| Well i understand that how you could feel like the amount of drama the show throws at you at times is overwhelming,and honestly these are very real problems that people face in real life and i feel like the show tackles them sensibly.Of course it´s not very realistic that a group of boys just so happen to all have terrible home lives,but how else are they going to create conflict if all of the parents are good?Furthermore,since i feel like this anime´s main aim on the drama side to is portray difficult familial relationships,i would forgive it for this,since it´s supposed to be the anime´s main focus,so of course it´s going to come up every episode.I don't mind it to be honest,it keeps things interesting and gives me a reason to keep watching. |
SummerynDec 7, 2019 1:57 PM
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| Yeah I feel you there. It's not like I don't think these things happen but I started watching because someone recommended it to me as a sports anime so I was bamboozled by how dark it got. |
| I won't deny the drama is a bit too convenient, with the whole every member has some issues thing The way I like to see it is that each member is supposed to represent individual pieces of a collective whole. Like a lot of the families' issues can easily be combined into 1 without having to separate them into different families. In that sense, it's kinda less of every family has something shitty about them and more like each of these individual problems can really impact a child even if it doesn't seem so significant |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| These are all real life situations that happen to people everyday. It's unrealistic that this happened to a group of boys to this severity, however I don't mind it. It tackles a lot of different issues. I don't think it's fair to say the experiences any of the boys are going through is contrived, forced, or unbelievable. Things like that happen everyday. Obviously, if one was looking for a sports anime then they will be disappointed and not like the direction of this show. However, for me I welcomed it because I can appreciate good drama, and especially when it is tackled in a good way. I think if you stop taking this anime as a sports anime, but an anime about abusive parents then it'll be a lot more interesting to watch. We only saw like less than a minute of actual tennis play in episode 9, and I completely understand if someone would be bummed out not saying how the boys faired against the girls especially if they still felt this was a sports anime for some reason. I'd say that the only real complaint would be that the anime shouldn't have portrayed itself as a sports anime. I think that's bad promotion. |
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| At this point i am not even watching the anime for the sport,i am staying for the drama.I wouldn't be so invested in this anime if it was just your ordinary sports anime with only little bits of drama here and there that are mostly related to playing the sport itself.I like that we are actually given some insight into the character's lives and how that affects them. |
SummerynDec 17, 2019 2:38 AM
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| I honestly don't mind how it's losing focus on the sports aspect. I've always known this was gonna be a drama-heavy show while the soft tennis is just a backdrop for it. What this show needs is an announcement for a 2nd season/cour. 2 episodes left and they're still introducing more drama. No way these are gonna get any proper conclusion. I really like Hoshiai no Sora from the get go. I've been singing praises to it since it started airing but the last few episodes just left me in a limbo. I absolutely love how it tackles social issues without holding back and actually taking it seriously but at this point, they're just trying too hard to cram whatever parental issue they can into the show. Now I'm not saying there are no parents like that but what I want is them to not keep jumping from one situation to another without expanding more on the subject. Every single time, it just keeps ending in a cliffhanger and the next episode, they treat it as if nothing happened and continue on as normal. There's a severe lack of focus in this show and I'm afraid the ending is gonna be a huge disappointment. |
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| For myself is like Araburu but with parents issues, that means, they want to put everything they can in one series. |
| I like to post in manga forum when I feel it is worth it, so people will think. "Shit, is her again" or something. People asked me where I read certain thing but the rules say no telling where did you read so maybe I am too boring for not saying? Or salty because you didn't check my profile that says don't ask because I hate people to ghost me after that. I love learning languages so maybe I did not read the manga in English. |
Missaliensan said: Well i understand that how you could feel like the amount of drama the show throws at you at times is overwhelming,and honestly these are very real problems that people face in real life and i feel like the show tackles them sensibly.Of course it´s not very realistic that a group of boys just so happen to all have terrible home lives,but how else are they going to create conflict if all of the parents are good?Furthermore,since i feel like this anime´s main aim on the drama side to is portray difficult familial relationships,i would forgive it for this,since it´s supposed to be the anime´s main focus,so of course it´s going to come up every episode.I don't mind it to be honest,it keeps things interesting and gives me a reason to keep watching. But where is the conflict? Does it even matter? Despite the drama, this story is a sports series about soft tennis. If they want drama and conflict and family issues, they should make those relevant to the soft tennis plot. But instead, all we have are characters stressed out and having mental problems and are still able to play tennis just fine, and the only reason they lose is cause of physical issues (lack of endurance or physical injuries) instead of mental stress. that just makes the forced drama feel unnecessary, as if they weigh nothing and aren't important at all. It doesn't make me care about the drama, since if they don't matter when it comes to matches and the kids can play just fine, then why do I care what their family life is like? plus, none of the drama had any sort of conclusion, and more are coming and this show is about to end. LastLuminescence said: For myself is like Araburu but with parents issues, that means, they want to put everything they can in one series. but they don't do it well. a bad example of forcing too many things into one anime is "actors: songs connection" |
| i though it was a show about tennis |
