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redvelvetdoll
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I haven't seen this anime but i HAVE listened to the OP a million times bc Ai Furihata is my oshi. Her entire discography is 80s citypop inspired music and I adore it. And the music video for Hohoemi no Oto is literally just a recreation of an 80s era daytime cooking show where they make curry for some reason? She's all about vibes, love it
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Gem-Bug
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This is a series I was really excited for and then never ended up finishing, and the way that it can't be talked about without comparing it to older series I haven't seen doesn't really bode well for me ever going back to it.
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YackDe
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Enjoyed the show well enough until the last two episodes, where it really felt like they crashed up against a wall and realized they had no time left to resolve any of the lingering plot threads. At least Aoi came out relatively unscathed and her friendship with the not-dog was cute.
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MFrontier
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I thought this was a really cute and fun show. Very retro but with great production values. What If Maison Ikkoku combined with Urusei Yatsura for a modern sci-fi romance with an all-star cast? And I think they utterly nailed it with a likeable cast, great character designs, and a solid story.
I think the plot definitely escalated quickly in the last two episodes though I don't think there was anything that wasn't at least somewhat set up in an earlier episode. Though you did kind of feel it when Mira confesses to and kisses Miyasaka in a matter of seconds and they go on to fend off an alien invasion in a giant Mecha. But sometimes anime just rolls like that. |
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Brack
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This show is exactly the right length. Any longer and it would have become a tedious will-they-won't-they romcom. Hopefully they eventually remake Masion Ikkoku in a way that retains the rhythm of the comic, and this romanticising of drawn out pacing can be finally put to bed.
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Shay Guy
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Maison Ikkoku was 15 volumes long in tankobon format. At a modern adaptation pace, that'd be a three- or four-cour anime -- two if you compress things on the level of Erased. Nowhere near the original's eight cours, but Astro Note is just one. I only ever got five volumes into MI, back in 2010, and I never watched its anime, nor Astro Note. But the numbers seem to back Caitlin's argument. One cour is how you adapt something like Astra Lost in Space. Or hypothetically She Is Beautiful, which was designed as a manga that could be adapted into a one-cour anime. |
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CountZeroOR
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My big problem that caused me to bounce off this show is that I'd finished reading Maison Ikkoku about a week or two before I started watching the show, so I ended up getting a vibe that was "The Maison Ikkoku We Had At Home." To be clear, this wasn't fair to this show, but I couldn't help the reaction given the circumstances. I'm going to have to rewatch the show later, once I've had a bit of distance from my read of Maison Ikkoku (that is assuming that the next Rumiko Takahashi manga to get a remake isn't Maison Ikkoku itself).
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