Short Synopsis: Geni tries to conquer his next target.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent)
I really have no idea why I always tend to blog the shows with the most difficult dialogues. Especially with this series, it’s going to be really hard for me to try and figure out what the heck is going on, since not only is the dialogue incredibly complex, the show also hardly uses any concrete visual storytelling, and instead it uses its visuals mostly as emotions and symbolism. It’s the same with White Album in a way: you really need to pay attention, otherwise the episodes get an entirely different meaning.
Noitamina is a very interesting timeslot indeed. While usually most major anime air either in the spring or autumn-season, for this timeslot the best series have nearly always premiered in the winter- and summer-seasons, and with the exception of Moyashimon and Hataraki Man the shows that premiered in the timeslot during the spring and autumn seasons so far have been disappointments (mostly due to the fact that they tried to stuff too much source material into only 11 episodes).
Which does bring us to a potential problem with this series: the original story consisted out of 54(!) novels. How the heck is Osamu Dezaki planning to stuff that into just eleven episodes? The first episode covered the first novel, which still leaves 53 left. However, I have heard that the guy is very good at summarizing with his adaptations of Air and Clannad into movies (I’ve yet to see them, though), so who knows what he can to with this story?
And don’t get me wrong, so long as I’m not seeing any signs of a rushed storyline, then this series is among my favourites of the shows, premiered at the past Winter-Season, along with Birdy the Mighty Decode 2. While not rushed, it also doesn’t waste any time to get to the development of Genji, and the first two episodes so far have been very powerful romance. Osamu Dezaki is also really in his element again with his visual effects. While the animation is again not that impressive, the amount of filters and camera-shots really work.
