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Jul. 30th, 2011 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaLOVE HINA
Genre: Romance
How much seen: one episode, subbed
What it's about: Boy wants to get into Tokyo University, due to long-ago promise to a little girl that they would meet there when they were grown up. Unfortunately, Keitaro isn't that good at studying, and has already failed several times. His family think he's an idiot for continuing to try. Fortunately (?) his grandmother, who used to run a boarding house/girl's dormitory, hands it off to him instead, so he has a place to study away from his family. Unfortunately, the girls in the dormitory believe he's already in Tokyo University, and that he's a pervert. Worse, one of them finds out the truth (about the first - sadly, they're kind of not mistaken about the second). Worst, Naru was probably the little girl to whom he made the promise. Luckily, she agrees to help Keitaro keep his cover as a Tokyo University student (as opposed to applicant).
He's still kind of a pervert, and not really clear on the different between daydream and reality, though. Maybe not as much of a pervert as the girls believe, but still a teenage guy.
Overall opinion: This is the perfect example of the doofus hero I was just talking about. Keitaro is a failure: his one good aspect is that he isn't a liar - until Naru spoke up, he was willing to admit the great Tokyo University lie, and go home again. He spends most of the first episode cartoonishly running away, or cartoonishly being beaten up. What this translates to is that I don't care about him, or what happens to him - and consequently, I don't care about the plot as a whole.
I think Kay likes this one. But Kay is also better than I am at eliding major characters and focusing on side characters, if that's who interests her. I envy her that, sometimes.
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Another happy side effect of this whole thing: Kay had not realized that a new Ah! My Goddess TV series had come out, and is now happily investigating where to get it. Anime News Network can be your friend! Meanwhile, Ziggy has been exiled outside, as he was getting bored and restless, which is not condusive to typing. Even if I'm the only one typing.
10 hours down, 14 to go. Wish me luck.
Genre: Romance
How much seen: one episode, subbed
What it's about: Boy wants to get into Tokyo University, due to long-ago promise to a little girl that they would meet there when they were grown up. Unfortunately, Keitaro isn't that good at studying, and has already failed several times. His family think he's an idiot for continuing to try. Fortunately (?) his grandmother, who used to run a boarding house/girl's dormitory, hands it off to him instead, so he has a place to study away from his family. Unfortunately, the girls in the dormitory believe he's already in Tokyo University, and that he's a pervert. Worse, one of them finds out the truth (about the first - sadly, they're kind of not mistaken about the second). Worst, Naru was probably the little girl to whom he made the promise. Luckily, she agrees to help Keitaro keep his cover as a Tokyo University student (as opposed to applicant).
He's still kind of a pervert, and not really clear on the different between daydream and reality, though. Maybe not as much of a pervert as the girls believe, but still a teenage guy.
Overall opinion: This is the perfect example of the doofus hero I was just talking about. Keitaro is a failure: his one good aspect is that he isn't a liar - until Naru spoke up, he was willing to admit the great Tokyo University lie, and go home again. He spends most of the first episode cartoonishly running away, or cartoonishly being beaten up. What this translates to is that I don't care about him, or what happens to him - and consequently, I don't care about the plot as a whole.
I think Kay likes this one. But Kay is also better than I am at eliding major characters and focusing on side characters, if that's who interests her. I envy her that, sometimes.
*
Another happy side effect of this whole thing: Kay had not realized that a new Ah! My Goddess TV series had come out, and is now happily investigating where to get it. Anime News Network can be your friend! Meanwhile, Ziggy has been exiled outside, as he was getting bored and restless, which is not condusive to typing. Even if I'm the only one typing.
10 hours down, 14 to go. Wish me luck.