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Kimi ni Todoke is my favorite shoujo at the moment, and is more or less handling the void left by Fruits Basket and Hana Yori Dango for me. A good number of people here watched the recent anime, but to be honest I don't think I really cared for it all that much. There was just something...missing in the adaptation. And more importantly the manga is a lot farther ahead. It's so good I think people should buy it. The reason I think KnT is so good has to do with the characters; specifically the relationships Sawako forms with everyone, not just the main love interest. The synergy I feel from the cast is something I don't think I've felt since Kare Kano, and it winds up being truly heartwarming. Another series I had been following very closely for some time was Skip Beat!, but as I mentioned in the Shounen thread I've grown pretty tired of it. Too much focus has been given to Ren lately, who has the personality of a trout and is so boring he is like a black hole of dull that drags everything else about the manga down with him. It desperately needs to get back to focusing on Kyoko and her career.
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a kitten posted:I haven't had time to start it yet but sooner or later I'm going to read trough Kare Kano since I've heard pretty good things about it. Then, infamously, the manga author and Gainax/Hideaki Anno had a falling out and the show got Gainax Ending-ed (after which Anno left anime for a long time). After volume 10 the manga would go on into the "Arima arc" and eventually finish up in 2005, but it just wasn't the same. It wore itself thin on a lot of plot lines, and just never seemed to regain that energy it had at the start. Worse still, there are some legitimately awful things suggested/implied in the ending epilogue that tarnished the whole manga for a lot of people. Those who have read it likely know what I mean. So, in the end, I just don't know. I would at least recommend watching the anime because it's brilliant, and if you really want to know what happens then read the manga (or just read a summary I guess). It could have been so much more, though  E: Going to take this moment to also post Maboroshi's "Far and Away" AMV which is really amazing and got me interested in the series years ago. Contains massive spoilers, though. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Dec 29, 2010 |
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Dec 29, 2010 05:49
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LadySage posted:I have a pretty major love/hate relationship with Fushigi Yuugi. I got into it in middle school and thought it was the poo poo; it was one of the first anime series I ever watched, and I think the first shoujo. Loved the melodrama, loved the characters, loved the comic relief. To 13-year-old me, it was perfection.
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Jan 5, 2011 04:11
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The bigger problem with Gakuen Alice is how deathly serious and melodramatic it has become. Like this final arc or whatever it is has dragged on far longer than it ever needed to. Also, maybe it's just me, but at times I can barely decipher what is going on in the artwork. The panel-to-panel construction of a given page has really fallen apart, with what I would call Yasuhiro Nightow syndrome.
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Jan 5, 2011 18:03
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Personally I think the distinction between Seinen and Shounen (and Shoujo and Josei for that matter) are too vague oftentimes and the differentiation between the two would lead to bickering as to what category each entry should belong in. For example how many people do you think would classify Hoshi no Samidare correctly as Seinen? Even I sometimes forget and label it as Shounen. I think it's much simpler for everyone's sake if we treated each thread as Shounen/Seinen and Shoujo/Josei.
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Jan 9, 2011 23:28
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So many great expressions in that chapter, I wouldn't even know where to begin.
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Jan 12, 2011 05:05
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I stopped a couple of months/chapters ago, but really I think the problem with Skip Beat boils down to the main love interest being by far the most uninteresting character. The story was at its best when it was about Kyoko trying to advance her career and her interactions with Shou, but it became bogged down with Ren's asinine mysterious backstory that is apparently The Key To Everything that I find it hard to really care anymore.
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Mar 18, 2011 18:38
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I could have predicted with near 100% accuracy what was going to happen in that chapter given how the last chapter (57) ended. It was just a matter of who would walk in on them. That said, I'm not really that upset since despite being a clichéd sequence of events I feel like KnT handled it mostly well and that things are moving a good direction...maybe.
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May 23, 2011 00:49
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Now you see why so many of us have so much trouble watching the anime, no matter how good it is now with the pre-Volume 5 material. It's a giant, dark cloud that will forever loom over the story in all of its adaptations.
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Aug 10, 2011 17:25
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Zorak posted:Well that's pretty creepy.
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Aug 11, 2011 12:38
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Normally I'd agree but Usagi Drop's ending is kind of...more than just "bad".
