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Jan 21, 2016 4:50 AM
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Hmm, this show focuses more on Kuga more than I had expected. Seems like she has a history with Sakuya. That promise though...



Meh pretty slow episode. I think Koharu grew a bit closer to Kakeru.
Jan 21, 2016 4:54 AM
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Showing how that boy (Abe-san) from the future got there. He learns how the airship works. I'm not sure how she can imagine that kind of answer with that question. That girl trying to draw a picture of the criminal, and her partner doesn't say her drawing is bad. Shuriken shaped onigiri? Interesting of seeing little parts of those pairs' past. Talk about being lonely or not. That sparkling lady that the future boy saw...

KajiKaji's character likes to tease people (and smile to hide his sad past), and Shimono-san's character is annoyed. KajiKaji's character was traveling with his father, but left the stuff left on his ear and died (though the man with him in the scenery seems like the man she met). Oh, so the guy with the kuudere girl has no power and she was trying to help him hide that.

Eh~, KajiKaji's character in fever next?
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Jan 21, 2016 6:50 AM
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Yay more farming. Yay.

Nanamis part was done nicely, Sorata seems to be awkwardly inserted in for now oops.

I'm not sure what's going on with Mikoto next episode. Based on the PV2 and ep 4 preview, she seems to say goodbye to Sakuya (to his dismay) in the rain. Natsuhiko seems to be at a bar somewhere (did both ships land somewhere?) I think it's too early for Mikoto to go solo to look for clues (PV2 hints at more Mikoto-Itsuki scenes), but
I'm bored of Kakeru lol
Jan 21, 2016 8:46 AM
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I played the game and fell in love with the characters, so I was looking forward to the anime. Especially after I saw the OP and thought they were going to keep the 'canon' couples of the game (Koharu/Kakeru, Mikoto/Natsuhiko, Nanami/Akito).

I'm kinda neutral to the Koharu/Kakeru pairing, though. So it's a little bit annoying that have so much screentime in every episode. I'm not sure how many episodes there will be (12?), but they should focus on the other couples too. *sigh*

I really want to see the relationship between Mikoto and Natsuhiko develop. :(
Jan 21, 2016 9:29 AM
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Wut? Kakeru is actually a girl? lol. Jokes aside, pretty slow ep but I did enjoy the interactions between character and specially Kakeru and Koharu's hilarious interactions.
Jan 21, 2016 1:35 PM
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Kakeru's joke about that he was a girl was nice!

Mikoto is so bad at drawing!
Jan 21, 2016 2:04 PM
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Okay episode, got pretty boring at times. Lol at Kakeru being a girl.

3/5
Jan 21, 2016 2:09 PM
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yawn all this focus on Kakeru and Koharu tbh.
Just me more Nanami and Mikoto, good thing next episode will deliver more.
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Jan 21, 2016 2:23 PM
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Nanami and Akito's story is very interesting, like it. By now the most underrated anime of the season in my eyes.
Jan 21, 2016 3:02 PM

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This is the best episode yet when it comes to character work. Remember all those complaints about Koharu and Kakeru? Yeah, none here. They're finally themselves again. Only took three episodes but what have ya.

Mikoto and Sakuya were freaking adorable as kids. Sakuya especially. I wonder if Otomate gave them sketches to base their designs on.

A lot more group feel than any other episode. Not much mystery added so easier to digest. The director was smart to make this the third episode - although it would have been smarter to mix some of its elements into earlier episodes to show the personalities of the Norn kids better. Sorata's introduction was pretty good. More to the point than the VN.

