Bold adaptation decision. IF the adaptation is faithful, and every precedent up until now has proven it to be more or less true, then the scene where Touma and Haruki confess their unabashed feelings, is not quite over. In the … Continue reading →The post White Album 2: Structural Commentary & Visual Novel Supplements appeared first on MDZANIME.
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Nadeko’s character is further developed. It’s ironic; she’s credited with maintaining an impressive facade. A God, in a sense, is an idealized entity, which represents pure, unabashed notions and ideals. By maintaining an impressive, immaculate facade, she’s essentially acting as … Continue reading →The post Monogatari: To Stay Unrequited, Is Better appeared first on MDZANIME.
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Polygamy’s never the answer. Not the conventional one at least. White Album 2, surprisingly, is a relatively simple, straight-forward visual novel [inclusive to introductory chapter]. The protagonist is voiced, and the novel works much more like traditional anime, than of … Continue reading →The post White Album 2: Two Hearts, Passing appeared first on MDZANIME.
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More flashbacks. The focus continues to shift back and forth, and while it provides great balance for the various interactions within the series, it also has created a very blatant difference in affability when concerning how the characters have progressed. … Continue reading →The post Golden Time: Insecurity and Original appeared first on MDZANIME.
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Pieces falling into place. While the quality of series and their developments will always vary, their is still usually a consistent sense of worth to having foreshadowed events build up into something resembling a reveal or twist. While the reveal … Continue reading →The post Kyoukai no Kanata: Manipulation and Connection appeared first on MDZANIME.
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One cup of hot coffee = two cups of cool orange juice Kaiki’s a difficult character to analyze because he never consistently tells the truth, and he never consistently lies. At the beginning of the episode, he stated that most … Continue reading →The post Monogatari: Veracity appeared first on MDZANIME.
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~ Passion’s a concept that’s hard to define. My mechanical interpretation of it is more physical than sentimental; you get this feeling similar to anxiety, pervading throughout the entirety of your body. At times, it’s complemented by joy, at other … Continue reading →The post White Album 2: An Eternity, Or So We Thought appeared first on MDZANIME.
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Solid improvement. After the escalated transition which ended up with Banri and Koko dating I couldn’t help but feel that Linda never got a fair shot at development, so the new focus in this episode felt like it was a … Continue reading →The post Golden Time: Rewind and Interference appeared first on MDZANIME.
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More delays. As one can easily see my reviews were delayed quite a bit this week, since school unfortunately becomes even more disagreeable when finals are around the corner. Thankfully aside from the actual test most of my class work … Continue reading →The post Kyoukai no Kanata: Calm and Horizon appeared first on MDZANIME.
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A climax without action. A climax without explosive drama. Such is Monogatari. It takes a certain caliber of a series to display such mutual affection, admiration without anything outside the necessary minimal. The concept of the ‘darkness’ is interesting — … Continue reading →The post Monogatari: Chemical Reactions appeared first on MDZANIME.
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