Audience reviews
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mystery132
Holy shit what an absolute piece of crap with no redeeming qualities. This anime answers the question of "what if you take a character driven story and turn it into a plot driven one?"
The biggest issue with the show was the whack-ass pacing - in fact, I suspect that the source material was far superior because I can see the concept of a story. The story hinges on the viewer wanting the two leads to get together, however, the director fails to consider the fundamental issue that the viewer needs to actually care about the leads and throws away the foundational buildup to focus on the drama.
In the prologue/background information arc, the show has barely any positive interactions between the two, with what they do show is the ML treating the FL like an inconvenience. The little positive…
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Just trust me, this is the absolute worst anime i have ever watched. Haruto just how low are your morals? that is my genuine question to the protagonist. What did Asuka do to deserve such a brutal and evil break up? I highly recommend you to not waste your time on this, I am absolutely infuriated by the author. I have never ever witnessed such an evil protagonist in my whole life, especially Yuzuki and her sister. Haruto gets brutally rejected by Yuzuki and dates Asuka for several years and when suddenly Yuzuki shows up and tells him that she "still" loves him, he forgets about Asuka and her loyalty and suddenly dumps her the same exakt way as Yuzuki did, even when he promised her that he would never ever leaver. He cheats, gets caught and refuses to properly apologize. The author needs to…
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I'll be honest and concise – I am huge fan of Kimi no Iru Machi manga and the anime is pathetic and hopeless. Manga is 270 chapters that I've completed 3 times – to give you perspective on how much I like it.
Out of these 270 chapters, anime creators took small portion (I know, nothing new) and without provided context the story they tell is completely different than what is presented in the manga. Haruto is amazing and deep character, but is depicted as the bad guy. Yuzuki is also completely different than original one.
If you don't mind reading a manga – I completely recommend the manga, it tells amazing story and so do other work of Seo Kouji: Suzuka, Fuuka. But please, for the love of God, skip this anime.
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The quest for true love can lead us to unexpected places. This story is truly captivating, exploring the depths of our desire for love. While it may bring joy, it also delves into the heartache that can accompany love. Love is a deeply personal experience that is often misunderstood by others. Through watching this anime, I learned that true love requires a strong connection from both sides. Azuka's love will teach you an important lesson for your love life. Eba another one, because you should never give up. Haruto is a lucky guy, maybe not the best character you have ever seen but, as we said, love is only understandable by who is in love.
Dive into "Kimi no Iru Machi" for a romantic journey with endearing characters.
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This anime has made me angry is so many ways. Its like the most depressing thing ever, and there is absolutely no sympathy towards the main character. There was not a single instance where the main character didn’t feel like a complete dick. Just because you want or miss something, doesn’t mean that you need it. I can’t help but feel bad for a certain character. The ending and decisions made throughout the show are so disappointing and inhuman to be honest. The story is poopoo, and the characters are all whiny babies. Boo hoo that things didn’t go the way they seemed like they should’ve. Everything about this anime just reeks. Even my internet didn’t want me to watch it.
Horrible decisions masked by depressing outcomes makes this anime close to unbearable.
2/10
Read at the sourceSLIMESLATTSLATT
Definity a love/hate mentality with this one. Pretty pretty mixed feelings. Altough i did somewhat like this and could maybe, very unlikely recommend this, this has to be a mixed feelings to not recommend.
First thing off my head is the love triangle or love square that is done ok, meh. I did not like the fact that we as watchers already knew what was going to happen. It's common is these types of romance/ semi harem, but the way the anime spends a lot of time with these other characters is crazy. We spend Alot of time with these characters and to then just have a weak ending with each one is weirdly lazy bobo writing. Some don't even get a concrete finish. Fact is, i think one heroine is such a better written character than fmc and mc combined.
Mc is such an alpha lol. Bro is really th…
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"Kimi no Iru Machi is arguably the most pointless romance anime ever created. With characters engaging in cringe-worthy theatrics to the protagonist making some inexplicably foolish decisions, all culminating to an exasperating narrative.
