Audience reviews
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Kamezuki
“NINETEEN 19” is a 1-episode OVA about the trials and tribulations of young love that’s half music video and half story. Featuring a nostalgic citypop soundtrack, aesthetic visuals and some innovative montages and scene transitions, this OVA has a lot going for it, but it’s bogged down by the uninteresting characters and plot. The sexually explicit scenes and dialogue also make it an uncomfortable watch.
The story revolves around a 19 (hence the title)-year-old guy named Kubota, who spends his days blithely hitting on girls on the street with his friends, and working at a cake shop under a boss who enjoys grabbing his butt. One night, he sees his old middle school crush, Fujisaki, in a club. Recently broken up with her long-time boyfriend, Fujisaki is aware of Kubota’s feelings, but she p…
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If you're going to do a show where Style trumps Substance, then you better make sure that the style you choose is actually interesting.
Instead, it looks like the creators of this one-shot story must have spent a day flipping through books of Patrick Nagel paintings, while listening to a few albums of Spandau Ballet, followed off by a nightcap marathon of Miami Vice.
About half of this OVA is 'story', which explores the much-trodden and uninteresting path of teenage angst and yearning, first loves and heartbreak. Pure-Pure Boy searches for first love, and comes across his junior high first crush, who is on the major rebound. But not all goes as he dreamed. This is interspersed with visual collages and music video clips of forgettable eighties VH-1 music.
This is pretty much a throw-a…
Read at the sourcePoczekaj
So to start, the plot is mostly an excuse to string a series of amazing music vidoes together. The musical selection in this OVA is the best thing about the whole production so the decision to go all out on the music video sections is the correct one. Now, seemingly the plot is mediocre and the character's motivations lacking but this is only because they represent something much bigger. I am going to somewhat spoil the plot here but honestly this is an art project not a to the book story. Everything means something and honestly watching the OVA through a lens is much more rewarding than watching it without any analysis.
This OVA was made in 1990 and it is a reflection back on the 1980's bubble burst in Japan. Kazuya represents the new Japan post bubble burst. He is meek and shy and doesn…
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The story of a young man who hits up the clubs with his friends looking for love. I swear that about half of it is pure 80′s neon cheesefest music video masquerading as an OVA. And the other half is totally boring nonsense about the main dude losing his virginity and learning life lessons or whatever. Whenever this is at its most abstract music video imagery, it shines. Sadly, it isn’t enough.
copied/pasted from my blog: www.thenexthingblog.wordpress.com
Read at the sourcezillion29
Never has a story so petulant and juvenile been given such adult and mature artistic treatment. Visually speaking, this is probably one of the most inspired short OVAs I have ever seen - especially considering that it doesn't feature gunplay, tentacles, or car chases. It plays like a time capsule of 1990 - baggy suits, club dancing, euro-sounding pop. But where it all falls apart is the predictable clumsy handling of relationships - freighted with the confusing (to us gaijin) baggage of Japanese dating and gender culture (and it's unfortunate but predictable misogyny). I found the ending to be an unsatisfying and headscratching as any of the worst in anime history, and makes no sense given the evolution of the main character from the story's beginning.
Read at the sourceDaimyo
The worst day of the year has just drawn to a close. That dreaded day that begins with the chocolate and roses and ends with the kissing and the sex. February 14 may very well be Valentine’s Day but what about all us roneri brothers out there? Those currently out of a relationship or are part of forever alone. If February 14 is Valentine’s Day, I hereby, decree February 21st as All bro’s day; a festival of camaraderie, bro fisting, and general misguided misogyny. What better way to celebrate our lonely celibate lives than by sitting here with me and reviewing another series that does just that -- one that paints a misogynistic and cruel view of females--. Enter the world of 19nineteen.
Story 7/10
The story starts off with our main character Kubota looking for love—and some ky jelly—. He…
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An OVA released in 1990, Nineteen seems to have slipped into the vast abyss of overlooked anime.
Story
Well, with it's story alone, I don't think that Nineteen will win over too many fans. It is presented as a somewhat standard coming-of-age teenage love story the likes of which has been told many times through both live-action and animated film. It's nothing groundbreaking, but we are at least given a coherent plot with a proper climax and resolution.
Art
Backgrounds are all very detailed and well done. It's fun to see all of the name brand products and familiar places that are included. There are also a few creatively directed scenes set to only clips of music which I found to be quite enjoyable. The characters have the standard late 80s/early 90s OVA design so nothing in that depa…
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