Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na Crescent Love: Episode 7
Rating: 6/10
Impressions:
Game CG is good. Unfortunately some anime adaptations aren’t. The quality remained quite high for this particular show, until approximately the 11th minute mark, when it suddenly plummeted, resulting in several disgusting scenes such as the one I mentioned just before. Actually no, all the scenes after that are horrible. I have no idea what happened. I really want to study the process of Japanese animation, since I still don’t see how a low budget has to mean shit drawings. I mean, if I tried to draw Yoake on my first try, it WILL be better than some of the scenes this episode. So unless all the guys on the animation team are really shit drawers, then it shouldn’t take that much more money to draw relatively well. Oh well, what can you do? Man I am so drained today. The heatwave doesn’t look like it’ll be passing any time soon, and the humidity is just unbearable…Anyway, aside from the animation quality, the plot movement is much better this episode. Things become a lot more serious, especially with Tatsuya’s confession at the end. However, the bad animation made the serious final section of the episode a complete joke (ok, I’m being a bit harsh, but it did ruin the gravity of the situation somewhat).
Another thing is the obvious cliché moments, which I absolutely despise. I hate it how people actually have to get TOLD that they like someone, namely Tatsuya, since unless you’re an 8-year-old experiencing your first crush, I highly doubt that any sane person would not realise they are in love with someone when they obviously know the effects of the affection. Tatsuya clearly pointed out all his ’symptons’ and still couldn’t figure it out. What’s worse is that because of that, the resulting had to be shown. The final confession scenario was quite overly used as well. I don’t have to explain why. The final obvious cliché addition to the show is the EVIL-FIANCEE-DUDE! This guy is instantly hateable, and for once he’s already shown as the bad guy. With this whole climatic atmosphere building up, it feels as if Yoake Crescent Love is already up to episode ten or eleven. From the preview, it looks like Tatsuya is going to fight the Feena’s fiancée to decide who will remain with the princess…or something like that. I wonder if the fiancée will be taken care of before the end of the show, and have some other obstacle prepared for the finale. Maybe there will be some sort of confrontation with Wreathlit!
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Hell, the game CG really looks so much better. Don’t know about the crappy drawings either, maybe they couldn’t pay the electricity bill and had to work in the dark half of the time. By the way, grey clouds, rain and temperatur below 10°C don’t help to raise the mood either. *g*
I like the concept of the series and yes its very predictable plus the animation was tragically poor this ep. But Im really starting to like the characters now, Feena seems like she had some balls in this ep (sword fight?) and with a fair few more eps to go hopefully they’ll be some twists i havent thought of.
>> I hate it how people actually have to get TOLD that they like someone, namely Tatsuya, since unless you’re an 8-year-old experiencing your first crush, I highly doubt that any sane person would not realise they are in love with someone when they obviously know the effects of the affection.
Surprisingly large portion of human population is somewhat messed up when it comes to romantic relationship. For examlple, in Korea, until 1990, most of junior and senior high school class was segregated into male and female class, thus most people never had any romantic encounter until their 20s. I have seen my shares of bad relationship and marriages that ended badly. Although I do wish that main character of any anime or drama come to realize their feelings on their own, that is not the easiest thing to do for many people in their real lives, thus would not criticise a series or character because of it.
All this while I was wondering why the feena pvc is so pretty, yet the one in the anime turned out like %()*#%$
wontaek, fare enough, but Tatsuya definitely doesn’t have that kind of excuse.
TedFox, me too! =)