There is not much I can say about episode 3 aside from how impressed I am. I think it was beautiful and they gave Touko showing her weakness for the first time just the right amount of weight.
Rei's voice is noice.
In my opinion, as long as the exact same basic requirements are fulfilled (same story, same artstyle, same pacing), the anime will (almost) always be better by default, due to the advantages of the medium.
There's no way an artistic medium is inherently superior or "better by default" than another artistic medium. That's crazy talk. You simply can't compare two completely different forms of art.
Claiming that anime is always superior to manga is the same as claiming that comics are always superior to traditional literature because novels and poetry don't have pretty illustrations to complement the textual flow.
Well now, that's not quite nice of you, to completely ignore my factors for that claim. Or the almost I added in there.
The comparison you made is incredibly lacking, because unlike a book(imaginative medium) and a comic(visual medium), which are completely different beasts, a manga and an anime are both visual mediums with the same artistic basics. With very rare exceptions (of manga that completely rely on the medium to, for example, tell a joke through panels) if you took a scene 1 to 1 and did both with the highest possible quality, the animated version is just superior. There is no way around it, music, voice acting and motion just compel it to be so.
The downside to this is that anime has WAY more pitfalls. If the voice acting sucks, it becomes inferior. If the music is horrififc, then that's another big minus. If the animation is choppy or badly directed, hoo boy, that will be hard to justify.
Of course manga are not beyond the composition weakness either and anime often improves a mediocre artstyle or badly composed flow.
Well to be frank, I think Yuu is the only one lacking (not for her seiyuu's lack of talent of course) as she just sounds too soft and meek. A deeper voice really would have helped there. But that is not really a fair assessment. The voices we used in our heads are probably completely different from each other as well.
I do agree with this. The first time I heared Yuu in episode 1, I felt that there was something off. But I ignore it, since it’s just episode 1. But when episode 2 entered, I’m sure now that Yuu’s voice is so soft. Even the scene when she said “unfair” it was something lacking, when the character supposed to felt so betrayed. When I’m reading the manga, in my head, Yuu’s voice is something rusty, strong, tsundere effect but a little softness. I don’t know, maybe I’m just believing that the perfect voice for her is in the PV before. There are times that I thought, Koyomi’s voice (her other friend) is the fitted voice for her or maybe it’s just me.
Koyomi's voice actress fits Koyomi best imo. She is a different type of deadpan than Yuu.
Now to be fair, I feel that in Episode 3, despite her unfitting voice, the seiyuu really made up a lot of ground with her inflections and intonation.
