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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Definitely a lot different from the manga, since I read it first, but there's still a lot of characters you find in the anime that you've come to love from the manga. |
 Damnit! Don't die without my permission! |
| Yep, a lot is different. But it is refreshing to Keitaro getting into misunderstandings again. |
chrctrnm said: Yep, a lot is different. But it is refreshing to Keitaro getting into misunderstandings again. Haha yes :) It was a good episode in that it established that Keitaro was a dreamer, he was trying to fulfill a promise, and that he wasn't all that bad of a guy [hence what went on with the girl with the blue hair he drew the picture of]. Not to mention it kind of recognized that Keitaro's a wimp.. xD |
| good fiirst impression for 1st episode, looking for next episode :D |
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Piroko said: Definitely a lot different from the manga, since I read it first, but there's still a lot of characters you find in the anime that you've come to love from the manga. Yeah, it's really different from the manga but still pretty great. Gonna check the next episode! |
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| not a big fan of this anime tbh >.> |
     My pokemon bring all the boys to the yard... |
Rafira said: not a big fan of this anime tbh >.> Why? It's pretty good. |
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| Naru's so nice |
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| I haven't really decided yet how I feel about this show. There were a few moments that made me crack a smile, so we'll see how it goes. |
| “It’s not so much that I care about what you’re doing, but the idiotic way you’re doing it.” Vincent Valentine |
| How did that punch connect? The world will never know. |
It's not breaking in if the door is unlocked. |
| A weak start for me, in comparison to the manga at least. A few chuckles, but nothing more. |
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| The first few episodes aren't really good; it gets better later on though XD. |
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| Hmm, I enjoyed it, but I wasn't a huge fan of the excessive delusions. |
| “Money can't buy dere” |
| Pretty much a regular harem, but it was enjoyable. |
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| It was pretty good, wanted to watch it for years! Never read the manga. |
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| Quite a nice start I must say, the pace is a bit on the slower side but well let's see what the story has to offer and if he'll find his childhood girlfriend or not! |
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| Funny episode. Seems actually kinda interesting, like it so far, since I've expected much less xD Sent with Mal Updater |
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| First impression of the characters is positive, I like the atmosphere as well and even the comedy worked for me. Pretty nice start. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Really interesting anime, watched with my friend and he didn't seem to like it but I actually did and I may continue watching it |
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| I dont think I would enjoy this; so I just dropped it. All the girls are ugly and it overall just doesnt seem good at all. |
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Amatniki said: I dont think I would enjoy this; so I just dropped it. All the girls are ugly and it overall just doesnt seem good at all. Come on dude, they're all cute! Especially Motoko :D |
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| Maybe it was pretty interesting and different when it was released in 2000 but it didn't age well 20 years later. The animation is good at least. |
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| This was exactly like I imagined it would be. Su is delightfully weird. |
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| oh, well, i'm sick of delaying until forever the rewatch of this show. Already wasted a chance in mid 2018 (a decade after the first time) after meeting again this pilot episode randomly on television, this time i know it's for real. Keitaro is so delusional, and for something i couldn't also care less about (enrolling in a prestigious college, it's amusing that Kaolla doesn't even know what that is, "something to eat?") and could pay a little more attention to surroundings and situations to avoid a lot of troubles. However, this is still a pretty interesting introduction to series overall, can understand this kind of comedy is a hit or miss but i also remember that i found a smaller amount of characters to be unsufferable compared to most of the audience. It helps a big deal also that it has a stellar italian dub cast (Naru Narusegawa and Mitsune Konno are voiced by my two favorites in existence) so it's good to be back after all those years just to listen to them too. Forgot how Naru accepted to keep the cover-up of Keitaro not having entered Todai (yet?), that was sweet. What i never forgot, instead, was an extremely amusing final scene when she hits him and sends him up in the sky from an impossible position for disparaging ungrateful remarks about she being hot-blooded, and Keitaro lampshades it on the spot exactly like i (and probably most of the audience) already did at the same time in 2007 or 2008. "HOW DID SHE MANAGED TO HIT ME FROM THAT FAR???" Yeah. |
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This was an episode that started as a DVD extra back in the day, and I felt it needed its own discussion. This episode was so beautiful, and it's a shame it's not included in the normal first season of Love Hina. It beautifully captures that some of these harem characters have real spirit and intrigue beyond being cute girls. This Motoko-centric bonus feature really hits at the complex nature of Motoko, who -like Kaolla, who's intelligent and engineerial but also playful and childlike- is multifaceted, and sometimes contradictory. Motoko may be a swordswoman on the outside, but she has a softness that makes you live the hard character all the more. No longer a terrifying, hard figure, and now a soft, youthful looking baby sister. One who is downright in terror over her sister. Here, she's just the youngest heir feeling the pressure of an entire community, not just a schoolgirl in an inexplicable harem situation.
This episode was a beautiful moment all for Motoko, and it's sad it's not considered a natural episode of the series. Some streamers even have this episode tacked onto the end as an inexplicably placed episode 25. All this episode does is drive home that these are all teens, and even the ones who are extremely intelligent, wise, or powerful in Hinata Inn have dreams as well as nightmares facing the idea of growing up. That's what makes this show special. Moments where all characters get to be young adults while remaining young. The sexuality of this show, which has literally more than 3 ecchi oopsie-daisies in this episode alone, (this show could just be called Accidental Pervert, I'm not even kidding.) at times, offers the characters a moment to be both shy and flustered, kid and young adult, in a way that contributes to tipping the scale from 49% to 51% from Ecchi Bait to a real Coming of Age anime with worthwhile characters and themes. Obviously in any harem, ecchi or hentaibait show, there are obvious implications for writers creating sexual teens, and that sometimes characters are just some studio writer man's wetdream fantasy, but this show has its wholesome moments that sometimes create meaningful portraits of interesting characters. Certifiable hood classic. One that encapsulates a lot of what's great about this show; memorable characters its easy to emotionally invest in, and being an extremely 2000s piece of heritage media. Something something, an essay in critical theory class in 10 years about the male gaze in the harem genre boom of the 2000s. Anyway, 7/10 episode, Motoko now big anime crush of mine |
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