Y con Tsubaki se terminan las traducciones de Motto Lip On My Prince. Fue divertido traducir estas hermosas historias universitarias que convergen en el mismo punto, que termines viviendo con tu amado. Tsubaki es ese amor universitario con alguien más maduro y a la vez un poco más "astuto", pero muy, muy bonito. Aunque envidio lo precioso que es, ojalá tener labios y uñas como él ;w;
My predictions for Komi's final 18 friends before 100. I feel we probably have already met all of them so far, so here who I think they'll be.
I don't think I have any wild predictions, but I'm posting this so I can see how wrong I was when the series eventually reaches it's conclusion.
Also, I started writing this before ch. 441 dropped, but the newest chapter has only made me more certain about my first guesses, which brings us to...
83: Maruko Tadano
Considering the current arc, this one seems pretty likely. We still don't know if she's related to Tadano (though I assume she is), maybe we'll learn next chapter when they inevitably become friends. That is, if the next chapter is about them at the family restaurant along with the next four...
My theory is that Komi will befriend all the applicants from ch. 437 and we will continue to see them throughout the application process. I'm now even more sure of this after the recent ch. 441 and hopefully we see them again next chapter.
88: Nokoko Inaka
It's bound to happen at some point, I feel it will happen soon after the current arc but that's just a guess. I believe she's one of the most likely on this list to become Komi's friend, though maybe she'll sign her name a little later on.
Inaka has been around since being in Komi's first-year class, similar to my next entry...
89: Toshio Seikimatsu; 90: Hana Soboku
Seikimatsu has been around since the start of the manga and was the catalyst for Tadano starting conversation with Komi, that alone should be enough for him to be Komi's eventual friend. I hope he gets to take his girlfriend on a double date with Komi and Tadano like he wants, solidifying both as Komi's friends. They also both were with Komi, Tadano, and Kawai's group in ch. 403 & 402, and Soboku and Komi greeted each other in ch. 430.
91: Lily Sukida
Another character who has been around for a while. Sukida has popped up a lot so I assume Oda is planning on doing something with her character. Given that she currently doesn't approve of Komi's relationship with Tadano, I assume that will have to be resolved before they become friends.
I wonder if Sukida would have reacted differently in ch. 423 if Komi had questioned her with Rumiko instead of Tadano (she was okay with Tadano pretend dating Rumiko in ch. 433, why not herself?) but I digress, seeing Miss Tadano / Tadano in the girls' uniform again was nice too and perhaps will be part of how they'll later become friends.
These four have been in the story since the start of second year and have had an ongoing plotline focused on Katai.
My prediction is that upon realising Katai isn't Komi they'll assume Komi is some sort of delinquent mastermind controlling Katai from the shadows, or something silly like that, and choose to "work for her" (sign her book).
They're not the most talked about when considering possible friends, but I think they have a reasonable chance considering their current thing is, while being a misunderstanding, focused around "Komi." Speaking of characters I don't see often being brought up in these discussions...
96: Miwa Omojiri
A little outside Komi's normal friendship age range, but she recently befriended Michita so we know Komi doesn't exclude older friends. She's been around awhile, I think she could make a good friend if she had another chapter or two.
She's also the only character (besides Shiina) yet to become a friend who has their name in ch. 416.
Also in ch. 416, in the background, you can see Inaka as well as the next entry...
Hiki and Susumi will undoubtably be a friend after ch. 436's last page. I presume Aoi will join them later and also become Komi's friend.
Considering how Oda likes to number the friends I think the order of these three will go "Hiki, Susumi, Aoi;" this is part of the reason why I don't think Hiki will be friend 100. Which leads us to...
100: Muzuka Shiina
Who didn't see this one coming? I know other people also suspect Shiina will be friend 100, and I agree. I wonder what's holding Shiina back from considering Komi a friend, hopefully we'll see when she inevitably becomes one.
This is all the friends up to 100. If this is where the manga chooses to finish this is how I think the list will go. However, I have another theory...
Yep, I think all the other class 3-1 students will be Komi's friend as well. My theory is that upon almost reaching her goal, Komi will become closer with her classmates and want to become friends with all of them, but can't because of her arbitrary goal. Perhaps Shiina will make her realise that making 100 be the limit is silly and prompt her to become friends with the rest similar to ch. 323.
There are some other characters that could be candidates if Komi made more than 100 friends, but this post is getting long already.
