Ow
While I was dissapointed that the loli tsundere was voiced by Rie Kugumiya because I wanted something different, it turns out that it’s not all too bad. At least during the first episode the material won over me and I found myself having quite a laugh and enjoying it. I’ve read and greatly enjoyed the first two volumes of the light novel this is based on, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.
While I’m not a big fan of sloppy whore characters like this in general (think the two women who live with Yuuto in Nogizaka Haruka) the family dynamics at work here are seemingly complex. From the first episode we gather that she works at some sort of bar late nights and relies on Ryuuji to do all the cooking and cleaning. Also, he refers to his mother by her first name and it is suggested that his father is dead, a man whom he greatly dislikes.
You know you have OCD when the fact that he took out the trash and didn’t wash his hands was bothering you for 5 minutes.
I think they did a decent job of making him look somewhat scary, at least in comparison to the rest of the males in the show. The way his face and especially eyes are drawn it at least signals the watcher that his features are intended to look intimidating. The most hilarious result of this is the fact that his teacher is terrified of him.
I’m usually a big Hocchan fan but I’m really not sure this is the right casting choice. She’s using her Manabi peppy and energetic voice, and when reading the novels I didn’t get that kind of vibe from Minori. At least, not to that extent. However, she only has a couple of lines so it remains to be seen how it plays out.
Amazing logic
Holy shit that is one ugly bird
One of the more amusing personality traits one could have is the unquenchable urge to clean. For a male lead Ryuuji isn’t particularly bad so far, he’s shown some interesting traits and doesn’t merely let himself get the crap beat out of him constantly. The show is going to earn a lot of comparisons of the Ryuuji/Taiga pair with Saito/Louise and Yuuji/Shana for obvious reasons, but lets hope JCStaff can make the characters have their own unique flavors.
I’m cautiously looking forward to this, because I love the novels but lately JCStaff adaptations of novels have been less than stellar for me. I’m looking forward to how they handle the other characters, especially Ami. Eri Kitamura is voicing her, whose voice I really like (her singing is amazing), and I hope she can pull off a rather complicated character well. Hopefully JCStaff stays away from too many fillers and gets through a good chunk of the source material. There’s definitely a lot of good stuff available for them to use, and I hope they do a solid job so we can get a second season.
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Wow. I didn’t think subs would be out this fast for ToraDora!
I love the light novels so I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
MMM I’m expecting a lot bout the relationship development of those two.^^
CHIAKI-SAMA LIVES!!!
She’s missing the bun though =P
I was actually pleasanty suprised by this. The pacing was good, the humor was good, the characters were good. I’ll keep watching.
Not really here – been busy slaying inorganics. However, one note about show: they really rushed through the first three chapters of Volume 1, but did keep some of the introspection even as they added a new element (Taiga being allergic to her place due to lack of cleaning).
Minorin’s character gets increasingly peppier and energetic, volume 4′s summer trip episode is a pretty good example of it. Plus don’t forget that Ryuji’s attraction to Minorin in the first place is because of her peppy personality rather than her looks.
Lol, she does look like Chiaki
It actually really like those punk-face but kind characters, so this could be nice
really enjoyed this episode… but in watching this episode i can’t help but imagine they just slapped Louise and Shana together to form Taiga… that and Minori for some reason reminds me of Haruhi Suzumiya….
jahaahah
yeah your right, that’s chiakis reincarnation !!!! no wayyyyyy, now i gotta watch it, the drawing style is similar, too.
gotta enjoy this love-comedy.
besides, there are some cute girls. =]
Yes that bird is extremely ugly and disgusting but that is what makes it really funny how they expect the bird to say something only to be disappointed and how the bird just sound as it is dying with a “pah..” as well as drooling.
the disgusting bird was the reason for my first laught!
btw. who said that this is going to be the next haruhi suzumiya ??? i don’t think so, even if only the first epsiode is out.
@Silver
Yeah…that bird is creepy…dont know if u guys watched Gantz, the bird looks like one of the aliens there…
Lee n the ugly birds
As I read the manga only after I watched the first ep, I thought the anime was actually better. IDK, it the manga, Taiga just doesn’t seem scary, and when she tries to, they make her seem just beautiful and intimidating so the way she acts doesn’t make sense at all. But in the anime, she’s truly just obnoxious and it seems more fitting of her character. (I read some scans after I saw the first ep).
I have to say, after seeing a couple screen caps, I was incredibly intimidated by the switch in art styles from the manga to the anime.
However, after seeing the first episode, my fears were alleviated. Maybe it’s how fluid it is, or the film grain-like feel to it, but I was certainly impressed with with the art and animation. The pacing and overall feel of the setting has been improved as well, as evidenced by the dynamic angles and fish-eyed lens effects.
Certainly surprising.
While I have no doubt eventually it will devolve into the usual filler escapades, I can’t help but feel cautiously optimistic about this one.
I enjoyed it, but I do prefer the manga designs, in particular Ryuji. I’m a little bit disappointed in J.C Staff for that. Where the frack did his nose go? Taiga fares better, but I still prefer her manga version too, its a little bit more polished.
For some reason I also expected the whole thing to be a bit brighter if that makes any sense. I guess the colors just seem drab to me.
The pacing was good, the voice acting was good on the whole I enjoyed it and won’t let my disappointment in the art stop me from watching it.
Taiga’s voice is a bit strange for her character. Guess I’ll get used to it soon. Ryuuji is my favorite character so far with his talent with chores. lol I’m curious if he thinks that his Inko-chan is cute…. what a taste = =
I’ll keep watching it for few episodes and see if I’ll put it on my list or not.
His mother reminds me of one of the characters in Kanokon. Other than that, Ryuji reminds me of the main dude in Angel Densetsu sometimes. Pretty good episode.
“For a male lead Ryuuji isn’t particularly bad so far, he’s shown some interesting traits and doesn’t merely let himself get the crap beat out of him constantly.”
LOL…you certainly have a high opinion of male leads it seems…or maybe your expectations have gotten pretty low. Though I kind of see your point with the Shana/Yuuji and Louise/Saito comparison, I don’t think you should generalize so much.
Having said that, I certainly hope those two have more unique personalities than the aforementioned couples.
First episode the guy is beaten up with a loli. ohfcuk.
First time commenter, yoroshiku~!
I haven’t read the novels of this yet, but from the first episode it seems promising. I usually don’t go much in for slice-of-life style anime, being much more of a traditional CLAMP fan. But this one got me, and I don’t know why. Maybe it was the fact that they took a clichéd topic (people are different than they look, omg norly?) and seemed to run with it pretty well. I laughed out loud several times.
Oh, I also loved the “palmtop tiger” thing, and the fact that it actually made an appearance in the ED. But then, I’m a sucker for cute animals.
LovCom ran along a similar line, although different in many ways, but it was hilarious. Toradora, the bar has been set high, but you may be the one to turn me into a lolicon. Think you can do it?
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