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Sep 5, 2011 01:48
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a kitten posted:I do have a question about a series though! Are Clannad and/or Kanon good enough to merit me watching them even though I really can't stand the character designs? I've got a pretty high tolerance for ~anime~ but, the faces in that really bother me, they look like god drat bugs or something. Anyway, Kanon 2006 is pretty good, but CLANNAD in particular I felt was exceptional. I would go as far as to say that it was one of the best anime romance stories of the 2000-2010 decade. After Story (the second season) really stands out, and in fact I feel the CLANNAD anime is overall one of the few cases where the anime adaptation surpasses the original visual novel.
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Sep 5, 2011 02:34
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I actually feel that Tomoya is a pretty well developed character as far as VN leads go, mostly because of After Story though. To the point where I find playing the VN to be weird now since you never see his face and he doesn't have Yuichi Nakamura voicing him.
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Sep 25, 2011 20:56
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a kitten posted:That actually ties into some of what I didn't like though. I feel like the way each arc was presented was too disconnected from each other. It was like, solve one problem, then the next, then the next, rather than feeling like following someone’s actual life. Compare to Honey & Clover where all the different storylines are all intertwined and at various times some of the characters are doing great and others are having a terrible time, but it's all combined into one big fairly believable group of friends, family, lovers and rivals. Here once their "quest" is over with they pretty much vanish, even if they make token appearances here and there. For me it just seemed like it misses the point that your friends/clan/tribe are also very much a part of family, and even though Kyou, Sunohara and others do pop up they don't really impact the Tomoyo family life much. I guess it just feels like a missed opportunity to me.
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Oct 7, 2011 13:54
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Kimi ni Todoke is back with chapter 60. This is the only place I find it online. Mango Scans now appears to require registration to download. As for the chapter itself, it feels like a lot of things are going to come to a head soon. Kent/Ayane and Chizuru/Ryu probably getting resolved before the big one, that is Kazehaya/Sawako's relationship stagnating.
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Oct 9, 2011 19:17
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That's a rather sudden development for what I thought was going to be a simple flashback I guess.
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Nov 18, 2011 21:09
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Mura posted:New Kimi ni Todoke
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Feb 17, 2012 18:11
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Kodocha has a very special place in my heart. Extremely heartfelt, yet quite insane in a good way at times. It was one of the first series I got on VHS fansub. Unfortunately it never was finished by whichever group was doing it at the time, although you could (and I did) pony up for the HK bootlegs. It's too bad FUNi was so screwed with regard to their own releases (mostly due to the whole licensing fiasco with the opening song). I bought the discs they put out and would have gladly continued to do so for the second half had they finished. Some enterprising individual should re-fansub it all. I actually prefer the anime in many ways, mostly because I just think it's a lot funnier. The manga's ending is superior, though. Mostly because it actually ends.
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Mar 2, 2012 17:09
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KnT 66: I get the feeling this building towards Sawako doing something crazy to get him to open up, as it looks like the onus is on her to get poo poo done this time. Which might be a nice switch from how she needed others' help to open up and get friends at the start of the manga, and would be a nice addition to her character arc. We definitely don't need to see a crying Sawako anymore than we already have at least 
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Mar 17, 2012 01:49
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I ended up falling behind 3-4 chapters on Hourou Musuko because it was dealing with some new minor character I didn't care about. Well having caught up again, it's getting really good! Good enough that I was dying for some more Takako Shimura stuff, so I finally caved in and read all of Aoi Hana, a story I had previously written off as being boring thanks to a dull first anime episode. Yeah, turns out it's pretty great too.
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Mar 24, 2012 18:54
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How is Skip Beat these days? I put it down "temporarily" because it had been focusing on Ren for a really long time. He might be the most boring shoujo love interest I have ever seen, so it was just unbearable.
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Mar 28, 2012 03:41
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Really? I was the opposite. I found the KnT anime artwork to be rather bland compared to the manga's. I think Shiina sometimes draws fingers a bit too long, but other than that it's a very aesthetically pleasing style to me.
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Apr 21, 2012 14:18
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I recently read through the available chapters of a manga called Yandere Kanojo. It's about a deliquent girl who falls in love with a normal guy, but has to hide their relationship keep her reputation intact. If that sounds like Onidere to you, that's because it's pretty much the same. Except for me personally, I dropped Onidere after a couple of chapters while I found this to be pretty endearing. It's not all dawwwwww but there are a lot of good moments.
