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This is everything I could've hoped for.
I love the manga and have been following it pretty much from the start. One of the things I really like about it is that the characters feel real and fully fleshed-out. Yes, it's an otaku and two gals (and a bunch of others over time), but they're not just stereotypes - they have complex personalities. And the thing that really makes that a great touch is that it not only makes the characters more interesting - it provides context for their relationships. It's not just very different people sort of arbitrarily stuck together oh look ha ha isn't that funny. It's people who are seen to be different, since they're in different cliques, and who really are different in a lot of ways, but who also have things in common, and probably more to the point are just generally decent human beings, so they spend time together and get to know each other and learn about all of the things they share and appreciate.
And even in this first episode, the adaptation absolutely nailed it.
And I love the art and the animation.
I'm not as high on the animation as you are, as I'd have preferred the line art to look as thick as it is in the original. The look and feel is simply less "inked" as I'd like, but I do agree that the animation is good. I especially like that there is a lot of it to carry over the character. I too have been reading this right from the start, and it's been consistently in my top favourites all that time. We are in for a treat for sure.
I can't wait for
Ota-kun's character growth spurt. It won't take long now. He's not awful at the start, but he gets so good it was a lot to take in again as a source reader!Are you watching Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta too? It's just as good a series and the adaptation looks to be on par with this one. The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt looks to have the best art out of the current rom-com adaptations, but I'm less familiar with the manga, so I can't vouch for the story there.
Funny, because I did notice that, and it sort of nagged at me, but I mostly overlooked it, because overall I was just so impressed by how true to the manga the art was (even with some sort of thin and sketchy lines). Most of the time, they don't even bother with that - it's more like the manga style as filtered through the studio's style. But there were moments in this where it actually looked as if they had just taken the manga art and colored it and made it move, which I thought was a really neat touch.
And yeah - we're in for a treat (and even more the people who haven't read the manga). There's so much character development in this, and so much warmth and humor.
I watched the first episode and really did not like it.
I haven't read the manga, but the impression I got from the synopsis for the adaptation was that it was a similar 'pretty girl is a secret otaku' setup. But the way it played out in the first episode was the girl approached him, basically forced her way into his home to supposedly share in their otaku interests, which lasted for an unconvincing matter of minutes, and then she sort of spontaneously transformed into a manic pixie dream girl and started trying to drag him out into the outside world with her.
I couldn't even figure out what the point was supposed to be. If felt like a bait and switch - as if the whole secret otaku thing was just a gimmick that they ditched almost immediately and now it's just a standard "awkward guy somehow gets a harem" story.
I assume that's not how it played out in the manga.
That one I have read, and the adaptation (so far) is following the manga almost 1 to 1. There's not a lot of story, or maybe more precisely, there's not a lot of direct engagement with a story. It's mostly episodic, and it's just that the two of them keep interacting, and as they keep interacting, their attitudes and behavior shift. It's a romance that sort of sneaks up on both of them - we can see it, and in-universe, pretty much everyone other than them can see it. They stubbornly refuse.
And yeah - the art in the adaptation was terrific - I really liked the exaggerated touches, like him striking a pose on the steps and pointing at her with such force that it generates a wind that blows over passersby.
I love how vitriolic your take is on the Class de 2-banme anime. I do think its first episode absolutely lacked in the finesse of the manga. Absolutely. I can see how it came off.
Let's say it wasn't just the line art, like here, but rather the whole look of the series had changed ever-so-slightly for the worse - nothing too offensive, it still looks ok, but it just happened to become more run-of-the-mill - which then made cute and clever look simply stereotypical to a watcher that knows to look for tropes. The hook was definitely missing.
If I hadn't read the manga and loved it, I might've stopped at episode 1 too. But I just want to show you a few pages from the chapters that the anime adapted: Maki being discombobulated, Asanagi playing with Maki, Maki worrying about trying to be a friend.
I do think it has a light, cute touch all its own, and doesn't shy away from seriousness either, even if the drama is relatively light, much like in this show. It also couldn't be further from a harem, lol. I know what you mean, but don't we all want Gals Can't Be Kind
to end in a
throuple, lol!Back to your point about warmth, specifically, I would say the same goes for Class de 2-banme too. I think I'd give it a few episodes, or check out the manga if you like to read. It does have a big heart, too. Thanks for the additional info on Klutzy & Short as well.
An additional note - I just read through the first two chapters of Class de 2-banme and yeah - the adaptation's the problem.
For instance, there's a devastatingly vulnerable look of sort of hesitant and shy sincerity that Asanagi gets when she's being completely open with Maki - and I don't recall even the faintest hint of that in the anime. The adaptation can't have included that expression - at least not that well rendered - because I have no doubt I would've noticed if it had. And if they had just captured that one expression and shown it in its full glory a few times (most notably when she showed him her list of hobbies and interests, said that she was "stupidly honest like him" then asked him to be her friend), that would've gone a long way toward establishing the sincerity that I didn't see.
But I'm going to let it go at that. Tempted though I was, I didn't even go on to the next chapter to see how the confession played out. Giving the anime a chance first.
Hey, awesome. I'm with you on all these criticisms. Let's see how it plays out with the next episode. What I really just wanted to try to hint at is that there is a similarly deep dynamic between the main characters of Class de 2-banme as there is with Gals Cant't Be Kind, and it would be a huge shame if the anime fails to show it.
It's kind of crazy how derivative the first episode looked like, but it made me realize how hard it is to properly translate the little tiny bits in the manga that make it work work. It is really subtle in delivering the overall cozy feel. It makes me think of Fujichika Koume's manga, actually, especially Tonari no Onee-san ga Suki, which was ultra hyper duper subtle, and to a lesser degree Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta (the adaptation of which was handled ok-ish by Go Hands even if there were super odd moments in the animation at times).
That's also making me feel really hyped about Gals - they got the personalities suuuper right out of the box even if I had some tiny nitpicks about the style.