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Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You (TV / ONA).

Kimi ni Todoke is about a girl named Kuronuma Sawako. She is nicknamed Sadako (from the ring) because many people see her as strange and often mistake her for a ghost. A boy called Kazehaya kun becomes her friend and, to her, is "100% refreshness."

You're not stalking me, are you Blood-? I swear you seem to pop up in the same series discussion threads that I do.

The fact that the boy likes the shy/demure girl back is nothing new. Indeed, almost nothing in this show is "new"*, or even all that creative.

But that doesn't matter, because it is quite funny (once I had gotten used to its quirky SD humour), and surprisingly heartwarming. I was happy that the class apologised to her; that was actually unexpected and a really nice touch. It didn't need to be included if the show was just going to follow the standard formula, but they did. The backgrounds are - what's the word I want - "ditzy", with flowers and sparkles and flowery sparkles. That'll take some getting used to, as I don't really have much previous experience with Shoujo.

In the end, it was an enjoyable watch, and that's coming from someone who doesn't normally "do" Romance. Definitely going to watch the next two episodes to give it a proper go. It will be interesting to see if they can keep the show from going stale, or if they used up all their better ideas (such as the Ringu allusions) in the first episode.



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There is virtually nothing new under the sun, at least in the world of story-telling. Yet, we constantly get reinventions of old genres and such, so in a way there are new things, kind of.

Granted, not Bokura Ga Ita good, but still good.

In the end, it was an enjoyable watch, and that's coming from someone who doesn't normally "do" Romance.

I loved it.... barring some unforeseen drop in content quality, I'm sure I'm in until the end on this one.

I have a feeling I've gotten spoiled on slice-of-life romance after watching the absolutely brilliant Cross Game. But the contrast between the two is striking. Watch a few episodes of Cross Game and count the number of times the director feels the need to TELL us what a character is thinking. It's damn near close to zero. And yet, the amount and quality of the information we get about characters' thoughts, just by observing their actions and expressions, far exceeds what we get from Kimi no Todoke.

I can understand why you see Kimi ni Todoke as "meh", but comparing it to Cross Game is a little unfair. CG has 39 episodes to tell its story, while KnT only has 12. CG is, to me, primarily a sports anime, with a little bit of romance thrown in (although it could focus more on that later, who knows). But KnT is primarily a high school romance (albeit a lighthearted one), and thus wastes no time. I just see them as two completely different series. That and sometimes it takes a series two or three episodes to get good. I know when I saw the first episode of Kaiba, I was really weird-ed out with the story and visuals to the point that I almost dropped it at that. But I stuck with it, and now its one of my all time favorites. But that's just me.