Anyway, that's my silly little theory on who the last Komi friends will be. Hope you enjoyed reading :).
Most of these are pretty safe bets. I wonder what differences other peoples lists have to mine.
Happy Birthday to seiyuu/singer Toyonaga Toshiyuki (April 28)!
I mentioned before how varied his characters' singing sound. Here are a few examples of his singing. Got to admire how he can sing in different voices!
The difference between Matsuoka Shun and Kaneshiro Goshi was just wow. It also takes talent to intentionally sound bad at singing.
Tumblr limits video uploads to 5 mins so I had to cut the video short...
I don't know if I should still post the continuation...it's not totally related to this video...(but the credits are there) hmmmm
I love the I saw it as a meme! Inviting us to do our own top 10! And of course I’ll do it.
But as I’m a femslash shipper, you have two different parts, first, friendships I love mostly as friendships, second, friends that i ship as friends-to-lovers.
1) Annie and Kat (Gunnerkrigg Court)
One of my favourite friendship ever, very healthy despite not being idealized, and I love the science-and-magic symbolics.
2) Aya and Rika (wait no all the girls) (KareKano)
Aya and Rika have the meet cute in primary school, but I love deeply the high school group of friends, where they add Tsubaki and Tsubasa in middle school, then Yukino and Maho in high school. (I couldn’t find an image with Yukino on it)
3) Wakaba and Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Supportive friends! Mutual support even in the darkest times! Even if Wakaba doesn’t like Utena’s girlfriend very much, she has reasons. ^^
4) Bo and Kenzi (Lost Girl)
Here too, I love how supportive they are, with very different problems, I love how intense their relation is while still being clearly platonic, even though Bo is poly and pan, platonic friendships are still important!
5) Azula, Mai and Ty Lee (Avatar the Last Airbender)
And now for something completely different, and darker! They work so well as a team, but there are still abuse of power and hard choices but I still adore the dynamics.
6) Tohru, Uotani and Hanajima (Fruits Basket)
I love that the sweetest girl has two best friends who are a thug and a goth. Weird first impression. In retrospect it makes total sense, and also, Hana and Uo are super-sweet too.
7) Carole and Tuesday (Carole & Tuesday)
Making art together is a good recipe for friendship, and so many of their songs are about how much they love each other, it’s adorable.
8) Akko, Lotte and Sucy (Little Witch Academia)
I didn’t realize at first that I was so invested in them, I was just “nice! well written!” and then in the second part the series talked less about their friendship and more about other characters and it made me really sad.
9) Ella, Kaja, Thea, Hilde (Hengoku no Schwester)
Another dark one, with girls trying to survive the indoctrination of an extremist convent in the Holy Roman Empire. I love their trust in each other.
10) Gatomon and Kari (Digimon)
Sometimes you never forget kids anime ^^
But it was hard to choose! There are girls that have many intesresting female friendships, and I can’t choose! and they aren’t all friends with each other, so i can’t really show it as a block!
1) Veronica and Lilly, Veronica and Mac, Veronica and Meg (Veronica Mars)
2) Yoko and Khany, Yoko and Ingrid, Yoko and Monya (Yoko Tsuno)
And of course, as I was saying, there are all the friendships that I love deeply, for which I wanted a friends to lovers arc (and sometimes I got it, but rarely)
1) Kitty/lllyana and 7) Dani/Rahne (New Mutants comics)
“If I ever get brave enough to say I like you from the top of my lungs–”
Bessho coincidentally meets Makita in a university lecture they share, finding out that they both like cute things. While Bessho hides his preferences like a dirty little secret, Makita makes no excuses for who he is and what he likes. Despite the twists and turns they encounter along the way, the pair of lovers deal with their possessive and jealous urges on their slow journey to answering the age-old question: what is the best way to fall in love?
Review Proper
WHY AM I CRYING????????????
