this show has the most special place in my heart because it's one of the few core memories i have from growing up in korea. maybe i shouldn't have watched it as an adult because wow a disaster? but also i feel like this show was... really formative to how i view relationships and love and stuff lol rip me
the first 10 episodes were soooo boring and i was killing myself trying to grind through it. took days, then finally just stopped for a few months. the second half of the season was so much better and picked up way quick. finished it in one night.
you know what, i'm glad this show exists.
why is this listed as a separate tv show from the first season of horimiya?
either way, it's fine. i enjoyed the extension stories of (most) of the characters particularly Iura, but also this season kind of revealed the holes in horimiya's relationship that just screams RED FLAGS O.o plus how many of the characters' characterization kind of don't... make sense, particularly kyoko's family & their dynamics. it's like the author was so set on making the show fluffy and nice that many of the 'darker' stuff (like the implication that kyoko's parents were never around and she pretty much raised her and her brother herself) kind of got ignored and brushed aside as the show went on.
whoever thought of this show is a genius or i don't know what
i love cats
it was so silly and cute but that vibe sort of became stale as the episodes went on and things didn't develop. considering that there's only 12 episodes in the season and I felt bored by the same old recycled gimmicks through the middle doesn't speak too well for it. it is, however, thoroughly made up by the heavy presence of cats imho. also a romance/slice-of-life anime where the main couple don't get together by the end of the first season is bold lol
i stuck it out because i wanted to believe but i really shouldn't have.
although I didn't really feel each episode was that great, i did appreciate that the show did a fair job of trying to avoid yaoi/bl tropes and portray a gay relationship beyond genre expectations throughout the season. I also love slow burns so like. it worked for me.
also i identify with miyano assigning tropes to the people and situations around him lol.
OH and also the random cats. yes.
the first half of the show was way way more intriguing and exciting than the second half. It was good, I enjoyed it (especially the first half) but the end was a little too tied up with a neat bow for me.
just glad to be watching a romance anime where the protagonists aren't in high school and are grown adults lol
i can't find episode 7 literally anywhere and that's the worst thing that's happened to me lol
it's.... so dramatic lol why am i cryin on the inside
I'm so hype how are sports animes so hype
the plot armor is strong with this one
the feminine urge to abandon your whole family & community for a cute boy
man these kids and adults should have gotten government funded psychological/emotional support systems after the ptsd they suffered by being forced to live in a life or death video game for 2 years
-laughs in lack of existing veteran support-
but also gross man alert D:
top notch voice acting by the VA of kirito.... when asuna died and he made those sad noises of disbelief that really got me
i am once again asking... if i get trapped in a video game/simulation, please let me just stay there and spend my days fishing or whatever lol i don't want to be here why are they so convinced that they must return back to 'the real world' for their feelings for each other/dating/getting married to be real:rolling_eyes:
also can u imagine if sword art took place in the US all of us regular people that can't afford exorbitant healthcare bills would probably have died by now bahaha
ah to be 15 and be a genius programmer on top of being the highest(?) level solo player in this video game lol op characters are so hard to root for the older i get :laughing:
"i am not a prize to be won" asuna should have said. like... why does she not have have any agency over what happens to herself in this video game >______________>
if I were trapped in an vrmorpg i'd probably not be fighting to get back to real life either tbh. real life sucks like why would i put my life on the line to fight in the front lines to go back to it when in an mmorpg I don't have to worry about paying rent/affording healthcare/working a life sucking job lol
harem tropes are so annoying but when i was in high school i once fell for a dude cause he smiled at me so like... who am i to say liz's actions aren't realistic
but also i really don't like it when male characters yell at female characters and they just suddenly go quiet and subservient. and then liz gets treated like a kid/praised for it after? kinda triggering for people who have been in toxic/abusive situations.
the funny thing is this plot line actually kinda realistic (a man marrying a woman and then killing her because she doesn't act like how he thought she should - honor killing irl anyone?), but the unrealistic thing is the dude being shocked and accepting his fate when told 'you didn't love her you wanted to possess her' like i mean obviously ??
what doesn't make sense is the lackadaisical 'evidence' kirito puts together to explain what happened - the teleportation we saw on screen did not look like the durability fading animation at all and how he got from point a to point b was just nonsensical leaps and poor writing
spoiler for the next episode: that girl is literally acting her little ass off lol was she a theater major in the real world
japanese animators leave underage girls alone and not sexualize them challenge (impossible)
i mean if you're a video gamer shouldn't you know that it is completely not safe for someone of a way higher level to be traveling with people who are at much lower of a level in the same party/guild? >_>
i do really feel for the guild leader. that was the part that got me.
i never got around to season 3 or 4 so i figured i'd watch the first two seasons again before watching through it.. this anime was the first anime i watched as an older person and i remember the grip it had on me at the time so it'll be interesting to experience this again years later as a grown person with more life experiences and such.
watching this show for the third time this year because i've been told the dubbed version is actually pretty good and i have fomo
the closing scene literally bumped the rating up a whole number cause i can't loooool
definitely one of my favorite animes, not that i've watched many. But I love this show so much and can't wait for the movie... Hopefully it's a good closure to the story. I should probably go and read the mangas tbh
