Audience reviews
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Tuutelis
Kinmoza is a phenomenon on the anime scene. Anyone who spends some amount of time on the internet, even those with a distaste toward anime, knows the 'ayaya' clip, and the Twitch emote of it is often used as a 'weeb symbol'. One who picks this show up will probably have this background knowledge. Indeed, one might not pay any mind to this old 2013 programme otherwise. One would probably assume that they are about to bear witness to one of the most whimsical and homey slice-of-lifes around.
The characters are usually the most important part of shows in this genre. We're obviously not looking for psychological realism here, but applying character traits in a diverse fashion is often meritorious. I'm partial to Gochiusa mostly because of this. There, Cocoa's insistence, for example, is frequ…
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Have you ever thought why your life is so boring? I will tell you. It is because you still have not watched Kiniro Mosaic.
NOT ONLY while watching it you will encounter a superior friendship story and perfect OST (and a ton of AYAYA) but also you will find the reason why living on earth is not that bad. Spoilers are the worst thing in existence so i will let you get over the entire show by yourself. Once you watch it i recommend you reading parts that have not been animated. This show is an absolute game and life changer.
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First impressions aren’t everything, and Kiniro Mosaic shows this well. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily.
The anime starts off with a rather strong premise given its nature as a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT) series. Main character Shinobu Oomiya takes part in a brief homestay in England, under the care of her mother’s friend. While there, she meets a girl her age, Alice, and after some initial awkwardness the two become friends. During their time together they break down language barriers to get to know each other while also learning more about their respective cultures. This is all done in a way that’s fitting for this type of show, and all in all it was a great start.
After such a strong opener, it wouldn’t be strange for one to expect more of these kinds of developments. Ho…
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CGDCT doesn't have the best track record with me and that is mostly because most of them tend to be episodic
So I was surprised when we had such a detailed prelude into the show with episode 1
I didn't go into this show with any false pretenses that this could of created while it was airing but the prelude did sell the relationship to me between our main characters of Shinobu and Alice.
The main story is about two Englishwoman moving to Japan and their daily experiences with the culture and school life
The main friend group is made up of 3 introverts and 2 extroverts and that worked to be a good composition
Alice is very adorable and has some of the best facial expressions in the show as well as being jealous when Shinobu fangirls about Karen
Karen is one of the extroverts in the group…
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This is a review of both Kiniro Mosaic seasons, as well as the movie Pretty Days. No spoilers beyond season 1 though.
Kiniro Mosaic is probably the most odd anime I have seen to date, A moe show with a cast of only female characters. It is a typical slice of life anime that takes place at the beginning of high school and progresses as the years go by. You dont go into Kiniro Mosaic expecting some deep, complex story line, quite the opposite actually. Its simplistic and adorable nature makes each episode so enjoyable if hardly anything is really happening.
Theres really only 5 characters you have to care about. Alice is pretty annoying and the best parts of the show are when she is not the focal point. Karen and Aya are the stars tbh, even though they are polar opposites. Karen is everyt…
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Keep in mind that this is solely my opinion and my opinion only. Also, if I don't make sense in some instances while writing this, my bad, I'll get you some lemon soda to compensate.
On MAL, an 8 rating stands for "very good", and I'm completely fine with giving Kiniro Mosaic an 8. To me, Kiniro Mosaic is like a better revamped sequel to A-Channel. The loli girls are once again cute and full of different personalities. Let us try again to keep this review short.
Kiniro Mosaic's story is like many others, but with a twist. It all starts with pen pal buddies (Shinobu and Alice) meeting in Europe. The two got along real well until Shinobu had to depart for Japan. Eventually in high school, Shinobu has received information that Alice will be coming to Japan for high school, and she's well pr…
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So I NOW own both seasons of this show on Blu-Ray...I also own the Alice Cartelet figurine as well. When starting off, I only watched the first 3 or 4 episodes of the show and then quit hard. After forcing myself to give it another chance, all of that stuff happened. I also read some of the other reviews on here before posting mine. Here goes nothing...
