If I were to summarize Charlotte, it would be like trying to make soup by throwing all your favorite foods into a pot. It doesn’t work like that.
So what are our ingredients?
1) Good-looking audience surrogate male protagonist. 2) Equally good-looking female protagonist with tragic backstory. 3) Super kawaii imouto. 4) Glasses-wearing idol fanboy. 5) Moe idol character. 6) High school setting. 7) Government baddies. 8) Supernatural abilities 9) Deaths, but not really. 10) Romantic subplot…see where I’m going with this?
The biggest problem for Charlotte seems to be its inherent lack of confidence in having compelling characters and telling an interesting story. Hell,
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Sep 25, 2015
Ore Monogatari!!
(Anime)
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
This shoujo high school romantic comedy tells the old tale of a teenage boy who falls for a beautiful girl out of his league. Typical shoujo, amirite? The only difference is that the main lead is a 2 meter ogre of a man, and his girlfriend is a tiny little chipmunk of a lady. Yeah, not your average shoujo. [spoiler]Ore Monogatari is, as the title suggests, a simple love story. And yet, it is not. Tropes are bent and twisted all over the place. Gouda Takeo, who looks like a hulking delinquent out of a yakuza manga, is an absolute gentleman. His handsome ... |
