Howdy, been a while, no excuses here, but it’s time for anime love.
Gift, Eternal Rainbow
Enter yet another ero game adaptation. Surprising to me is that I’m enjoying this one right now. Yes, the story is cliche. Yes, it’s obviously a Da Capo ripoff. But I’m enjoying it leagues more than Da Capo.
Basic plot involves a boy and his sort of sister. She’s not really his sister, but his dad took her in when she was young. They’re the same age, but she still calls him onii-chan. They had a tearful goodbye as children, and she comes back. Boy realizes that he’s in love with her and then the childhood friend gets out the razorblades. upset because she can’t cook him breakfast anymore. The humor is good though, and it’s got lovely character art.
The famous “Things I noticed” Section commences now:
Upper halves of the character look great on close ups.
Full characters look awkward, and almost feel like they have noodle legs.
Episode 5 with Rinka-chan was all sorts of win. I seem to have a soft spot for the sword wielding characters in these types of anime. Mai from Kanon, and now add Rinka, would be welcome in my anime harem someday. (Provided I wasn’t happily married of course….do I smell an H-game plot?)
Episode 5 also features the character with terrible cooking syndrome. This causes Rinka and Haruhiko to go some extreme lengths to get away from the chef. I find the terrible food plots to be very entertaining. Surprisingly, there was no one here that choked down the food in the end.
I’m finding the fake gift plot to be somewhat boring. Bring back Rinka-chan.
Better than some of the other ero game adaptations out there, it can hold it’s own in a battle royale with them all. Still it’s hard to beat the 800 pound gorilla of ero game adaptations this fall.
Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!
This show is also known as Megadere. I wonder why?
Mamoru goes to school at renowned academy for Beatrice’s. He gets there and meets Ayako. She’s all tsundere and about to whoop him one (she’s easily twice his size), when he gets all nice with her and cleans off a cherry blossom from her shoulder. Ayako falls in love and asks him out right there. Oh how I had that dream many a time when I was younger. I think I watched too many John Hughes movies when I was younger. Why I’m paralleling this show with John Hughes movies, I really don’t know, but it popped into my head as I was writing this. Annnyways, what the heck is a Beatrice? To be honest, I don’t know. See, I must confess, I watch things fansubbed, and the subs have stopped at all but one lovely episode of this compelling series. From what I gather, a Beatrice is kind of like some kind of magic user, but it seems more technological than just inherent powers.
Things I noticed:
Show looks great. It has the usual polish of a first episode. Nice character designs, although Mamoru kinda looks like a character from Super Mario Bros.
Shione is the queen of hair that doesn’t make sense. Like, wow. It was a nice touch that her brother mentioned it. (I still say Alice from Pumpkin Scissors hair does not make sense, but I hereby retract my statement about Momoko from Sumomo mo Momomo having hair that doesn’t make sense. A girl in Musashi Miyamoto also had hair like that so I stand corrected)
Ayako is really strong, like scary strong.
I don’t have much more to say, except that I really enjoyed the first episode. I hope for more subs to come sometime soon. In the meantime, a small fan effort maybe trying to gather steam, thanks to Kurogane. Please join #megadere on Rizon, if you want to help. To be honest we have a butt-ton of editors and QC, we really need translators and TL check, and eventually distro if this ever gets off the ground. Stop in and say “hi” even if you can’t help.
Needs more subs.