**STORY**
I have to say that this show starts with a more "story arc" and narrative feel to it, but uses this as a backdrop for context moving forward. We're introduced to WHY there is a little blonde English girl in freakin Japan, which to their credit (looking at the naysayers) is a LOT more than we get from other anime. So kudos to the Kinmoza team for actually putting in the effort instead of plopping characters into high school and g…
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If you'd told me say five years ago that'd I'd be ranting about how great a show about Chibi high school girls going about their daily lives was then, well, actually, I'd have been watching My Little Pony at the time, so I don't suppose I'd have been surprised.
Anyway, this show is great. It's hilarious, cute, pure and composed almost entirely of A-Grade meme fuel. You should give it a go. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what is so funny about it, but I find that is quite normal with comedy Anime.
If you happen to be from the UK there is the added bonus of getting to see the shows take on the UK, which isn't a million miles off, but is still pretty funny. Like, how many rocking horses do you have in your house? What percentage of your belongings were purchased in a tourist tat shop…
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Kiniro Mosaic is a series with an interesting premise, a Japanese girl stays over an English girl's house for a summer and the two become good friends despite the language barrier between them. Eventually the English girl decides to learn Japanese and become an exchange student in the same high school that her Japanese friend attends and lives with her, with their bonds of friendship growing stronger than ever. Mood changes between wordplay comedy and wholesome moments throughout each episode.
The characters are entertaining and their designed well, animation being consistently good. The first episode is a bit misleading because its tone differs drastically from the rest of the series. This is cute girls doing cute things through and through with an abundance of Japanese VAs voicing Engli…
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Robert's Too Late Reviews is patrolling the reviews section again, and this time only a day after the previous review was released! Quick turn around for a silly, enjoyable show. I rank a lot of shows really high, often times too high, so I'm going for a bit more realism this time. Kiniro was a charming little show, but lacks in many areas that some might find important. We're going to take that all into consideration as we move through this review. Unfortunately with wall space becoming a huge premium on the RTLR wall, we won't be adding any blonde cuties to the wall today. Let's see if we can exchange this lack of posting into something more palatable. Of note, this is dealing only with season one, nothing else.
Story: 5
There's not much to really be had in the story department. First…
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First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
Another cute moeblob, where this time around we get 2 foreign blondies talking engrish. I got nothing else to add regarding story. It's literally what its about. These type of anime are always hit or miss. For me, it was miss. It had some cute moments, but for the most of time time I were rather bored or underwhelmed.
It's the usual slice-of-life school comedy with it's quirks. With plot of English transfer students and essentially their daily lives and friendship moments.
✦Art
Was good and pleasing enough. Had some memorable facial expressions.
✦Sound
Bright, cheerful and chippy enough. Wasn't bad or good. Pretty average, but on a plus side of it.
✦Character
"AYA…
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What’s the most generic show or movie you have ever watched. Maybe it’s a shounen show that you think is too similar to whatever you watched before or a drama where all the dramatic elements are in other shows, but worse.
Well, I think this is the most generic show I have ever watched.
Lucky-star and K-on are another two high school slice of life shows, both of which came out before KINMOZA! And even though I’m not the biggest fan of any of those, I can appreciate what they did for the genre.
Lucky-star being one of the early high school anime from what I know, and K-on developing the genre a lot. But I can’t say that for KINMOZA!
So what was it about KINMOZA! that is so generic? Well, everything about it is made better in other high school shows. The music felt like either a knock-off…
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Kiniro Mosiac is the moe franchise you should probably steer clear of. It’s the most boring and uninventive that I’ve seen in the genre. The girls are cute, and if you want to watch it purely on that, then go ahead, but it’s like a stale loaf of bread.
• Meet you main heroines Shinobu, the Western obsessed Japanese girl, and Alice, an exchange student from England that is obsessed with Japanese culture. Like you may have thought to yourself after a sigh, that sounds extremely generic. That’s because it is. Those are the focal points of this series, oh, and a bland-sauce pretty foreigner named Karen that has little-to-no personalty other than being devious and lazy.
• The most interesting characters are Aya and Shinobu’s hot older sister, which it rarely shows. And Aya’s personality is o…
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Yet another SoL anime but this one's a little different as it's one of those cross-cultural anime with english speaking characters which I absolutely adore
*SPOLIER ALERT*
Story: The story revolves around 2 girls, Shino and Alice, who met each other during Shino's home-stay in the UK, Although it was an awkward start, the 2 of them soon became friends, but were separated when Shino returned to Japan. Fast forward to the anime's timeline, and it's Alice turn to stay at Shino's place. At long last they are re-united! Together with Shino's friends, Aya and Yoko, plus Alice's friend Karen, the 5 of them do various things together and soon create an unbreakable bond. I highly rate the story as it's a casual, day-to-day kind of story, which makes it quite relatable.
