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| exactly my face while watching this episode |
I think that Bakuman.'s comeback episode isn't my fave OP
episode this season. Although I have to admit that J.C. Staff has done a great
job in continuing the series. Everything still has the same feeling (and I do
mean everything because the BGM seem to
not change at all. LOL).
Bakuman. has already established its story and
characters right from S1. Now this episode did an amazing job at reminding the
viewers the main goal of this series (not that we forgot or anything. LOL).
Also, this episode has already shown the first problem that Ashirogi Mutou has
to over come - the high rankings of PCP
that needs to compete with Niizuma's Crow
and +NATURAL.
I'm not the biggest
fan of the romance in Bakuman. but this
episode was just really cute. Yes, Mashiro Moritaka (Abe Atsushi) and AzukiMiho (Hayami Saori)
is probably one of the most stubborn couple ever. They'll go like: I'll just do
this because it's the best for my dream even though I don't like it. We've
probably seen this over and over. It's probably one of the reasons for drama.
LOL.
The first issue that
this season has gone through is Miho's voice acting and practically getting a
shot on +NATURAL's lead heroine role.
That just shows how great Miho is as a VA already. Anyway, the problem here was
not entirely the idea of being the heroine of Mashiro's and Takagi's rival's
manga (because stopping Miho with that somehow petty reason is being selfish
BUT the rival idea probably just became part of the reasons). The idea is that
if Miho gets the heroine role for +NATURAL
and PCP gets an anime, there's a good
chance that they'll discourage her of being the heroine of PCP as well. With that reason said, I was
like: Pshh… That's just wrong! How come Sugita Tomokazu
voices both Sakata
Gintoki from Gintama and Usui Kazuyoshi
from SKET Dance on the same season
(Spring 2011)? LOL. ~Anyway, another point in her voice acting for +NATURAL is that, wouldn't it be more romantic
if Miho would give her first heroine role on Ashirogi Mutou's manga? :3
Besides, it's their dream(:
As for Mashiro's
part on the issue, his works suddenly getting bad was an indication that he was
heck bothered. Does stuff like that really happen? Never experienced it before
but I guess that's because I was never really inspired by specific people. Oh well.
Anyway, Mashiro's way of rescuing Miho kind of reminded me of S2's
episode 2. But this one is less dramatic, a little comedic and more
romantic.
At this part of Bakuman., I think that Ohba-sensei has improved
in writing female characters. I quote
what I said back then, "I just have to
admit that I was never a fan of the female characters Ohba-sensei writes. For
some reasons, I just don’t find them anything interesting or worth sympathizing
for." Now I just like his female characters (except for Miyoshi
Kaya. LOL. But I did liked her at the latter parts of the manga. ~near the end.
LOL.). Yes, even Iwase. Even though she was acting like the most evil character
in Bakuman., I like how she did it. I
like how she wanted to use Miho to stop Ashirogi's dream, how she nags at Miura
and how bitches off at Miho. LOL. (So for the record, there's only one
character that I disliked in Bakuman. all
throughout and that's Kaya. LOL.)
Side notes. Side
notes. I have to say that the appearance of Niizuma Eiji (Okamoto Nobuhiko)
has given this episode more life. It's nice to see Niizuma's predicting skills
coming back to the screen. He goes, "I
think it's best to give up on Azuki Miho. Because she's Mashiro's girlfriend.
If she appears in our work, I don't think Mashiro and Takagi will be happy
about it". I think that Niizuma is actually good at understanding
people's personalities :3
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| 'ai wa katsu-don desu!' |
On some final
thoughts, I have been reading mixed emotions on Bakuman.'s
OP and ED. Honestly speaking when I read that the OP and ED will be done by
nano.RIPE and Sphere respectively, I was instantly disappointed. Most
especially the OP because I was never a fan of nano.RIPE and their style is
totally off from S1's Blue Bird by Kobukuro and S2's Dream of Life by ShoheiItou. BUT then (~ah here I go), I gave nano.RIPE a chance and read through the
lyrics as the OP plays. And well… I liked it. Although I can't imagine it being
played at the last episode of S3. They really should have just brought back
Kobukuro for this. HAHA. That duo is amazing.
In an overall look
on Bakuman. 3's ep1, I'd say that I'm
more than ready to watch this season. PCP is my favorite work by Ashirogi Mutou
and the entire PCP arc is probably the
best in the manga (IMO). The feel of the anime didn't changed one bit, the
outstanding and fancy detailed art and BGM is the same. It's definitely
something every fan of Bakuman. (both
manga and anime) would love.
more screenshots here!
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