22nd Dec 2007
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2570
I checked out this one because it was ranked #2 on animenfo.com’s top 200. This is one of the many reasons animenewsnetwork.com is a better site than animenfo.com (although ANN’s new wallpaper of a gun touting skimpily clad girl is (a) ugly and (b) nsfw).
Anyway, I have no idea how this anime got to #2 (over my beloved Full Metal Alchemist no less!!!) Admittedly I’m biased because my first criteria for good anime is that it’s got to have swords. If I wanted to watch a sappy romance about high school/college kids involving cancer/coma/long lost siblings I could’ve gone to the Drama section and clicked on any random link. When I watch anime I want it to be about things that can’t be easily depicted in live action without it looking like crap.
So the story is basically about 4 high school students who are great friends. Girl M hooks Boy T up with Girl H (although, of course, she has a crush on Boy T herself), Girl H gets into an accident and goes into a coma, 3 years later she wakes up and Girl M and Boy T are now going out. Commence drama.
The problem with this show is that, throughout the 14 episodes, there isn’t a single happy moment. Every episode is sad. None of it is particularly touching. But by the time I realised how depressing it was going to be I was already 3 episodes in, and I figured I might as well finish it since it’s so short. I mean, these people are like 21, and they’re all jaded and have shitty jobs and no future etc. How’s that supposed to make me feel if these little punks 4 years younger than me are talking about unfulfilled dreams! Also, the friendship between the characters which is apparently such a big deal doesn’t get much screen time. The 4th person in the group doesn’t do very much in the show (and doesn’t even appear in the opening theme haha). A lot of the emotion is lost because of that.
Good things about this anime: (1) The animation is pretty nice, but then again nothing super spectacular happens. (2) It has lots of sad piano music which I’m a huge sucker for. (3) The guy ends up with the right girl, in my opinion anyway. The reviews I read that think he chose the wrong one are just written by morons. Apparently an OVA was released this year with an alternative ending (probably to silence the idiots), but I’m absolutely unmotivated to watch that bleaurgh.
I was expecting to cry buckets for this one (it doesn’t take that much to make me cry) but it didn’t quite cut it. Even the parts that would typically elicit a warm and fuzzy feeling generated something that was more like relief. Shrug. 6/10.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2570
I checked out this one because it was ranked #2 on animenfo.com’s top 200. This is one of the many reasons animenewsnetwork.com is a better site than animenfo.com (although ANN’s new wallpaper of a gun touting skimpily clad girl is (a) ugly and (b) nsfw).
Anyway, I have no idea how this anime got to #2 (over my beloved Full Metal Alchemist no less!!!) Admittedly I’m biased because my first criteria for good anime is that it’s got to have swords. If I wanted to watch a sappy romance about high school/college kids involving cancer/coma/long lost siblings I could’ve gone to the Drama section and clicked on any random link. When I watch anime I want it to be about things that can’t be easily depicted in live action without it looking like crap.
So the story is basically about 4 high school students who are great friends. Girl M hooks Boy T up with Girl H (although, of course, she has a crush on Boy T herself), Girl H gets into an accident and goes into a coma, 3 years later she wakes up and Girl M and Boy T are now going out. Commence drama.
The problem with this show is that, throughout the 14 episodes, there isn’t a single happy moment. Every episode is sad. None of it is particularly touching. But by the time I realised how depressing it was going to be I was already 3 episodes in, and I figured I might as well finish it since it’s so short. I mean, these people are like 21, and they’re all jaded and have shitty jobs and no future etc. How’s that supposed to make me feel if these little punks 4 years younger than me are talking about unfulfilled dreams! Also, the friendship between the characters which is apparently such a big deal doesn’t get much screen time. The 4th person in the group doesn’t do very much in the show (and doesn’t even appear in the opening theme haha). A lot of the emotion is lost because of that.
Good things about this anime: (1) The animation is pretty nice, but then again nothing super spectacular happens. (2) It has lots of sad piano music which I’m a huge sucker for. (3) The guy ends up with the right girl, in my opinion anyway. The reviews I read that think he chose the wrong one are just written by morons. Apparently an OVA was released this year with an alternative ending (probably to silence the idiots), but I’m absolutely unmotivated to watch that bleaurgh.
I was expecting to cry buckets for this one (it doesn’t take that much to make me cry) but it didn’t quite cut it. Even the parts that would typically elicit a warm and fuzzy feeling generated something that was more like relief. Shrug. 6/10.
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