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JaggedAuthor
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Great review! Not sure this show really needed a second season, but I'm excited by its return nonetheless.
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Agent355
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"Needed" is so subjective in the anime world. There are many other shojo manga titles I would've rather seen continued over this one, but who knows what luck, circumstance and magic it takes for an anime to get a sequel?
Kamisama Kiss did well in North America, at least, so I'm happy for Funimation and Viz. As for the content of the anime, I've read ahead in the manga, and as the opening scene of ep 1 indicates, things get a bit darker and more exciting as it goes on, so I'm looking forward to that. |
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Knight-Hart
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Well, it "needs" a sequel as much as anything else, really. It had more original content to adapt, they left the story open. No problem.
Though, speaking of shoujo manga that should have gotten a sequel, I would love to see Ouran get a sequel that adapts all of the content from the manga. |
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JaggedAuthor
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I have a feeling Kirihito is Akura-oh in powered-down human form, but I'm too lazy to read the manga to confirm this.
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Agent355
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Manga spoilers spoiler[You're right. He basically said as much this episode when he expressed frustration at losing his chance to get his body back. He also knows way more than the average human would about the underworld.] I liked this episode. Nanami got an interesting action plot, and Tomoe got a character developing one, and we got to meet cute-but-freaky tanuki geisha girls. Knowing about the manga, though, I'm a bit nervous about pacing. How many episodes does this season have, and how many are they devoting to each arc? Because (manga spoilers, again) spoiler[if they want to do the Nanami goes back in time arc right, they need quite a few episodes for it, and they have two or three arcs to go first.] |
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HaruhiToy
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I see the reviews here aren't generating a lot of traffic, but it is just possible that there isn't that much to say about it. I really look forward to every Monday so I can see the next episode.
Nanami does seem like a bit of a dunderhead but she does seem to manage to pull through. In Episode 4 Tomoe has to bail her out again I was hoping she could do it on her own. |
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A Mystery
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Do yo mean traffic in terms of a lot of reactions in the forums or in terms of how many people are actually reading the review? I have no idea how many people are watching this.
When I agree with a reviewer, I am generally not going to write anything back, maybe once. When I disagree, it's partly how much that difference in opinion means to me emotionally whether I'll react to it or not. I think people are far more inclined to react on reviews from shows with certain elements, like: action, difference in world view, philosophy, ambiguous elements, gore and very plotdriven shows with unsolved puzzles and surprise elements. Those audiences may partly differ from the people that watch Kamisama Kiss as well (on average of course, not saying anything about individuals). I like to read all reviews from the shows I'm watching, so I also read this one each week. To be fair to Nanami, she didn't have her cute mascot to help her and that was supposed to be her new source of power. Nobody taught her how to make the talismans more effective, if there is a way to. I do dearly hope she'll improve 
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Gina Szanboti
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Episode 6
I hate shopping, but I kind of enjoyed the shopping trip. What I didn't enjoy was the concert, which sounded like a cringingly bad American Idol audition. Daisuke Kishio may sing well enough for the group performances he's done, but his lengthy solos in this episode hurt. Chibi-tengu was a cutie though. 
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princess passa passa
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^ agree with your sentiments. Also, can we get some love in here? I mean this literally, the reviewer was right about the two steps back and one slow step forward. But last I checked this was as shojo romance, it's lacking the romance (even for an anime).
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HaruhiToy
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It would seem my response to this was lost in the Great ANN Crash of 2015 but as I wrote there is a lot going on in this episode other than the kissy-poo between Nanami and Tomoe. If the anime story has no value to you other than that then I can understand about "going backward" because they ain't doing it yet. Hey they are faster than Kei and Belldandy at least. Yet not only did Nanami make significant progress in her vocation as a kamisama but we (and she) learned a lot about Tomoe and why Mikage did what he did. So I felt the episode review was too heavily weighted down because of the romance thing because many more interesting things happened. |
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JaggedAuthor
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Personally, I felt that the poor pacing and overall execution of this episode made it deserving of the letter grade it was given. Considering how much source material the producers have to work with, there was no excuse for the painful shopping montage and overlong Kurama concert. Probably my least favorite episode of either season.
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Gina Szanboti
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But neither of those things happened in episode 6, which is why the review marked this episode down and took the series to task for its stalling tactics. Even on the other fronts, this episode did very little to move the plot forward, other than a tiny bit of setup. It's like they thought we all got the vapors from the intense drama! of the underworld adventure and needed a breather. oO |
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HaruhiToy
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So I am pleased to see you gave this episode a high rating when it had so little romance in it. I guess I was wrong but I had thought that it was the only thing you really valued in this story. As for attraction between Jiro and Nanami -- I can see it from his side but not from hers. And in the preview it looks like he is behaving violently toward her. I hope Tomoe gets a chance to pound him down a bit -- what he did to the piglet is hard to forgive. |
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rheiders
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I enjoyed this episode a lot more than the previous one. I'm happy to see a Kurama story since he's one of my favorite characters (did we really have to listen to his awful singing for that long last week though?), and the little tengu kids are so cute!
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KidaYuki
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This anime is so much stronger when it gets back to faithfully following the manga
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