We’re sampling the summer season’s selection! Check out our other pilot write-up’s –
- ALDNOAH ZERO ** SWORD ART ONLINE II ** RAIL WARS ** YAMISHIBAI + AI-MAI-MI
- GLASSLIP ** AKAME GA KILL ** SAMURAI JAM ** PERSONA 4 ** DRAMAtical mURDER
- ARGEVOLLEN ** TOKYO GHOUL
Let me just say up front that the style in this show is
really wonderful. The palette of each cell has a rich, granular quality which
make every scene look like it was taken right out of a water colored art book. This
is one of the few shows where you can probably frame any cell and appreciate
its painterly gesture.
I’d also say that the premise is quite applicable. Adolescence
is such a delicate time, and who hasn’t had a moment where they’ve liked a
classmate, but couldn’t summon up the confidence to do anything about it until
it was too late. Or they tried to reinvent themselves as somebody cooler in
later grades, only to be conversely put off when an old friend is now acting
too cool because they’ve done the same thing?
That’s all well and good, but it’s also applicable because
it’s so basic, and the tricky thing about a show like this is that they’re
sort-of criticism proof. I might say that this first episode was a little too
slow, or that it didn’t have much of a hook by the end, or that none of the
character’s personalities seemed distinct enough… but that’s really beside the
point, right? As long it hits some basic points of the high school experience,
it’s done its job.
I find these teenage romances to be a lot more amusing (and unintentionally so) as I get further
and further away from high school. When you’re 16, it’s incredibly easy to put
your crush on pedestal that’s so high up, he or she might as well be fictional
character. This girl’s getting so out of sorts over this dude like he’s some
super-cool mystery man, when it’s obvious that he’s just as much of an awkward
doofus as she is.
On second thought, the fact that this pilot’s prompted such
thoughts probably speaks to it having a little more going for it than a
rote slice-of-life episode. It got me thinking. It got me feeling. What more could you ask for?
Watch
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