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REVIEW: The Place Promised in Our Early Days DVD

I'm refering to the basic theory that time moves slower in space than it does on earth, thus he grows older as she stays the same.

I Would like to say somthing about this,
That in the special Trailer it shows different animation and parts of the moive....

But the thing is you don't see thoses part in the movie... so does that mean there are more parts of the moives what where not put in the North American version?????

Realistically, people do stupid things in the name of Love. I know two 30-somethings who still get torn up about High School romances. In both cases circumstances took their "love" away from them unfairly and prematurely. In normal circumstances, when people break up, or move away, people are quick to recover, but in other circumstances, like those of my friends and those in VODS, it takes much longer for people to actually get over what happens. Obviously they don't spend every minute of their day thinking about what happened, in fact most days they probably don't even thank about it, but every once is a while something brings those memories back. It could be once a month or so, or once a year. In VODS, we only see Noburo at those times.

Your desire for anime characters to have a brain is very similar to the false belief that likable characters mean that a show is good (I can't remember the literary term for this).

Many great pieces of literature are written about unlikeable people, stupid people, and/or regular people doing dumb things.

Personally I'd rather my literature and anime not pander to the lowest common denominator by making every protagonist intelligent and likable.

And besides, not all romances have to "make sense." Take one of the quintessential romances of literature, Romeo and Juliet. If you want to nitpick sense, that romance makes no sense. Just how stupid do people have to be in order to make the asinine mistakes that they did?

AND I'M A 16 YR OLD GIRL! I'm supposed to like this stuff based on my gender!
Actually, you aren't part of the target demographic for either movie.

Sorry if this looks like the staff ganging up on one person. It's mostly circumstantial that the three of us feel the same (well, that and VODS is a great show and our jobs are to recognize great shows :-p )

Yeah they do! You can have pretty animation, great diaolge, but charatcers with the depth of dirt. If you have an extremly bad character design, and very bland colors, but great charcters, you would still like the anime, wouldn't you? Without charcters it would just be a slide show with music. Charcaters are the heart of an anime, and with out good ones, the anime dies. I would think you, a fellow anime fan, would know that, probably having seen many like that in watching animes.

I read Romeo and Juliet a few years ago for school, and that is THE most highly overrated "romance" title I have EVER come across. It wasn't even romantic, more silly than anything else. R&J is VODS taken to the extremly. Both in there cases, unessisary.

The idea, in THEORY is very touching, but the EXECUSSION was done all wrong. Even my friend aggreed. In

Anything with romance is aimed toward woman. That's pretty much an unspoken rule, and the premises of both of these movies is apparently "romance" (in this case I use quotations because this term, to me doesn't apply to this movie)

oh that's alright. I'm just glad no ones being mean about it. I tend to most of the time have oppinions different than a majority on issues,

Likeable characters & character development are not one and the same.

There are several shows I like that feature completely boring people as protagonists, others featuring complete dicks, and yet others featuring people who are embarassingly stupid.

However, I know for fact that shows with likeable characters SELL better. But quality isn't what sells these days... So yes, you are right about the general audience.

I hate Romeo & Juliet. I wrote a college paper on why it sucks balls.

Love Hina, Maison Ikkoku, 2 examples of two very different romances that are both aimed at men. The second one is even touching.

O another note, there's also the age issue. ALthoug the protagonists are young, I suspect that the viewers who like VODS are 20+

Dissenting opinions are great. Don't change.

I think I should kinda rephrase what I didn't like about this anime. The idea, in THEORY is very touching, but the EXECUSSION was done all wrong. Even my friend aggreed. In her words "If the relationship had been something over a course of many years it would have been alot more touching, but people who only know each other a couple of months just don't do that." And THAT is one of the major things wrong. If I had liked this guy and got to know him for a few months and he upped and left, sure for a while I would be worried, but I wouldn't spend my time doddling about it. If he happened to sent me a letter I would be happy to hear from him, but while I had waited I wouldn't have been this little depressed person, because honestly, I wouldn't have known him long enough to have that deep of an attachment. You don't have life time attachments with people you only know for a few months, the real world just doesn't work that way, we, as humans, just don't work that way.

