Introduction
Risa Hanakago has always thought that falling in love makes the whole world sparkle. Although she longs to experience this herself, it seems futile without romantic prospects of her own. However, a chance encounter lands her in the sights of Touga Yuugure, a popular boy in her school. Charmed by each other, Risa and Touga quickly become a couple, but it remains unclear whether a relationship between a plain girl and a well-liked boy can last.
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Audience reviews
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Tenshika11
If you love cute romantic stories this anime is for you. The story is short but it knows what it´s doing with the time it´s given and not a single second is wasted.
The story follows Risa who has a crush on the most popular boy at school. Risa is a hopeless romantic. The love between Yuugure and Risa is a love at first sight and it goes very quickly from “I´ve saw you” to “ I want to stay with you forever, I love you” Their schoolmates are jealous at Risa and want her to stay away from Yuugure.
Characters:
Risa is a typical shoujo heroine. She´s very girly and cares a lot about her appearance. She also seems to be a hardworking person, who cares a lot about her studies. She meets up with her crush to learn more about him. I like how her feeling to Yuugure are portrayed. She´s madly i…
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I feel like if you put an entity of all that is shoujo into a bag, close your eyes and dip a hand in at random, this OVA would be staring you right in the face when you opened your palm. I love the shoujo genre but we have to be frank here, the entire story was incredibly cliché and sloppily put together. It's short but there are ways of making something not that great seem more amazing than it actually is and it's called good story telling. The entire thing is really mediocre
Despite that, the animation was incredibly cute and easy on the eyes. It almost makes you forget that you're watching something that you've seen over and over when it comes to high school shoujo, and the soft music just adds onto its teeny-tiny disappointment that maybe this would have been a decent show if they had…
Read at the sourceRoofshadow
The best way to approach the short and sweet 流れ星レンズ (SHOOTING STAR☆LENS) anime is as a long commercial for the manga.
Shown at Ribbon Festa 2012, this animated short is targeted at readers of the manga. It takes for granted that you already know what is happening and why and will be delighted to see and hear already beloved characters coming to life.
If you are not a reader of the SHOOTING STAR☆LENS manga (as I currently am not) you may be disappointed with this brief glimpse. We are not told how our hero and heroine started dating. We are not shown any conflict between them. It is truly a small slice of their lives and may seem too mundane to hold your attention.
I sought out this anime because I was intrigued by the highly stylized art and I do enjoy that aspect of it. Its real hold…
Read at the sourceKaidaTenshi
I've read the manga and was disappointed in the anime.
Story [3] - Everything happened /way/ too fast, it skipped some of the most important scenes that happened in the manga.
Art [4] - The only thing I liked about the art and animation was the hair movement.
To me, the hair colour was too soft and had too much highlights, when I saw screenshots of the anime I was convinced that it was a fanart. The colours aren't detailed like in other Shoujo anime.
Sound [4] - For this story, the music suited it
Character [5] - In the OVA, they didn't allow enough show time for each of the lead characters to develop their personality to let the viewers choose favourites, it was just snippets of moments that happened in the manga. It seems like they were trying to fit everything into one episode.
En…
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Okay well to be honest since this is a short 18-minute OVA you can only expect so many things to occur. And don't get your hopes too high- what you expect is going to happen IS going to happen. There isn't gonna be any plot twists or sudden developments you didn't expect because you can only put so much story into 18 minutes.
So basically, the story revolves around the same thing that happens in every shoujo-slice of life-romance-school life where popular-guy-meets-average-girl romance. The typical girl who's never experienced love and this whole new experience with the popular guy at school opens up a whole new world you never even thought you would encounter! Wow! Okay let's be real here.
I had a lot of irks from this show that bottom line bothered me- and that's really saying somethin…
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Please, don't give up on NAGAREBOSHI LENS!!
I like the anime but I LOVED THE MANGA!! (MUST READ THE MANGA!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE KIMI NI TODOKE)
The rating of Nagareboshi Lens may look like a "D+" or almost to "C-", but overall, I watched it and I liked it. It's not as bad as you think it is!! I think everyone should give it a try if you like the shoujo/romance genres, and if you also like those fluffy, heartwarming feelings when you watch an anime. I highly suggest reading the manga(currently ongoing) right after watching this 18 min. OVA. You will not believe how much stuff that was not included in that eighteen minutes you just watched.
I want to start off with the story: 8
The story is nothing special or extra ordinary than other shoujo romance stories. Both two people(t…
Read at the sourceKanameSempai
Well...what should I say about this OVA?Too rushed!!!!!!!!!!!!! I recommend you all to read the manga first because I swear it's better and you will enjoy youself more!
Story : 7
Well, the story itself is very beautiful and warming about the development of two middle schoolers which fell in love for the 1st time (in manga).
Judging by the fact the OVA is only 18 minutes, you barely get a thing of what's going on there.
Art : 4
Quality 0.The artwork is, in my own opinion, somewhere between so-so and terrible,I don't like it at all!!! I mean, it's as if you're playing a dating sim on a video game console . Compared with mangaka's impeccable artwork, this OVA is a dissapointment. I firstly thought it is a fan work because it didn't seem professional at all (for example, the characters's ha…
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This is my first review so it probably won't be the best. So, what i thought of Nagareboshi Lens was it seems really interesting. I thought they could of done WAY better for the first episode because it never explained how they got together but they'll probably explain it in episode two.
I find this anime VERY cute and it reminds me SO MUCH of kimi ni todoke which i love. The characters are interesting but sometimes it's pretty cliche and predictable.
Story line is getting there it's pretty good.
Art, it's really different big eyes and modern clothing.
Music, i like it, it has that kind of slow but nice sound to it.
Enjoyment, it reminds me so much of kimi ni todoke so i find it enjoyable.
Overall if you're looking for an anime that's cute interesting and dramatic i think Nagareboshi L…
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