First Date: Myself;Yourself
- Title: Myself;Yourself
- Studio: Dogakobo
- Genre: Romance
Ratings (out of 5):
- Story: ♥♥
- Animation: ♥♥♥
- Character Design: ♥♥♥
- OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥
- Overall: ♥♥ (…Don’t call me, I’ll call you.)
Thoughts:
Allow me, as usual, to preface this by saying that moe romances aren’t really my thing.
That said: the series opens with Chiyo-chan. No fooling: Tomoko Kaneda, who played Chiyo-chan in Azumanga Daioh, plays Aoi Oribe in Myself;Yourself. The character appears quite a bit in this first episode, but not at all in the ending sequence (which focuses on three females in particular), so I’m guessing she’s not a romantic interest.
Which is good, because she’s Chiyo-chan, and that would just be wrong. (Chiyo-chan has one of those voices that you really shouldn’t transfer over to another character.)
So, the series is centered on Sana Hidaka, a guy who left his hometown at the age of 11 with his parents and returned without them, for undisclosed reasons, at the age of 16. Aoi recognizes him right away; it takes a sec for her to recognize her. His best buddy Shuu and Shuu’s twin sister Shuri he recognizes right away, however.
And then there’s Nanaka, his close childhood friend. He spots her at a temple and doesn’t recognize her, and she totally snubs him. Then, when he continues to not realize who she is at school, she slaps him. WTF? I’m sure there’s a reason why she’s mad, and I’m also pretty confident that it’s one I’ll find stupid.
I find it unlikely that I’ll want to continue the series, but as this genre goes the animation is well-done and the characters are nice to look at. I obviously don’t know how it compares to the original novel the anime is based on, but it looks like it’ll be a fun show for romance drama fans. Especially if Nanaka keeps beating up Sana.
Tags: first-dates, myself;yourself
October 8th, 2007 at 3:12 am
I can’t help but feel that Kaneda voicing a character with well developed breasts is somehow violating a great unwritten rule.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:59 am
@Dop: I know, right?!
October 8th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Some friends and I watched this last night and I could NOT get that Chiyo reference out of my head.
She show wasn’t awful, just painfully predictable. i was a bit amused at what seems to be “the origin of the tsundere” Nanaka.