecting spoiler[them to at least get together or something, to only get an "I didn't hear you, sorry" tired twist. I was son angry that I even wanted to break my PC when they got to the Endless Eight joke. I really wanted an original ending to this. Now I have to read all the manga and see *if* they at least kiss or hug or whatever.] It's rather unfair, and I think it's my fault to hype this show a little to much. But hey, at least I got some fluffy moments between Kyon and Yuki and got to hear the old acting staff! I'm really looking forward to hearing the dub for this anime, as well. I only watched the first episode and I loved it. |
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rizuchan
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My biggest problem with Yuki-chan - including the original manga - is that the Yuki portrayed in it never felt like Yuki to me. She didn't even seem like the Disappearance Yuki. The Yuki whose personality she seems closest to is the Yuki in Haruhi-chan (which makes sense since it's the same author) but I didn't want a story about a parody Yuki, I wanted a story about canon Yuki. Yes, Disappearance Yuki was painfully shy, but she was able to take initiative. Yuki-chan turned her into a moe-blob that can't even take care of herself. (I also found myself anticipating Asakura snapping, which sadly never happened.)
It also made me inexplicably angry that they traded her love of books for video games. (And I'm a video game addict myself) Yeah, it was funny in Haruhi-chan, but it seemed like taking out a core piece of her character. Disappearance Yuki joined the literary club and was even writing her own novel - WHY would you exchange that for games? Plus it ruined her and Kyon's meeting, like "Oh no, I don't really care about books at all, I just happened to be at the library, oh, and I'm the president of the literary club..." 
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rinkwolf10
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Wait, the OVA is SUB ONLY. WTF, I was waiting for it to come out before finishing off the series and I find out that the last episode is not dubbed. This sucks.
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Greed1914
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Yeah, I was pretty disappointed by that considering Funimation had the recording for the series done in LA in order to get the whole cast. They've been kind of hit and miss when it comes to dubbing OVAs, though usually they dub them when it's another episode that is actually part of the show. Then again, given the unusual recording situation, maybe they decided it was too costly to do it? |
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NJ_
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Not only that but they didn't fix the episode where they had a different VA fill in as Ryoko Asakura, |
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pachy_boy
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While it's true nothing really happens or amounts to much--this was still a genuinely likable series and had charm in its own right. I fully appreciated seeing these characters we know and love live their lives in the non-mystical Disappearance world, and yet still find the way to gravitate toward each other as a group and still have fun (making one wonder whether or not there ever was a "right" or "wrong" choice for Kyon to have made in the movie). The soundtrack especially stood out, so much so I'm genuinely surprised it hasn't been released as its own CD. Overall, I think it does what it intended in a nice, easygoing way.
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maximilianjenus
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ha, Ia gree 100% so you saved me a lot of typing. if anything i'd complain that the review does not make enough emphaiss on this yuki not being the yuki from the haruhi series, she's way too different for it to work like that. |
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Animegomaniac
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I'm not sure how many ways I can say "no" and successfully express how wrong this statement is; It's not just the premise that is watered down, the characters and the design and the animation are not only subpar compared to the original series... pick any episode, even any Endless 8 episode and your eyes will be pleased with what they see; Or you can be really unfair and compare it to Day of Sagitarius III or Melancholoy part 6... but they're not even as good as Haruhi-chan. It's like they took the wintry tones of the melancholic Disappearance and applied it to everything. And then there's the designs. They're an improvement over the original manga... whose level of detail rivaled shoujo manga but without that medium's character detail... but every character except Haruhi looks somewhat off to whatever accident happened to Kyon. The series itself? The only reason I own it is because it's part of the boxset and I've still only seen the first 8 episodes prior to that; If the best that it gets is "It gets almost as good as Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" then doesn't that mean it's better to just watch the movie again instead? May as well say it; They should have called this series The Boredom of Yuki Nagato. And I've made it through Endless 8 twice... |
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wonderwomanhero
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I am happy to see Bridget Hoffman again. She will always be Mima from Perfect Blue but also Asakura. There are even videos of her being interviewed, on camera, for the first time by fans at conventions! She's got such a spellbinding voice.
She was unavailable for an episode? |
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Joshua Taylor
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The title is false advertising.
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Key
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It isn't because spoiler[Yuki's true personality disappears for a few episodes in the heart of the story]. |
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belvadeer
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I know right? Her performance as KOS-MOS in Xenosaga Episode I back in 2002 was how I got to first hear her and I've loved her voice ever since. |
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melmouth
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I loved it for one fundamental reason: here as in almost no other manga or anime, a timid person got to shine! As a timid person, I know that there is a lot going on unannounced inside those unheralded souls, and the manga of the Yuki Disappearance story showed how some of that goes.
Further, there is, in the actual "disappearance" in the manga, a real sense of how a timid soul might logically seek to escape from her established social role among those who know her AND the imperious demands of Japanese society that one always conform. I could totally imagine what she was up to. Still waters run deep. This manga takes the very unusual step of trying to eplore such depths. |
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