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Other than the liberty given to the studio on running parts of a well-established story. I do like opening song they chose for this. It has a certain ring to the premise of the story. But other than that, and with this episode. Pretty much of it is left in the mediocre side.
Yuri pairing confirmed? Maybe but this is just demonstration on how the art can make things look awkwardly wrong
Sorry for the delay people! I had a stiff week last week, including one tough-arse examinations. Much, much worse was the delay in the release of the sixth episode by my favoured translation groups, however they were able to release it a couple of days later. Sixth and seventh episodes still delivers the same space opera goodness but it opens more depth and speculation about the settings and the universe. Also, unexpectedly, friendship between Marika, Mami, and Chiaki slowly gets developed! Ending credits sequence really give clues on some aspects, after all. If the story telling, plot, and audio presentation gets better and better on each episode, I can’t say the same with the visual presentation. It’s still this series’ Achilles’ heel, it seems, or I’m just too spoilt by visually-impressive anime from the past few years… Sigh…
What on earth is happening in this Anime. This guy is dangerous. Even a shotacon will not drool this much … Nah who am I kidding. But seriously, how can you accurately identify people and sketch them in perfect detail with just the sound of their voice? It’s OVER 9000!!!
Finding something to say. Finding something to say … Well, there’s nothing to say new since the old one. Nothing to nag about since it’s a nice development episode of Natsume and Tanuma. Rather, I find the bromance suit my tastebuds. But that’s merely my fanboy talking. But I like the image above if you take the context out of the window and judge by the picture. Ah … why I can’t find any doujin of these in the net.
Did he underwent some kind of weight loss surgery here? I don’t think you can loose all that weight for such a short amount of time. Or is he hiding a pillow in his stomach. Either way, it’s forced drama.
On an interesting note: This is one hell of a great fanservice episode; If this is what the author is going for. I really like the story here, where Natsume is driven off the wall and has no option but to rely on his friends to save him. He can’t save everybody and he also needs saving. So there. But Nyanko-sensei won’t make Natsume’s reputation any better.
That’s also my expression while watching this episode. I have to rummage in this pile of bad comedy just find something interesting to say. Even so, there’s this problem with bad acting and forced drama to deal with. I know that the mangaka liked Cross Game so much, that he inspire himself to make his own. But I never expect it to pattern it exactly as Adachi would had done. The character design is better than Adachi, but unless I’m seeing Kakeru in a G-string bikini, this wouldn’t work in my favour.
If my impression of the fourth episode was a bit bland and bored, then my thoughts on this episode is otherwise. Mouretsu Pirates is back again on it’s feet and bounces back. Despite all of these, it’s Achilles’ heel is still obvious — the quality of animation, or lack thereof. I would not expound on that yet as we’re just on the episode entry now. It’s pretty good that the art doesn’t suffer much because of the animation’s quality. Anyway, it seems to me that we’re already finished with the “introductory arc” and “the ‘Marika starts in her pirate life’ arc” begins next week. Nicely paced, Satelight, even though it feels to some that this episode was paced a little bit faster than the previous episode.
I took a sneak peek of the Manga to see how things turned out, which isn’t much given that it only has a few chapters available. But I can say that this one is steering into its own direction, which isn’t bad given its direction. Although by praise, I can’t help but get annoyed by this toddler which makes me want to throw her out. Ok I’m a soulless bastard.
If we are going for the one-shot stories, then anything that involves Natsume’s past is very much welcome. Even if it’s becoming repetitive, his past is a good way to get further closer to him. Comparing the past vs the present is one thing to gauge how far the character’s have gone, and how things were used to. Here they took the similar formula but tweak it to be more in a bitter-sweet end. I like the scene above since I sort of felt what she felt being the only person who see’s him beyond the weird. She would had been a nice girlfriend.
Happy 23rd Birthday Hanazawa Kana-san!
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