Sakamichi no Apollon

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Sakamichi no Apollon
Alt title: Kids on the Slope

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Looking forward to this, hopefully noitaminA comes up with the goods this season.
 
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So, Shinichiro Watanabe makes an anime about jazz and Yoko Kanno composes the soundtrack.
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This is going to be the anime of the millenium.
 
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I'm really anticipating great things for this show. I've read a bit of the manga and it's already got everything I could ever want in a historical slice of life, plus there's a great director and an amazing composer, and it looks like they've put together a talented group of VAs for the main roles.
 
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They're working together again... squeeee!
With a duo like that working on a musical anime I'm definitely putting it in my "Want to Watch" list.

Plus it's jazz; my second favourite genre of music!

The real question here is, why hadn't I heard of this before entering the thread?
 
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Very nice, the characters seem interesting. I really like the character designs as well, especially the chick.
 
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Sidonia said:
So, Shinichiro Watanabe makes an anime about jazz and Yoko Kanno composes the soundtrack.
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This is going to be the anime of the millenium.
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I'm sure I head that name Kanno before, but I don't recall where, and what has she composed.
 
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WHY U ALWAYS BECOME AVAILABLE AT NIGHT WHEN I CANNOT WATCH!?
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Looking forward to tomorrow.
 
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It's Sakamichi, not Sakamachi.

Either way, this is another anime I will enjoy watching. It's different, with a nice atmosphere and a lovely soundtrack. The characters seem interesting and there ought to be more BL hints in the future, (it is labeled josei after all). Definitely itching for the next episode.
 
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LinkSword said:
^ Why would those two things need to be related? Josei is not Fujoshi.
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It's a mixup of square and rectangle. There is plenty of Josei that is homoerotic, but the genre isn't defined by it. I also saw some BLish scenes, but it could just be the product of a female writer, not an indication it's going homolove.

On that note, anyone else feel Josei is either really well developed character drama, or campy and over the top homoerotica?
 
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A good first episode. Looks like they're starting out by following the manga pretty closely; I wonder how much they're gonna do with that since I believe the manga is still ongoing.
 
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LinkSword said:
^ Why would those two things need to be related? Josei is not Fujoshi.
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I guess I'm speaking from experience, since every josei anime/manga I came upon had BL hints. And there were a few of those in this first episode too.
 
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I don't want it to be BL, there's josei manga that's not homerotic you're just not looking hard enough /whining
But seriously, I don't want it to be BL. I kind of want to wait it out before I start it to see if it takes that turn, but I also don't want to wait it out because I know if I do and it's not BL I'll never get around to watching it anyways. Maybe I'll just try the first episode, but hmmm... It's not like I'm a jazz fan either... decisions, decisions... :hamster:

(Just a disclaimer; there's nothing wrong with BL in anime or in real life, I just don't find it attractive and won't watch something I am not interested in.)
 
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This was fun. I liked the character personalities and I like how they've interacted with each other. I love soundtrack, some nicely done jazz. The art is nice, has decent comedy, the whole thing is packaged well.

But, the selling point?

The fact I recognized Moanin. Bobby Timmons awesome piano in my anime? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

This was me after watching that episode:

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Nocturnal said:
I guess I'm speaking from experience, since every josei anime/manga I came upon had BL hints. And there were a few of those in this first episode too.
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Well I will say, every Josei that I've come across that had a male main character was homoerotic, but there's plenty of female-led Josei that isn't (Nana, Paradise Kiss, Princess Jellyfish, ect).

This really looks like a love triangle in the making, but that's just my impression.
 
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Reat said:
Well I will say, every Josei that I've come across that had a male main character was homoerotic, but there's plenty of female-led Josei that isn't (Nana, Paradise Kiss, Princess Jellyfish, ect).

This really looks like a love triangle in the making, but that's just my impression.
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Interestingly, Nana isn't actually Josei because it was serialized in a shojo magazine. It's an easy mistake to make, since it's pretty much among the top of its genre and is more mature and well-written than shojo is stereotyped to be.
Okay, that's enough know-it-all for tonight. :sweat:
 
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Reat said:
This really looks like a love triangle in the making, but that's just my impression.
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There will be a love triangle, but it's probably not the one you're thinking of.

Also: This definitely isn't BL. I promise. I've read the first two volumes of the manga, and the scenes included in this episode are the only ones that even vaguely hint at that.

Also also: I really like that both noitaminA series are about male transfer students with social anxieties, because they're both soooooo different otherwise.
 
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