I felt like the dirtiest human being on Earth as I was listening to this. It was just so pure, healthy, and so sweet—I felt so jealous of them and it hurt more to realize that this type of love is impossible for you because you’re a goddamn hoe that doesn’t deserve it. 😭😭😭 I loved every second of this plot from Bessho’s insecurity and growth, to Makita’s straightforwardness and subtle teasing, to Touji being the only brain cell of his friend circle yet unexpectedly awkward, to Hisanaga’s—I take that back, I’m still mad at Hisanaga for what he said even if it was just to mask his loneliness. 😤 Also, I was such a sucker for the cat plushie having a central part of their story because I have a Beagle toy that’s been with me for almost twenty years that has never and will never leave my side. I will never be ashamed of going everywhere with him even if his nose has been torn to shreds because I chewed on it early into our friendship. 😂 I heavily related to Bessho in many aspects and I nearly cried when he said: “ 半歩 , 半歩 。 一歩 , 一歩 。 生きたいように生きたい努力 している”, which would roughly translate to: “I’m slowly putting in the works to be able to live my life how I want to”. Man, I wish we could all learn how to embrace our authentic selves and not care about what everyone else says about it. At the end of the day, the only opinion that should matter to us is our own. Damn, this work really be making me feel things. 😭😭😭
Onto the PHENOMENAL VOICE WORK,
WOW. Okitsu just redeemed himself from that Torokeru Kuchibiru fiasco. Don’t get me wrong, everyone carried this work to just below Koi ga Ochitara, but Okitsu’s acting here was perfect. When Bessho was insecure, Okitsu made sure that you felt that insecurity, too. He also portrayed Bessho’s love for Makita so genuinely, I fucking cried. It’s been a while since a BLCD made me cry, and this wasn’t even dramatic! His emotions were just overwhelming to hear, man. Dare I say that this is his best performance of 2019 (sorry, Koi ga Ochitara). I never thought that he could ever outdo his Shiina in Fruits, Gateau, but my man always loves to surprise me. You really have to hand it to Okitsu for emotional roles like Miyauchi in KD, Nishi in Life Senjou, Udou in Owaranai Fukou, and Tsubaki in Yesterday o Kazoete.
As for Nojima Kenji, the veteran returnee, he did just as well. I’m glad to know that my Deguchi-san never got out of touch with his BL expertise—I mean, the man has over a hundred BLCDs, I don’t think he’ll ever lose it. 😂 But it really has been a while since I’ve heard him in a BLCD, and I’m glad that he didn’t return as a seme. I’m still praying for a Seki Tomokazu x Nojima Kenji BLCD until now, leave me alone
Man, even as a side character, Nakajima Yoshiki does his best to deliver that realness. I loathed Hisanaga when he first confronted Bessho about his growing attachment to Makita and it left me such a sour taste that it took me a while to buy his and Touji’s budding relationship. Speaking of my adorable Touji, god PLEASE! AZAKAMI YOUHEI NEEDS MORE BLCD ROLES ASAP!!! He could be a potential Kumagai Kentarou or even a Katou Masayuki!!! I’m personally rooting that he go the Katou Masayuki route because I have a feeling that it’d suit him well! PLSPLSPLSPLS
I really only have good things to say about the plot and the BLCD in general. Honestly, I wasn’t so into this before because there was a feeling of doubt creeping on me every time and I was waiting for a sudden twist of trouble or something, but thank goodness nothing happened. AND THANK GOD NOBODY FUCKING DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE ON THE ROAD TO COHABITATION. SPARE ME ANOTHER WORK WHERE OKITSU DIES, PLEASE! *Life Senjou no Bokura war flashbacks ensues* I would also like to mention how I absolutely adored that the “Link” in “Link and Ring” was their shared love for the cat plushie and it ended up with a bonafide “Ring”. 😭😭😭 I’ve read futekiya’s translation for the manga and when I read it while listening to the BLCD, I noticed a lot of additions to the dialogue, so that might be a problem for beginners. However, I would still implore you to listen to this because this is definitely one of the best BLCDs of 2019—scratch that, THIS IS THE BEST BLCD OF 2019 FOR ME!!! I’m so sorry, Koi ga Ochitara!!! I still don’t understand why it isn’t part of chil-chil’s 2020 Best BLCD Awards while Torokeru Kuchibiru is. 🙄
After many distractions on my part, including playing through Steins;Gate, something that has quickly become something I adore like few others, I’ve continued my descent into the world of anime with 5 more series. The stuff I watched was a lot shorter on average than last time, and my attempts to be “objective” and my personal biases align much more closely compared to last time. With that, I’ll begin.
5. Soni-Ani: Super Sonico the Animation
Number of episodes: 12. Language options: subs only. Streaming availability: Crunchyroll.
