I was never able to find the YagaKimi anime streaming online conveniently (the only places I found were slow-loading pop-up hells), so the Blu-Ray DVD set arrived yesterday, and I just finished bingeing it.
That first part of the sentence was so relatable. When I was re-watching this over the previous days (before going to re-read the not-yet-animated chapters (currently, I only have the last volume left to re-read)), I had to find several episodes on pop-up hellsites, due to Dailymotion-eqsue versions over at kickassanime being unavailable for those episodes. For episodes 10 and 12, I even had to give up on watching it on my phone and watched it on the comp instead.
The anime is . . . very good. It’s generally true to the feel of the manga, and the voice acting seems to be quite adequate. (I won’t get into the whole “anime is inherently better than manga” business—each is its own medium, with things it does well and less well.)
nods in agreement
That said, the anime is unavoidably more on-the-nose with a lot of the dialogue—the manga is able to take its time, with some subtler interactions. The treatment of the play also added elements, since the producers didn’t know if there would be a second season (it deserves one)—we got a sense of what the rewritten end of the play would be like from the added material at the aquarium. I did think the florid coloration of the sky in the evening walk-home scenes was a bit too apocalyptic, but at least they were consistent about it.
Interesting... I wish I was able to more properly make a reply to this part of the post, but my brain just doesn't feel like investing into this paragraph.
I thought the snippy exchanges between Yuu and Sayaka came through a little more forcefully than in the manga, and the equipment-shed scene pulled no punches in the sexytimes-tongue-kiss department. The music in the scenes was mostly effective enough, although the styles in the various scenes seemed to vary from ‘50s Hollywood melodrama soundtrack to cafe easy listening. The opening theme was pleasant enough, but the electronically processed vocals of the ending theme started bugging me after awhile.
[Insert a combination of the replies to both previous paragraphs here] Also for the part about the Sayaka - Yuu exchanges: I think I said something to that end back during the original release of one of the middle episodes...
[I will also note as an aside that the train-in-the-background scenes all created an extremely foreboding mood. There was quite a bit of scorn here heaped on any suggestion of Touko committing suicide in the post-study-camp sequence, but the way that train-station scene was staged in the anime was even more suggestive of that than in the manga—when Touko asks “Where can I go after that?” we see a Touko POV of the edge of the train platform and the tracks and hear a train approaching, then cut to a long shot of her taking a step forward as the speeding train intervenes. (I’m not saying she’s about to commit suicide in the scene, just that the staging mimics the way such a suicide would be depicted.)]
Dude, I thought I was the only one thinking that. Thank you.
So although I’m a comics/manga person, I have no strong criticism and much appreciation for what the anime does well.
I do remember most people appreciating how faithful to the manga the anime proved to be, as well as how I posted a link to Zeria's analysis of the anime and a few replies to that post.
PS: Not sure why exactly, but cafe-owner Miyako really comes off as a sex bomb in the anime. She’s sexy enough in the manga, to be sure . . .
I've got nothing to add here.
last edited at Jan 9, 2020 3:02PM
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