Personality Split

[mousapelli]

I'm exhausted because i stayed up until mumblemumble watching all 12 Sukisho episodes (Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shouganai!!), and then went to Aarinfantasy's forums to get the opening and end theme, only to discover that there was actually a 13th episode.

Kyah. *bangs head on table*

I was a little puzzled by my own lukewarm response to the show. The premise, briefly, is that Sora gets a new roommate, Sunao, who has another guy living inside of him named Ran, and he reveals in short order that Sora has a second personality as well, named Yoru.

Yoru and Ran are in love. And get it on a lot. And Sora and Nao are a bit WTFAAAGH about waking up repeatedly with clear evidence of what's happened.

So lets review: Cute boys, bickering, getting it on, Sora's guardians are having an explicit and on-screen male/male relationship (and i swear to god the 'mother' is Fuji Syuusuke), their best friend will for SURE grow up to be K (he even yells MANAGER! a lot), There were siblings and little kids that looked just like the big kids, one kid is openly making the move on his chem professor (who he calls 'buchou'), COSPLAY omg the ridiculous cosplay...

and then 13 is all about them going to the hotsprings, and every single character is simply looking for some reasonably explicit on-screen alone time with their boyfriend of choice.

I should have BLOWN A FUSE. Instead, I was a bit eh about the whole thing for the first 4-5 episodes, but i kept watching cause the series was short and i wanted to see the Yoru/Ran action. It grew on me by the end, but I am still not chomping at the bit to write middle-of-the-night debauchery where you aren't really sure which personality is in charge, or where the Chemistry lab table is put to good use, or Nameni and Shuichiro doing bad, bad things with Nameni's apron.

and I should be, shouldn't I? Maybe the manga is better.



But on the other hand, I'm a little relieved as well, cause I was starting to wonder if there was ever going to be an anime that I didn't want to spread out on the ground and roll all over.

I get up some screencaps when I'm not in the intern room at school.

Comments

[laylah.livejournal.com]

Eh, I often find that if the canon does enough of the work for me, I don't really feel the need to bother. I think this is why I haven't felt much ficwriting urge for either KKM or Loveless -- canon doesn't make it enough of a challenge!
If the show is already giving you the boysex, then when you want the boys to get it on you can just watch the eps. ^^

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

that's a good point, although certainly Loveless and Sukisho!! are much more guilty of this than KKM. But questionable split personalities in charge! I should want it! *flutters hand*

ah well, can't love em all, i suppose.

[instantramen]

They got 13 episodes out of that short little manga? *supposes she really shouldn't be surprised by this*

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i'm not surprised to hear you say that, cause there was a lot of padding at the beginning. I mean, and the whole thing is based on a dating game, so i'm impressed there was some sort of coherent plot at all.

sort of.

and now, Noodle Summary Theater

[instantramen]

I'm not sure whether the manga or the game came first before the anime, but from what I remember (it's been a bit since I last read it) the manga was all "Good morning, effeminate schoolmates, how are you? WHYYYYY must there be so many complications in our innocent attempt at performing a perfectly normal romantic fairy tale? And why are you so weird at me, Mr. New Roommate Dude? Just because I don't remember that part of my life doesn't mean I'm going to believe we knew each other at the time. Wait, what? You're a raging psycho and only my agreeing to be your source of all hot lovins will cure you? Whatever you say, just don't throw that guy off the roof. *snog and live happily ever after*"

Re: and now, Noodle Summary Theater

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i'm almost positive that the game came before anything else. The fact that it's a dating game explains why there are eight million gorgeous characters who are all guys.

That manga was sort of awful. The anime is much better than that.

Re: and now, Noodle Summary Theater

[instantramen]

The only good thing I got from the manga was an Evil Behavior icon that I haven't even used in ages...