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Apparently, being called tall is a compliment to Fumi. Some people are so easy to flatter.
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Episode 2 - Spring Storm
Through this chance reunion between these 2 childhood friends, both Akira and Fumi make a promise to go to school together despite the fact that they attend 2 different schools, while still making other friends along the way. Almost as if they were making up for lost time, the intimacy between the two starts to deepen. Entering school and overcome with excitement, Akira and fellow classmate - Kyoko Ikumi - decide to join the drama club. Respectively, Fumi decides to join the literary club and along the way mistakens Yasuko - the cool, boyish upperclassman who is part of the basketball club - as part of the literary club. Yasuko later decides to make a guest appearance at Akira and Kyoko's club…
The Review!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Geez, if Fumi were any more fragile, she'd break at a light breeze.
While I assume it's supposed to be endearing, it is actually becoming rather annoying. Of the two characters, Akira is definitely the more interesting one. Her straightforward manner and confidence are nice.
So, in this episode, we see Akira and Fumi draw closer as their friendship is re-ignited. Perhaps something more than friendship in Fumi's mind. The two girls, in their separate schools, have to choose clubs to join. Fumi, after a chance encounter with a tall, striking upperclassman outside the Literary Club's room, seems intent on joining that club. Akira with her classmate and budding friend Kyoko, decide to join the Drama Club. Fumi, of course, was mistaken, as the tall girl she met, Yasuko, was actually just visiting, as the head of the Literary Club is a friend of hers, so instead, Fumi opts to join the Basketball Club, since that is the club Yasuko is a member of (and Fumi has the height, of course).
Later on, however, Yasuko takes Fumi, and Fumi's trio of Drama-addled classmates, over to Fujigaya's Drama Club. The reason why soon becomes apparent, as the head of the Drama Club at Fujigaya wants Yasuko to play the part of Heathcliff in their upcoming stage version of Wuthering Heights. Yasuko's reason for bringing Fumi, a source of puzzlement for the head of the Fujigaya Drama Club at first, becomes clear when Yasuko suggests that Fumi play the role instead (a suggestion quickly shot down).
The nexus of connections thicken, when it appears that Yasuko happens to know Kyoko Ikumi.
The second episode in and we get a heap of missed love connections, apparently. That does not really do much, however, to make the show any more interesting. I will give it credit where credit is due: the voice acting is quite good, with both Fumi's and Akira's seiyuu giving their characters the right feel to their performances. The animation, while still excessively washed out color-wise at times, is good at capturing characters' moods through their facial expressions. I can't really rate this show any higher than I do, however, since I don't think this show offers much else that is personally interesting to me. If you go bonkers at the thought of yuri, this will probably meet your weekly quota and then some.
In Summary:
The romantic loops thicken, as the friendship (and perhaps something more on Fumi's side) deepens. Some of the other characters begin to get their relations fleshed out a bit more as well, as Akira's classmate Kyoko is shown to be connected to Fumi's upperclass acquaintance Yasuko. If you are a big fan of girl-girl relationship drama and all of the little misunderstandings that are tied into it, you will probably be quite pleased with this show and what it will likely offer. If yuri doesn't do anything special for you, you would probably be better off looking elsewhere for entertainment, since this show does not really have anything else to offer, other than one of the more annoying characters I have come across in anime recently.
Features
Japanese 2.0 Language, English Subtitles
Review Equipment:
Apple Mac Mini with 1GB RAM, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
Pretty decent review. Granted it came across that you kinda went into this series with a mild distaste for romance oriented stories. Which is totally cool, I do the same thing with the more action oriented stuff.
I personally love it, but then again, I'm the target audience. Plus I see a LOT of myself as a teenager in Fumi, fragile and completely on the verge of tears at a moment's notice. Although, with that said, I'm hoping this overcomes the yuri curse of an overly pessimistic and tragic ending.
I'd give it a B so far.