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Apr 26, 2012 23:08
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Onidere seemed more focused on slapstick and seemed to spend pretty much no time at all on the relationship itself, which is why I ultimately dropped it. This however from the get-go put a lot of time and energy into the romance, to the point where the "hide it from everyone else" basically never actually turned into a relevant plot point or joke.
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Apr 26, 2012 23:24
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Does the main character in Hiyokoi get better? I read about 15 chapters, and she's pretty insufferable.
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May 11, 2012 03:11
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Haha, so I don't know how many people are reading Ah! My Goddess (I still am at least since I've been reading it for over 10 years), but the latest chapter just dropped this hysterical little nugget: Belldandy/Heaven have been supressing Keiichi's lust since the beginning, and that's why he hasn't progressed in the relationship  Yeah, okay Fujishima.
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May 29, 2012 13:49
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It's been way too long for me to remember when that was, but AMG's whole thing was that it pretty much has stayed the same, never getting better or worse. So I guess what I'm saying is that if there were some parts you liked, you will probably eventually see other parts you will like as well, and the same for anything you didn't like! I guess that comes with the territory when you have a romantic comedy serialized for 23 years. To Fujishima's credit I suppose, the current arc has been relatively plot heavy and one of the longer ones in a great while. Maybe he's wrapping it up.
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May 29, 2012 22:48
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Baron Snow posted:Tired of angsty teens?
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Jun 4, 2012 14:33
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Nondevor posted:Chapter 70 of Kimi ni Todoke has been released. I like this couple, though 
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Jul 14, 2012 00:58
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Well, it's a good place as any to take a break I suppose. Good job Bonnouji at being so easy going and chill about stuff that most other romance manga would get into a tizzy about. 12 months though? Is it a series that's not serialized?
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Jul 26, 2012 21:18
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Tae posted:Anyone checked out Spotted Flower?
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Aug 15, 2012 19:42
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Yes, yes. This is a development I can get behind.
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Aug 19, 2012 20:57
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Hourou Musuko 112 E: Eh, scratch that. It was probably just, uh, a "restroom visit." Still, looks like Anna doesn't have anything to worry about. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 23, 2012 |
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Aug 23, 2012 16:56
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I finished AIR, a series I had only seen one or two episodes of years ago and had hated back then. It's still pretty bad, easily KyoAni's worst series. However, I did rather like the Air in Summer OVAs, which seemed like the point where they had figured out what worked at long last for their Key adaptions and would continue the trend for the series to follow.
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Sep 7, 2012 16:48
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Angel Beats is a show that has a lot individual moments that I really liked (I actually really liked the characters and style of humor, something that carried over to Persona 4 from the director), but the sum of its parts is pretty bad because it has some of the worst pacing issues I've ever seen. Supposedly Jun Maeda had storyboarded out something like 78 episodes' worth? At the very least, two cours would have gone a long way. Hopefully the VN sees the light of day and fixes these issues.
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Sep 8, 2012 22:17
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Miijhal posted:I'm actually kind of glad to hear that. One thing that's kind of constantly worried me about Wandering Son, especially after the anime adaptation, is that it would ultimately wind up taking the whole 'they're actually just confused' direct like just about every other series that even touches the issue pulls. I know it's kind of unfounded but it's always been a worry for me going into every series like this, and this is one of the few works that hasn't let me down yet. I'm not sure where Shimura is going with Takatsuki, though. I'm not sure if that necessarily assuages your concern, though. E: vvv Very, very cool! Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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Sep 12, 2012 16:10
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I blinked and the KnT chapter was already over.
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Sep 18, 2012 14:35
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New Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun. Actually I somehow missed the previous chapter as well. Page 44 is adorable.
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Sep 21, 2012 17:37
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Thinking about making a thread for Can't See, Can't Hear, But Love, because god drat is it good and the latest chapter is very powerful.
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Sep 24, 2012 16:44
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I'm not sure how many people here actually follow Ah! My Goddess, and even if you don't it's not like you're missing much continuity-wise, but I want to just say that (from the latest chapter) god the artwork will always be a sight for sore eyes.
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Oct 2, 2012 02:26
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