K has a lot of characters. I like that, and in fact I’m a big fan of those kinds of series. They are however, a double edged sword: try getting some good development out of all of them, especially with only 13 episodes. The trick will be balancing the development for all of them: focus on a bunch of them and flesh them out really well, and give the guys who aren’t in the foreground presence, rather than making them into characters for the sake of having more characters.
K is trying to achieve that balance, definitely. There are a few key characters here in this story: Suoh and Reishi with his powers on one side and Kurou and Yashiro on the other side. Suoh and Reishi are fleshed out by all the people around them, their subordinates et cetera, while Kurou and Yashiro are fleshed out through their own actions and their chemistry.
Beyond that we have the side characters, most of them are pretty one-dimensional at this point. Think of the cat girl who is always cheerful, or the punk who is always snarky and stuff. For these guys it’s going to be impossible to make all of them three-dimensional, so the trick will be to give all of them presence and make all of them different, and still create impact with all of them. Ideally, at the end of this series I want to have one stand-out moment for all of them. Episode 1 already had that moment for the skating punk guy with its animation. This episode instead made Shirou stand out. I quite liked the climax of this series. Instead of ending with a cliff-hanger or a tense battle, they just end with a silly joke that shows more about his character. Very nice.
Rating: 5/8 (Great)
I… didn’t expect you to praise this haha. From what I’ve seen so far, it would be pretty enjoyable (eye candy basically) for the girls, but I didn’t see how it would attract guys except for that loli and the catgirl. 😛
Neko is all we need.
You didn’t expect psgels to like this? lol he has extremely feminine taste. Don’t know how anyone who has been on this blog for any amount of time wouldn’t know that…
I don’t know why but this show kinda makes me miss Getbackers. I wonder why.
Aww Getbackers. Another show that pains me to think about. I so wanted to see the whole story animated 🙁
Mmm..I wonder how it would have ended.
You never read the manga? It was good, and quite a bit different from the usual long run shonen series. I usually am not into bromances, but the 2 leads in Getbackers really did interest me a lot.
I loved the anime plus it didn’t end badly. I had a feeling it would end pretty much like the anime ended except maybe Pinocchio becoming a real boy in the end. There was a part of me that felt that dragging it all the way to the top might mean something like a rehash of a regular formula. Plus, dammit, I would have loved all the comedy voiced. XD
Yea, i actually agree there. For an anime original ending it was actually pretty good. I just wish they could of fully animated the original story because it got insanely fun as it got closer to the end.
Haha sounds interesting. XD Maybe they’ll make it happen someday. I mean, they even animated Zetman. That’s one anime I wasn’t expecting to see happen.