Back to lo-fi's Profile lo-fi's Profile

Hi there! Just a quick review.

First, let me praise what I liked about the show and say that I expected a lot from it, since it was from Watanabe Shinichiro, who I'm a big fan of.

The jazz themes and refrences were awesome, the OST's were cool (even had some hip-hop kinda beats for the soundtrack which resembled me Samurai Champloo OST), the old school Japan ambientation was great. Personally I loved Sentarou and his character had a decent development. Loved the interior-ish japanese dialect also, it is very charming.


But ok, let's get to the downers:


I had a huge problem with Kaoru. Dude, Kaoru just sucks. ... He indeed had one or two good moments, but most of times he was just there whining about every damn thing. Not that the main character need to be cool or anything, but Kaoru just makes it annoying to watch.

His dialogues were mostly lame. "I can't stop the rhythm of my heart" kinda thing. I laughed when it was supposed to make me sad. Remember the episode that the crew went searching for clams at the beach? Remember of Kaoru being all jealous because of his "trauma" (can't call it a trauma really) with a childhood friend? You can't go on that stuff and say that is a good drama plot, it was just the shallowest thing. I can't praise that when a kid at age 10 could write a similar drama plot.

And let's get to episode 11 [spoiler ahead], when occured the accident. Kaoru just rushed to the hospital and saw Sentarou's family. Then, he discovered that the one at surgery was Sachiko, and not Sentarou. When Kaoru heard that, he was just like "Oh, ok nevermind" and went after Sentarou, like fuck Sachiko. Dude, he was just told that she had a severe head trauma and could not wake up anymore. And he knew her. Then he went after Sentarou and later comes his thoughts about the school festival. At that point all he knew was that she might not wake up anymore, and he is concerned about the School Festival? Wtf. Unreal situation, bad directing or was just Kaoru that sucks? Can't tell.

The last episode was good. But again, same lame (imo) dialogues problem "I can't stop the rhythm of my heart" DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE what are those dialogues (I'm watching the ep 12 as I write this review).

The first episodes were good, but when it progressed it was pure bromance anime with an annoying main character. Sad, because I expected a lot from it. It's totally okay and understandable to not have money for a big production like Shigatsu (which people compares to SnA), but in this case you NEED to work on the dialogues, the concept, the plot, the characters, because otherwise...... yeah... And jazz > classical music (personal taste, of course).