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Saturday, 22 October 2011 21:59 |
When 2nd year student Uryu Shingo's school, the Kagamidai Private Academy, merges with a prestigious girls' academy in the same town, the Yuihime Girls' Private Academy, the resulting trial period of unification sees him becoming a student at the Yuihime Girls' Private Academy. The day before he transfers, Shingo meets Sena Airi, a Yuihime Academy student, who came to the aid of his sister when she got lost after dark.
Okay. The basic premise of this - "boy at an all-girl high school" - does very little for me to start with. This episode the didn't really help its case by spending the first half showing just how much of a case of brother-complex that Shingo's little sister Sakuno has for him (culminating with her trying to join him in the bath - "it's okay, we're siblings". That's pretty much exactly why it isn't okay, past the age of 8 or so, dear). Minus 10 points for predictable pandering - but it is based on an eroge, so I shouldn't really be surprised.
I also shouldn't be surprised by the fairly predictable setup of nice-guy male lead Shingo and grumpy, I-won't-accept-this-change-in-my-circumtances female lead Airi, which is right out of the big book of anime tropes. Oh, what I wouldn't give for a series of this ilk that at least tries to do something different right out of the box. Mashiroiro Symphony, so far at least, doesn't appear to be it.
THE GOOD: Ooooh, pretty.
THE BAD: Criminal lack of originality in pretty much every department.
But with bishoujo / eroge conversions, I'm always reminded of SHUFFLE!, which started off "same old, same old" before turning all "Woah! Shit just got real!!" halfway through its run. So this will get a few episodes (not half its run, I hasten to point out) to prove its worth. I'm not holding my breath, though.
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