[110 gou]
Kimi ni Todoke doesn’t jump out at me. It doesn’t make my heart go aflutter; it doesn’t make me want to sit in front of my computer with a box of chocolates in hand.
And yes, that’s been known to happen.
But even without the bittersweet pining and the hesitant blushing and the warm acoustic guitar, the show does have something.
It has heart.
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…Where people are supposed to spend time with their loved ones, make and receive chocolate, confess their feelings under a snowy winter sky, and all sorts of other wonderfully rabu-rabu things. Except for the fact that where anime delivers, life generally fails.
That said, I doubt any of you would care to read a thousand word rant filled with teen angst and dating sim references (and for argument’s sake, you probably wouldn’t care to hear a minute-by-minute recount of my nonexistent date either), so I decided to do the only thing I could: turn this into a filler update post. Don’t worry, I have a good enough excuse for not tl;dr-ing about something useful, and if you want to know what it is, I suppose you’ll just have to read on.
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We all know that I’m a romance fan, right? Well, if you don’t, then now you do – it’s no coincidence that Memories of Eternity isn’t exactly the manliest name around. Being the fan that I am, upon reading anime blogger ghostlightning‘s recent post on shoujo and the nature of the “happily ever after” endings that we so often see, my mind was left in a daze – the good kind of daze – and I was inspired to write something of my own. It’s a somewhat unrelated topic, but it falls under the same general category anyhow; I’m talking about the appeal of romance anime, and the effect it has on its fans. Contrary to popular belief, there very well may be layers of depth to the genre that people don’t often think about, and it’s my duty as a fan and as a blogger to see what I can dig up. So, if you’re in the mood for some reading, then I welcome you to join me on my quest through the wonderful world of rabu-rabu.
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