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Hello, so sorry to bother you, I was wondering if you could recommend some BL anime?!

I 100% agree with your ''about you'' paragraph. Good reviews and especially Bl reviews.

Lolol, same dude ( your ''complain'' paragraph )

Is "KH" a nice anime to watch?

There are too many Re Zero reviews. I was planning on watching Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou and then saw your post. Quite informative to go to extra length.

You get a vote from me.

Is Haikyuu a nice anime to watch?

Liked your reviews of Clannad and One Outs.

i share your opinion of bl. i find myself sticking to doujin [usually made by males] nowadays- but i dont go for bara.

you didn't like oofuri's second season as much?

It's true that a lot of elements taken by themselves are just general anime tropes, but the way they are arranged and combined results in something that's quite distinctly Adachi style. Perhaps you are right about the Koushien though. I haven't watched many baseball shows so I don't know how common this qualify for Koushien but not show the actual tournament story line is in these shows.

I have heard about the Koushien soil thing - I noticed in the while rewatching "Nodame Cantabile" that Nodame had some in her room (I missed it previously presumably because I didn't know what "Koushien" was back then). A friend of mine commented that she didn't know how she could have got her hands on some since it's only those who play at the Koushien get to take the soil.

Initially I was a bit cheesed off with the appearance of Akane, because it feels far too convenient. Though I never quite got over her appearance, I did eventually come to embrace the role she plays in the show achieving its closure. The end result was never in doubt in my mind though - there's always an air of inevitability about his story lines.

While not quite a re-tread, I think Cross Game just shares too many parallels with Touch. Like the childhood friends theme, THE event, the constant sob stories of those who didn't make it in baseball, the aiming for Koshien (and both stories stops short of the tournament itself), the format in which the whole story plays out like how Adachi introduces these alternative love interests later on. The Kashiwaba arc is a bit like the coach Daimon arc, except dragged out much longer. Granted, Cross Game does improve on pretty much every single one of the common ideas, but there are just too many re-used ideas for me to overlook.

The thing that struck me about the guidelines is that firstly, the mods seems to have a misconception of what a review is - it's certainly not limited to providing tools for the readers to decide whether they want to watch a show or not. And secondly, it feels like someone's on a personal crusade against spoilers. Like I said in the thread, I don't see the need to go to those extremes to avoid being spoilt - telling people to mark spoilers out clearly should suffice. And does MAL really need to moderate out any reviews that has "any plot specifics beyond the synopsis"? I've not seen any other site take it to that extremes.

Yes, I can separate public reviews and the sort of reviews I want to write, but I don't like the idea of having to bend over backwards because of the mods' misconceptions of reviews. I was inspired to write reviews by precisely the type of analytical reviews that the mods seems to think aren't reviews, and so on principle, I would rather take my reviews elsewhere rather than be restricted to writing the type of reviews I'm not interested in writing.

No problem.

What bothers me is that there are way too many people who are just not willing to understand why a character is the way it is. I'm not even asking them to like it, just to understand and accept them. I can't help but get the impression that they must be the same way toward real people, and that's just worrying. Maybe I'm just being too overdramatic, as usual, but oh well. At any rate, Mihashi is a great protagonist.

Ugh, I still need to watch the second season. I was thinking of reading the manga, as well, but I'm interested in too many things and I just have no time for all the series I want to read and watch. I feel like somebody keeps stealing hours from my days. (Don't we all?)

Lovely reviews. Your Oofuri review in particular made me very happy; it's so beautiful. For example, I was touched by the things you said about Mihashi and how hard he tries to overcome his shyness. I don't think the poor guy is as appreciated by the audience as he should. Man, the characters from this series are so great.
Have a nice day.

Apologies for the late reply. I've been busy with other stuff (like arguing with people on forums haha) and have been putting this off.

Arguing to explain is probably the best kind of arguing (though I'm not sure whether that counts as arguing lol). I generally try to do the same but sometimes get carried away. And I guess it's generally quite hard to change people's perception once they have it anyway.

Regarding separation of author's tendencies with their actual work, I guess there isn't really a clear answer. I sometimes take them into account - for example I mentally took Cross Game down a small notch after I watched Touch just because of how similar it is to its predecssor. Sure it's a story much better told, but the similarities are just a bit too glaring. With regards to the engagement thing, I guess it just means that it just didn't feel like Kazuya was pressuring Minami as much as you felt.

