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Hey I saw your review of White Album 2, you captured it pretty well, there's a translation project for it called TodokanaiTL that you can find the Discord for with a google search, and the anime adapts the first chapter (Introductory). The second chapter (closing) follows the characters from the first to college, where things in my opinion get even more heartwrenching before eventually warming up. There are side routes as well, and there's a 3rd chapter (Coda) if you pick a specific character who I'm sure you can guess ;)

Good luck with it! It's a masterpiece of a story.

That seems about right. I'm, uh, not that young, and I have students Shinji's age... it's amazing how easily people discount how extraordinarily effed his circumstances are compared to the average middle schooler. I'm way, way too old to self insert into anime, but I can get why that would be frustrating for a much younger viewer.

I dunno if I find San-gatsu tame exactly... I mean I like some shows with pretty "extreme" content (Psychopass for instance) but the mundanity of San-gatsu makes it more compelling to me than a lot of other seinen. But I like Kiriyama Rei just fine, and I really enjoy his relationship with the Kawamoto family. But in all honesty, I find the Kawamotos to be the best part of the show/manga, in a way.

Everyone has that phase. I wasn't into anime so much during mine, but everyone goes through it, in some way. I don't really mind all the self pity in Eva though. It's a show dealing with 14 year olds, mostly, it's okay for them to be weird and angsty and mopey. To me, EvA's strength was and is it's depiction of human dysfunction. People seem to really dislike Shinji, but he's a very realistic depiction of a severely traumatized adolescent child. I would love to see a version of the show without mechs (even though they're not really mechs) and without the other sci-fi/and or mystical elements of the show. Shinji et al. would work brilliantly in a more grounded drama series, but I guess that's kind of what shows like san-gatsu no rion are.

Thanks. Despite my dislike of it overall, Eva stuck with me in a major way that made me interested in it not only as art, but as a product of the people who made it. I think it's a brilliant work, but also one that I wish I had never seen. I have never encountered a more visceral encapsulation of the saying "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

Thank you very much my friend,

Yes many unfortunately just do not understand the difference between "It's high quality" and "I love you". They think the anime is obviously good just because they like it. But you can like something average as much as you want, it just doesn't make it better. That's why there's so much discussion and arguing.


In the end, it only matters if you like the show for yourself . But I would also like more thoughtful shounen with new themes or more detail and character.

Anyway, I'm glad you understand what I was trying to say. KNY is one of my favorite anime for me and always will be. But I will NEVER argue for the quality haha.

I'm always happy to get positive feedback ;)

Np just take ur time. You can ask me anytime 😉

Np, I just stumbled upon your review. You give a brief anaysis on each character accurately and I really like your honest thougths on the show as well. It's better to experienced the overall story in its VN. It's actually up to you on how to play it. Following the main story up to coda or playing all the side heroine routes in closing chapter then jump into coda. For me I chose the former one then play the side heroines last lol. For coda I play it blindly first then follow the walkthrough to get certain routes. It's best to experienced coda in this order : Kazusa normal, Setsuna true then Kazusa true the last one. Both KNE and STE serve as alternate ending (what if scenario) based on Haruki's (player) decision whether he being honest or liar. Just play it blindly to see what ending you get first.

Nice review on WA 2. Nailed it. Wish you luck on reading its VN. It's even better there and the final patch is also planned to released this summer. For more info just visit their dicord server https://discord.gg/5rrxEUN

Yeah I'm also looking forward to the full translation despite having read the spoilers myself long ago lol. You can check their site or discord to get the latest info about the project https://todokanaitl.github.io/patch/

Nice WA 2 review. Regarding the VN are you actually able to read Japanese? Because as far as I know the English translation (by fans) isn't done yet so but it's most likely on its way to the finish-line so might take a while.