Audience reviews
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Marleonka
I wanted to like it but I just couldn't. I love slow romance and slice of life, so that's definetly not a problem for me. I feel like the series falls into a lot of tropes and doesn't do anything intersting with them. The way a few elements at the beginning make you go “okay, these characters have room to grow, so lets see how it evovles”, but when they don't do so is a bit frustrating. I feel that ultimately the main characters have a bit of an anti-dynamic, as they are sometimes horrible to each other in very subtle ways. One seems to be very openly into the other, who whether or purpose or not acts entirely oblivious. Shimamura I still don't quite understand what her character is, and the series doesn't want to explore that in any meaningful way. She sure thinks about stuff a lot, but t…
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"Adachi to Shimamura" has such a cute premise which is incredibly wholesome. Two students, Sakura Adachi and Hougetsu Shimamura, cross paths on the second floor of the school gymnasium while skipping classes. Their friendship gradually deepens as they grow closer to each other throughout the story. This had the potential to be something truly special, but the potential feels a bit wasted.
There's two major issues which feel out of place and have no reason to be part of the plot. First, the story includes an alien who randomly appears dressed in a space suit, and the characters react to this bizarre occurrence as if it were completely normal. As much as I wish I was making that up, the alien then takes the form of a blue haired child. Her only purpose towards the early parts of the season…
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It was so cuteeee. The character development is a standout feature, with Adachi and Shimamura undergoing significant growth as they come to terms with their feelings. The anime captures the vulnerability, joy, and confusion that come with the exploration of one's identity and emotions during adolescence. Visually, this series is a treat, with a soft color palette and subtle animations that perfectly complement the emotional atmosphere. The overall aesthetic enhances the viewer's connection to the characters and their evolving relationship.
The positive reception when this anime was live is well-deserved. It resonates for its sincere approach to the yuri romance genre, offering a refreshing and heartfelt experience <3
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‘Adachi to Shimamura’ should go to the trash for its ridiculously slow development of story.
The plot is kind of realistic, however, word realistic is a derogatory term here talking about plot. In the domain of non-politically related plots, realistic means mediocre or further, dull. The heroines talk and think about the same things in each of the 12 episodes, but no fundamental difference is made. In the end, it seems that nothing do occur. The heroines literally do nothing for their romance. The plot is only flavorless water; the climax is hot water, which is hot but still flavorless.
Compared to the dull plot, the animation is good, but this does not necessarily mean this anime is good. The soul, the absolute center of a fiction is plot. There is no way to redeem a dull story with a…
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Before watching this anime, the only anime I found myself disliking were shows that were poorly made overall. This anime has a good production value. The animation is great, the characters look adorable, the direction is good - which just made suffering through it disappointing on top of unentertaining.
This anime starts off very strong. The relationship between Adachi and Shimamura is enticing and it made me want to see where it would go - and I was promptly handed my comeuppance for this transgression.
There's a certain point in the show when watching Adachi and Shimamura's relationship goes from adorable to excruciating. It's during the day when the kid joins them at the mall. While the scene made me very angry, it was for a good reason. I relate heavily to Adachi, and I absolutely…
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If you go by the poster and the intro, Adachi to Shimamura looks like a romance. Two cute girls on a bike, deep eye contact, hands brushing up against each other, cherry blossom leaves falling like snow through sunlit scenery.
The first couple of episodes builds towards something like that. Then the story gradually loses balance and becomes about a one-sided, obsessive and unrequited puppy-dog infatuation of one girl for another who doesn't seem to care much about anything but herself.
Sounds familiar? That's because it is. It's basically the same premise of that other horrendous and disturbing Yuri/shoujo ai anime, Citrus, though the characters in Adachi to Shimamura are somewhat less obnoxious and sociopathic.
I don't know why love between girls is so hard to write for light novel…
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Adachi and Shimamura are inseparable friends who spend their days talking about the most different types of things. However, Adachi begins to see Shimamura with different eyes and, little by little, the friendship between the two begins to become something much more complicated to deal with.