Looking forward to next episode. If I'm right, it'll bring my favorite boys to the forefront, who have so far just been everywhere but in a shallow capacity. Plz. I love them. Show everyone else why.
Jan 21, 2016 3:05 PM
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Rather than slow, I think the pacing is alright so far...I just hope that it won't get anticlimactic at the end of the series....Anyway, I'm really interested in what happened between Nanami and Akito in the past. Nanami seems to think that Akito hates her to the point of killing her-but he doesn't. Also that scene with Mikoto's drawing was hilarious! :D
Jan 21, 2016 3:37 PM

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Kakeru-chan... the way he rotfl was funny XD Many scenes in this ep make me laugh, but the angst is there too... I don't want Mikoto to leave Sakuya T^T
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Nanami and Akito's story is very interesting, like it. By now the most underrated anime of the season in my eyes.
Well because this is an IF otome game adaption so it automatically got low score no matter how good it actually is...
Jan 21, 2016 3:43 PM

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Ok episode. I find Koharu boring, I'm honestly more interested in Akito and Nanami.
Jan 21, 2016 3:52 PM
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Aaaaaand.... Dropped it. Or at least i am almost sure i did.
Jan 21, 2016 4:13 PM

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Lol at Mikoto's drawings. Episode starts at the beginning of the game with Sorata's arrival (and later Aion's appearance); hopefully they reveal more of Koharu and Kakeru soon. Things between Nanami and Akito are somewhat progressing.
Jan 21, 2016 7:26 PM

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Bored and dropped.

Only thing I like is the OP.
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Jan 21, 2016 7:40 PM
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The only thing that they didn't put in the anime is... they didn't put Kakeru holding Sorata with his greenery powers after he met Koharu while Akito apprehend him from the game! T_T
Jan 21, 2016 8:57 PM
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Not bad for an episode devoted to romance progression....The blue haired guy and the stoic girl are shaping up to be the best couple
Jan 21, 2016 9:59 PM

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Another great episode!
My pick for most underrated of the season so far :)
Jan 21, 2016 10:06 PM

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Wow i'm actually pretty impressed with this so far. Very entertaining and I got quite a few laughs.

Senri's reactions to Kakeru are the best ("it hasn't even been 10 seconds yet" and that whispering behind the bush)

Koharu's airheadedness is also very funny. Yes Kakeru you got friendzoned. A plant beat you, too bad. Oh and her thinking he was actually a girl. Man this girl is silly lol, love it.

Mikoto though...feel bad for Sakuya, he's such a sweetheart. He was a total cutie as a child. Her drawing was terrible, Sorata got it right, looks like a bug.

Also I'm a little confused. Doesn't everyone pretty much get what Koharu's ability is? Is it still a secret? I mean the entire area was scorched and she was there. I guess they could believe the intruder did it, but still...she makes it so obvious that she feels bad.
Jan 21, 2016 11:10 PM

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Kakeru's past OMG

Sakuya and Miikoto past

Akito and Nanami past
Jan 22, 2016 3:49 AM

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LMAO kakeru lost to the tree

and that ending confused me a little. is akito the traitor now or not?
Jan 22, 2016 5:53 AM
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I wish I could remember the characters' names but I'm liking this so far. There are still a lot of character motivations we're not sure about but they seem to be slowly explaining them. Obviously, not every character is going to be particularly important (too many characters in too few episodes) but I'm hoping the development gets meatier. The main romance still doesn't feel particularly natural to me yet, but I'm liking how Senri and Anamaninaminanamanimi (whatever her name is) are developing so far. A lot of the guys still haven't contributed anything meaningful, but I'll give them a few more episodes.
Jan 22, 2016 6:06 AM

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We get some background in this one
"I lost all of what you could call feelings of love. They weren't sealed, so they can't be released. They weren't broken, so they can't be fixed. That which is lost, cannot be recovered." Shiba Tatsuya
"There are no regrets. If one can be proud of one's life, one should not wish for another chance." Saber
"No matter what happens, no matter how crazy things get, I'll always try to restore balance." Korra
"It's madness to let others take what's yours and accept it blindly." Baatar Jr
"Instinct is a lie, told by a fearful body, hoping to be wrong." Zaheer
"Partner in crime, partner in time" Chloe Price and Max Caulfield
Jan 22, 2016 11:44 AM

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Mikoto's drawing is a work of art lol
Jan 22, 2016 12:00 PM

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No matter how much I struggle, I can't understand any character's reasons nor what's happening in the story as a whole at all.

