#syunpei (tsukiuta)

[anime-end-cards]

Tsukiuta. The Animation

Episode 1 end card by Jiku

[notsotatopa]

Re watching episode 1: Kid stalkers?

(So since tsukipro's anime is coming I decided to start this series of me rewatching tsukiuta: the animation and giving my thoughts and comparing them from the time when I wasn't part of the fandom. I already did it with episode 9 so if you saw that you already know how this will be)

-I just came here because I saw a gif of a cute white haired boy with a chocker and my friends were hyper annoying with love live so let's see... 

-wow that's a lot of boys... 

 -The moment I saw Koi I knew this was going to be gay.

 -Is it me or Shun's hand when he introduced himself was really tiny?  The moment I saw You i knew this was going to be super gay, also I felt bad for Yoru's lame introduction after that.

 -Rui pretending to give half a fuck and Iku's weird smile.   

-I swear that the first time I saw this the only one that stuck in my head with name and all was Koi, I didn't find any other boy interesting enough to remember their names (and in Haru's and Kai case I didn't even remember their existence).

 -The shakin' sugar sugar...made me realize what I was getting myself into.    -Kakeru you are so cute please kill yourself.    -At this point I thought that this was going to be like an anime where the two boy bands fight and Kakeru was somehow the protagonist and the girl and Syunpei would play a role in this...needless to say I was very wrong. 

-Who gets sick by practicing a dance? Even if she fell asleep with her hair wet and the AC on. She should be more worried about how easily she gets sick.  Where did she get 5 DVDs of six gravity and how can I get them? Why is this girl tricking us into thinking that Kakeru is cool when we later find out he's the cutest dork ever? Did she just call Hajime charismatic? So many questions... 

-It's funny that we never got to see one of these introductions for Procella...guess they didn't have fangirls with brothers that didn't give a fuck? 

-Ok so, the first time I saw this girl I thought she was kinda dumb or weird or I don't know...but now...oooh boy I know that if I had the chance I could be like her OR WORSE.   -Hajime and Haru talking to the group feels like Hajime is saying "You're all pieces of shit." and Haru adds "but with sprinkles~"and it's hilarious, Also y feel like Haru told Hajime with the power of his look "No need to be a dick."   -"That's Yoru, the one who knows how to read, for you."   -Here I realized that there was no rivalry and that they were all going to be gay for each other.   -If it's that easy for a kid to get into the 'only authorized personal' part I wonder how no one has tried to get the idol's asses.   -You're shitting me right? Are you telling me that this boy, whose sister has an obsession with Six Gravity and Kakeru specifically DIDN'T recognize the guy that is all over the walls of his sister? I get he didn't recognize Rui since his sister didn't seem to care about Procella and it's already kinda weird that he didn't recognize Koi since she has a pretty big poster with him on it and there are not much guys with pink hair and eyes. I know Syunpei is negligent as fuck but he doesn't seem to be blind.  

-You don't trick me Rui, you asked the boy to sing Gravitic Love to innerly laugh at it. 

-And Koi decided to let the kid keep being blind or stupid.   -It's funny how Koi's face doesn't seem amused(or anything) at all but you can see Rui's mouth tilting up a little. I told you he was laughing innerly at this.    -I feel like I should have recognized the loading screen of the game he was playing? Like it was some kind of Easter egg or something? Also in my town you don't get to just sit around with a tablet in your hands unless you want to die or something.  

-Were these creeps(Koi, Kakeru, Rui) following Syunpei? Or they just casually saw him and were like "SHIT LET'S STAND LIKE THIS TO LOOK COOL IN FRONT OF THE KID"? 

  -"Rui, I wonder if you can put a little more feeling into your face and words." What? Did you want him to cry about it, Koi?    -Iku is wishing to kill them all, I know, it was kinda rude of them let him out of that adventure actually, like all the juniors were there except him. Probably he was too busy NOT STALKING A KID?   -Koi is being lame and Rui is breaking the fourth wall xD that was so precious.   -And Iku just appears to call Koi a wimp. Precious x2 

-I can imagine that Arata (or Traaa the devil) and You were there peacefully drinking tea and talking about sideboobs when they saw the juniors with a stranger kid and Iku dragging a dying Koi.    -"Ya! YAYAYAYAYA" 

-Holy shit the girl screaming for Kakeru oh my god... 

-It's so lovely how Koi was waiting to see the look on his face and how Arata was also there, like Koi told him "Dude we did this shit to this kid and you gotta see the look on his face when he sees Kakeru." And they tell crazy fangirls to wait so they can see the second when Syunpei realizes how dumb he was. 

-Such a ruckus over a handshake...they are wearing gloves for god's sake. 

-The song that one year later still is stuck in my head...."I want to mess you up" tho... 

-How frustrating must be girl, your little brother who didn't even bother to look at the lots of posters you have of Kakeru is closer to being his wife than you. 

-The first time I didn't pay attention because I never pay attentions to endings, but this is such a cute and cheerful song that always get a smile on my face and even today it's my favorite ending song in the whole series and one of my favorites in anime in general. 

Keep reading for the final thoughts of the chapter

 So by the end of the chapter i still thought that Kakeru was the protagonist and what made me want to watch the next episode was that I wanted to know how this cute blondie got through his idol life, because he managed to make me care about him, something that some of the others didn't manage to do. 