The anime kicks off with a useless and utterly tedious arc featuring Haruto and his friend Kazama vying for Eba's affection. However, the conflict lacks any substance whatsoever, as Eba's inclinations are very much evident, and much of the episodes consist of recapping her relationship with the main character. This type of dramatic tension could have been either intensified or discarded altogether. Alternatively, dedicating episodes to Kazama's character development with a different girl or Eba herself could have made him more likeable and attachable for…
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This review will be spoiler-free, but will begin with a warning: this series is not a rom-com and is also not a good match, if you are looking for a well-told slice-of-life romance. "Kimi no Iru Machi" is filled with inordinate amount of frustration and is at times difficult to watch, revealing both the harshness of life and the uncompromising nature of desire, selfishness, and the consequences of indecision.
What is also strange about this series is the fact that it adapts only about 80 of the 270 chapters from the original manga series, and it begins only around Chapter 80 (and ends around Chapter 150), omitting in the process the entire Hiroshima arc, which is, in many ways, the most enjoyable part of the series. As the characters grow up, their horizons darken, and the anime captures…
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Please read through this before u skip on this story just for its not so positive reviews and rating.
(I am not an active social media person and this might actually be my one and only public comment/review ever. so please bear thru with this. Also please try to feel through the review rather than going by a word by word meaning because thats what this show is also about)
FEEL. The best word to decribe this show. It makes you feel so many emotions during its showtime and keeps you glued to watch the next scene. I am going to say this here and now, you might or might not(probably the later) like this show, but it will definetily be a worthy watch, atleast it was for me.
The characters aint perfect, they lie to both themselves and others, they cheat and they dont act as MC, Villain or Sid…
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here are some positives and negatives
+ characters with accent
+ very heartbreaking
+ sometimes beautiful
+ interesting plot
+ some good lessons to learn
+ i liked the music i have to say
- flow of the story feels odd in a way that you dont see things coming and its not explained but it happens for some reason and also at the end everything feels hastened
- the intro at least to me feels a little bit cringe - some things dont make sense in a way that they are contradictory
overall a good plot made floppy with an interesting style and a cringe intro i dont regrent watching it but i wonder why a lot of things were made like that
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Kimi no Iru Machi has a pretty cliché plot, the one that had been used many times before, and still, this anime manages to make it look even worse. The MAL information is missing two very important things the genre Ecchi and the theme Harem, so just to warn you it is full of that.
There is only one thing that I personally, in a completely subjective way, is Asuka, She was cute and nothing else. Now talking about the dislikes there are in abundance starting with the plot. It was a pretty basic guy running after a girl that he loved in childhood, nothing new there. The progression of the plot was slow and the characters were shallow. The story had many turns from a love story to a harem and then going ntr at some points not only that but it manages to add a time jump too. The things that I…
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I honestly have no idea why people can give a good rating to this transparent pile of badly written garbage. Most of the characters aren't particularly likable, if you even get to know anything about them really.
The story revolves around a guy who loves a girl at school but does nothing for years, new girl comes along from Tokyo, he falls madly in love. She leaves at the drop of a hat, so he runs off to Tokyo. If someone isn't going o react to years to someone they love at school, they are not going to run off this way for someone they just spent a few months with.
The show gets trashier with see-through manipulation by the sister Rin, the ex conveniently showing up as his new best friends girlfriend as if to promote some form of conflict in the story, just for that to be written off so…
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I’ll start off by saying some people in the reviews are mad at how irresponsible and reckless the characters are with others - but that is EXACTLY how humans are in real life. Humans cheat, they lie, they break up, get together and love, get with someone while wanting someone else. It’s the nature of human beings. So, I do not dislike the show because of how it shows that nature of humans, I dislike it because it doesn’t get too deep on WHY the characters are doing those behaviors. In the show they usually say “oh because of love” okay? Cool? Yes people make stupid decisions because of love, but I wanted the show to really delve into the characters insecurities/toxic behaviors - which they did not. So a lot of the decisions being made seemed shallow - but also understandable because someti…
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My review is completely my opinion.