I've noticed people don't seem to react that well to Touch if they see Cross Game first, but if they watch it the other way round, then they seem more likely to prefer Touch (though not by much). I guess it's the shock factor when you first come across Adachi's work haha. I don't feel it as much in Touch, but I still feel it. I imagine it probably would be great if I watched it first.

I am really surprised that Kashiwaba's arc was actually reflective of reality. I'm not quite sure what to make of that when it comes to re-evaluating my opinion of the series. On one hand, I'd marked down that part for being too over the top, but now I've learn that it's not; on the other hand, like you, I also feel that Adachi should have been more critical of the situation, ESPECIALLY if it was reflective of reality.

I kind of doubt that the moderators will slacken the new rules on reviews, to be honest (again, it goes back to it being very hard to change people's perception on something once they have it), but it's a topic I care a lot about, having written reviews for many years, so I'm willing to fight for my corner in the hope that it will change. Thanks for chipping in with your 5 cents ;)

While, as you said, things weren't so clear cut in the first few episodes, I still think that the three of them knew where they stood towards the latter half of the first arc, so I don't think that the misunderstanding stretched out that long. You're right about the Cross Game engagement can get taken less seriously than the Touch one, and I also think it's a bit ridiculous for Kazuya to be talking about it, but I'm not saying there's no flaw here, more that a large part of the blame can be shifted onto Adachi's fondness of getting his characters to talk about getting engaged. When I view the incident in this light, then Kazuya's behaviour, while does perhaps overstep the boundaries a little, doesn't seem *that* excessive - it's just doesn't seem that big a deal to get into that topic. Still, if you feel he was being far too pushy, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

I'm not so bothered about seeing fiction give good examples of how to handle the hard things in life. If it does, then that's all well and good, but I don't demand it from fiction because it's not necessarily it's job. I guess if that's the kind of thing you like to see, then you'll probably get mightily frustrated with a lot of fiction that's out there. While I don't regard the backbones of Adachi's story as anything other than hugely predictable for the most part, I do think he brings his own unique flavour to the tired cliches. The cosy atmosphere in his shows are quite unlike any other I've come across. I've not seen H2 yet, but I'll definitely check it out.

I can't say I remember too much about what you say about Tatsuya. Maybe they didn't feel to bad to me, or maybe I just didn't notice them. Or perhaps the whole Kashiwaba thing was hogging my attention. I also dislike it because the violence seems far too over the top. I struggle to believe he can get away with all that, and I'm wondering whether things could possibly be so bad in Japan or whether Adachi just went overboard with it.

Perhaps if you put as much effort into your review writing as you do writing wall of text replies, they would be done by now :P It's not every day that I come across someone who consistently writes longer replies than I do! Not that I'm complaining. It's good to get into an in depth discussion sometimes.

By the way, the discussions on the new rules have been rekindled, and I've finally decided to jump right in. You should check out the thread if you're interested in trying to get your opinions heard.

You're right, they probably didn't know where they stood initially. I think I must be thinking of later on. Though I disagree with your statement: "he certainly got mighty pushy when he talked about getting engaged. if you know that "your" girl is in love with somebody else, you don't do that, no matter how hopeful you are." Minami might have a thing towards Tatsuya, but since they weren't a couple, I don't think it's wrong for him to continue trying in the hope that she'd change her mind. The "engagement" thing would seem like going too far under normal circumstances, but to me, this has less to do with Kazuya pushing too hard and to do with Adachi's story tropes - he seems to have a thing for early engagements, as Wakaba planned to marry Ko from the age of like, five lol. It just doesn't seem like it's a big deal to get engaged in his stories.

"i am just generally unsatisfied with writing that drags relationships in all the wrong places simply because that is easiest. relationships can be damn hard even if all people are honest, it's not necessary to heighten the drama by having the people involved not speak truth to each other."

But a lot of the times, truths aren't easy to speak, so I don't think it's unreasonable to have this kind of story line. And besides, Adachi's stories are all about reading between the unsaid lines, and if you take that away, there wouldn't be much of interest left haha. Anyway, what's this "yamato nadeshiko" ideal that you speak of? I don't think I've come across that phrase before.

If you think the show is dragging by episode 50, then you won't like the next part. It really starts to drag for the next 20 - 30 episodes lol. Can you elaborate on your comment about Tatsuya becoming more clueless and also the stuff that's not making chronological sense? It's been a while since I watched the show and the details are getting hazy...

I do love the very 80s soundtrack of Touch, but I must admit, the "My Girl" song is too much even for me lol.