 I think this chapter gives a pretty weird opening? Because it gave, at least me, a wrong idea of how the anime was going to be, I would have been nice to focus more in the groups rather than Kakeru and the juniors alone, so I could have a reason to want to keep watching and know more about them, the could have at least mentioned the month thing being something so crucial to Tsukiuta. If the chapter was supposed to be about Kakeru and the juniors, how about some little hints or comments about their backstories? Or maybe their family, the only descriptions we get about them are the superficial ones of a fangirl.

 Looking back after getting to know so much about tsukiuta it's kinda disappointing that they left so much things out for a first chapter, something that it's an introduction and it's supposed to sell the product and make people want to keep watching at throw their money at them. I know this anime was more for the fans of Tsukiuta and you're not gonna tell them something they already know, but if you wanted to drag more people in, you could at least have mentioned (bedsides the month thing) that gave the new people (like me at the time) and idea of who these boys are and not just throw cute anime boys thinking that it would be enough. 

 Anyway I'm writing to much, I always get passionate when I talk about tsukiuta: the animation.

[ikukannadzuki]

psychic: reads my mind my mind: the second episode of tsukiuta would have made a much better first episode than the actual first episode. the second episode introduced every member of procella and gave a much better sample of everyone's personalities than the first episode did while still giving iku enough attention that he was the main focus of the episode. in comparision the first episode had to spend time introducing a side character and that really hurt the amount of time that could be spent on each idol. in addition the episode doesn't mention kakeru's "gimmicks", his part time jobs and his bad luck, meaning, unless you were a fan before the anime, later references to those traits, such as in episode 3 when he's excited for hard work, episode 7 when he's really unlucky, and episode 10 when he's woken up by koi threatening to take away his point cards, have much less of an impact. finally, the first episode doesn't properly convey that the series is slice-of-life and makes it seem like an anime more focused on just being idols, rather than how being idols affects the rest of each character's life. also, i know it's been said before but the fact that syunpei doesn't recognize anyone, despite knowing one of their songs, is kinda stupid psychic: what the fuck

[amisbro]

Thoughts On:  “Tsukiuta” Episode 1

So a new Idol series appears on my dash and my computer screen and now we get to ask the question after every episode: “Is it any good?” First episode revolves around a young man named Syunpei and his Gravi fangirl of a sister!  She ends up getting sick and well...this becomes an issue because she was suposed to meet Gravi member Kakeru at a Handshake event.  This is where we get our plot for the episode After this we meet both 6 member groups for the series in Six Gravity a.k.a. “Gravi” and we meet Procellarum or “Procella”.  Now here is where we run into a MINOR ISSUE because you see unless you were blessed with a memory of a steel trap remembering EVERYONE’S name in the manner that they did it (i.e. introducing all the members in one shot in a rapid fire) makes for a bit of a headache ESPECIALLY when you meet them later individually and if you are anything like me you know darn well that you will have issues! During the episode we get to see Gravi and Procella together talking about things in general until a meeting gets called between the Leaders of both groups in Hajime and Shun.  Shun happens to be voiced by one of my favoirte VAs in Ryohei Kimura so getting to hear him is ALWAYS a treat for sure. Shun and Kai get called into a meeting with the President of Tsukino Talent Agency and...well we don’t get to hear the extent of the meeting.  This is filled by the hijinks that Syunpei gets into when he gets to meet members of “Gravi”...but he doesn’t know it as he mistakenly finds his way backstage and bumps into them. Now let’s be clear on this cos this is a rather important part of the story Syunpei is a young man that was asked to do this favor for his sister and you could tell he was uneasy about it.  Let’s be honest here a dude being asked to do something like this might be put off a little bit and especially a young man like Syunpei. HOWEVER NONE of the Gravi Members looked at him in a weird way and in fact the payoff that comes at the end of the episode proves that.  Its almost as if Gravi and Procella (and probably the rest of Tsukino) don’t really care the GENDER of their fans or age...just respect them and all is cool right? Well if this WASN’T evident during their meet backstage it becomes more evident later in the episode when Koi, Kakeru and Rui end up going on an adventure with Syun to go get “Moon Rabbit Buns” together.  If this didn’t tell me all I needed to know about the series at this point in one ep I dunno WHAT would! Eventually they get a call to go back for the handshake event (after riding a coaster) and then our young friend gets a big surprise He got to shake Kakeru’s hand for his sister...AND HE WAS HANGING OUT WITH HIM THE WHOLE TIME!!! To say the least he was quite surprised but at the same time quite happy...I wish I could say the same for Syun sis because you see when she saw HIS picture...yeah she was a little jelly Oh and before this it was announced that Gravi and Procella are going to do a joint concert together...and a little fire from You on Procella’s behalf?  Could be interesting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Episode 1 in the books of at least 5-6 tonight and to say the least this was a rather interesting episode.  You have a standard intro for both groups which is a plus BUT you do it in a way that it legit makes it harder than heck to try and remember everyone’s name...I had to hear the kid’s name 3 times to even commit THAT to memory and that was a bit of an issue! Now here’s the good news:  Once you pair it down its a lot more manageable for the viewer cos at most you got 3 people (so far) so considering this what we end up with is less of a pain in the butt as far as memorization.  At least when you see 2-3 for the whole episode its easier so when it comes time for the group to be there you will eventually remember everyone right? This is my hope as we make it through the rest of the series tonight and all I can say is...let’s get on with the next episode!