When it comes to visual novels, nitro+ is one of the biggest developers out there, alongside Key. Whereas Key is mainly out to make you really, really sad, nitro+ prefers a different approach. To my understanding, at best, their works are really, really dark, and at worst, they’re going straight for your nightmares, with stuff like Song of Saya and Sweet Pool. So clearly, the best mascot for them is the pink haired, constantly headphoned, and downright adorable Super Sonico. Even if it’s not outright official, it’s pretty jarring.
Anyway, with that little rant out of the way, here’s the only thing on this list I actually wouldn’t recommend. Produced by White Fox back in 2014, this anime apparently got slammed pretty hard, and honestly, I have no idea why I even ended up watching this one. Perhaps this’ll be a reminder to be less impulsive in my choices in the future.
Soni-Ani focuses on, who else, Super Sonico herself, an energetic and kind, yet clumsy college student who should reasonably be dead from stress and exhaustion. Along with college, she’s an idol, gravure model, helper at her grandmother’s restaurant and guitarist and main singer in the band First Astronomical Velocity with her friends Suzu Fujimi, the witty and manipulative bassist and official leader of the band, and Fuuri Watanuki, the mysterious drummer single mindedly obsessed with food. The series just explores some of the odd, extremely fanservice filled days of her life.
It’s ok idea on paper, but in practice it’s just not really anything special or even entertaining for the most part. While I can usually ignore fanservice, it’s downright distractingly prevalent in the earlier episodes, to the point of several episode premises pretty much only catering themselves to it. Even without that, there’s just not much to be found; aside from Suzu and Sonico’s manager, the honestly hilarious Kitamura, who constantly wears a hannya mask and is willing to attack people for attempting to take advantage of Sonico, the characters aren’t anything memorable or entertaining on their own, leaving a lot of episodes feeling dry. They do improve in the second half, featuring episodes like a fairly charming murder mystery spoof, and an episode focusing on Sonico’s cats, of all things, but they’re still not something going out of your way to watch. The voice acting and animation, while at least ok, don’t stick out much either.
Overall, again, this is the one thing I’d say to just avoid. There’s tons of other slice of life animes out there that are way better. If nothing else, though, I’m kinda glad I stuck to it just for the surprise cameo by Kurisu Makise’s outfit, considering I was already playing Steins;Gate.
4. Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
Number of episodes: 12. Language options: dub (video release only, apparently) and subs available. Streaming availability: Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix.
Moving onto stuff I’d actually recommend, here’s a nice little anime adaptation of a gag manga by Izumi Tsubaki, produced by Dogakobo.
Chiyo Sakura, a high school student who stands at an impressive 4′9″, confesses her love to the tall and mysterious Umetaro Nozaki, and gets his autograph, of all things, for her troubles. Trying again, Nozaki instead takes her to his apartment... to assist him with his manga. As it turns out, Nozaki is a popular romance manga author, whose interests in life start an end at manga, rendering him utterly oblivious to Chiyo’s feelings. Thusly, Chiyo officially becomes his assistant in order to grow closer to her crush, meeting his other associates along the way.
The main thing that must be said is that this is not a serious anime in the slightest, and it’s all just big parody of romance manga more than anything, especially with the characters, like Mikoshiba, who acts like a playboy, but in reality is cripplingly shy, and Kashima, the “prince” of the school who is both actually a girl and an airhead who’s frequently on the nerves of the drama club’s president, Hori. A lot of the humor thrives on miscommunication, and it’s exaggerated enough that it works well. Every character is an idiot, in their own ways, but endearingly so, and each of them stands out, from Chiyo, who mostly plays the straight man but has her moments of over imagination, or the hilariously abrasive Seo. The plots are the right kind of dumb too, like Nozaki and Mikoshiba becoming obsessed over a helper NPC in a dating sim, or Hori gaining an intense hatred for people standing on boxes due to Nozaki’s attempts to fix perspective problems. The jokes can get a bit predictable after a while, especially with Nozaki, but overall it’s a pretty funny time. The voice acting is good, and the animation is charming.
Overall, this is definitely a fun watch. If you want a good laugh, or just something that doesn’t take itself too seriously, this is definitely something to check out.
3. Angel Beats!
Number of episodes: 13 (+ some OVAs not on streaming services). Language options: dub and subs available. Streaming availability: Netflix, Crunchyroll, Funimation.
