Introduction
Ever since their parents died a few years ago, Ryo and his sister Akane have been living alone together. Despite their difficult situation, they are still living reasonably happy and normal lives. However, everything is about to be flipped upside-down due to a secret government project. Due to increasingly low birth rates in Japan, the Japanese government is testing a program in which two young people are forced to marry. Ryo wants no part of it, but he is given little choice in the matter; his new fiancée, Shizuka, comes to his home late one night with several dozen government issued bodyguards, who are there to ensure the success of the new couple. Unlike Ryo, Shizuka couldn’t be more willing to go along with this new program, and eagerly goes about her wifely duties, despite his objections. With meddling friends, pushy bodyguards, and an overenthusiastic new fiancée, Ryo’s life has taken a turn in a direction the young man certainly didn’t expect.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
yur_mummy
A 6.51 IS CRIMINALLY LOW. There are HUNDREDS of higher placed anime that are WORSE than this by MILES. This show has 2 main characters which I really love, many funny, over the top moments, and some emotional episodes that hit hard. I wont make this too long like these other keyboard warriors here so ill just say these 3 things.
1. This show is at least an 8, and its actually criminal that its so low, but rankings are so fake anyways considering Lvl 999 Yamada-kun is somehow outranking Takagi-san Season 1 and Tomo-Chan, like lets stop tweakin yall
2. Dont expect crazy amounts of romance, this is mostly drama and comedy.
That is all, 12 minutes per episode so it's a really fast and definitely worth your time.
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after just finishing watch Final Approach, this is my quick review of the series
There are spoilers in this review so be careful
Genres - comedy, drama, romance, slice of life
What I Liked about the anime -
1 - I will admit that the first couple of episodes of the show were both boring and slow, but as the show went on, the more it got better. 2 - This was one of the very few occurrences when having short episodes were better than having the traditional 22 minute format (these were round about 11-14 minutes per episode).
Dislike -
1 - The one thing that was bad for me was the ending, the thing I mean was that it ended perfectly on episode 12, so what was a point for episode 13.
Favourite Character - I actually liked both Shizuka and the bodyguards that she has with her
Overall ra…
Read at the sourcegoblinlancer
I liked this anime because it was hart warming and funny. lots of romance. It takes a long time for the romance to progress.
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Foreword
Found the torrent from Tokyotosho RSS feed. Yes, it's another release from Jumonji-Giri. They've been around re-encoding old series,those that aired when .mkv format was not so widespread, and widescreen broadcast was uncommon. After a quick look on AniDB, I downloaded this series. FYI, this time too, J-G peer swarms were small, and up/down speed was so low, around 8 kBps.
Story
This kind of theme has been recycled again and again for romantic comedy (particularly harem, and ecchi) anime. Although there's not much similarity between them, I am tempted to compare FA to Daa! Daa! Daa! (UFO Baby). No... no... don't ask me anything if you feel this comparison is not really relevant. I just feel like it.
On both anime, the hero and heroine live together like a newly wed couple, with l…
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I found this pretty interesting because I liked the character designs and voices. The length is short enough without dragging on like many romantic-"comedy" series.
It's a basic premise - a girl drops in from the sky (literally), and introduces herself as our main character's fiancee. This is where the response is markedly different from others - he gives a very definite no, instead of reacting in consternation or thinking he's never seen such a cute girl, or allowing himself to be walked all over.
That said, he isn't the best of characters personality-wise, but isn't a polite wimp either.
Several things stood out:
- No jealous childhood friend
- No pre-pubescent girls
- Our main character isn't starved for female attention
Overall, I'd recommend this to someone who wants to watch a r…
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Either bashing my cranium against a solid, brick wall because the main character, Ryo Mizuhara, is ceaselessly making stubborn and defiant choices -even though he is completely aware of hurting his fiancée's feelings- or because his fiancée, Shizuka Masuda, is almost annoyingly hell-bent on receiving affection from someone who obviously does not care, I'll have to admit that (most-importantly) my head seems to be in relatively good shape, despite a solid beating(s). And since my skull-bashing proved to be ineffective time-after-time, I could actually sit and enjoy some of the finer moments that Final Approach had to offer.
