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Name: Golden Time
Status: Completed
Episode: 24
Release Date (for eng subs): Every Thursday
Summary:
Tada Banri, a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo, found himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation. At that moment, he ran into another lost freshman from the same school, Yanagisawa Mitsuo, and they hit it off at once. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just on time, there appeared in front of the two a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses. The girl then whacked Mitsuo across the face with the bouquet and handed the flowers over to him. "Freshman, congratulations", was all she said, and then left. The stylish, well dressed, perfect woman that had swung at Mitsuo was his childhood friend, Kaga Kouko. As children they had promised to marry each other one day, fulfilling their dreams. In order to escape from her, Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this well known private college, but now she showed up in the freshman orientation hall. She too had taken the law school entrance examination, catching up with him there.
Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/17895/Golden_Time
Summary Source: Baka-Tsuki
Personal Ratings: 2.5
It's a unique anime in the fact that it's not like most of your shoujo anime or manga, which the setting always ends up being in high school. In this anime, they are in college. So the whole setting is very different from your usual classroom scenes.
The beginning of the anime was also quite unexpected; that the main girl already has a fiance. But than it begin to fall into the usual Shoujo pattern, that the main guy was obviously going to like the main girl and the main girl would obviously like the main guy, because the main girl was disliked by her fiance. Sooner or later she would give up.
Since it's quite a known fact that this story was from the writers of Toradora, I've kind of been unconsciously comparing it to Toradora. But honestly, the two of the shows are really different from each other, though their genres are the same; Shoujo, romance, comedy. Honestly speaking, I really prefer Toradora a lot more. In Toradora it's like there was never a moment that it was boring. It was always packed with a lot of activities happening. However, for this anime, there are a lot of dry moments, and it's not really that entertaining (the jokes that is).
This anime has a lot of redundant parts, and I really honestly think that the progress is really slow. I think it could have been cut down a lot more. Some conversations don't even seem needed, and it seems like there is only some progress in the front few parts and the last few parts. Which makes the middle part really quite boring.
I also didn't really understand the part about Banri's ghost thingy. It's like he was suddenly there in the middle of the anime. I think that they should have like showed that ghost thingy from the moment Banri actually tell's Koko about his incident. I also think that if they are going to show the ghost thingy, they should always have that constant reference to the ghost, so that it becomes really apparent that the ghost suddenly disappears in the later episode.
No offence, but I didn't really like the Seiyuu (voice actor) for Banri. I felt that his voice was way too unique for some one as plain as Banri.
Also another thing about Banri; I couldn't really gasp his personality in the show. It really seems like his personality is constantly changing throughout the show. I don't know is it's purposely made this way because of his lost memories, but I would constantly change in his personality in the show. One time he can be really dark, on others he can be really bright. Some times he can be really short tempered, some times he can be very enduring. I'm just not sure about him.
Despite all the criticism, I really like the ending for this anime. I was really quite touched, and yes, I did cry. I honestly thought it would end up as a sad ending, but it didn't and it ended quite nicely. I also liked how they slowly build up the sadness, where they showed how Banri was slowly losing his memories of the present, and remembering the past.
The beginning of the anime was also quite unexpected; that the main girl already has a fiance. But than it begin to fall into the usual Shoujo pattern, that the main guy was obviously going to like the main girl and the main girl would obviously like the main guy, because the main girl was disliked by her fiance. Sooner or later she would give up.
Since it's quite a known fact that this story was from the writers of Toradora, I've kind of been unconsciously comparing it to Toradora. But honestly, the two of the shows are really different from each other, though their genres are the same; Shoujo, romance, comedy. Honestly speaking, I really prefer Toradora a lot more. In Toradora it's like there was never a moment that it was boring. It was always packed with a lot of activities happening. However, for this anime, there are a lot of dry moments, and it's not really that entertaining (the jokes that is).
This anime has a lot of redundant parts, and I really honestly think that the progress is really slow. I think it could have been cut down a lot more. Some conversations don't even seem needed, and it seems like there is only some progress in the front few parts and the last few parts. Which makes the middle part really quite boring.
I also didn't really understand the part about Banri's ghost thingy. It's like he was suddenly there in the middle of the anime. I think that they should have like showed that ghost thingy from the moment Banri actually tell's Koko about his incident. I also think that if they are going to show the ghost thingy, they should always have that constant reference to the ghost, so that it becomes really apparent that the ghost suddenly disappears in the later episode.
No offence, but I didn't really like the Seiyuu (voice actor) for Banri. I felt that his voice was way too unique for some one as plain as Banri.
Also another thing about Banri; I couldn't really gasp his personality in the show. It really seems like his personality is constantly changing throughout the show. I don't know is it's purposely made this way because of his lost memories, but I would constantly change in his personality in the show. One time he can be really dark, on others he can be really bright. Some times he can be really short tempered, some times he can be very enduring. I'm just not sure about him.
Despite all the criticism, I really like the ending for this anime. I was really quite touched, and yes, I did cry. I honestly thought it would end up as a sad ending, but it didn't and it ended quite nicely. I also liked how they slowly build up the sadness, where they showed how Banri was slowly losing his memories of the present, and remembering the past.
So for anyone that picked up this series; YOU HAVE TO WATCH TO THE ENDING!!
Art Ratings: 3.5
I like the art, but it's a little too plain and does not stand out much.
Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 16 and above
My Ratings: PG-13
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