The only thing that keeps me from dropping it is the art...

...Ok, the cute boys too, even if I can't tell one from another.
Jan 22, 2016 12:09 PM

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This has to be the most bullshit series I've watched all season.
Don't get me wrong, the concepts are very, very good; the boy from the future, the concept of powers, the characters' pasts and connections, the romance between a plant man and fire girl, the attackers' goals. These are some very interesting and well thought up premises but the execution is just plain terrible.
There's almost zero focus on the newly introduced character whose background I cannot stop thinking about, Koharu is another dummy otome heroine, the drama is so badly placed (I mean, who the hell are these people!? What am I supposed to feel about Suicidal-White-Chick!?) and the potential to make the writing stellar is wasted on-wait for it-FUCKING FARMING.

I have no intention of dropping this as, like I said, the concepts are just way too good that I want to see how it all ties and ends but, for now, it's rising up to sky-high levels of nonsense and bullshit.
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Jan 22, 2016 1:09 PM

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Pretty good for me but I can imagine that to someone who's never played the VN game the series of events they showed in this episode were literally "all over the place"......cuz that's exactly what it is doing: Showing bits and pieces of every route leaving it an awkward out-of-context lost mess in most cases.

Well that aside my random comments:

-- LOL, Sakuya had THAT much hair as a kid?!
-- Dang...they just had Mikoto leave her drawing on the table? There goes the second-half of that lol-fest
-- Yay for random Senri cameo. (*wants more Senri over Kakeru*)
-- Poor Sorata seems like he was put in as a "oh snap, we need to insert him somehow" afterthought no matter how you look at it

and YAY, more Natsuhiko in the preview!
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Ikano said:
Pretty good for me but I can imagine that to someone who's never played the VN game the series of events they showed in this episode were literally "all over the place"......cuz that's exactly what it is doing: Showing bits and pieces of every route leaving it an awkward out-of-context lost mess in most cases.

Well that aside my random comments:

-- LOL, Sakuya had THAT much hair as a kid?!
-- Dang...they just had Mikoto leave her drawing on the table? There goes the second-half of that lol-fest
-- Yay for random Senri cameo. (*wants more Senri over Kakeru*)
-- Poor Sorata seems like he was put in as a "oh snap, we need to insert him somehow" afterthought no matter how you look at it

and YAY, more Natsuhiko in the preview!


No worries, the VN didn't make much sense either :D
The approach this anime is going towards is to give us hints/clues that are important later.

such as,
- Why was Mikoto reluctant to spend time with Sakuya even though they were childhood friends?
- Why is the relationship between Akito x Nanami so strained? Why is she okay with dying from Akito's hands, when the dude himself is like 'wtf why would i want to kill you???" - If Akito doesn't have an ability, then why was he allowed to board? Does that mean the traitor has an ability? (If it was assumed that the traitor didn't have one, but Akito establishes that he isn't and he isn't one, than who is?) and who is "that guy"??
- Why does Ron always wear sunglasses??? THis episode we saw that he has different colored eyes - does this have to do with his ability?
- Why is Kakeru's earring important?
- There's a traitor, but why didn't anyone suspect Sorata, the kid who came out of nowhere?? (this is important for plot)

So so far, the things that seem like plot holes actually have an explanation, IF the anime decides to add the right scenes from the various routes and stop with the farming

small stuff like this makes me more interested to try to find out what's going on :D
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Jan 22, 2016 2:26 PM

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So so far, the things that seem like plot holes actually have an explanation, IF the anime decides to add the right scenes from the various routes and stop with the farming

yup, this. i wonder if it's just people don't like feeling confused? are they assuming their questions will never get answered?

idk. hard to look at this show objectively since i see how good the writers are at grabbing the more important threads of the VN and showing us one coherent narrative. lots of visual cues and foreshadowing. we get an otome adaption with a lot of care and love put into it (for once!) but so many people dropping it, calling it nonsense... makes me sad. :(
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ShiningNinja said:
So so far, the things that seem like plot holes actually have an explanation, IF the anime decides to add the right scenes from the various routes and stop with the farming

yup, this. i wonder if it's just people don't like feeling confused? are they assuming their questions will never get answered?


