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Apr 5, 2021
Yuru camp is the definition of "comfy".
Ever since the end of first season, Yuru camp has never left me. I went to Japan in end of 2019 til the beginning of 2020 before Corona (Gooooooood old time). I visited Motosuko, where everything started. The kawaii kanban oneesan allowed me a mini camping (my photo shoot actually). When I was on those exact spots, I was so overwhelmed by happiness. I travelled to Kawaguchi (featured in Heya camp) and took the cable car. When I later watch the girls had taken the same trip, I was so happy too.
I genuinely envy these girls. They can so
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much "mankitsu" (満喫 enjoy to their hearts' content) all that nature has to offer in Yamanashi and Shizuoka (Hamamatsu and Izu). Nadeshiko is always THE best cute eating girl, hardworking, genuinely caring and she could find fun and wonder in everything. She is the best companion in travel. Rin is still the inner thinking traveller with the best attire. With the solo mindset and yet not shy away from group travel, she is not only my close ally, but many viewers find her also relatable.
The second season has a visual upgrade. Scenes are background paper materials. The music from Akiyuki Tateyama is still the best.
What's more, the second season puts some more very nice touch on the human "relationships" from the manga. Between Rin and Nadeshiko, Rin and her family, Rin and the Outdoor Club, are just heartwarming. Their caring and thankful altitude toward each other is not exaggerated, such as going extra miles to check out on friends or bowing to express their gratitude, is just all too normal in the Japanese society and this human side of the human interaction is the exact thing that makes me love this country so much.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Aug 5, 2018
Congrats Tokyo Ghoul √A, you are my first "1" rating anime.
With one Japanese word to describe it: mazui (不味い).
In the first season, we still had Hanazawa Kana to lift the show from a 1 to a 2. In Season 2, without Hanazawa, it regresses to its rightful bottom rating: 1 that is.
Story: it consists of an infinity of gore and torture that was pure disgusting, although this season contains fewer disgusting torture scenes than season 1. Spaghetti plot and separate pieces of arches that scatter all over the place and interrupt each other. Story telling is at its worst, constant interruption and plot holes.
Character: all
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characters invoke zero feeling from me. The MC was an otaku in season 1 and a snob in season 2 who pretended very hard to be cool and just ended up anything but. The female lead is a foul mouth tsundere who succeeded in making herself hardly likable.
Sound: it is astonishing that so many established VAs went into this anime. They are all talented but now they have to be forced associated with this unworthy drama. The songs are so so. OP and ED are better than the disaster ones from the first season.
Overall: Together with first season, Tokyo Ghoul √A was deleted from my hard drive immediately.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Mar 31, 2018
Of Yuru Camp, comfyness and the beautiful landscape seem to be the two universal focal points of the show. The brilliant depiction of food seems to be the selling point of Shokugeki. But yorimoi is something special: this show has provoked so many different thoughts from different viewers on different levels.
For those who love this show, they seemed to get hit by it differently. I guess that it all depends on our personal experience so far. Lots of people felt the strongest in ep. 12. Some viewers revealed how this episode was related to them personally in life. Also episode 5 & 6 got
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people who had similar episodes themselves previously. And the sea sickness part might seem funny to most people but wrecked havoc on certain viewers who are not good on ship.
For me, it was ep. 1 that clicked the most personally. It just reminded me of my own journeys so much, especially my travels to Japan. I felt really first hand what Kimari felt, the whole time: the frustration after we gave ourselves excuses not to make a journey, and the bursty excitement when the mental block was removed and then first time to set foot onto the place that we have dreamed of day and night. And finally at the end of good journey, the gratefulness "I'm so glad that I took the trip" and the sweet memory.
I have then repeated about ten times the following sequence: Kimari in front of the ticket gates, she took one step back and then bit her teeth to go through it, surprised Shirase while Shirase rewarded her the most beautiful smile, and then the Shikansen Nozomi drove through the tunnel, passed Mt. Fuji while they fell asleep leaning against each other. All accompanied by one of the most beautiful Ed "ここから、ここから".
Kimari was prepared to break out from her own shell, and she was lucky to meet Shirase. When Shirase unexpectedly invited her with that "じゃ、一緒に行く?" (Jya, let's go together?), I was electrified. When was the last time that someone you barely knew invited you to take on an improbable journey? And that someone seemingly has nothing concrete at the moment but a strong resolution and an optimistic belief that everything will work out eventually. From this show we learn, when we get invited like this next time, say "yes!".
