Potato the cutie
Planet Earth
Jack o' Lie
(╭☞•́⍛•̀)╭☞ Disclaimer:
This review is based on my personal opinion/experience while watching, it's not meant to change yours so feel free to agree/disagree with it.
Honestly, going in, I had no expectations, so I can't say I was disappointed or anything. On one hand, this was cute on a superficial level, on the other hand, this series failed to keep me engaged and I honestly couldn't connect with anything in it, I wasn't able to invest in any of the characters which is a shame really considering how beautiful everyone was. I didn't know what to rate this at first, but I settled on 6.5/10 because I feel like overall, this wasn't that great, but it wasn't horrible either, it was an ok watch, not memorable but it was nice for killing time and if you want to watch something that's essentially a fanfic coming to life.
This story is actually something I have already seen done once in a manga, not sure what the title of that manga was but the plot was very similiar, in retrospect, this is quite the common story, very predictable, and every bit the cheesy cliché you'd expect from such situation. The amnesia aspect was handled the most questionably out of everything, it almost feels science fiction-y, no matter how hard I thought about it I couldn't classify this type of amnesia so I settled for the scientifically fictional explanation, that said, Ritsu didn't give me the feeling of someone with amnesia, it felt more like someone high going through a very tripy dream and eventually waking up from it, this plot wasn't fleshed out enough, I can blame it on the limited time but honestly, they could've made it work if they got rid of the meaningless filler scenes and the pointless time spent on the side characters who brought close to nothing to this plot.
I wasn't a big fan of the couple's relationship dynamic, their whole relationship seemed off, Fumiya felt like such a coward and pre-amnesiac Ritsu was just a very vague character I couldn't decide if I liked him or not but from their very brief description of him he appears to be a selfish jackass, the present-time Ritsu we were shown was cute, but also very confusing, Fumiya was even more so, it felt like he regretted dating him in the first place but also wasn't willing to see through his decision of breaking up with him, he was giving such mixed signals and that's probably what I disliked about him the most, his reasons for hiding their actual relationship status from Ritsu was just BS, he could've tried to start over by being honest with him, but noooo he had to lie, because how else would the writer find enough material to cover a 6 episode series that essentially had plot for only 2-3 episodes at max? I should also mention that the acting was sub par, the chemistry wasn't chemistry-ing for me personally (at least not all the time) and the emotional scenes felt very hollow, also this might sound like me nit picking but Kyoya trying to cry and ultimately failing is kinda hilarious, same could be said for Kosuke, A for effort tho.
Production wise the bgm was nice, the styling was very much up my alley and the settings were very beautiful, the camera work was a bit shaky and the angles a tad bit off but all in all the production wasn't bad.
So in conclusion, this wasn't a terrible watch so to speak, but I feel like this appeard to be much more interesting in the trailers, would I rewatch it? Not willingly, no. Would I recommend it to others? If they're very bored and this happens to be something they might like then sure, who knows, they might like it more than I did. And with that, my two cents on this series have been dropped into the pile, please excuse how incoherent and disjointed this review might be but I'm very much out of practice here and was quite sleepy while writing it, hope you have a nice watch.
Have a good day/evening everyone.
P.s: Very unrelated but I can't be the only one who thought that Kyoya looks so much like Pond who plays Wang in 180 DLPTU, it took me a couple of hours to realise who he reminded me of, probably because of how very sleep deprived I am currently but yeah, I couldn't help but notice the similarity.
This review is based on my personal opinion/experience while watching, it's not meant to change yours so feel free to agree/disagree with it.
Honestly, going in, I had no expectations, so I can't say I was disappointed or anything. On one hand, this was cute on a superficial level, on the other hand, this series failed to keep me engaged and I honestly couldn't connect with anything in it, I wasn't able to invest in any of the characters which is a shame really considering how beautiful everyone was. I didn't know what to rate this at first, but I settled on 6.5/10 because I feel like overall, this wasn't that great, but it wasn't horrible either, it was an ok watch, not memorable but it was nice for killing time and if you want to watch something that's essentially a fanfic coming to life.
This story is actually something I have already seen done once in a manga, not sure what the title of that manga was but the plot was very similiar, in retrospect, this is quite the common story, very predictable, and every bit the cheesy cliché you'd expect from such situation. The amnesia aspect was handled the most questionably out of everything, it almost feels science fiction-y, no matter how hard I thought about it I couldn't classify this type of amnesia so I settled for the scientifically fictional explanation, that said, Ritsu didn't give me the feeling of someone with amnesia, it felt more like someone high going through a very tripy dream and eventually waking up from it, this plot wasn't fleshed out enough, I can blame it on the limited time but honestly, they could've made it work if they got rid of the meaningless filler scenes and the pointless time spent on the side characters who brought close to nothing to this plot.
I wasn't a big fan of the couple's relationship dynamic, their whole relationship seemed off, Fumiya felt like such a coward and pre-amnesiac Ritsu was just a very vague character I couldn't decide if I liked him or not but from their very brief description of him he appears to be a selfish jackass, the present-time Ritsu we were shown was cute, but also very confusing, Fumiya was even more so, it felt like he regretted dating him in the first place but also wasn't willing to see through his decision of breaking up with him, he was giving such mixed signals and that's probably what I disliked about him the most, his reasons for hiding their actual relationship status from Ritsu was just BS, he could've tried to start over by being honest with him, but noooo he had to lie, because how else would the writer find enough material to cover a 6 episode series that essentially had plot for only 2-3 episodes at max? I should also mention that the acting was sub par, the chemistry wasn't chemistry-ing for me personally (at least not all the time) and the emotional scenes felt very hollow, also this might sound like me nit picking but Kyoya trying to cry and ultimately failing is kinda hilarious, same could be said for Kosuke, A for effort tho.
Production wise the bgm was nice, the styling was very much up my alley and the settings were very beautiful, the camera work was a bit shaky and the angles a tad bit off but all in all the production wasn't bad.
So in conclusion, this wasn't a terrible watch so to speak, but I feel like this appeard to be much more interesting in the trailers, would I rewatch it? Not willingly, no. Would I recommend it to others? If they're very bored and this happens to be something they might like then sure, who knows, they might like it more than I did. And with that, my two cents on this series have been dropped into the pile, please excuse how incoherent and disjointed this review might be but I'm very much out of practice here and was quite sleepy while writing it, hope you have a nice watch.
Have a good day/evening everyone.
P.s: Very unrelated but I can't be the only one who thought that Kyoya looks so much like Pond who plays Wang in 180 DLPTU, it took me a couple of hours to realise who he reminded me of, probably because of how very sleep deprived I am currently but yeah, I couldn't help but notice the similarity.
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