Yeah it seems like some kind of unspoken thing to announce that they'll drop this thing ASAP because of lack of plot/character progression at the 3 episode mark. (Come on guys, world building takes time....)

Other shows do the ' info dump by talking heads' and people complain
This shows tries to foreshadow events, and people complain that there's no answers. there's no middle ground haha.

A pro so far is that although Koharu/Kakeru are the ones in the spotlight, we still have the other characters. I admit, i fast forwarded their scenes but immensely enjoyed Nanami/Akito and Mikoto/Sakuya for this episode. It's not stopping me from looking forward to next week either :)
Jan 22, 2016 3:39 PM

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Slow episode but it was nice

Jan 22, 2016 3:41 PM

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Decent, I loved the part where Koharu thought Kakeru was a girl xD
Just so you know it's official Koharu x Peach tree is OTP!
That cliffhanger though, wait they are hanging from a cliff........
Jan 22, 2016 7:39 PM

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ShiningNinja said:
Yeah it seems like some kind of unspoken thing to announce that they'll drop this thing ASAP because of lack of plot/character progression at the 3 episode mark. (Come on guys, world building takes time....)

Other shows do the ' info dump by talking heads' and people complain
This shows tries to foreshadow events, and people complain that there's no answers. there's no middle ground haha.

Because they're so used to having the whole plot spoon-fed to them, instead of having themselves piece together small (important) tidbits that are easily dismissed as mere 'nonsense'. This is a case where we have to pay extra attention to characters interaction to understand their motivation and because that's where the story will develop. This is coming from the person who thought Koharu the dumbest girl alive for going straight to the line of fire before actually piecing things together tidbits and only after then I can sympathize with her. It's a matter of patience... and how well you can read into the lines lol. Though, I admit the game itself did give me quite the headache...
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idk. hard to look at this show objectively since i see how good the writers are at grabbing the more important threads of the VN and showing us one coherent narrative. lots of visual cues and foreshadowing. we get an otome adaption with a lot of care and love put into it (for once!) :(

True. I was actually quite impressed by how well the writers are in that area, being able to show important parts without info-dumping them. Sure, everything's shown is not yet clear, but they will be, in time (I hope). All that's left is viewers' patience. It's only three episodes in. We can't expect everything to be clear on the third episodes, eh?
Jan 22, 2016 11:47 PM

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Holy shit why is the OST so damn good?

Underrated anime.
Jan 23, 2016 12:27 AM

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bless the anime to cover all 3 routes at the same time hahaha
this is goldddd


Slow episode and it still feels really dopey to me.
I want to drop it real bad but I want to see this adapted..... ahh.
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currycurry said:
we get an otome adaption with a lot of care and love put into it (for once!) but so many people dropping it, calling it nonsense... makes me sad. :(


I was just thinking that! It seems like they're finally putting some thought into the anime, but it's not really grabbing anyone's attention because of the previous otoge adaptions. I hope that, by the end of this series, this anime will get at least a 7/10. I mean, KamiAso got at least 7/10, and there's no abusive boyfriends or --completely-- doormatty heroines...so, yeah. I hope the ratings will go up after a few more episodes. Hopefully they won't mess this anime up. Hopefully.
Jan 23, 2016 12:08 PM
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i gave this show more of a chance than i ususally do but its shit, there is no point and the characters are flat.
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Jan 23, 2016 12:33 PM

