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04-09-2016, 11:46 AM | #81 |
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Boku dake ga Inai Machi was the first anime that I have posted about (or tried to post about) weekly on UPN in ages. I wanted to make a special exception for this story because it seemed so promising. bbb sold me with an intriguing premise, then I watched Episode 01 and was hooked, then I watched Episode 02 and was in love ... in the early days, BokuMachi was easily my Anime of the Year and was a contender for being one of the all-time greats. As time passed, my score for the show fluctuated between a 9/10 and an 8/10. The 9 signifies a show that is phenomenal but just shy of a masterpiece, while the 8 indicates a program which while very good isn't in the same "just shy of masterpiece" territory that the 9 is. Both are great scores. A 7/10 is already a rating of "Good," so the 8 and 9 are both beyond that. Episode 11 was my first disappointment with the series, one from which the tale sadly can't recover. Everything had been going so well ... and then the author decides to end things in ways which completely disappointed me. Episode 12 was an improvement upon 11, in that I enjoyed it for what it was but it's still saddled with all of the permanent baggage given to the series by 11. Overall, the series was a fun ride and I'm very glad I watched it. It's not a 9 nor 10 out of 10, but it's a solid series that you can recommend to friends and be fairly confident they'll at least somewhat enjoy. Plot: 8/10 Let's divide this discussion between the plot premise, the culprit's identity, and all other aspects of the plot (like plot progression, miscellaneous plot events, etc). Plot Premise: This I'd say deserves a solid 10/10. The first episode alone saw me hooked, badly wanting to know what happens next. Several times early on I was so hungry for info I would read slightly ahead in the manga! I knocked this off around the time we pressed on into Part III of the story, but I had to fight off the desire to read ahead several more times, let me tell you! This isn't my first rodeo with a time travel anime. It's not even my first time with a time travel story that features a guy revisiting the past as many times as it takes before he achieves a desired outcome. But this series combined several of my favorite and little-explored genres into one tale and it did so so incredibly well that I was enchanted.Characters: 9/10 I enjoyed Satoru just fine. I adored Kayo. Kayo's mother was sufficiently despicable. Those three were really all we needed for this story to work. Kenya, the other children, Sachiko, and Yashiro are all fine too. Maybe the 9 is too generous, I dunno, but I feel like Kayo is phenomenally written and drawn, particularly by the anime team. Animation: 9/10, and only because today I'll try and withhold the 10/10 for those series which push the boundaries of animation in their time. I would otherwise give this one a 10/10. Because while BokuMachi isn't a technical spectacle of animation, it is a directorial one. Holy balls, BokuMachi's animation is so well directed! So many perfect shots. So many perfect camera angles. The content on screen, what is communicated to the viewer and how ... background posters in the classroom that say things like "HOPE" or "You can do it!" ... so many excellent subtleties of human emotion conveyed with detailed attention to faces and how we convey our states of being with just a few millimeters' drop of an eyebrow or corner of the mouth ... Whoever oversaw the direction for this anime, if he's going to direct another character-driven series then I almost want to promise I'll check it out just for him or her alone. I won't promise that, but man ... major kudos to the animation team and the animation director. Voice Acting: 8/10 I thought BokuMachi enjoyed really solid voice acting. Some people have raised the criticism that the children, especially Kenya, sound and act much too adult for their age. I can kind of see that. But I feel like, by and large, Satoru (both old and young), Kayo, Sachiko, and Yashiro all sounded like real-live people. And if Kayo's mother sounded more like a character than a person, I think that was just her voice actress dialing up the sickeningly sweet tone that women like her often have in fiction. Music: 7/10 It was a good soundtrack. I wouldn't rush out to buy the entire thing on CD, but there is one track I'd really like to have, which is what I guess you would call "the main Boku dake ga Inai Machi motif" or theme song. The one that plays at the end of Episode 02 in the park, or at the start of Episode 03, or so many other times and places throughout the series. It's one of Kajiura Yuki's best compositions in my opinion, so perfectly blending melancholy, strength, optimism, and wistfulness in one. That melody aside, I felt that the rest of the soundtrack did its job at helping to set the tone without being too distracting. That's all you can ask from a television soundtrack. Regarding the OP and ED credits theme songs, I never did wind up falling terribly in love with either one of these. I never skipped them that I can recall, but my attention would waver with both. I don't really want either to have on my iPhone, but I don't think the songs are bad either. I can respect that other people might quite like one or both of them. Replay Value: Mid to Mid-High, the latter if you give it several years. This is a series that back when I'd only seen ten or so anime I could see myself re-watching within the year. Even having seen hundreds of anime, I would still like to revisit Boku dake ga Inai Machi some day. While the ending did disappoint me, and while I do know the answers to the story's biggest mysteries, I would still love to see my favorite moments once more. It's a dear series. OVERALL 8/10 I've debated between giving this the 7 or the 8. Overall right now, I feel like I want to give it the 8. The ending so disappointed me that I probably should give it the 7 ^^; , but for now I think the 8 is a more appropriate representation of how well I liked the characters, the plot, the animation, and everything else.
