Medalist, episode 1
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Dang, no streams huh? Guess it’ll take me longer than I expected to get to this.
I see it on hulu and disney+ but they tend to be very region-dependent.
Ah, didn’t realize since MAL doesn’t list those. I should’ve known to go straight to anilist.co!
Thanks!
For what it’s worth, those links must have been very recently added to AniList since the bot hadn’t picked them up when the post was made. Often, links to streaming services can’t be added until after the first episode is live since the urls aren’t public until that point. Sometimes, if a streaming provider is known ahead of time, they will have a placeholder link to the homepage of the service until it is updated later.
For example, if you check out the post for Princess Lessons episode 1, the Crunchyroll link that the bot has is simply pointing to the homepage. However, if you go to the AniList page for the series, you can see that the Crunchyroll link has been updated to point to the actual series page. The bot will fix this with time (it refreshes those links once a week iirc), but the very beginning of each season is a bit wonky.
This had some really good storytelling and character writing with pretty meaty emotional moments, but wow did it make me angry. I can get pretty heated about competitive children’s sports because of the toll it takes on the children participating, both physically any emotionally. It seemed like not a single character in the entire show even considered the option of just skating casually, like, for fun. Inori is a CHILD and seems to love skating, and I worry both that she doesn’t understand the lasting damage competitive skating will have on her and that the pressure of competition and the time constraints of aging out will suck all the joy out of her. She also very clearly has self-esteem issues that need to be dealt with directly and not only can’t be fixed by winning at a sport, but will probably be made worse when she continues to meet people who are better and better at the thing she’s dedicating her life to.
Ultimately this seems like it’s going to be a good ride, but I personally cannot see past the particular problems I have with its premise, and for that I give it a 3/5.
The animation was good, especially in the skating scenes, even with some CGI. Tsukasa and Inori are captivating from the start, and I hope they stay that way. It seems like it’s going to be an anime with a lot of emotional depth, which can be either good or bad depending on the viewer’s taste. The pacing was good, it wasn’t rushed. It’s not my anime type so i will pass but… maybe i can use the rule of watch 4 epis
