Impressions: I felt that the second episode is not as good as the first; not only the story, but the quality of the animation as well. The last part where Otome saves Sunao and blows up the motorbike is far too extreme. Yes, I know the show is not the type that strictly forbids such exaggeration, [...]
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Maybe it was my overly immense expectations. Maybe it's because I really like tsundere type characters. Whatever it was, when I watched the first episode of Tsuyokiss, I was slightly crestfallen. Mildly disappointed, so to speak. My comments are based on the fact that aside from that one visit to the official website about 3 weeks ago (when there was basically nothing there), I don't know much about the anime except that I want to watch it.Konoe Sunao, or Daikon. ^^The opening song is cutesy, and some parts of the lyrics do foreshadow the theme of the show. "Daikirai nante usotsuki, daisuki sunao ni narenai" or "How I hate you, I'm a liar, how I love you, I can't be true to myself" obviously exemplifying the tsundere theme. Translation is probably off, but you get the point. But other than that, opening was generic. Ending was better sounding, I guess I'm more a ballad person.Talk to the sword, boy.Crab vs Coconut. Hard to crack, this one.The first thing I noticed was that the animation is only so-so. It's not Gonzo definitely, but I would love to see these girls better drawn. It may be the animator's art style, or rather simplistic animation, but I wasn't too impressed. I won't complain though, if the series turns out great anyway. =)Also, one minute after we see Konoe Sunao waking up, we have our first scene of exaggerated fanservice. What's with Sunao's towel falling off? Not in the first minute guys. And her boobs are like water balloons. Anyway, then we basically meet the girls one by one. Most of them have particularly convenient scenes where they get to announce their names. Like Kurogane Otome saying she's a member of the discipline committee while threatening a guy with a samurai sword...=S Oh, well. Kanisawa and Yashi Nagomi were very amusing, especially with Kanisawa being small and calling Nagomi 'coconuts'. A little bit prettier and she'd be your typical lolicon."Kuu..."Then Erika the student head, and 'hime' of the school arrives, with all the guys going loopy over her. She's probably the 'best-looking' girl to me, next to Nagomi and maybe Nishizaki...the girl who I've seen only go "Kuu.." and sounds real cute. Anyway, I can't remember all the girls but that should cover the few main ones. Oh, and seriously...I don't need scantily clad girls telling me I'm watching Tsuyokiss everytime a scene changes. Sheesh. And they all look so much hotter and older in those 3-second scenes.I assume he's the lucky bastard? =)Erika. Bitchy, manipulative, but kinda hot.Jokes and humour basically depend on what you would normally laugh at. I think I smiled at the "coconuts" and "Kani" scenes, but little elsewhere. Hopefully this improves later on. The episode as a whole was okay, but basically I believe this was just meant as an introduction to the myriad of girls/tsunderes we will be watching for 13 episodes. Speaking of tsundere, the only time I saw anything like that was probably Sunao slapping Leo. And they called themselves 'A Tsundere Animation'. For shame. Haha, though I'm sure we'll see much more of that later on."Tsuyokiss."......"Huh? Sorry, come again?"Kanisawa and Nagomi crack me up.Okay, so-so start to me. But, I'll definitely watch the other episodes. However, I do expect some misdirected fanservice, but I won't let that deter me. After all, we're talking about tsundere action here! ^^>>> AnimaniaTags: Animation, Anime, Japanese Animation, Manga, Tsuyokiss, Konoe Sunao, Tsushima Leo, Tenjou
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Why didn’t she ask Yoppi to lock the door… I know I should have really liked this because it had some girl-on/girl elements in it, but it was mostly boring. I’m not keen on this type of character design, I think it’s the faces? I was bored by the time Kanoe Sunao’s towel fell off, and that [...]
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| From left to right, dere, tsun, tsun, dere. So, I watched Serin and Anime Universe’s sub of Tsuyokiss yesterday (or Tsuyokisu for you Romanji fans). And, actually, despite all the flak it’s been getting, I rather liked it (though it seems destined to be “my kind of show” ^_^;;). However, I immediately disagree with the [...]
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Oh Romeo-kun, where are thou? Despite Hinano's warning, I watched Tsuyokiss and it wasn't bad at all. I mean, if the official site itself says it'll have all tsundere, I'm there -thank you, Motoko!-. Thankfully, the site didn't lie. There were more frowny faces than I could count on two hands and they were all cute [...]
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We now turn to the second batch of summer-anime. These were the shows which were the most hyped for the summer-season. Coyote Ragtime Show This is a science-fiction action series which just oozes with style. The first episode was more focused on the side-characters, instead of the main characters, which means that we haven’t seen too [...]
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Well, the first episode was seriously not as bad as I expected it to be. And Kani is way cuter than I’d expected her to be. And far less annoying-sounding. And why the fuck did Sunao interrupt the Seitokai’s one-on-one meeting? Cockblocker.
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Whether you like tsunderes or not, Tsuyokiss is upon us! This is the anime that was billed as “A ‘Tsundere’ TV Animation.” Can Tsuyokiss live up to hype? Or does it fall like a house of tsunderes?
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I got my new 300-gig HDD set up for external use, just in time for the summer season. As of my writing this, I’ve watched the premieres of three shows, raw. Now, I usually don’t watch raw anime episodes. But…I’m anxious of some reason. I know I could wait for the sub groups make the [...]
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A girl named Sunao Konoe is putting on a play. This turns out to be a dream. After she wakes up, we’re introduced to her family. Her father is working and it seems he’s in some sort of military service. Sunao’s little sister is taking care of the housework. Sunao is starting in a [...]
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For a comprehensive summary, check out ayyo. Not exactly what I’d expected based on the impression I’d gotten from reading ayyo’s posts on it, but still actually entertaining. To be honest, I’d wanted something like SHUFFLE!, but it seems the atmosphere of Tsuyokiss is much more lighter in tone. Erica totally won this episode for me, when [...]
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well, I didn’t like it one bit. I didn’t write summary since I skipped through most of it. I still took some screenshots, just in case if you are interested. For me, I will probably never touch this series ever again. [...]
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The Tsuyokiss official website has been updated to include what I am guessing is a 15 second WMV downloadable and a quicktime streamable trailer. I say I am guessing because Japan is hammering the server so bad that even the images are dead. I will link you guys to it, and keep you updated. And if [...]
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