As I’ve mentioned before I’m working my out of anime normie territory. I’m currently watching Ah My Goddess (yes I know, but it’s a catchy show) and I know it’s based on a manga so I was wondering if anime adaptations do a better job than here in the west. I know Japan isn’t perfect but it seems like they value the source material a lot more than they do here. Or am I mistaken?
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Not going to lie. When I first heard of it, just based on the premise, I thought I would hate it. I only watched it because some of my friends wanted to.
I am happy to say I was very wrong. It's fucking hilarious and I am glad they forced me to see it.
Sounds interesting. What’s it about exactly?
The synopsis is this
"In the senior high school division of Shuchiin Academy, student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice president Kaguya Shinomiya appear to be a perfect match. Kaguya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate family, and Miyuki is the top student at the school and well-known across the prefecture. Although they like each other, they are too proud to confess their love, as they believe whoever does so first would lose. The story follows their many schemes to make the other one confess or at least show signs of affection."
Basically the boy and girl both engage in elaborate schemes to try to be the one being confessed to. Imagine Death Note level planning/overthinking in an attempt to get your crush to confess to you.
The show is much better than the synopsis and my explanation sounds like.
Cool! Sounds good. Thank you
I even recommended it to friends who don't like romance anime at all and so far everyone has loved it.
It is definitely hilarious.
Can confirm, it's uproaringly funny.
The only downside is the entire premise, of that "battle of love and war," is dropped way too early into the series. Something like 80 chapters into the 280 total it loses that angle to become "how they overcome their trauma" arcs.
Its still great and I enjoyed it the whole way through, but the anime is going to lose a lot of what people liked about it soon because they've run out of those chapters to work with and are going to hit the "long multi part drama" episodes instead.
The ishigami arc kind of already got into that kind of arc and I think it was received generally well. But yeah it will be interesting to see how well it is received if or when the anime passes the culture festival arc.
Ishigami has multiple very long arcs dealing with his stuff. They've only covered part of it.
Its also the first of them. It was well recieved in the manga too, until that was all the manga did (and they pulled some deus ex machina bullshit to "resolve" Ishigami's because the author was in a hole so they could move on). Then there came a bunch, including the Ice arc which idk anyone who likes, all the way until the ending.
Yeah ice was rough in the manga, especially coming off the high right before it. Hoping it comes off a bit better binging it in anime form instead of waiting a week for a chapter then being annoyed.