Comparing Version 16 to Version 17:
Comments:
Devil Doll:<br />
<b>Tanamachi Kaoru arc</b> ep. 5-8 (Rent-):<br />
* girl's character: best friend
* girl's character development: plausible
* avatar's character: shoulder to lean on
* avatar's character development: slow
* story focus: [keyword:Romance/Coming of Age]
* additional BluRay footage:7580 sec [keyword:Romance] (future plans beyond the story)
The tsundere tomboy - loud, violent, meddlesome, but playful and surprisingly cute at times. So it's not Kaoru's fault that her arc looks weak to me again: Repeating the same bathtub scene for both leads, repeating the same "kiss a weird spot" scene as in the first arc... this is from a game, and it shows. <b>Episode Story</b> suffers from lots of fantasizing again (<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZettaiRyouiki">zettai ryouiki</a>, pantsu, bathing scenes), including some absurd daydreams. The new ED song is soft and more melodic than the rocky one of the first arc.<br />
I like this arc better than [episode:2351#Haru|Haruka's] because it is more down to earth and its development feel less rushed than the first one; they only showed what was necessary to be shown, and the relation was more plausible than the first one. Despite some unnecessary stuff (such as the Judo throw at Kaoru's workplace) and the average music, I upgraded this arc to a minimum "Rent-" after watching some more of this series and the extended Blu-Ray version of episode 8.<br />
Let's hope the other arcs will be more interesting (I bet my money on [episode:2351#Ai|Ai] and [episode:2351#Tsuk|Tsukasa], with Rihoko being a potential positive surprise, and expect not much from overly shy Sae). But with no more than 4 episodes for each girl each of the arcs will have a hard time to beat [series:1096|Ajimu].
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<b>Tanamachi Kaoru arc</b> ep. 5-8 (Rent-):<br />
* girl's character: best friend
* girl's character development: plausible
* avatar's character: shoulder to lean on
* avatar's character development: slow
* story focus: [keyword:Romance/Coming of Age]
* additional BluRay footage:
The tsundere tomboy - loud, violent, meddlesome, but playful and surprisingly cute at times. So it's not Kaoru's fault that her arc looks weak to me again: Repeating the same bathtub scene for both leads, repeating the same "kiss a weird spot" scene as in the first arc... this is from a game, and it shows. <b>Episode Story</b> suffers from lots of fantasizing again (<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZettaiRyouiki">zettai ryouiki</a>, pantsu, bathing scenes), including some absurd daydreams. The new ED song is soft and more melodic than the rocky one of the first arc.<br />
I like this arc better than [episode:2351#Haru|Haruka's] because it is more down to earth and its development feel less rushed than the first one; they only showed what was necessary to be shown, and the relation was more plausible than the first one. Despite some unnecessary stuff (such as the Judo throw at Kaoru's workplace) and the average music, I upgraded this arc to a minimum "Rent-" after watching some more of this series and the extended Blu-Ray version of episode 8.<br />
Let's hope the other arcs will be more interesting (I bet my money on [episode:2351#Ai|Ai] and [episode:2351#Tsuk|Tsukasa], with Rihoko being a potential positive surprise, and expect not much from overly shy Sae). But with no more than 4 episodes for each girl each of the arcs will have a hard time to beat [series:1096|Ajimu].
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