A quick visual representation of anime in 2009

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1. ExecutiveOtaku
   Posted December 31, 2009 at 11:57 pm | Permalink

   Pfff, Kimi ni Todoke is eas­ily my favor­ite of the sea­son, and even if you dis­like shoujo have some respect for such a qual­ity show . Espe­cially in con­trast to most of the other stuff this past season.

   For me, Spring was the lose sea­son of the past year. Natsu no Arashi was a lot of fun, but oth­er­wise that sea­son was the slow­est in my viewing.

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2. Shinmaru
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 12:02 am | Permalink

   Looks accur­ate to me!

   Also, I def­in­itely real­ize how crappy Kimi ni Todoke’s drama is. I actu­ally enjoy the more slice of life ele­ments of the series, but when the defend­ers come crawl­ing out of the wood­work to defend the drama, it never ceases to amuse me. Face it: It sucks and has been done bet­ter by innu­mer­able series.

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3. Sorrow-kun
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 12:14 am | Permalink

   Yeah, fixed that for you. You’ll thank me when you real­ize how right I am.

   Kimi ni Todoke isn’t that good. I’ve said it earlier, but the only reason it’s so well liked is because almost everything else this sea­son is crap. So it looks much bet­ter in com­par­ison than it really is.

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4. kadian1364
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 10:30 am | Permalink

   I’ll just say that watch­ing Kimi no Todoke weekly is too slow for me. I’m gonna wait for it to end and watch them in batches.

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5. Scamp
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 10:37 am | Permalink

   @EO & Sorrow-kun

   Whut? You guiz suck! Eden of the East and Full Metal Alchem­ist alone made that sea­son rock. Toss in Cross Game, Pan­dora Hearts and Natsu no Arashi and you have a sea­son made of awe­some­ness. That spring sea­son was the best sea­son we’ve had since 2007.

   @reactions to Kimi ni Todoke

   It’s been kinda amus­ing to watch the gradual change in reac­tions across the inter­webs to each epis­ode of Kimi ni Todoke as the cute­ness wears off. I’m pre­dict­ing a back­lash to occur pretty darn soon unless the show picks up

   @kadian1364

   I’m not entirely sure where your ori­ginal com­ment ended up but I sure as hell couldn’t find where you put it. In the end I simply stuck it in my cart and moved it over here instead.

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6. Canne
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

   I think if we replaced the guys in the pic­tures with a group of girls, thing would be com­pletely dif­fer­ent.

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7. Scamp
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

   @Canne

   That’s actu­ally a very fair point. Kobato + Kimi ni Todoke = happy girls.

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8. ExecutiveOtaku
   Posted January 1, 2010 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

   @ Scamp

   Eden of the East and Natsu no Arashi were really good shows, great even, but over­all I had less shows that I enjoyed that sea­son than I did in the oth­ers. Just my view though.

   @ Kimi ni Todoke haters

   To each their own, but if you like romance-drama (and not the forced drama, lots of tears, Key-style drama) it really is a great show. All the char­ac­ters, even the sup­port­ing ones, have been given a lot of detail and per­son­al­ity from early on. The visual style is very nice. And Sawako’s deft hand­ling of Kurumi’s attempts at push­ing her and Kazehaya apart is full of win. There aren’t many heroines that, while still nice girls, are so will­ing to stand up for them­selves when they would oth­er­wise be intimidated.

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