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| I have vague feelings. On the one hand, it’s clichéd to the point of parody, but on the other, there’s definitely something to it. Also, do they use any real brand of carbonated drinks? Such an opportunity, lmao. |
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| I rarely like woman MC without backbones I need a lot of good reasoning and good writing of the character. In this one its 50/50 we have reasonings and they are good. Its make sense and she wanna change. The problem is that good part ends here. She was happy that the boy poured lemonade on her…..that not being shy and have problems with talking to people and she choose this school because of him…..Im still gonna be positive and believe that she gonna have a personality traits beside him. For Miura he definitely better than a lot of love interest but I would say he is middle ground for now |
| I was drawn to this thanks to its attractive visuals, but I have to say, there was really nothing to this one. No interesting hook or anything. She's bullied because she's quiet and absent minded I guess? Standard Shoujo fare I suppose. I appreciate the early 2000s vibe I'm getting from this, but other than that, nothing to write home about or tell. Perhaps the relationship between the two gets more interesting as time goes on, but I'm not sure how long I'll stick around with this. |
| It way ok for me for the first episode. Everything in this lemon yellow reminds you the title Honey lemon soda 😂 I'm so happy to have Magic hour and Wonderful world by &team ♡ |
Su_mi_koJan 10, 8:08 PM
| (*＾3＾)/～☆ ♪♪ |
| i had high hopes for this but this first episode didn't leave much of an impression tbh. he eyes look goofy unfortunately.. and why does everyone have the same eye colour |
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| I am a big shoujo lover but I couldnt even finish the episode... the cringe was too much and I had to go outside to reconnect with nature after watching this nonsense |
| Uka has comically huge eyes and look like lemon slices. While Kai's apology was extremely insincere, at least he also wore gym clothes. That was super sweet of him. Poor Uka, I completely feel for her. Why do they call her stony? Bc of her social anxiety? As someone who was bullied too, it pisses me off so damn much. People who bully others are insecure assholes who are insanely jealous of the person they're bullying. This is such a wholesome anime. I'm going to cry, Kai is the biggest sweetheart, ahhhh The music adds a beautiful touch too. The OP was okay, but the ED is a total boop and so dang cute. The animation is lowkey beautiful. Uka's home is super detailed. Living for all the shoujo this season!! I love this one so dearly. Last season was a letdown with not so great shoujo (Blue Box has been a disappointment IMO. I'm looking forward to all the cute and squee moments ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ ALSO to everyone saying its crazy she went to her current high school bc Kai was nice to her is wrong. I genuinely think she saw this as the only opportunity to grow and change herself. All she's known is getting bullied, so I would probably have done the same thing if I were in her position. It would've given me hope and reminded me that not everyone is a dick. I also don't think this is super cliche, so I'm wondering why everyone is saying its cliche lol |
cooldogmomJan 12, 12:30 PM
As a wise man once said, "No one hates anime more than anime fans"  |
Reply to ajw215799
I think anyone who has any experience with bullying will be emotionally affected by this.
Wasn’t crazy about the animation but hey, it’s one of those Plus Ultra block shows, can’t expect too much on the animation front.
Wasn’t crazy about the animation but hey, it’s one of those Plus Ultra block shows, can’t expect too much on the animation front.
| @ajw215799 No seriously, I almost started crying during the episode bc I was bullied too 😭 |
As a wise man once said, "No one hates anime more than anime fans" |
Reply to notthatjesus
Sorry but torpedoing your academic life because someone was mildly nice to you is INSANE
| @notthatjesus I don't think it was necessarily bc someone was nice to her. It has more to do with the fact that she saw this as an opportunity to get out of the bullying slump/loop she's been stuck in her whole school life. |
As a wise man once said, "No one hates anime more than anime fans" |
Reply to Su_mi_ko
It way ok for me for the first episode.
