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REVIEW: Shuffle! DVD 1

Kaede behaves so much like Rin's wife that he feels a bit guilty about “freeloading,” but she never seems fazed when other girls keep coming into the picture. Sia and Nerine, although they should be bitter rivals for Rin's affection, get along like best friends,...

And, for inexplicable reasons, the girls rarely do much to discourage or stop this despite the fact that their love is in apparently mortal peril,...

From what I've heard (from practically everyone I know who has seen all of Shuffle!), is that the series does not get good until about the second half. And when it gets good, it apparently gets really good. My thoughts about the first few episodes are the same as the review, but I may end up buying the series anyway because I've heard too many good things about the later half of the series.

From what I've heard (from practically everyone I know who has seen all of Shuffle!), is that the series does not get good until about the second half. And when it gets good, it apparently gets really good.

but [Kaede] never seems fazed when other girls keep coming into the picture.

It strolls along cheerily with the kind of synthesized and orchestrated light numbers that might be heard backing a dating sim game...

Based on its first volume, Shuffle does not have what it takes to succeed even within the low standards for harem romantic comedies and shows little potential for improvement.

The sales for the first volume are starting out pretty well and if V1 and V2 sales are pretty good the higher ups said they'd be on board for letting us do an ender box with Volume 6 for this show.

But for those out there who think "this moe harem crap with spineless males will be the death of anime," allow me to quote:

On the AoD forums, FuniRepRed wrote:

The sales for the first volume are starting out pretty well and if V1 and V2 sales are pretty good the higher ups said they'd be on board for letting us do an ender box with Volume 6 for this show.

I guess "Which girl would YOU choose?" sells.

It's just a generic harem anime, what's the big deal?

What's an ender box?

Seems like a fair - even forgiving at times - review of a decidedly lackluster series. I like romantic harem-dramas or whatever you want to call them, and Shuffle definitely does tread the lines of stupidity far too often.

Though I liked "innocence" more than "You".

Leebo wrote:

Seems like a fair - even forgiving at times - review of a decidedly lackluster series. I like romantic harem-dramas or whatever you want to call them, and Shuffle definitely does tread the lines of stupidity far too often. Though I liked "innocence" more than "You".

This is why I absolutely ABHOR disc-by-disc anime reviews... They only see the first 1/6th of something and aren't rating it fairly. What if a movie reviewer only watched the first 1/6th of a movie, or hell, even just the first half? Their review would not capture anything close to the full experience of the thing. The same can totally be said of this Shuffle! review.

Yes, the opening episodes are a bit lame. I'll be honest and say that up to episode 9 this thing is cookie-cutter anime... But then it turns into something very interesting and fun, and its ending is fantastic!... But no, the first 1/6th was average. Bash the s**t out of it, reviewers! Yay!

(This is an on-going pet peeve of mine, it's not just focused on Shuffle!, though it's most obvious here. Such a shame... Many people will be turned off of this fun series because the first few episodes [which I thought were silly fun at least] aren't fantastically new and fresh, even though its ending is... "Oh!" you gasp! "But then the reviews for those later discs will show this if true!" Doubtful. Most reviewers out there rarely stick up for later discs in a series when the pace picks up if they've already mocked the first few discs... Like it ruins their cred or something. Disc-by-disc ratings need to die.)

Sia and Nerine, although they should be bitter rivals for Rin's affection, get along like best friends