Yes, it has the long-running and omnipresent anime cliché of "making horrible, dumb decisions in a relationship," almost to the point where all of us in real life actua…
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Well i was just bored at only watching ongoing shows for a while and just wanted to give a marathon of a random anime and then i picked this anime i dont know why.
the synopsis and the original plot was absurd enough to ruin my interest, however, i kinda liked the main girl shizuka and ryo's sister akane from the first episode and decided to stick with it.
in the end, i am glad that i finished it and its way way better than stupid anime like akane-iro no somaro saka. if anyone compares this anime with akane-iro, then they have pretty bad anime taste.
tonikaku,
plot: one word. stupid.
story development: the anime started with stupid child birth issue forced by government, midway became an unasked for love triangle and ended up close ended and if it hadn't, i would have given this anime…
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Final Approach is a romantic comedy with a total runtime of 2.6 hours (13 episodes X 12 minutes each). I can understand why the anime is short because it would make little sense for it to be any longer since the story and events of this show are quite simple. Although this is not the best anime out there, I have to say that it is not bad at all. It really depends on the audience. I am not really into the whole romantic comedy genre but I do not detest it either. I think this is one of the reasons why I liked this show. If you hate romantic comedy, then I suggest you run a mile from this anime. Anyway, here goes my review:
Story: 6/10
Read the synopsis.
Art: 7/10
The art was generally good and suitable for this sort of genre. The way I understand art in the context of anime is based on it…
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Final Approach is about a young high school boy who is suddenly picked to be the arranged fiancee of Shizuka. Due to the recent low birth rates, a system picked the two at random to be the perfect match for each other, however, Ryo disagrees.
Story: The story is pretty common in the sense that it's yet another anime about an arranged marriage. There isn't really much of a twist to the overly used storyline either. The girl is all excited about being engaged to the boy and the boy just wants nothing to do with her. A slight twist would be the government's involveent I suppose.
Art: While the background art was sometimes lacking at certain points, it was still overall fairly decent animation. The character designs are great though, it's just the things that surround them.
Sound: The openi…
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Final Approach is possibly one of the most demented, impossibly defunct anime I’ve ever watched. Not only does it strangle the viewer with absurd, illogical plotlines and unexplainable (and oftentimes incomprehensible) conclusions to cap 10 minute long episodes, but the characters can go from annoying to lovable in 0 to 60 without breaking a sweat.
The story is supposed to be about a guy, Ryo, who is forced to marry this girl, Shizuka, because of a government program meant to up the childbirth rate. But the anime completely abandons that premise half-way through in favor of some kind of twisted love triangle between Ryo, Shizuka and Emiho (who is truly this anime’s saving grace.) that makes no sense and refuses to lean one way or the other.
Now I will admit the story does ha…
Read at the sourceDarkAssassin31
Final Approach, the title has nothing what so ever to do with the content of the story, which is about a girl who is forced to marry someone because of a 'government program'. I don't know about anyone else but i found this quite enjoyable.
[Story]
The story is great. I say its great not 'amazing' or 'excellent' because the forced marriage thing is kinda overused and people like me, who are heavily into romance, comedy, harem type animes, will think 'been there done that'. But the reason why its 'Great' and not 'Mediocre' is that it adds a certain twist to the story (you'll find out if you watch it) that gives it a kick thats enough to last the rest of the anime.
[Art]
Once again, another 7/10, the art (please dont hate me for this) is great, and its reminiscent of Clannad, but its just…
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Final Approach is probably ONE OF THE BEST, if not the best there is, anime of its genre. For those who would like to make a review for this series, pls watch all the episodes first before doing so.
[Story]: The story, I admit, seemed uninteresting at first, but got better and better as the story progressed. It got my interest, probably because of of its comedy-romance genre mix-up.
[Art]: What more can I say? The anime character art that I've always loved. How they mixed the typical anime characters with chibis versions was very interesting. That really gave the series a great comedy twist...
[Sound]: The sounds in this anime (opening, ending, and insert songs, the seiyuus) got my attention, especially the insert songs. To how they chose the songs and how to place and insert them in c…
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