As it turned out, visual novels, or at least visual novel developers, became a theme in the things I watched this time around. As mentioned before, Key is one of the biggest VN developers out there, who specialize in making you really sad. From Kanon, to Clannad, to Planetarian, to Little Busters, Key’s made a lot of great stuff, and had some great anime adaptations made, particularly for Kanon and Clannad. Thus, Jun Maeda, co-founder of Key, conceived Angel Beats to originate as an anime, produced by P.A. Works in 2010.
Angel Beats focuses on Otonashi, a teenager who wakes up in a strange high school with amnesia, only able to remember his last name. He soon meets a girl named Yuri Nakamura, who informs him that they’re dead, and stuck in a sort of afterlife, seemingly ruled over by a mysterious girl they only know as Angel. In this purgatory, they’re unable to die, as Otonashi finds out first hand at Angel’s hands, and the school is populated by fabricated teachers and students, but the real people stuck there are at risk of being “obliterated” if they act like normal students, ceasing to exist. Unwilling to accept this, Yuri leads class SSS in opposition of Angel and the assumed God that created this world for the cruel fates that everyone stuck in the afterlife met, Otonashi seemingly included. With seemingly no other path to take, Otonashi joins forces with the SSS.
The main strength of Angel Beats is its cast of characters. From the pretty mean yet charming Yuri, to the reliable, yet often abused Hinata, to the crazy and energetic Yui, to even some of the side characters, like Shiina, the ninja girl with a crippling weakness for wind up dog toys, or TK, who speaks in gloriously mangled English and dances constantly. The premise as well is honestly fascinating to me, and makes for some very interesting episodes. It’s got some pretty entertaining action scenes, along with some really funny moments, mostly by playing the “nobody can actually die” tidbit for all its worth, with the second episode devoting a good amount of time to slowly killing off the main group in horrible, yet blase fashions. It delivers emotionally too, with the second half in particular having a good deal of touching episodes, especially episode 10. Unfortunately, there’s one giant problem with this anime that brings it down quite a bit: it’s only 13 episodes long. While I’m not a fan of 12 or 13 episode seasons, I can’t say that’s a problem by itself. What is a problem is that they were planning to have double that amount of episodes, causing the storyline to feel very rushed, and leaving nearly every character in the cast that isn’t part of the main group very underdeveloped. While there’s an entire expanded universe of stuff, good luck tracking it all down, and while Key themselves were making a 6 part visual novel of Angel Beats to expand upon it all, something that’s very promising, only the first volume has been released so far, back in 2015, with no word since, very likely because of Jun Maeda’s health issues.
Overall, Angel Beats genuinely is a good watch, but it’s kinda depressing, just because of how much potential was cut short thanks to whatever genius decided to cut the episode amount in half. Unless the VN project really gets going again, it’ll probably just remain a bunch of what could have beens.
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Number of episodes: 12. Language options: dub and subs available. Streaming availability: Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Funimation.
Continuing the theme I unintentionally set up, here’s this famous little thing, from the mind of Gen Urobuchi, who, among other things, has worked on several nitro+ visual novels, mostly notably Song of Saya, wrote the apparently horribly depressing Fate/Zero, and was a scriptwriter for Kamen Rider Gaim, which, to my understanding, is one of the darkest Kamen Rider shows out there. Will all this in mind, there’s no real hiding that this isn’t going to be anywhere near as innocent as it tries to appear. Even if you didn’t know that, its reputation probably far exceeds it by now.
Madoka Kaname is an average middle school student whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious girl named Homura Akemi transfers into her class, whom Madoka later finds attacking a strange creature called Kyubey. After rescuing it, Madoka and her best friend Sayaka are attacked by a strange creature known as a witch, only to be rescued by Mami Tomoe, a “magical girl” given power by Kyubey. Kyubey sees much potential in Madoka, and offers to grant her any wish of her choosing, in exchange for her becoming a magical girl as well and helping fight the witches. Homura, however, is completely determined to keep that from happening. Thus starts a chain of event in the lives of Madoka and Sayaka that, suffice it to say, don’t go very well.
Without getting too specific, what starts as a mostly typical, if slightly odd, magical girl show quickly goes to very dark and twisted places, comparative to Neon Genesis Evangelion, though not quite as in depthly depressing with it. Everyone takes a beating in some way, and even with just 12 episodes, it can get a bit much for some people, even when it doesn’t end quite as awfully as you might expect. Still, it’s actually very well done. The characters are complex and flawed, but ultimately sympathetic, the overall plot is fascinating, and it ends in a very fitting way. It’s emotional, and has surprisingly good action. The dub voice work is solid, and the animation by Studio Shaft is as well, especially helped by the abstract designs of the witches themselves.