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Koharu is so dumb it hurts. "You're right I'm not alone, I have this peach tree!" doh

Nanami and Akito have some interesting interactions at least.
Jan 23, 2016 12:43 PM

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If Kakeru was a girl, he just broke all laws of being a trap. That masterpiece drawing by Mikoto was used well with the comedy. Akito having no powers is a surprise and it looks like he has a shady acquaintance as well.
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Jan 23, 2016 3:11 PM
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Slow paced episode in the beggining, but it got better ;v; I loved the Akito x Nanami parts of the episode <3

The fact that a lot of people is dropping this anime makes me sad :c It's only been 3 episodes, and I've said it a lot of times: The story gets better through time.

Good episode, dat tension at the end :s (Thank God I've played the VN, otherwise, I probably would have died with the cliffhanger...)
Jan 23, 2016 7:58 PM

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Honestly, I'm not even sure if Koharu x Kakeru is going to happen because Koharu is SO naive. Its kind of annoying.
Kakeru is a trap now tho. I'm honestly not sure if he's a girl or not~~
And he got shot down by a tree xD best part this episode~

And how did a gust of wind knock down Nanami?! And what was that ending even...
I hope it clears that up in the next episode... Cause I was pretty confused =/


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Jan 23, 2016 8:59 PM

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Kind of a slow episode ... but I guess more of Kakeru's past and then the same thing with Shiranui and her partner not having a special ability! Not to mention Sakuya's "promise" to Mikoto ... in any case I'm having trouble keeping track of all their names >_< Looks like next episode Kakeru's going to get sick and misses his dad ...? Eh, I hope this show picks up, and for some reason the animation this episode kind of annoyed me ... oh, and that kid from the future, he was barely in this at all! I thought the time traveling would surely play a bigger role o_O All we've got from that part is the "ghost" of the girl ...
Jan 24, 2016 12:13 AM

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I don't trust Kakeru. I don't think he's the traitor (note: I haven't played the VN) but I don't think he's exactly a good guy either :/.

Koharu's pretty annoying because she's basically nothing, but then again Mikoto's the only female with any personality. And I'm biased because Ayahi.
Jan 24, 2016 5:09 PM

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I'm enjoying the mysterious side of this. It will be interesting to see where all of this leads.
Jan 25, 2016 8:18 AM

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Lot's of scenes from past but absolutely nothing happened this episode. I think I found the guilty pleasure show of this season.

Kakeru is still full of bullshit.
Jan 25, 2016 9:51 AM

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Just wanted to say that I have played the game (that incorrect inference/assumption that I haven't played the game has been bugging me more than it should have)

On that note, it seems most people who haven't played it are getting frustrated with these series...but maybe I'm seeing it from a biased viewpoint....
Because personally, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to watch this show without going "oh this part is connected to this other part I saw in the game", etc.
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Just wanted to say that I have played the game (that incorrect inference/assumption that I haven't played the game has been bugging me more than it should have)

On that note, it seems most people who haven't played it are getting frustrated with these series...but maybe I'm seeing it from a biased viewpoint....
Because personally, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to watch this show without going "oh this part is connected to this other part I saw in the game", etc.


I actually didn't make any assumption about whether or not you played the game at all, i just saw that it was a great post to add on info as an fyi what ppl are missing out on.


but yes, a few more days till more natsuhiko ;_;
Jan 26, 2016 10:30 AM

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Well, so that's it for me.
I thought Koharu was a bad heroine. But the two other girls aren't any better.
And wow, that wind was strong.
I would watch more. So, you know, the plot can actually get interesting. But all the characters annoy me and I scream at the screen for most of the episode. The graphics aren't that great, but the music was okay.

I've never played the game, but I hope those who did actually find the anime enjoyable.
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I haven't played the game but I find the anime quite enjoyable.
on to the next ep we go!
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