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Name: Glasslip グラスリップ
Status: Completed
Episode: 13
Release Date (for eng subs): Every Friday
Summary:
The daughter of a glass artisan family, Fukami Touko, spends relaxed days at a cafe called "Kazemichi" at a friend's house. On the summer vacation of her third year in high school. In front of them appeared a transfer student boy: Okikura Kakeru. He told Touko that he can hear the voices of the future. If someone knew in advance what their future would look like, what would they wish for? While feeling never-before-felt tremors in herself, Touko realises that she has started getting a feeling in her heart which she can't leave alone...
Personal Ratings: 2
I think that they were trying to go for a light, simple and calming anime with a some what in depth and complex side to it. However, it ended up being an anime filled with unknown actions. So I wouldn't really recommend this anime to anyone, but it's some what watchable.
Could see that they attempted to incorporate some settings from the disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (the part where the whole plot changed to Kakeru being friend with everyone and Touko being the outsider, though I was totally confused for that whole episode).
Thought that show like Durarara! and Steins;Gate are somewhat similar in the way that at first you wouldn't really understand whats going on. As for Durarara! the more you watch the more they explain to you whats going on. As for Steins;Gate everything comes together at the end. Either way by the ending, all is explained and understood, and these are all very popular animes.
However for this anime, even until the end, I still don't actually get what the hell happened. It was as good as not watching. They also didn't explain what exactly is those fragments that she kept on seeing; whether it's the future or the past or what. With the main story line not explained properly (also as to why Kakeru lost his "powers"), you can't call this a complete anime.
Even though they let everything happen during summer break (kind of like the same setting as Anohana and Ano Natsu). I somehow feel that the setting is a little weird and thought that they should have actually started it out in the school term (I mean, who transfers school during summer break, isn't that a little weird?).
The overlapping of scene where not done properly I could see that at one point each couples were facing problems with each other, but without the proper overlap, there is that lack of connection with all the 3 groups of friends, at that point the anime seemed really fragmented.
Take for example K-ON (first season) last episode Even though they were all separated, the proper overlapping of each scene and the conclusion actually brought everything together, and I thought it was a beautiful episode all together. But for this anime it was just not working.
All in all I thought that the whole anime just didn't work out.
PS: you can see that they input some familiar looking characters (if you watch Nagi no Asukara).
Art Ratings: 3.5
I actually thought that the art was quite good. The animation was all in all good. But I guess the one thing I would complain about would be that there isn't that one character that stood out, they just all kind of blended with each other.
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My Ratings: PG
Glasslip OST playlist: Here
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