Tamako Market - 01
As a very big K-On fan, I thought this episode was eh. I didn't mind the dude, actually. I thought he was interesting in the Taichi-friendzone kind of way but the bird was pretty annoying. I got the schtick they were going for but I don't understand why they'd ever take it in. The comedy is a little weak and I didn't get a sense of what they were going for plot-wise. Is this gonna be straight comedy or another slice of life?
Also, it seems like this show is gonna be based mainly in the shopping district and no the school it seems (considering the characters introduced) so that's a plus. The last show I remember being based on one is umm... Sore demo(?) while of course 90% of all anime in a season is based in a school.
The animation is, of course, top notch although I wish they'd do more to differentiate from K-On. The first scene with girls running around looked like it was Mio, Mugi and Yui walking home from school.
Yay, you're back. As you might have seen from my gushing review, I quite liked the first episode. Yeah, the bird seems to be a love 'em or hate 'em type character right now for most people. I'm kind of in the middle. It also seems like pretty much everybody is wondering what direction the show will take.
I'm not really as bothered by the overuse of the high school setting as most seem to be but I do like that the shopping district seems to be getting a big focus as this shows setting. So far the familiarities to
K-On aren't really bothering me.
I'm not sure if you saw my post and naturally you don't have to respond to it but I posted some thoughts on the first
Bungaku Shoujo Memoir if you wanted something about Bungaku Shoujo to read.
Bungaku Shoujo Memoir I comments
I was actually wondering when you'd post this earlier today and if you put it on hold. Really enjoying reading your impressions on this so far. You should also watch the Birth OVA after the series. Fits in quite nicely with some of the sub-plots in this episode.
Thanks.
Yeah, I've been a bit busy so I didn't actually get too far ahead but I was purposely waiting to see if the thread would slow down. If it never did then I would have posted them and then hoped that at least
Lafiel and yourself would have read them along with some others such as
gashikunFLCL.
Is it better to watch the OVA after Crest or after watching all of Banner?