Comments on: Lost my Magic: Why I suddenly went missing from ItaKiss and the shoujo scene

By: FuyuMaiden

FuyuMaiden — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:53:53 +0000

I usually take it easy on anime adaptations because watching the same exact thing I’d already read would get boring. Usually an anime ends up being longer, so they add in content and I’m fine with that. Eh…not really the problem with SA.

SA has over seventy chapters now and the anime hasn’t even really gotten past chapter 30 (their jumping around doesn’t count). There’s a lot of episodes that seem unnecessary when I look back and realize, “Oh crap they have to resolve Kei and Hikari’s relationship by episode 24. It’s not going to happen.”

I try to read a manga after an anime too, but I was already addicted to SA’s manga by the time I found about the anime. I suggest you check it out after finishing the anime (if you ever have time to read so many chapters…most of them aren’t scanlated or released in English anyway). SA starts off a lot like how the anime has been, but then it kind of…gets like older classic shoujo (kind of like Kare Kano actually) and spends time on all sorts of side characters. With nice leisurely pacing that the anime just doesn’t have time for.

By: Mikoto

Mikoto — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:30:41 +0000

But can’t you just read/watch the same parts from the manga and anime simultaneously, and then decide if you should bother with either? xD Go with the superior version, I always say!

Granted, blogging the SA manga would be a pain in the wallet for every post, but…

By: CCY

CCY — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:30:49 +0000

@FuyuMaiden: Little rant? That’s child’s play to me. XD

The reason you dislike S.A. so much is why I tend to avoid reading manga ahead of time, since anime adaptations tend to be perceived as worse, usually – much like book-to-movie adaptations. I wonder why.

Alright, I’ll go for ItaKiss first when I pick one of these series back up, but now I’ve been digging even deeper into my shoujo roots with Kare Kano. That one’s still good, at least.

@otou-san: New stuff is good, and good stuff is good. I agree. XD

Still, I’m more than a bit tentative if I don’t know what I’m getting into; must be the damn logic or something.

By: otou-san

otou-san — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:35:52 +0000

Perhaps part of this is the fact that ItaKiss is, for me at least, exploring uncharted territory

This is, in my opinion, a great reason to praise its current direction. But a simpler one: it’s still really good stuff.

By: FuyuMaiden

FuyuMaiden — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:12:24 +0000

You should probably be catching up with Itazura na Kiss soon. It got exciting again. After the wedding I thought it was pretty boring too (the only reason I kept up with it was because a new episode always surfaced when I was bored anyway), But…in the past two episodes it got good again. Or rather…interesting, and important (it’s not focusing on side characters anymore).

But SA…that one keep getting better, but the fact that it’s gotten better has pissed me off. Kei and Hikari pretty much moved this slowly in the manga, but the manga didn’t have a time constraint of 24 episodes…so I’m angry at it for sucking up until now…and for them still not developing Kei and Hikari’s relationship. Sheesh…SA’s main story is about Kei and Hikari, and at this rate they’re going to be the pairing with the least development.

Ah…sorry for that little rant (SA’s been pissing me off), but yeah…you should catch up with Itazura na Kiss.