After all 13 episodes we learned the friendship that the four have developed and how far Shirase would go for her friends, manifested twice on two episodes related to Hinata. We may wish that we all need a friend like Shirase sometime in our lives. Or perhaps, how to become a friend like Shirase ourselves?
From the numerous discussion threads on Reddit, I learned that many things in life, just like the fruit durian in episode 6, are tasted differently from people to people. Since "yorimoi" is also a thing in life, it, too, is subjected to different opinions. Having said that, the show is overwhelmingly positively liked in Twitter, Reddit, Crunchyroll, Niconico, Bilibili, Baidu, Youtube and so on. Every aspects, from story, directing, drawing, camera, music, background, and the all stars VAs have been reviewed and praised. A show that truly touched people around the world.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Mar 23, 2018
I love the Japanese landscape in real life. So a show featuring it is a must-see for me by this merit alone.
This anime is far exceeding my and perhaps anybody's expectation. Perhaps the first hint of it being a hit was the VA's list: Touyama Nao, one of the three "magicians" VAs highly praised by the Chinese (the other two are Taneda Risa and Sakura Ayane). Toyosaki Aki, the Yui in K-On! and a member of Sphere. Apart from them, nothing else was really eye-catching at first glance.
But the opening with Rin riding her bike along the road towards Motosuko in Autumn Japan was already
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a treat. Japan is really that beautiful - an industrial country still spotted with pristine landscape. And the show knows it and capitalizes on it. It alternates camping site for camping site in the late Japanese autumn. It was a good change since most audience were quite exposed to the Sakura Japanese Spring by many other animes (Shigatsu wa kimi no uso, Hyouka and on and on). Red sugar maple trees with other golden trees lined up the shores of Shibireko in ep 6 & 7 were breathtaking.
One of the best episodes, the Chinese and Japanese crown it with "神回" (godlike episode), is ep. 5. The outside Hottokeya onsen with a view over Yamanashi city was a killer. 40°C water, the best weather, under the most relaxing music, the girls just were submerging themselves in all these- Nadeshiko summed it up "極楽、極楽" (heavenly comfort, heavenly comfort). On the parallel side, Rin's repeating "温泉！温泉！温泉！" just makes the whole thing more comforting.
Then it comes to camping and finally the sweet night photo scene - Nadeshiko sent Rin a photo of Yamanashi while Rin sent Nadeshiko a shot of the picturesque Suwa lake, all under orginal music with the title "高ボッチ、イーストウッド" (the names of two camping sites). Especially when Rin took her shot, the uplifting background music with a female voice chanting in it was just pure gold.
This is an anime, where the joy for camping, the awe in front of the night scenery and the quiet environment are all there. But it is also an anime about friendship among our 5 heroines. They were happy camping because they had each other. Even in ep. 1 which looked like a Rin's solo, it was only heating up after Nadeshiko's joining. And ever since then, the fun of camping had never been the same: culminating in episodes 3, 5, 7 and the last two, all with Nadeshiko.
The pacing of the anime was also special. It followed a A-B-A-B-A rhythm, where a camping episode was followed by an intermission (traveling, planning and shopping) so that we didn't get too much a camping overdose and didn't soon lose our appetite. Without a question, the camping episodes were the highlights, but we would have enjoyed them slightly less if it those filler episodes weren't there.
Also the educational aspect of the show is refreshing. Ootsuka Akio voiced the narrative insert with quite a humor sense.
The music OP+ED+OST is perhaps one of the most anticipated of the season. The OP is high-spirited song that kicked open most of the episodes. While the OST and the EP are just max comfying. The OST, played with whistles, string instruments and guitars, is just delivering everything we need for the show and then some.
I believe that many viewers around the world, me included have thoroughly enjoyed this show so very much. It will be perhaps some years away for a season 2. But let's just wait. And in the meantime, go to Japan to see the landscape ourselves!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 21, 2017
Hayami Saori is simply breathtaking.
