Forum - View topic

REVIEW: Rumbling Hearts DVD 1

That's funny since the game and the show are actually targeted at males.

HitokiriShadow wrote:

That's funny since the game and the show are actually targeted at males.

Well, that just shows how much it failed - it didn't appeal to any of my masculine sensibilities, not even on the most simpilistic levels. The women weren't even attractive, because the character designs were so generic.

penguintruth wrote:

HitokiriShadow wrote: That's funny since the game and the show are actually targeted at males. Well, that just shows how much it failed - it didn't appeal to any of my masculine sensibilities, not even on the most simpilistic levels. The women weren't even attractive, because the character designs were so generic.

Perhaps it's a bit of a "comfort food" type of thing in that it's all been done before, and by doing it moderately well, that's how it succeeds. Since this does come from the ero-game genre, maybe the character designs aren't supposed to be as attractive when clothed.

There's also the possibility that with outr American tastes, some visual asthetic is getting lost in the translation. I remember when watching ye olde Kanon, I was put off with all the characters' eyes and how they had this seemingly obnoxious shine to them.

penguintruth wrote:

HitokiriShadow wrote: That's funny since the game and the show are actually targeted at males. Well, that just shows how much it failed - it didn't appeal to any of my masculine sensibilities, not even on the most simpilistic levels. The women weren't even attractive, because the character designs were so generic.

Perhaps it's a bit of a "comfort food" type of thing in that it's all been done before, and by doing it moderately well, that's how it succeeds. Since this does come from the ero-game genre, maybe the character designs aren't supposed to be as attractive when clothed.

This show really peaks at the end of the second episode. The rest is an overwrought, angsty, melodrama with uneven pacing, superflous and underdeveloped secondary characters, and predictable plot turns. And the whole thing has terrible cookie-cutter character designs with annoying features and colors that clash.

It's a good show if you enjoy crying into a bucket of ice cream. Or maybe it's a female thing. All I know is that when I watched this at the anime club I attended, I couldn't wait to get it finished.

Why it's so popular I'll never know - it reeks of shallow pandering to the female crowd.

I torrented this a while back for no raisin other than having a ton of wallpapers of the girls, just to see how it went (had those papers because while the design may be generic, it satisfied the schoolgirl aspect of the weeaboo inside me). Few things have ever made me fall out of my chair with laughter, but episode 3 sure did (at least, I'm pretty sure it was ep3; wherever the event triggering timeskip occurred). I mean, it's no baseball alarm clock, but I still probably had more solid laughs out of the drama and the "spot the hentai element/character positioning" game than any other anime. However, I am told by quasi-reliable sources (i.e. girls) that laughing at the show means I'm doing it wrong.

I really, really liked this series. Like the reviewer said, if you like nothing but sci-fi or action or fan service, then you probably aren't going to like it. However, this is one of the few series which I've found which actually has a story and plot with any substantial depth to it.

penguintruth wrote:

This show really peaks at the end of the second episode. The rest is an overwrought, angsty, melodrama with uneven pacing, superflous and underdeveloped secondary characters, and predictable plot turns. And the whole thing has terrible cookie-cutter character designs with annoying features and colors that clash. It's a good show if you enjoy crying into a bucket of ice cream. Or maybe it's a female thing. All I know is that when I watched this at the anime club I attended, I couldn't wait to get it finished. Why it's so popular I'll never know - it reeks of shallow pandering to the female crowd.

Maybe it's because I've only been watching anime for something like 15 months, but I didn't think the character designs were too terrible "generic." I mean, it's supposed to be a "real life" anime, so in a way that's appropriate.

And I'm the opposite about the first 2 episodes. I think the series really starts after the first 2 episodes. The first 2 episodes are good for setup, but they don't have a heck of a lot of story to them other than setting up the rest of the series. I mean, I'd probably cry my eyes out from boredom if I had 14 episodes the same as the first two.

And KGnE/RH gets REALLY Soap-Opera-y towards the end.