One thing I noticed is that in this second half, the creators (of the anime, I mean), have felt a bit freer with the drawings in this series. I don’t mean freer from the manga, but instead freer from the fact that this is aired on NHK. The drawings are messier, the camera angles are more creative, and especially this is a good example of it. Heck, there have been plenty of series that aired on the NHK Educational characters that were completely unconventional and kicked ass (Giant Killing for example).
This episode again was great.The characters in this series, safe from perhaps Miho, are starting to feel like genuine high school students. They’re genuine and at this point they’ve become pretty well fleshed out with believable characters. This episode also formed a major benchmark: if they didn’t make this episode’s goal, Moritaka would not have made his goal. On top of that, I also laughed harder at the jokes in this episode than with any other episode of this series so far. Great sign.
Also, this episode had this strange quirk of introducing timeskip with that random woman who was handing around fliers of some sort. Neat addition. On top of that, is it me or are the voice actors in this series also getting better?
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Do you happen to follow the manga as well?
Bass: nope, I don’t.
I’m not sure if they’re doing this to mimic the manga, but the manga started with very detailed drawings and character designs (Death Note style), then at some point they started experimenting until it settled (pretty recently) to a cleaner more cartoony style.
“On top of that, I also laughed harder at the jokes in this episode than with any other episode of this series so far.”
Same with me 🙂 Bakuman is getting really good!I’ll be missing it after this season for a long wait for S2!I’m in a dilemma whether to read the manga or no 🙁
The random woman signify time skip? Didn’t caught on to that. I thought it was just some random filler-ish scene.
I guess the build up would start to climax starting next episode. I won’t reveal what is the climax, but they better make good of it, after wasting time building up for it. (Its not alot, but still)
KEIKAKUDOORI.
I hope you all laughed at that the same way I did (almost dropped a few tears xD). Basically, Hattori was acting like Ryuk (with the apple included!) from Death Note. Keikakudoori is a famous phrase of Light. Bakuman and Death Note are from the same creator. That scene was pure win.