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While watching this
episode, my face honestly look like Mashiro's
at episode 1 of Bakuman. 3 XD This first
episode was just great.
Chihayafuru 2 has got to be the best show this
season. No questions asked. Out of all the first episodes I've seen right now,
this has got to be my fave (or am I just being bias? :P). On a side note, I
haven't seen Kotoura-san yet which most
people seem to say has the best first episode this season.
What I personally
like in Chihayafuru 2's OP episode is how
it was made in such a way that you'll never think they had that almost 1year
break. Madhouse Studios was like: let's
all assume that everyone has seen S1 last season and start this S2 with the
introduction of the new member immediately. No more recalling of all those
things happened last season. That's not important anyway. ~They sure aren't
wasting any time here, huh?
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The best indication
that this is a new season was the new
school year. Ayase Chihaya (Seto Asami) and
Mashima Taichi (Miyano
Mamoru) are finally juniors. The club needs at least 5 new members in order
to acquire the new club room (well that isn't really that important, is it?). Through Taichi's charisma they were
able to attract lots of female members but they're all interested in Taichi NOT
in Karuta. What's more problematic for the Karuta-bu is their current
difference in priorities. But it's a great save that Chihaya has somehow became
selflessly greedy this time around and probably serious about really achieving all of the things she said.
AND isn't it that the first thing she said was her priority to make Taichi
reach Class A? :3 Oh Taichi, I'm pretty sure it meant nothing more to Chihaya
other than what it literally means. So make sure you get to Class A and face
Wataya Arata (Hosoya
Yoshimasa) in the next Karuta Master match (or whatever it was called).
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| I know, right? XD |
Aside from the
beautiful flow of the first episode, what I personally like here is how it was
told in Hanano Sumire's (Han Megumi) point of
view. She's one of the new members that the Karuta-bu will definitely have and
her number one reason for joining is to capture Taichi which greatly
disappointed her at the end of the episode. What surprised me was how she
became emotional when she read the lines of the 100poems. Looks like she'll
have a reason to like Karuta as all(: In addition to that, Sumire seems to be a
comic relief character although her drama-side of the story (which will
probably about love) won't be gone.
In an overall look
on this episode, I'm betting that Chihayafuru 2
will be a pretty good sequel. The art and animation was as great a before. I
still love the voice and Han Megumi went it pretty great for Sumire. I honestly
didn't expect that from someone who voices Gon from HUNTER x HUNTER 2011. The story seem to
take an interesting flow which started off with a cute romance. I'm really
looking forward to another 2-cour greatness from Chihayafuru.
