Aah, it’s like Kimi ni Todoke all over again!
Leaving that aside though, I liked what this episode did with its pacing: it went fast, then slow, then fast, then slow again, alternating between the developing the romance and the manga publishing. This show has always had its fast paced and slow-paced moments, but I don’t think that they ever meshed together as well as this episode, especially its first half. This kind of balance was especially missing in the first half of this series.
The worst part of this episode was the way in which the creators tried to introduce this new characters. “Oh no, I’m not conspicuous at all. I’m just reading a magazine here”. I mean, I can understand hiding the face of your villain for building up tension, but in a manga writing anime it just has no purpose and just ends up looking silly, especially when they try to play it straight like that.
Overall, if I had to congratulate the creators of the anime for one thing, it’d be making me think that the pacing of the anime went up during the past episodes, while in fact they animated even less of the manga for each episode. To me, someone who hasn’t read the manga, it did not feel out of place, unlike the first half that was in retrospective rather boring to sit through. At this point, I don’t think that I’d recommend this series, but that mostly is because of the reason that this series doesn’t feel complete at this point. With that, the first half just isn’t worth it. It’ll be up to the second season to change that.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Yeah I looked at the manga the other day and was shocked to find out the anime is only up to chapter 33 or so
WTH! If they keep going like this, they can even afford to make a 50 episode 2nd season and still wont catch up to the manga
But it feels right for some reason, I wasnt bored at all
The anime is up to chapter 32. Sorta. They kinda shuffled some scenes around. I predicted it will end by chapter 33, now it might be chapter 34.
oh, the hiding of his face has to definitely be for the manga readers of this. I know you don’t get into the manga here so I won’t say anymore, except that he makes this series awesome:) haha