I think that the ending of the anime was really good. Kazama and Asuka, in my perspective, were 3rd persons in between Haruto and Yuzuki. And here I'm not denying the fact that Kazama and Asuka loved Yuzuki and Haruto respectively. I've not read the manga, so my review is purely based on the anime.
Story:
This anime has one of the most wonderful love stories ever. It shows that love is stronger than any type of friendship. When a friend challenges ill friend for his former girlfriend, that's really unbelievable. Actually if it was me, I would let him have her and accept that he has won her. The end of the storyline was wonderful, but I was hoping they would show Asuka in the end with someone who loved her dearly.
Art:
Nothing in particular but it was…
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Trust me this is going to be the best anime you WILL ever watch. Ignore the other review they are just bots. After watching this anime my eyes have opened, there was not one episode that I was disappointed with. I'm pretty sure this anime will be considered one of the best of the decade, no best of the entire history of anime. Trust me, with this anime you will be able to find your true goals in life. I want to and I will become exactly like the protagonist in this amazing anime. You will love this, you must love this.
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This show was so frustrating to watch and I disliked some of the characters and the choices they made so strongly that I felt compelled to write my first review on here. This is really just a rant so, sorry if it sucks ig
Quick Explanation of characters that I mention in case anyone cares:
Haruto - Main character, used to date Yuzuki in middle school but then they broke up when she moved back to Tokyo. He then moves to Tokyo in high school to continue pursuing her.
Yuzuki - Haruto's ex-girlfriend for most of the show (they get back together because of course they do)
Asuka - One of Haruto's friends that he makes at his new high school in Tokyo. They start dating once they enter college.
Rin - Yuzuki's younger sister.
Some of the decisions that Haruto makes are absolutely ridiculous and…
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This is the worst “”romance”” anime I’ve ever watched. If you want some NTR bs this is the show.
The main girl was the worst character, but all of them were soooo terrible. I wonder what’s the conclusion of the author finishing this anime. All of the characters didn’t choose to be truthful to their feelings or for the other’s. They were taking every decision possible to keep themselves miserable and the others too.
It didn’t make any sense till the very end.
The anime direction was so confusing, some situations just ends abruptly other stuff start out of nowhere.
If you can please don’t watch this LOL!
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I am writing this review not really to help others, but try to understand the clusterfuack of what this anime was supposed to do. I understand that this story was meant to not be an enjoyable one. It was meant to look at the complex nature of relationships, the selfishness of a person, the fragility of our desires and how it can easily hurt those closest to us. But it packs punches just like a toddler can beat an empty boxing bag. The characters are under developed, the pacing was slow. It was hard to understand the reasoning behind not why but HOW they came to their decisions so quickly and with no remorse. So really by the finale I was looking at empty characters despite knowing they share history that justified their selfish feelings and that is a shame. Sad romances exists, where a gir…
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One of my club members, Jason, recommended me to watch this and so I did this past week. This is such a weird show because, on, the one hand, it is really, really, really, really, bad, but on the other, it is hard to stop watching.
Well, at least that's what he said.
It was hard for me to get invested in any of the characters, aside from maybe the main character's female friend (not the main girl). But honestly even then, I just didn't care. It's so easy to note care.
If there's one thing I can say, it's that this show is easily better than most shows like it. As utterly stupid as its premise is, the writing is FINE. That honestly saves this show from being completely annoying and offensive, and leads to a few actual emotional scenes.
Still, would not recommend. There's probably better…
Read at the sourceFaustHigurashi
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
At first do I think you should watch this anime : probably not there is better romance anime with the same theme and they do everything better than this anime like golden time but if you have watched everything with this theme and you want to be hurt again yeah you should probably even tho you will probably just be disappointed (again).
Why don't you choose your friend why don't you choose the girl that deserve love why this series is full of why the main character deserves none of the love he have.
But why, why am I so sad after watching this it was not good but it did touch me this is why I cannot hate this anime
Pls Let me give the love Kiyomi Asakura deserve, pls let me rewrite the story and give Kyousuke Kazama he wanted .....
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