Everything in this lemon yellow reminds you the title Honey lemon soda 😂
I'm so happy to have Magic hour and Wonderful world by &team ♡
Everything in this lemon yellow reminds you the title Honey lemon soda 😂
I'm so happy to have Magic hour and Wonderful world by &team ♡
| @Su_mi_ko and what's crazy is that Kai and Uka first meet in front of Cafe Miel (miel = honey in Spanish) |
As a wise man once said, "No one hates anime more than anime fans" |
Reply to cooldogmom
@Su_mi_ko and what's crazy is that Kai and Uka first meet in front of Cafe Miel (miel = honey in Spanish)
| @cooldogmom cool I didn't know... Everything feels so connected |
| (*＾3＾)/～☆ ♪♪ |
| Gorgeous soundtrack. Everything else was shockingly poor, wow. There seemed to be some excitement for this one before the start of the season, but I couldn't figure out why. After episode 1, I'm even more confused. It's just bizarre... Running into a random guy on the streets and then flunking the entrance exams on purpose. Guy literally putting words into the girl's mouth. The cartoonish bullies that got chased away like some sentai villains. Reading the answer off of a classmate's notebook and the teacher accepting it. It feels like a parody of stuff like Kimi ni Todoke, which I genuinely enjoyed. |
| I cringed a lot of times in this first episode, I love shoujo romance shows and thought this will be good. For now it is nothing special but I will give it few more episodes and I hope it will get better, animation quality is okay but imo it is nothing amazing. |
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| 4/10 Corny and unbelievably bland. They really don't make good shoujo anymore. I saw someone saying it gives off "early 2000s shoujo" vibes, and I couldn't disagree more. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but the comparison is straight up insulting. The art style is forgettable, the plot is unremarkable, the characters are already unlikeable... at least blue box was somewhat pretty to look at. I could barely make it past the first episode, so I can already tell this is not gonna pass the 3 ep rule. |
| I've watched the first episode and it's cute, but I won't continue. I'm tired of the shy shoujo heroine with no self-esteem. But the way her love interest helps her overcoming her shyness ito say good morning was adorable. |
TressymJan 14, 5:58 PM
Reply to Softhenic03
Yeah, very typical.. typical typical, if that means anything. I mean for the sake of it being a shoujo, we get our main heroine as someone who’s devoid of… many things, one of them being a going school life. I mean of course, you can’t play the main character of a japanese cartoon unless you are uber introverted, don’t have friends, talk a LOT… inside your head and sit beside the window seat. The epitome of plain girl… our main heroine. Though hey, you can only meet guys who look like k-pop idols by being that way, and that way alone.
Those kids calling her a stone lmaooo… no, I mean what bullies, doing that to a girl. Absolutely unacceptable. Still knowing the main girl chose to go to this school just because a guy she barely knew told her she’d look good in their uniform makes pretty much everything really hilarious to me. I mean they tried with the usual bullying, but no, that stuff looked like something straight out of a comic skit. “HeLp mEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…..”, no seriously, help us by not exaggerating stuff, though this is pretty usual for a shoujo, so what can I say.
Those kids calling her a stone lmaooo… no, I mean what bullies, doing that to a girl. Absolutely unacceptable. Still knowing the main girl chose to go to this school just because a guy she barely knew told her she’d look good in their uniform makes pretty much everything really hilarious to me. I mean they tried with the usual bullying, but no, that stuff looked like something straight out of a comic skit. “HeLp mEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…..”, no seriously, help us by not exaggerating stuff, though this is pretty usual for a shoujo, so what can I say.
| @Softhenic03 "for the sake of it being a shoujo, we get our main heroine"... literally shut it. Just because the character goes through bullying it is isn't her fault that she is in that situation. She is at the point of where she can't do anything because she is constantly being bullied. Just blaming it is a shoujo is so misogynistic. She literally begins to stand up for herself in slow measures. For example asking for help and soda explosion to others. Someone who has been in a toxic environment it is for hard to them to ask for help. It takes real courage to ask and the main lead is actually a step by helping her to guide that point. He pulls away from stereotype of prince who does it all. He actually wants the girl to build up her courage. Shoujo haters are extremely sexist. No one wants the weird over sexaulized shounen stuff (not saying all shounen but most). The bullying thing is extremely childish because they're extremely childish (they literally just got out of middle school) SHOUJO IS NOT A GENRE. SHOUJO IS DEMOGRAPHIC TOWARDS GIRLS. SHOUJO≠ ALL ROMANCE SHOUJO ≠ GENRE But this user continues to hate on this anime because it is a shoujo. Other demographics have the same tropes too. |
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Reply to ajw215799
@cooldogmom yeah I was very emotionally effected as well which is why I said anyone who has been bullied will be effected
| @ajw215799 agreed. with me, i didn't know better when i was bullied as kid than i do now. the anger within me wanted to punch bullies in any series. the bullies being called "ugly trio" and soda-ed was well deserved and i hope more shit karma continues hurling their way. |
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| made me cry in the first episode already ;-; |
| Good start, a bit hard to stay interested while watching at times. |
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| Another anime about an MC with social anxiety and the second MC being an extrovert. Ishimori is an odd character but sort of realistic (i guess?) And Kai/Miura is really odd too me, i don't think he's that realistic but we will have to see where they take him. |
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