Kimi ni Todoke - 07
Now this is more like it. This episode was a major step in the right direction for me: simple slice of life with a bit of subtle drama here and there, instead of the forced and dragged-out cheese around a simple misunderstanding. It just showed the characters hanging out, while fleshing them out at the same time.
it’s a surprisingly well written episode in which Sawako gets more and more used to her new friends, and even ends up calling Kazehaya to join her, Yano and Yoshida at Ryuu’s house, which also is a ramen bar. We got to know the middle school versions of some of the characters (Kazehaya apparently played baseball), and the creators had enough inspiration to keep the rest of the episode going without getting boring.
My big worry right now is that call that Yano made to her mysterious “boyfriend”. While I like this subtle of an introduction, I still don’t quite trust this show for drama. This show is good at slice of life and dialogue, but the drama hasn’t caught me yet. Still, at this point Kimi ni Todoke is interesting enough to keep blogging, despite its flaws. Thankfully it’s not such a chore to watch and blog like other series I’ve dropped, like Valkyria Chronicles, Allison to Lillia and Soul Eater.
Rating: * (Good)
In a few weeks, I’m planning to write the first of my 2-part “Decade Summary”. Unfortunately it’s going to be filled with major spoilers, so I’m experimenting right now with a simple spoiler-tag. Let me know if you can read this text without highlighting it.
The spoiler-tag works fine! :D
Comment by L189 — November 18, 2009 @ 20:44
One sees the empty space and automatically thinks of highlighting it but works fine.
Comment by ebisu — November 18, 2009 @ 22:22
The spoiler tag is kind of easy to miss, or just accidently highlight. It’d be better if it was maybe black or something
Comment by Keith — November 18, 2009 @ 22:50
Well, in the post in question I’m obviously going to mark them well. This is just to try out whether it works in every single browser.
Comment by psgels — November 18, 2009 @ 23:19
This was by far my favorite chapter in the manga. I felt so nostalgic when reading it! I’m glad this arc is over though so I can start watching the show again. I can’t believe how long they dragged the worst arc of the manga to be honest. Couldn’t read the spoiler text without highlighting it btw.
Comment by Matte — November 19, 2009 @ 1:02
You found Soul Eater hard to blog!!! it was a pretty fun show
Comment by Gunslinger — November 19, 2009 @ 15:22
Gunslinger: fun to watch, yeah. Hard to blog. Try writing about it every single week. ;)
Comment by psgels — November 19, 2009 @ 15:42
This is just the type of episode needed after the last arc — nice, light and fun.
Comment by Shinmaru — November 20, 2009 @ 22:07