Anything with romance is aimed toward woman. That's pretty much an unspoken rule, and the premises of both of these movies is apparently "romance" (in this case I use quotations because this term, to me doesn't apply to this movie)

Hate to keep harping on the same point, but you're again making some false assumptions. Noboru said that he was pretty close to her "during middle school," which strongly implies a relationship lasting more like a couple of years than "a couple of months" - which would easily be long enough to forge such a strong bond. Even if they weren't together that long, is it so unbelieveable that a person could be affected for life by a fleeting attachment? I've seen it happen in real life, and it's not an unusual theme in live-action movies or anime. (See Millenium Actress or Ai Yori Aoshi, for instance.)

Ever watched Ai Yori Aoshi or read the manga? That's one of the better anime romantic comedies out there, yet it's undeniably targeted primarily at male audiences. (The fan service in the manga alone should be proof of that.) As you watch more anime, I think you'll find that there are many other romantic anime out there which are aimed at male audiences or, at worst, are designed to appeal to both genders. (Then there's Koi Kaze, but I'll be damned if I can figure out who the target audience was there. . .)

And what's all this dissin' on Romeo and Juliet? A bit overly melodramatic, granted, but still one of the classics.

It couldn't have been, because remember he says that him and his friend started the plane their second year of middle school. Since middle school is 3 yrs in japan, he only had a MAX of one year knowing her.

I LOOOOVVVEEEE Millenium Actress!!! I love all of his movies actually.

(twitch) I....HATE...Ai...Yori...Aoshi...

Aoi: "Kaoru-sama, Kaoru-sama, Kaoru- *slaps Aoi* SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPP!! That is ALL she does! I hate sexism and the traditional roles of japan. I'm sorry, but this anime sicked me, and the ONLY time I have really seemed like a Feiminist is when I lead people away from this show. I've seen all of it, and trust me, it was a pain in the ass to do. I liked the last vol but that's it. I don't think any guy in THERE RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO SEE IT! It may seem like Love Hina with it's nudity (manga only) but Love Hina is on a pedistule compared to this show. I think I hated this more than VODS and TPPIOED. Pure and utter CRAP....*breaths DEEEPPLLYYY* I'm better now.

Never seen Koi Kaze, and I know no one who has either....

Er, you're getting VODS and Place Promised mixed up here. I was talking about the former, you're talking about the latter. But concerning Place Promised, who's to say they didn't know her before they started working on the plane?

Really? That surprises me a little, since it's an excellent example of the "love based on a brief relationship" thing that you've said you don't believe in. After all, the heroine in that one only knew the painter for a few minutes, yet had her entire life shaped by that encounter.

This reaction doesn't surprise me. Probably my second thought about the series - after "wow, I'm really impressed" - is that it wasn't going to sit well with American fans with a more feminist bent. Not all women are going to have that same reaction, though; I showed the series to my sister once, and she not only loved it but commented that she knew girls in high school with personalities and motivations very much like Aoi's. (A scary thought.)

As for guys not wanting to see it? I'm a guy, and I was drawn in by how right the lead characters are together. It isn't about the woman pandering to the man or how Aoi's a dream woman, either. Kaoru had his own issues, as do most of the other female cast members, which gave the series more depth than series of this type normally have. Most importantly, though, the scenes where Aoi and Kaoru embraced just made me melt. I can't be alone in this reaction, either, since Ai Yori Aoshi was a surprise smash hit on both sides of the Pacific.

It's a serious, incredibly tender, and exceptionally well-written romance about forbidden love (specifically incest). If the concept doesn't freak you out too much then it's well worth seeing.

VODS and this movie were boring..nothing to keep me WANTING to watch it. I can't sit there listening to people talk for 40 mins with out ANY action. I don't care what it is, but anything besides hearing people talk the entire movie. It's like a long lector with music and pictures. (Not good for me considering I have ADHD sometimes...or atleast adult ADHD where it isn't as bad as the regular kind, but if there is nothing to hold my attention I will turn it off.)