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 Devil Doll
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[series:1879#752] |
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[Score: 78% = "Rent", my top-rated silly comedy on par with Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite; similar slice of life comedies: Nagasarete Airantou, Azumanga Daioh (TV)] A remake of the OVA, covering 18 of its 19 stories and adding 30 new ones. While the episodic OVA had its focus on the ecchi scenes, the TV series is tamed down in this aspect and provides a more linear development of its likable characters. Think Minami-ke or Azumanga Daioh (TV) for 5th graders, just without the annoying hyperactive girls Kana resp. Tomo and the teachers. First of all, I see why Forbin complains about the animation team: All characters look more childish and with fewer details in their faces; also Chika's hair color has changed from red to yellow. Compared to the previous Kyou no Go no Ni (OVA) release this is a big setback. And with the subject of this story, occasionally dealing with puberty and shy first love attempts, this is even more detrimental. Also, this TV remake adopted the method of letting the characters look like adults when dealing with "adult" themes but this time the change between both variants of each characters is so immense that it's just ridiculous. The ecchi element completely fails to work this time - with the protagonists looking like kindergarten kids it just seems completely out of place. On the other hand, the focus this time is more on the children's play theme than on he occasional pseudo-ecchi interludes, and with a few story exceptions I would actually recommend this show for children. The OVA began with introducing the girls one by one, giving each of them a signature episode showing their significant trait; instead, the remake jumps into the story and uses many characters from the start, none of which is introduced in any way. Most notably, the background between Ryouta and Chika isn't explained yet Chika acts jealous towards another girl in the first episode already. Also, during for the first episodes the stories that are remakes of the OVA version have almost identical dialogs, killing my hopes for a surprise. But all of this is getting better from episode 4 onwards, most notably in the episodes featuring my favorite character Aihara. And while in the OVA the stories were in random order, the TV series groups them into related topics per issue, thus making the series much less episodic and thus superior to the OVA in my eyes. The peppy OP song is a definitive plus, and the six different ED songs are nice enough as well.
Last updated Friday, April 27 2012. Created Thursday, April 19 2012. | ||||||||
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First Look: UNFORTUNATELY , instead of using the 'To Love Ru' team to animate this, Xebec used the Negima team, and IT SHOWS. What a piece of CRAP animation especially for a first episode. The above picture is from the OVA, which looks much better. This NOT how I want this fantastic manga series to go. FIRE THAT DIRECTOR. Sigh Kuronmi rides again :( Last updated Monday, October 06 2008. Created Monday, October 06 2008. | ||||||||
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| Official Website (japanese) at Starchild | http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/gononi/ |
