Aug 8, 2017
Story: 10
The story gets a perfect score because it achieves the end without significant holes. Develop the personality of 3 young adults and 1 adolescent
is not an easy task, and the anime made it very well. Many different things that they had to face on that difficult stage of life were reproduced, the emotional part being focused. The core of the story was the development by the three protagonists of feelings that are, at the same time, immoral and undeniable. These desires erupt and evolve right when the characters are more emotional unstable, which leads to a situation that is impossible to solve without hurting
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everyone's feelings. All the hesitation and slow-paced decision making is pretty coherent with the context and it builds an agony on the viewer, which fuels our engines to reach to the ending of the show. Moreover, the anime made a good job on immersion because of the realistic touch on its writing.
Art: 8
The art was good, but not perfect. Haruka and Mitsuki emotions could be felt by the drawing, but I found it lacking on Takayuki, that had quite of a poker face. The enviroments were nice and other characters were good too. I liked the realistics proportions of the people too.
Easter Egg:
Many characters arts, names and personalities were used in the visual novel Muv-Luv.
Sound: 7
The music was pleasant and the voice acting was average (many japanese stereotypes). However the quality of the sound did not jeopardize the experience, but did not add too much either.
Character: 8
The character development in a realistic world is the center of the show, since it is a slice of life. The romance flows with one story core, from where emerge the conflicts (almost all of them emotional) that must be solved by the characters. Takayuki was portrayed as a really kind person, and that kindness was reflected on his ability to put effort on others beyond the level of a medium human being, at the same time, his empathy put him in several tough situations, because he did not want to hurt the people he loved, which led him to dwell too much on his conflicts. He was also a hardworking guy and could control his emotions while was working, which demonstrate that he cared about his coworkers as well. Mitsuki was portrayed as the most emotional character, in my opinion, her feelings drove her to make some silly decisions that led to some bad situations, but to others that were good. The strenght of her love was heart melting, which made her face many disgraces for the welfare of the man she loves, and that factor made her my favorite character, despite the fact that her emotional spikes caused the most revolting situations in the show. Haruka did not have so much attention as the others, her interaction with the other characters were the fuel to the plot, since the conflicts were originated from there, but she had almost no decision making until the last episodes, but her influence was necessary to move the anime to the end. She was, at most times, very affectionate and shy. However she demonstrated strenght to deal with her conflicts.
Enjoyment: 9
It was very good to see the classic battle "Platonic Infantile Love X Realistic Adult Love" portrayed in a different way. The fact that the background of the show did not point to an obvious ending helped a lot too.
Overall: 9
This piece of art deals with Love in a tough stage of life. The Development of the tragedy was well made and proved to be realistic and heart warming.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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