November 12, 2010
Amagami SS Ep19: You’re Only Stopping Yourself
You want it but you’re afraid to get it. You wish for it but you’re afraid that it might not be what you wished for. You ask for it but you think you want to give it back. Confusing feelings indeed, but there really are people who think that taking it slow and doing maintenance on the status quo is the best approach to get out of the friend zone. A very paradoxical idea, yet human emotion is itself a den of paradoxes, and romance is at the top of the list where people do one thing yet also do the other, thinking that opposites will get you where you want to be, out of both fear and desire.
I’ve done it before, and it seems Rihoko is doing it too.
November 6, 2010
Amagami SS Ep18: Friend Zone, Redux
Another friend, another zone. It’s been suggested by some that, if we consider the fated Christmas day two years ago as the starting point for every cosmic reset Junichi gets, then it’s likely that Rihoko’s been in love with him ever since in every story and in every reset. Yes indeed it’s actually kind of sad, even if Rihoko doesn’t show it much, considering now that we’re watching things from her point of view and not Junichi’s.
Also, since we ARE talking about what she believes is unrequited love here, we can’t even really tell if Junichi never really felt anything for her. In previous arcs we get to see that he does indeed feel for the heroines to some degree even at the start, but we can’t really say the same for sure here.
October 29, 2010
Amagami SS Ep17: Unrequited Love
How many of you can easily name a series where the main protagonist changed in the middle of the story? Not much I can probably tell you, which makes it a bit surprising that the creators opted to shift the perspective from Junichi to the girl in question. It is however different inc concept since this series isn’t one continuous tale, and because the lead female became the focal point at the start of her story, it doesn’t neatly qualify as a shifting of protagonists.
Still, it might do the series some good to have different focus this time around, and based on my opinion that this is the best opener of the series so far, they may be on to something here.
Medical Student vs. Anime 