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DmonHiro
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Decent show, but shat the bed at the end when they diverged from the LN and came op with a really retarded plot about VR.
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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The show seemed leisurely paced in the middle and then was very rushed at the end. If the pacing had been a bit better managed I would have enjoyed the show a lot more. But it was entertaining enough and I did like the self-references and the parody of the genre elements. Oh, and Nendoroid Ruri was adorably cute.
By the way, doesn't "kanojo" mean girlfriend? So shouldn't the title be translated as "If My Girlfriend's Flag Breaks"? |
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Thatguy3331
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So that wasn't apart of the actual series? what was supposed to have happened then? Regardless I did have some fun with this series though I still can't get overspoiler[Nanami actually being Souta's sister. I mean wow they don't look a bit alike...] |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2246 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Kanojo can also be used to refer to any young woman as a 3rd person pronoun. It only really means "girlfriend" when using it in a possessive like "ore no kanojo". |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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So essentially, the way the Japanese say the term "girlfriend" is literally as "my woman"? Well, that's the progressive Japanese for ya. Anyway, thanks for clearing up my confusion. |
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Princess_Irene
ANN Reviewer
 Posts: 2652 Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City |
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Well, if you look closely, spoiler[their bangs are identical.] That's pretty slim, but given the spoiler[bladefield braids that all of the girls seem to have,] it sort of works. Kind of. |
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tcdelaney
Posts: 169 Location: Mittagong, NSW, Australia |
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This show just rubbed me the wrong way early on and I dropped it. With so many shows available each season; so little time to watch; and me becoming a grumpy old man
 if a show doesn't grab me in the first couple of episodes I'm no longer willing to give it more of a chance.
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Tenebrae
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Well that's an interesting assessment. I followed this series a bit due to the light humor, but the further we got more and more it looked like a rote harem series going by the numbers, until I just couldn't take it anymore. If I were generous I'd give it a C rating at most.
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Ali07
 Posts: 3333 Location: Victoria, Australia |
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For me, the underlying supernatural (or whatever you want to call it) element in this series, and the fact that the LN is ongoing, really hurt the anime adaption.
There were elements of mystery and another world, along with the whole "MC gets flag powers" deal...that seemed to get bumped into the background for a long time to focus on the harem, humor and school life aspects. Guess that, at the end of it all, I felt like they weren't exactly sure where the main focus of the show was meant to be. Then, the VR ending comes along... Also found that having the spoiler[homeroom teacher] thrown in there was a bit weird. Character didn't seem to be in the series much, but all of a sudden becomes a member of the group. And Megumu remains androgynous. 
I enjoyed some of the humor. Can't say that an episode went by where I didn't like something that happened in it. And then spoiler[pressing the reset button at the end] just made the show feel, to me, more pointless/directionless than it already did. Oh, and anyone else think that spoiler[Akane actually remembers]? When they play out a scene from the first episode in the last, it certainly came off like she does. Though the mention of a promise went over my head. |
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Jacquipuff
 Posts: 274 Location: Silver Spring, MD |
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Yeah, that was the impression I got, too, that spoiler[the similarity of what happened in the last episode to what happened in the first jolted her memory], or something. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the ending, but I really did enjoy the rest of the series, as strange as it got at times. One thing I especially liked was that, even though most of the girls (+ Megumu) were technically rivals for Souta's love, they still managed to stay good friends with each other. |
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DuskyPredator
 Posts: 15572 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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It had good ideas, but execution was a bit shoddy that direction either happened too slow for what was happening, or too sudden a shift. In my opinion it kind of makes me think of Shuffle where there was a high school harem setting, and more fantastical stuff, only this show tried to squeeze it all into too short amount of episodes.
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naki12
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"Kanojo" means "girlfriend" as well, but when used as the 3rd-person pronoun, it is the 3rd-person pronoun "she/her". As "girlfriend" it would be a noun not pronoun and you don't need a possessive for it to mean "girlfriend". "Kanojo" is never used as the noun meaning "woman". |
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