| Well it’s turning out more like SoL version of Hanebado, but with not much improvement over the former. From what I can see, the subplots and direction is more or less the same, though the cast of characters and their personalities are notably different. |
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| I'm at ep 4 but if what you guys said is true then I'd be slightly disappointed. Too much drama in a show isn't for me, like shoving how the characters have terrible lives down my throat. I like it if it has the balance of sports and drama, as this anime is tagged for both, not just only focusing on the latter too much. Cross Game is the peak of that. |
| The show is called "Stars Align", in reference to the coincidence how all of these troubled kids ended up in the soft tennis club. It makes sense, because most kids go to the more popular/mainstream sports. It's literally the outcast crew, like the Losers club in the IT novel. |
Saacool said: Yeah This show is kinda a perfect example of how not to balance drama and sports shounen If you wanna see works that balance it right, try 3gatsu no lion or chihayafuru I admire what stars align is trying to do but its incredibly ambitious and will NEED to stick the landing It's ambitious but kind of fails sadly. Chihayafuru is originally a manga so of course, everything about it is done much better. The author had more time to prep and consider things. With Hoshiai, it's an original series so it's been like "what can we do for the next episode" lol LalatinaDarkness said: Literally the most recent episode just threw in even more family drama at the end that doesn't even affect the main plot lolI'm at ep 4 but if what you guys said is true then I'd be slightly disappointed. Too much drama in a show isn't for me, like shoving how the characters have terrible lives down my throat. I like it if it has the balance of sports and drama, as this anime is tagged for both, not just only focusing on the latter too much. Cross Game is the peak of that. |
Saacool said: dc22 said: The show is called "Stars Align", in reference to the coincidence how all of these troubled kids ended up in the soft tennis club. It makes sense, because most kids go to the more popular/mainstream sports. It's literally the outcast crew, like the Losers club in the IT novel. Im not saying you can't do this premise well, but as far as Stars Align goes it failed the execution (having seen all but the final episode). If they were only going to have 12 episodes the should have cut the cast in half and maybe had a satisfying arc for any of them within the limited time frame not to mention we've had 4+ episodes dedicated to really milquetoast sports/shounen. It doesn't tie in beyond being something for these troubled youths to do and its not interesting in the least, i have to wonder if the sports is to ensure some demographic draw since the writing for the drama at least appears sincere, they might benefit from a more sket dance approach, make them an odd jobs club, put more focus on the drama but still have fun activities for some levity if you cant execute on the concept, rework your premise. That's your opinion, not fact. I'm enjoying it a lot. |
Saacool said: Didn't say you can't enjoy it, but the bar shouldn't be "is it enjoyable" or everyone might as well just produce lowest common demo isekai forever Then let me rephrase it: I don't only enjoy it, I think it's very well made. Your criticisms are subjective. |
| Wow. The light tennis clubs cursed or something. Everyone seems to have intense issues. MAL should add ‘psychological’ genera as half the anime is psycho. |
| I'll copy what I wrote for episode 9 here. Is every family in the club totally broken? It's one thing if you want to explore familial abuse by having one or two kids suffer and see how it affects the club, but having every single god damn family have an asshat of a parent is way too much. It reeks of not knowing how to write a complex story. They are going for breadth instead of depth and they are doing it so poorly. I've read a bit of the criticism in this thread saying there isn't a lot of drama, but if you actually take a step back, take a deep breath, and drop the prejudices you have built up for yourself as a shallow attempt to not have to admit you were wrong, you will see that this entire show is entirely drama. Hell, the creators have straight up said that this show is about the drama and not about the sport. The drama is there, and it oozes out of everything. Unfortunately with every single character being abused it does not invoke sympathy. It just invokes disappointment. This stuff happens, but the scenario isn't realistic, even if you were to factor in the ridiculous Asian stereotype that getting anything other than an A+ makes you a failure. I believe that humanity should be wiped off the face of the planet because of how twisted humanity itself is, and even I know this has been ballooned so much as to be unrealistic. As I said before, this series approaches abuse in a breadth-first capacity, and in doing so it is doing an awful job exploring the bottomless depth of what real abuse is like and the devastating effects it has. Abuse is only interesting and thought provoking when you explore it from both sides, figure out how it got to that point, why, and figuring out exactly how the relationship has twisted. Watching people get bombarded with abuse without exploring why is not entertaining. |
| Yeah I had thought so as well. Glad I wasn't the only one. I think it was like from episode four when this issue came about. I'm glad it's tackling issues about an array of things however it's almost as its been shoved into you rather than been spread out for a couple of seasons. Yes, I am aware that it is an original and only had 12 episodes but what happened like right at the end of season one leads me to believe there will be a second season so they should be no issue on giving us all this information now. Also as most of you guys are saying why is every member of the tennis club have family issues? I'm not trying to make a light of the situation or downgrade that these things do happen but all of them are like very serious issues and they're quite heavy to talk about... I dunno. I came in thinking it was gonna be a good sports show demonstrating how family life can impact sport and stuff but now it's just drama with sports in the background. I dunno, I really feel they should've spaced it out or even hinted at some families life problems rather than intorducing all of it at one go. A lot of people are saying they're pretty much watching it for the drama now, so if there were to be a second season I don't think I want to watch it because I feel like the drama is a bit too much for me to handle. Yeah the advertisement did the series dirty to promote this series as a sport rather than drama |
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