Starry Sky
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a transfer student who is in love with a cute girl.
Oh lord. You remember this thing that harem series really like to pull? The flashback to when the lead couple still were children, they met each other once and this left such a strong impression on the girl that she can’t stop thinking about anything besides the male lead for the rest of her life? Well, this episode was the reverse harem version of this. And while the episode was only 10 minutes long, it was ENTIRELY DEVOTED to that bloody overused trope. This is the ultimate fantasy for these insecure teenaged girls: a guy you met years ago still loves you and can’t think about anything but you. That’s also his only trait, by the way. Considering how all of the other episodes are going to focus on the other bishies of this show (there are a whopping TWELVE of them, meaning ten minutes per bishie), this episode pretty much spent its entire time glorifying an overused cliche. The episode also tried to play this as straight as possible: it really believed that this was actually a plausible scenario. I guess I don’t have to say that the result was ridiculously cheesy. The voice acting also was typical bishie schlock, so stay away from this one. Gah, even Neo Angelique was better than this.
ED: This one pretty much summarized the entire series, with really cheesy Engrish quotes that didn’t go through a spell check (“Distiny – I don’t want to be bound by anything!” “How can I COME to BELIEVE in YOU?”).
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Some Quick First Impressions: Starry Sky
hahaha I loved the summary and was actually considering trying this series until I read it.
Keep on Blogging.
>with really cheesy Engrish quotes that didn’t go through a spell check
The quotes actually kind of represent the relationship between the character and heroine. (Like the heroine for the Gemini route tries to get the guy to believe in renai because he’s a manwhore…second quote, I think?) You can tell the obvious use of Babelfish though.
Hey, the anime is shit (and for those of you who expected otherwise…), but at least it’s entertaining shit. 😀
I think this was meant to be something just for the fangirls of the game it’s based upon…though that makes the anime suck. -_- It would do much better if only the show was actually 30 minutes long and stuck to the game’s scenario. >_>
Liked the game, was looking forward to this, huge disappointment.
I kind of agree with ShyBlue. Starry Sky is one of my most favorite otome games of all times, but I’m quite scared of this thing that should be an anime adaption of the game. If really the episode are only 11 minutes then it’s instant phail from the beginning already. Also the first episode focused on things that weren’t even shown in the actual game! How are they supposed to deal with 26 episodes of 11 minutes each and 2 episodes for each of the 13 possible routes if they are so slow paced and totally monotonous?!
Not talking about the fact that not many people will enjoy this anime if they didn’t already play the games…
Saying all these I’m still keeping a minimum of a hope for the other episodes though….
*holds her fingers crossed*
Not surprised that this one sucks. Shoujo series are typically bad, and this series is your typical shoujo.
Lol, nice summary. I’ve lasted on this series about 3-4 minutes top, after that just deleted it right away.
I’m just hoping that we will see something decent in this season…
Hahahaha… that pinned it right! Dang, I was stupid for biting this series and the fact that it is based on a game is making me hesitate a lot but sigh… I just wasted 11 minutes for a dull trope. Hahaha. It’s sad that it’s predictable and why would 12 guys fall for only one girl?! hahahaha Too typical… Neo Angelique was probably a bit better off than this one. haha
Wow, I watched the first episode thinking maybe it’s just building up to something. Glad I read this before I wasted anymore time. I didn’t even realize the episode was only 10 minutes, it felt like 20. It was painful to sit through.