I was putting this off for as long as possible so I could try to forget about the terrible ending, but I realized that was ridiculous - I need to get this review over with so I just forget about this terrible anime all together. A cutesy slice-of-life done by the same author of Gosick - I was into watching this show after knowing just one of those points. However, the characters were far less
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With one extra episode in this batch, it's the end of the series! It's sad how, for a while, I thought that perhaps this anime was pretty tolerable. The last episode put an end to that madness. I'm glad this is over. The three episodes of this batch actually fit pretty well together. Eps10-11 were kind of a pair, continuing stories of one of Claude's customers and Yune's sister, and also
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Moe-est screencap I’ve ever made Moe in Paris/Ikoku Meiro no Croisee is about a little girl named Yune who brought in France Moe for the first tim- I mean a Japoinese (that’s how they pronounce it)girl who starts living in … Continue reading →
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Hey doods and peeps, welcome to another episode of the G-Views. “Sniff”…well, the day dreaded for so long had come last Sunday, the finale I looked forward to the least of all the Summer Season. Saying goodbye to both these … Continue reading →
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I wonder why Ayako Fansubs suddenly became so sluggish with this anime around the same time that I became lazy with watching it. The final episode was just released today, though, so there's another one to cross off the list (finally). This batch dealt with the Camille-Claude situation that had been hinted at before. While there was some closure, it didn't really feel like there was enough.
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At times a show will just grab you at the hip, pull you close for one hell of a tango, and let you go only when you begin clamoring for more. These are the shows that make the most impact on you, the likes of Serial Experiments Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and for me, Aria [...]
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With the inception of K-On, every anime studio started adapting to various kinds of scenarios but always present the same dry story that K-On had. Every season there will be this cute girl being cute, and does cute things. Nichijou is one recent example of Moe being nothing but repetitive dry entertainment. When I first watched this series, it did bring that feeling of [...]
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Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth ~ The Animation As a fan of the Aria the animation series, I had quite a bit of expectations of Ikoku Meiro no Croisee. It was set to be a slice of life/iyashikei series, directed by Sato Junichi and with animation by Satelight. That being said, I have to say [...]
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Episode 12 Final - Well, this was a rather cute final episode. It’s an adorable way to close off this series, with Claude and Yune getting some rather nice quiet moments to themselves. As a finale meant to wrap up this series, it did a rather nice job of drawing parallels between the cat with [...]
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Sigh…another show reaching it’s end. Keeping it simple, this week’s episode starts with Claude and Yune walking together in the Galerie. Back at the shop, Claude is still visibly bothered by what Oscar said about Yune leaving in the last … Continue reading →
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Alright, I’m tired of waiting for Ayako or IB…gonna have to suffer through Nemui’s strangely large subs. This week’s episode starts off with Alice inviting Yune to the Grand Magasin, where her brother will be hosting an exhibit on Japan. … Continue reading →
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Episode 11 - Ahah, and here’s the episode that reveals Yune’s past with regards to her elder sister. As the series has continuously hinted up until this point, there is indeed a rather sad past involving Yune and her sister. As for what the issue was, it fits surprisingly well with the overall theme of [...]
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This week’s episode starts with Claude looking at old sketches by his father, Jean. Oscar sneaks up on him and “catches him in the act”, showing the sketches to Yune. Later at dinner, Claude tells everyone that he’s meeting with … Continue reading →
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Episode 10 - Well, this was certainly a rather calm episode in comparison to some of the Camile drama we’ve been seeing recently. That being said, this episode does touch upon the pasts of both Yune and Claude and goes into a bit more depth about their family tensions in their childhood. The family tensions [...]
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Well, this is super late. Anyways, back at the Blanche mansion, Alice takes Yune outside to show her that she has set up a Japanese style area for tea. Yune ends up having to show Alice how to prepare the … Continue reading →
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Episode 09 - This episode delved further into the Claude x Camile debacle, and it turns out it’s just as deep-rooted as I had come to expect. At this point, this series is working to flesh out the relationship between the two to get a conflict going, and thankfully it’s quite the well-developed conflict. Unlike [...]
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This week, it seems as though my suspicions were correct, though not entirely. While I was right about there being something between Camille and Claude when they were children... Continue Reading
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Episode 08 - Now this is more like it. Ikoku meiro always ends up the most enjoyable whenever it doesn’t focus on the differences between Japanese and Westerm culture, but rather, focusing in on the actual characters of the series. This series has a small but rather well-defined cast, and this episode does an awesome [...]
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For those of us with income brackets still in the quintuple digits, it’s difficult to look upon the rich with anything resembling pity. While the current political climate has the rich mingling with the common folk on a regular basis, humanizing them, back at the turn of the 20th Century, the rich were objects of [...]
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We start this episode with Claude having a flashback of a time when he and Camille were kids and she told him that she loves him. Back in the present, Yune and Claude are getting dressed to go over to … Continue reading →
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