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Starting watching this the other day. Halfway through episode 5. Sobbing. Also the OP is great.
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09-08-2016, 08:10 PM | #84 |
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I came back to read a few of the past summaries I forgot to read in the past.
Listen, guys, seriously do yourselves a favor and read the end of the manga. I cannot stress this enough. First, I recommend reading Chapter 32, which shows the origin and backstory of our villain, and then I recommend reading onwards to Chapter 44, as nearly everything in these chapters is completely different from the anime. As in much better than the anime's last few episodes. There are a few constants that remain the same, but the events that unfold are very different and are ultimately much better. The last few episodes of the anime tried to go for a similar path but did it a. much quicker, and b. in a totally different manner that makes some questionable direction decisions. So yeah, basically, if you're at all curious for how the original last stretch of the story goes, I definitely recommend setting aside a bit of time and just reading the last 12 chapters of the manga - much more satisifying and more events play out, even if there are some things that don't change. Spoiler: show Last edited by deoxys; 09-08-2016 at 08:17 PM. |
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Finished this while doing some homework last night. I must say, as unsatisfying anime endings go, this certainly felt pretty solid to me. I definitely
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09-11-2016, 05:08 AM | #87 |
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The manga is endlessly worse.
The author, in an attempt to run damage control for the bad reception of a meme-cuck, went and made the cuck real.
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04-14-2017, 04:42 AM | #89 |
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I've not yet read the manga in full, including the much-talked-about ending that I've needed to read for myself for the past year.
But on a whim of deciding to look into rectifying that, I just happened to discover ... there's a ninth volume out. o.o It's a compilation of bonus chapters that were published last year, but the collection itself wasn't published in tankoubon form until February 2017. It shows some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that we missed out on as a result of how the originally final volume (Volume 8) plays out. More details in the spoiler box. Only click if you've watched the entire anime or else have read through Volume 8 of the manga. Spoiler: show If you haven't read these chapters before and feel like doing so, go for it. They're by no means required reading. But they're enjoyable for what they are, too. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ One year later, I remain dissatisfied with the direction Sanbe Kei decided to take BokuMachi in in the eleventh hour. My opinion of the series overall has managed to improve, the sting of the disliked ending a little less painful than it was this time last year. Where before I was all talk of 8's, now I forget that I didn't originally give it a 9. At the end of the day, I wanted the author to deliver the impossible; he teased the impossible, constantly; he then bowed to outside pressures, I am sure of it; and he gave up on trying to find a way to make the impossible happen, and just went for an easy out instead. I don't blame him. And like so many, I too would not have wanted him to have gone for "that ending" if it were to have been anything less than perfect. Because anything less than perfect ... would have given Usagi Drop a run for its sad money. ^^; But two things I'll bring up right now, two pieces of evidence out of a mountain of evidence available to me. One, I brought up the other day in discussion with a friend. The other, I only thought of just now while skimming Volume 9. Spoiler: show
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12-30-2017, 06:33 PM | #90 |
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Looks like Netflix adapted this and it's available now. Anyone tried it?
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I saw a YT vid that said it "fixes" the animé's ending. Take that as you will.
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12-31-2017, 12:58 AM | #92 |
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I watched it. It basically tried to cover the whole manga in the same number of episodes as the anime which left it feeling a bit rushed to me, but that's all right. The ending was pretty good. The acting was all right (though Airi had to grow on me). It's worth a watch if you really like the series
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