Comments on: [Rapidfire] Analytical Double Play: Halo characters and Kure-nai

By: FFVIIKnight

FFVIIKnight — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:54:48 +0000

Because Kurenai is only 12 episodes, it’s hard to see how balanced it might turn out and I’m fearing that the series will end too quick (forced to be fast paced). Probably would be better for it to be pushed to 24 episodes since the first 8 seems to go into the light-hearted character introspection and the “good days”. The rest could be on, as I foresee, Shinkurou getting Murasaki back.

As the story builds up, we keep seeing how Murasaki learns to cope with the outside world, courtesy of Shinkurou and co. Of course, not everything is all serious as we have Tamaki to spice things up, often putting the two at awkward situations (”You are a lolicon!”). But, it started to get too cheesy, starting with the singing episode and then the shrine visit. It was inevitable that the Kuhoin family would force their way into their lives. Just how will it go from now on, I don’t know and am curious to find out.

As a sidenote, an older series that Kurenai reminds me of is Speed Grapher… except the characters from there get younger give or take 10 years. While it’s not as action-centric (for now), we have a lot of similar elements; the important girl from some influential family being liberated, said girl introduced to a normal life, the main character having some mysterious (super) power, etc etc.

By: Ez

Ez — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:55:07 +0000

Well, I’m sure the directors didn’t want it to be 100% slice-of-life cause that would probably be a waste of potential. I mean we started off episode 1 with some very dark elements with the ‘Kuhoin’s are secretive and evil and whatsnot’ and it wasn’t until much later (in terms of episodes) that the slice-of-life plot started kicking in. So I guess episode 9 is more of a return to the main storyline of the show whilst everything in between is just character development, mainly Murasaki’s.

Still Kurenai has turned out to be quite entertaining, seeing as it probably wasn’t on anyones radar at the start of the season. Musical episode ftw! xD

By: blissmo

blissmo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:45:36 +0000

Oh Murasaki is just too cuute!

By: IcyStorm

IcyStorm — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:58:03 +0000

Didn’t read the whole post (should be studying for chemistry final).

I’m gonna be at AX for at least 3 days, but since I live near LA, I won’t exactly have a hotel room to share…

Still need to watch Kure-nai 09.

By: issa-sa

issa-sa — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:58:58 +0000

Well plot devices may be plot devices, but I suppose the Kuhouins were what the creators had meant to use to take the story ‘to the next level’ than just your ‘average run-of-the-mill loli slice-of-life story with a mediator twist’ – which is already good enough imho. The Kuhouins may not be a ‘necessary evil’ to make the story a success, but they sure give it an additional impact that would make a show stand out in the season, even when the rest of the elements in the show are more than adequate to make Kure-nai a keeper.