Rating: 10/10
Animation:…
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KinMoza is a standard CGDCT anime. It does nothing outstanding, but it does nothing terrible either. Granted, if you don't like this genre now, KinMoza isn't going to change your opinion.
Like most in its genre, KinMoza takes place with a group of female highschool students, who exhibit the standard tropes. One way in which this is different is through the characters Karen Kujo and Alice Cartelet, who are English exchange students, and this is actually a point which extends beyond having blonde hair and randomly mixing English into their sentences like most anime seem to prefer doing. As would be expected in real life, these two have difficulty assimilating to the Japanese lifestyle, with Karen being the strongest example of this. Rather than being calm and formal and hard-working like th…
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"Desu" - Karen
In order to help review this anime, I invented a much needed drinking game that should help in many ways with the enjoyment of this series
Take 1 shot when:
Aya acts like a tsun
Shino is wearing some weird outfit
Take 2 shots when: They treat Yoko like a man
Alice starts crying
Take 3 shots when:
The characters do some gay shit
Someone says something in Engrish
Finish the entire bottle when:
Karen says "Desu"
I think by now you should have a general idea of what the series is.
Kiniro Mosaic follows the lives of 5 closet lesbians, 2 of which happen to be transfer students, this being the only "Thing" in the "Cute girls doing things" category. Other than that, they do the standard slice of life stuff, such as visiting shrines on new years and eating things
This is…
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Welcome to The Kaiters Anime Review of Kiniro Mosaic! (The first one reaching MAL! so please bear with me!)
Kiniro Mosaic is a Subtext heavy show about Moe girls in school, a slice of life about 3 Japanese girls and 2 British Exchange students, each having funny characteristics and providing lots and lots of Yuri subtext that is both funny, and still hope giving for season 2, will it the next season actually hold an F/F relationship? or end with one? probably not but it wouldn't be jarring if it happened at all
The Character Design is probably the strong part of the Art in the series, as they do stray form the classic "All girls in same uniform" by adding some personal flair to their school uniforms. and the style does a good job of being cute and somewhat colourful, though its Definitel…
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Kiniro Mosaic is a "Slice of life", "Moe" show. All the typical elements of these kind of shows is where. The cute high schoole girls with stereotypical personalities and don´t actually have a real plot.
However, even if almost all characters is the typical tomboy or the shy girl do the show adds some unique and interesting things to their personalities to separate them from the "typical". Even if this do the show more unque do I feel that the show could take it much further and that´s a pity.
Like I said befor do the show not have a plot. It´s about five girls in high schoole and their high schoole student life. something I found very enjoying was the culture shock. It was funny to see our main casts culture clashing and theirs misunderstandings.
The show is VERY cute and never try to…
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Not gonna lie, I have not been in the mood to write a long review in a while and I even have resorted to the common "spoil all of the categories that I rated" bit where I put the rating above my opinion, but this one finally made me feel like I could write a fleshed out sentiment on it and it is very deserving of one. However, all of the review is centered on the characters alone, because I thought they did things that were unique from most cute girl anime like this one. So, if you are expecting a lot on the story alone, well, I cover that in the next season since the characters took up too much of my time.
But yes, it follows the usual cute girl doing cute things bit, I'm sure every other popular review on here covers that. But, what stands out to me is how this one starts. Right off the…
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This was amazing. It's super cute; I mean.. it's like cute on cute on cute. The girls are so adorable, pretty and cute.
Kiniro Mosaic is an episodic based anime about 5 girls going through high school. It features two girls from England, Alice and Karen. Alice is totally adorable and could be an imouto. She's just the cutest and I want to hold her all day! Karen is also really cute having beautiful long blonde hair; she also speaks in broken Japanese which is just out of this world amazing. I've never heard broken Japanese in an anime like in Kiniro Mosaic and it's pulled off so well.
Both Alice and Karen also speak English (Engrish) and it's really really cute! I love listening to the seiyuu speak in English and it's never annoying for me.
The other girls are Shinobu, she looks like an…
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