Marmalade Boy
Aug. 13th, 2015 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenlingsWell. This anime certainly was. Long.
By the end of 76 episodes I was praying for surcease. But I somehow felt that I had to finish after coming so far. Not that the characters came far AT ALL. How many times did we see the same boring love polygons?
The reason I started watching this anime was because someone had finally realized a good solution to love polygons - a stable unit! The parents changed partners, divorced and remarried, and all 4 lived together with their child from each original couple - Miki and Yuu. And it's true that when the anime focused on the parents, I really enjoyed it. They were a little selfish and involved with their foursome sometimes, but they were still really good parents. And they all got along so well it was great to see. Plus, they added some much needed humor!
With Miki and Yuu living together and dating one another, you would think this would be a good recipe for illicit makeouts, but they barely ever kissed it was the worst.
But the absolute worst part of this anime is that it's about a bunch of unlikeable sociopaths. I mean teenagers are all sociopaths, whatever, but everyone just acted so poorly all the time. The only mature person was Yuu, so he became attractive by default. And even then at the end he went kind of crazy. (Living in New York will do that to you. Don't even get me started on their "New York.")
The first triangle between Yuu, Miki, and Ginta, I honestly thought they might resolve with a threesome - I think Yuu would have been okay with that. But no dice. And it was all downhill from there.
By the end of 76 episodes I was praying for surcease. But I somehow felt that I had to finish after coming so far. Not that the characters came far AT ALL. How many times did we see the same boring love polygons?
The reason I started watching this anime was because someone had finally realized a good solution to love polygons - a stable unit! The parents changed partners, divorced and remarried, and all 4 lived together with their child from each original couple - Miki and Yuu. And it's true that when the anime focused on the parents, I really enjoyed it. They were a little selfish and involved with their foursome sometimes, but they were still really good parents. And they all got along so well it was great to see. Plus, they added some much needed humor!
With Miki and Yuu living together and dating one another, you would think this would be a good recipe for illicit makeouts, but they barely ever kissed it was the worst.
But the absolute worst part of this anime is that it's about a bunch of unlikeable sociopaths. I mean teenagers are all sociopaths, whatever, but everyone just acted so poorly all the time. The only mature person was Yuu, so he became attractive by default. And even then at the end he went kind of crazy. (Living in New York will do that to you. Don't even get me started on their "New York.")
The first triangle between Yuu, Miki, and Ginta, I honestly thought they might resolve with a threesome - I think Yuu would have been okay with that. But no dice. And it was all downhill from there.