From Nishimiya to Yumeko here, through Hatoko and Sawa and more, she just demonstrated her ability to impersonate a full spectrum of female anime characters and it was hard to believe that the very same actress was behind all these girls! Every time when the schizophrenic Yumeko transformed from her innocent student self to a demonic gambler with red snake-iris, Saori's voice just chilled the hell out of me. It is a transformation of Yumeko, but if we consider all the other cute kawaii roles Saori has voiced so far, that was as much as a transformation of Saori herself. Every
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time when she whispered at anybody, she was talking to the character on the one side as well as addressing to me on the other side of the camera. No wonder I searched for her name at every credit just to confirm "it was she" in the episode.
The plot itself is a bit of heavy taste. I'm afraid the show is not for all ages. Cutting off the younger viewership is a hard choice because it impacts the quote. But the plot made it up by delivering the thrill and pumping the adrenalin that a gamble brings. Twists in plots made the watch even more gut wrenching. I did get a feeling that the show ends a bit abruptly and deserves something much more dramatic to conclude.
Yes, gambling is illegal in most countries, but I believe that life makes out of many many small gambles, whenever we invest, get the job A instead of B, confess to the person we fall for. In this sense, the show is a dramatic depiction of what happens in everybody's everyday life.
It is a pity there is not too much chance for Saori to sing in this show. She did have a short song duo at the end of one episode. But this is no Tari Tari.
All in all, the plot is decent, not a 10 but thoroughly enjoyable. And Hayami Saori saves the day again!
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 8, 2017
I visited Hiroshima May 2016. It was a bleeding experience that I can only relunctantly reiterate.
The city nowaday is a vibrant metropolis, a dramatic contrast to its own 1945 past. As busy as other mega Japanese cities, Hiroshima stands in a profoundly solemn atmosphere, a city still mourning, especially at the Peace Memorial area. You can hear the Peace Bell, you can see the Peace Flame is still on and it will be on until the last piece of nuclear weapon is destroyed, you can visit the Children's Peace Monument and count those thousands upon thousands of origami cranes for Sadako Sasaki. And you
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can pay a visit to the Peace Museum.
Lots of Japanese school children were there at the Children's Peace Monument. Lots of foreign visitors were at the Museum, turning their heads away out of instinct when they saw the first exhibit right after the entrance, and regained their hope after they saw the photograph and read its caption at the exit: "In Hiroshima where it was said, 'For seventy-five years nothing will grow'. New buds sprouted in the green that came back to life. Among the charred ruins, people recovered their living hopes and courage."
Therefore I want to make a small claim here: without visiting Hiroshima, one can hardly imagine the scale of destruction depicted in "Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni". Few, if any viewers here, lived through WWII. There are not many ways we can get in touch with that event. This film, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, tell us, never forget the devastation of war, the threat of nuclear weapon. And, this should never happen again.
Like Firefly, this film is not an outright verbal condemnation of the Japanese warmongering in WWII. Instead, it is about the life of Suzu. Compared to the siblings in "Firefly", Suzu and her husband's side of the family, though not unscathed during the war, could be counted as one of the fortunate survivors. Her life in that period were alternated bewteen war time shortage, her love of painting, humorous precious moments and tragedies. "Firefly" slowly cornered the people around our protagonists to subsistence and at the same time peeled away their charitable nature. In contrast, "Kono sekai" was full of human love and never took away our hope, with some small bumps on its way. What's more, laughter was plentiful, a luxury during a war.
This whole viewer experience is largely delivered by Suzu. Heavy with Hiroshima accent and often sunk in her own thought, she is an easy, honest and kind-heardly young woman, a Yamato Nadeshiko. Yes, she might not see the "Big Picture" about what was going on around the world at that crazy time, she might only see the limited small world around Hiroshima and Kure, deep-down she might even stand on the side of the imperial Japan and hoped her country victorious, all these didn't change the fact that she was a young wife, among all the other civilians, that bore the weight of the War and took the brunt of the devastation.
It is hard for us, some 70 years later, to feel the hardship of the time, to imagine how delicious was the leftover from some U.S. soldiers, what Nankou meshi tastes like and how desperate it was at the sight of Hiroshima after the devastation. It is through Suzu's narrative, a walking kleidoscope, that we have got a glimpse at the wrath of war. After watching, you are free to feel and to interpret author's intent. For me, is this:
Stop all wars!
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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