While I’m not quite as passionate about it all as some are, it’s definitely earned its reputation. It’s a great watch, and definitely a big recommendation.
1. Steins;Gate
Number of episodes: 24 (+ 1 OVA). Language options: dub and subs available. Streaming availability: Funimation, Hulu, Crunchyroll.
Finishing off my unintentional theme with an actual adaptation of a visual novel, there was no way I wasn’t checking this one out with how utterly passionate the VN made me. This is at least partially a bias placement, but this anime is a very, very good adaptation, and a great way to experience the story without the VN, and a great watch even having gone through it.
Rintaro Okabe is a college student on break living in his “laboratory” in Akihabara. A self proclaimed mad scientist, he whittles his days away hanging out with his friends Mayuri Shiina and Itaru Hashida, inventing useless gadgets in a supposed fight against an evil organization. One day, Rintaro and Mayuri go to attend a press conference by Doctor Nakabachi in Radi-Kan, who claims to have invented a time machine, only for it to end horribly for all involved when Rintaro discovers Kurisu Makise, a young neuroscientist who had recently had her thesis published in a major science magazine, murdered by an unknown assailant. Sending an email to Itaru about the incident, Rintaro suddenly finds the world to have changed. According to everyone else, the press conference had been canceled due to a mysterious satellite that crashed into Radi-Kan, and Rintaro later runs into Kurisu, alive and well. Investigating, Rintaro finds that, by complete accident, his modified microwave has become a device capable of sending emails to the past- and that SERN, a French research organization, has been conducting time travel experiments of their own. In his attempts to understand the capabilities of what he’s invented, and his curiosity as to why his memories appear to be out of sync with everyone else’s, Rintaro rushes into a series of experiments that change his life, and those of friends old and new.
This is something I could rant about all day, but putting it as succinctly as I can, I’ve never been as fascinated by time travel as Steins;Gate has made me. As fantastic as it, it’s also shown to be unpredictable, limited, and downright unsettling, especially when nobody knows just how time even works. It’s a story about the concept of time travel as much as a story about using it. The story definitely starts a bit slowly, but it’s well worth pushing past. As an adaptation, it doesn’t even need to sacrifice much, with the most that’s lost being some details in a few later arcs that aren’t worth much in the long run anyway. Beyond that, the main strength of the story is the cast of characters. Rintaro, with his rather severe case of chuunibyou, is a unique protagonist to begin with, but the events of the story turn him into an honestly fascinating and downright tragic character, and easily one of my favorite protagonists in a long time. The rest of the cast is just as good, with Kurisu being a great mix of intelligence, ravenous curiosity, and flusterability, with her and Rintaro’s interactions always being entertaining. As well, there’s the always kind, yet ditzy Mayuri, the outgoing, but odd Suzuha Amane, the endearingly gentle Luka Urushibara, and the energetic and wily Faris, just for some examples. The cast is downright loveable and very easy to get attached to.
While I prefer the Japanese voice cast overall, the dub isn’t to be overlooked, with Trina Nishimura as Kurisu, Tyson Rinehart as Itaru, Cherami Leigh as Suzuha, Lindsay Seidel as Luka, and especially J. Michael Tatum as Rintaro giving great performances. Visually, White Fox did a great job giving it a distinct look. While the VN had a gorgeous and unique artstyle, it’s not really something that can be translated into animation. Instead, they used a whole lot of washed out colors and saturated lights that, combined with the sparse use of flashy effects and even music, gives a very subtle atmosphere to it all. Even beyond the style, it looks very good on its own, and it’s especially nice not having Rintaro look like a ghoul half the time, like he does in the VN.
Overall, this is very much something worth checking out. I’m beating a dead horse here since Steins;Gate is already wildly popular, but it’s that way for a very good reason. There’s also an extra OVA episode, along with a sequel movie, though both are only available via Funimation. They aren’t quite the best, but they make for entertaining watches worth checking out.
And with that, that’s the end to my rambling. With the exception of, again, Super Sonico, everything here is very much worth a watch. I’m sure, once I emerge from the hell of Steins;Gate spinoffs, I’ll get to watching even more stuff. Till then, though.
-Scout