Audience reviews
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D_D_DJ
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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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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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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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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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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"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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Comedic slice of life anime will always be a great thing to kick back and watch no matter how many of them are published and this sure is no exception.
Kiniro Mosaic starts as a story of childhood friends and quickly turns into a high school fountain of comedic humor where half the time you have to watch a scene two or three time to full get what the hell just happened because you missed half of it from laughing too much. Starting at three original friends quickly becomes 5 as the foreign friends become local classmates and with five very different personalities, the most unlikely of friends make for some... cultured humor
It comes across as very bright and cutesy which is understandable for its aimed at younger age groups but at some points can become too much as the constant highlight…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
When it comes to anime, something that it does right, or at the minimum what it does well, is cute. From characters, to story, and everything in-between, cuteness is prevalent in most modern shows, to the point that it sparks huge debates about it being supersaturated. Despite the controversy, Kiniro Mosaic steps up to the plate, bringing along a delightful little anime that is sure to make anyone smile.
STORY
Kiniro Mosaic begins with the sweet little Shinobu, visiting England to study abroad. There, she becomes best friends with Alice, who, a few years later, goes to Japan to live and attend school with Shinobu in return.
Above all else, this show does two things very nicely: humor and cuteness. The comedy for the show stems mostly from t…
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Welcome to Golden Mosaic, or Kiniro Mosaic. The anime that was overshadowed by the popular 2013 anime that was hyped during it's airing. While being a big slice of life fan, this anime is definitely one that that brought out the comedy of every day simple things while also bringing a little hint of soft yuri.
The story is following the groups daily lives in school and outside just hanging out. The anime opens with an english scene that lasts about the first half of the first episode making it a great opening that made me laugh with the accents that they spoke with. The art is really cute and looks like a typical "moe" so to speak, but has great detail in the background and the little scenes where they made them look a lot more chibi than usual. The characters are all interesting with thei…
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First review!
Overall, not a bad show, but not a fantastic one either. Let's get into it!
~Art & Sound~
VERY cute/moe/sparkle-y art. Nothing breathtaking, but no real problems. Has some cute moments in alternate art styles.
OP and ED were pretty good, but nothing really special. Not much to comment on. However, it is worth noting that sometimes, the ED would randomly play, like, 8 minutes into the episode. Then there'd be ~13 more minutes of content after it, and THEN the episode would end. It was weird. Why did they do this? WHO KNOWS.
Both Art and Sound - 8/10.
~Characters & Plot~
The characters are supposed to be the shining, glorious star of slice of life. This show didn't really have that. The characters weren't BAD, but for a slice of life show, the characters have to be SUPERB.…
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It amazes me how similar A channel is to this anime, even the characters are similar, this at first seemed like a bad rehash of the popular anime but the more I watched I realised although it is not as good as A Channel it still has its own good points.
Story: The story is fairly normal for a slice of life anime, nothing much happens and it focuses on one year like most anime of this genre, it is based at around 12 episodes with the possibility of an OVA later on, it mainly focuses on the life in and out of school of 5 school girls with two of the main characters being English (England), this creates a language based plot around the anime, however the idea of a girl from ENGLAND sounding like Google Translate kind of pisses me of and many times through the anime I found myself wanting to…
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After surviving the last 2 episodes of the disappointment that is called Boku wa tomodachi ga sukunai NEXT, i needed a new anime to make me smile and forget that disappointment. Then i saw this: God! I was so happy that I started watching this when it was finished.
Story = 7 - The plot of the 1st episode was Language Barriers, but when it progressed, it just turned into 2 British girls living and adapting in Japan, hearing Engrish and broken Japanese made my day even more! The story isn't complex and deep.
Art = 7 - I don't really care about the art, but the artist did what they can to make this show light and fluffy. So kudos to them.
Sound = 8 - As for sound, the seiyuus who provided the voice here are part of a group, they sung the OP and ED, both were catchy and cute, it can give yo…
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There have been many moe slice-of-life anime in recent years. Unfortunately, most of them either focus on fanservice, which can be offending to some, or on an oblivious male protagonist, which gets boring rather quickly, or on abstract moral values, which feels forced most of the time.
Kin-iro Mosaic, on the other hand, has the right combination of "cute", light-hearted humor, moe exploitation, with just a dash of yuri undertone. The characters are easily recognizable and lovable. The interactions feel natural (at least in a comedic context). The background music fits each scene perfectly, without distracting from the overall enjoyment. The art is simple
but effective. It doesn't try to solve social problems nor explore complex love stories, nor does it need to.
The show does, however, l…
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This anime is a typical slice of life series involving "cute girls doing cute things" which I highly enjoyed watching it. Since, I'm a sucker for watching these type of anime series.
~Story~
The story is about a Japanese girl named Shino who visited and stayed at Great Britain. She met an English girl named Alice and the two became fast friends. Years later, Alice came to Japan and attended the same high school with Shino. They are now closer than before along w/ their other friends.
8/10
~Characters~
The characters are mainly focused on these five girls: Ayaya, Karen, Shino, Alice, and Yoko. Mostly the main characters in this series would be Shino and Alice. The girls are really enjoyable and have a very good relationship with each other especially between Shino and Alice.
9/10
~Art~…
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Don't you just hate it when an anime looks like it'll be good and then turns out to not be so?
Seriously, I really want to like this show. I really do. The first episode was so sweet, so charming, and reminded me so much of Ikoku Meiro no Croisee, I didn't mind having a nice little slice of life anime to watch. I didn't have any expectations at first as I didn't know much about it, but when I saw the first episode, I thought it'd be a nice exploration of cultural differences similar to how Ikoku Meiro no Croisee was. I thought it'd be a really cute and sweet and interesting serious, without getting into borderline saccharine and moeness. I thought it'd be different from those other cute girls do cute things anime that have been swamping the industry lately. Boy was I wrong. After the firs…
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