Her swift freeing thrust Not the launch he’d envisioned: Last stage earthward bound.
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So, who's talking about School Days anymore, if you can have Shigofumi!? This really must have been one of the very, very best first episodes I've ever seen. Animation and especially soundtrack are beautiful and the character design makes the protagonists so loveable. And that's what you do, you love Shouta and Ayase, the more shocking it is how the show developes within even only one episode. I can't belive I watched so many other winter season shows while Shigofumi was already there, waiting to be watched and loved.
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The rise of Shigofumi in my estimations has been tempered with a couple of problems.
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Series Information ANN Encyclopedia | AniDB | AnimeNfo Genres: Drama, Supernatural OP: [Kotodama (コトダマ)] by ALI PROJECT ED: [Chain] by Snow TV Animation Shigofumi [ Episode 1: Confession ] I’m sure many of seen this episode already so I’m going to be direct with my thoughts. I love the art of Shigofumi as well as the soundtrack. Hearing Ueda Kana as Fumika is [...]
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The anime opens as detectives find a man’s body in the courtyard surrounded by dilapidated abandoned buildings. Then we see Fumika dressed as a postal worker, land on a rooftop enfolding her wings, her staff named Mayama, complains that Humans are a bother and should just say what they need to say before they die. But Fumika corrects it saying that some things can only be said after death. The scene shifts to a deserted bowling alley, Kanaka is constructing a rocket while Ayase makes fun of his writing as she sits and reads his notebook. Kanaka is about to confess to her when she receives a call, her father has been found dead. He waits for her at the police station but the police are taking Ayase back to her home so Kanaka goes back to work on his rocket. When he get’s back to the bowling alley Fumika and Mayama appear before him, informing him that they have a letter from Ayase’s father addressed to Ayase’s lover.This anime is based on a series of light novels by Ryo Amamiya three volumes have been released so far. I liked this first episode very much, so many shows take a few episodes before they grab my imagination but this one had me hooked after the first ten minutes and by the end of the episode I’m already looking forward to the next. The story seems almost slice of life, horror, with a death god which we’ve seen a lot of in recent anime, Bleach, Death Note and Shinigami no Ballad. Mayama the talking staff adds a touch of comedy. I must say when it’s my time to go I hope I’m escorted off by Rukia, Momo or Fumika and not Rem. If the story quality stays as good as this episode I’m sure I’ll stick around for the rest of this series.Download the English fansub bit torrent file here.
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Postman -loli + van staff of teleportation Although it has been out for some time, I only got the chance to catch it now. And I must say, the ending is one hell of a shocker. Don’t read this if you don’t want spoilers ^^.      Before i started watching this, I kept thinking to myself - [...]
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Shigofumi is one of those series that has an intriguing and quirky setting that can either become amazingly brilliant or turn in absolute rubbish, depending on the execution of the story. Speaking of which, using the phrase “execution of the story” when talking about J.C. Staff and light novel adaptations conjures an entirely different mental [...]
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Shigofumi doesn’t seem to have been what I was expecting from it and I’m happy with that, because it makes this show interesting. The first episode is about Shota Machiya, a rocket enthusiast, who’s in love with Ayase Asuna, a friend of his whom he got to know while trying to launch rockets on a [...]
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By the way, that annoying staff is voiced by… Tsuruya!
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