So, I know I said I was going to stop watching this show and read the manga instead, but I had to go into work obscenely early today for a meeting with some EU colleagues. As I was on the train ride in, it was cancelled. So, I decided to have some coffee and watch episode 2 of this show to help me wake and warm up.
Overall, my impression of this show has not changed from episode 1. Seems pretty standard, but just reskin a summer festival that you have seen 100 times before to a winter festival. In that respect, there is a bit of novelty since they are doing things like making snowmen instead of watching fireworks or playing with sparklers.
Overall, there were a bunch of classic manga/anime romcom story elements we checked off the list this episode (in no particular order):
First up was the male lead downplaying his relationship with the female lead to others. In this case it was his grandmother. I really don’t get this one personally and have never understood the motivation of denying your friendship or relationship with somebody else.
Second, the indirect kiss. Using a corndog? The corndog strategy was a first for me, so it was a bold choice.
Third was having a girl visit your room. This one was surprisingly tame as there was not any searching for dirty magazines or anything like that.
Honestly, there are others, but I am not really awake enough yet to go into it. I don’t mean to be overly harsh on this series. There was a time in which I think I might have enjoyed this series a lot more. However, after enough years of watching/reading series like this, I feel like I already know how the whole story will play out. So, I am for real going to switch to the manga at this point…for real…I promise…(help me)
I probably still gonna finish watching it. It’s just a comfort show during which your brain can go into standby, just right for watching before bedtime
Yeah, I think it would fill that role nicely. I just tend to use manga for that instead of anime. I have read the first couple chapters of this series since the show has started and my suspicion was correct that I like it more. I think it is because I have consumed so many stories that are similar to this that I can kind of speed through it a bit when I am reading a manga, but can’t really do that in anime form.
So, I know I said I was going to stop watching this show and read the manga instead, but I had to go into work obscenely early today for a meeting with some EU colleagues. As I was on the train ride in, it was cancelled. So, I decided to have some coffee and watch episode 2 of this show to help me wake and warm up.
Overall, my impression of this show has not changed from episode 1. Seems pretty standard, but just reskin a summer festival that you have seen 100 times before to a winter festival. In that respect, there is a bit of novelty since they are doing things like making snowmen instead of watching fireworks or playing with sparklers.
Overall, there were a bunch of classic manga/anime romcom story elements we checked off the list this episode (in no particular order):
Honestly, there are others, but I am not really awake enough yet to go into it. I don’t mean to be overly harsh on this series. There was a time in which I think I might have enjoyed this series a lot more. However, after enough years of watching/reading series like this, I feel like I already know how the whole story will play out. So, I am for real going to switch to the manga at this point…for real…I promise…(help me)
I probably still gonna finish watching it. It’s just a comfort show during which your brain can go into standby, just right for watching before bedtime
Yeah, I think it would fill that role nicely. I just tend to use manga for that instead of anime. I have read the first couple chapters of this series since the show has started and my suspicion was correct that I like it more. I think it is because I have consumed so many stories that are similar to this that I can kind of speed through it a bit when I am reading a manga, but can’t really do that in anime form.