It is very noticeable how Adachi to Shimamura tries to express himself with a more sensory approach in a very intimate way. The entire good level of anime production (of course, together with Artistic System thought by the director) is committed to causing sensations that have relations with the elements of the plot, but which, unfortunately, does not progress as expected.
The first episode at least shows this very well, it has many organic elements that guide our look while we get to know a little o…
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During the late afternoon, as classes ramble in the background, two girls sit together in the shade of their school's gymnasium. Boxed in by a fence, and the threat of being found, they take solace in each other's company, both being loners who feel distanced from those around them. Perhaps they read, or just talk, or play ping pong, or rest in each other's laps. In some ways, this place is a cage, but in other's it's more like a sanctuary, shared with someone truly special, someone who gets them. It's this feeling of distance yet warmth that begins Adachi and Shimamura.
The first thing to note about AdaShima is that it is SLOW. Like, as slow of a burn a slow burn romance can get. It's atmosphere is quiet and melancholy, and it's in anything but a hurry to make progress. It stars two cha…
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I'll put it bluntly, if you wanted to watch a heart warming yuti romance story, don't waste your time. This one gives you false hope initially, before degrading in to cliché filled mediocrity.
Spoilers from this point on.
The show keep up a decent façade in the first half, but suffers from "why am I still watching this?" syndrome midway, when you realize nothing really happened so far and probably will not. And that's exactly the case. Ending pretty much gives up on the romance aspect, and the entire second half is pointless. All in all this is your typical one-sided love story with a yuri twist on it, but it fails to explore either of the subjects, and ends up wasting your time.
Even something as blatantly fan-service focused like Sakura Trick had more value as a romantic anime, so…
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In an era where girls love and yuri titles are rare, a lesbian's gotta eat right? So I tend to watch anything that's even yuri leaning. Which is how I started watching Adachi to Shimamura in the first place. The art style is cute, the girls are fun, and there's lots of yearning. What more could a girl want? For all of that to go somewhere, probably.
I have not read the manga, so I don't know if anything was resolved further there. But,,, even the Bloom Into You anime got further. I wasn't ever bored watching that; I had to skip through quite a bit of Adachi to Shimamura because it tended to drag on quite a bit without ever really going anywhere. There were also just some elements that felt out of place and random? Like the alien girl and Shimamura's childhood friend felt stapled on and n…
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Float through the air together on a bicycle in a beautiful sunset - the cover picture of “Adachi to Shimamura” magically attracts every Yuri fan.
Spending time together with a friend is definitely something we all enjoy. Eating, Chatting or just fooling around with a person we like makes us happy. Our story here is about Adachi and Shimamura, two high school girls who found each other in an unusual way to build a deep friendship… or is there even more behind it?
Imagine you don't feel like attending classes and just want to crawl into your regular place upstairs in the gym where nobody can disturb you. But one day you meet another girl there who has the same thoughts as you. This was the way our two main protagonists met each other and began to spend a lot of time together. From the atmo…
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Please note this review is intended to be read by those that have finished watching Adachi to Shimamura and while care has been taken to minimize story related spoilers there may still be spoilers present within character analysis. You have been warned.
Based on a popular light novel of the same name Adachi to Shimamura otherwise better known by its Synonym Adashima is a slice of life, romance, school, and Yuri genre anime that gives us the unique opportunity to see what will happen if one day a quiet and socially awkward girl who has few friends and was a virtual outcast within her assigned class, were to one day after ditching class and in the midst of heading to her one refuge within the school where she can be herself in the form of the rarely trodden second floor of the school’s gym…
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Adachi to Shimamura is a light-hearted, relaxing shoujo-ai series released in this season. Believe it or not, I was actually interested in watching this show mainly because I am a fan of the seiyuu cast, and character designs look aesthetically pleasing. I decided to watch this, and thankfully, it piqued my interest. It has become one of my favorite yuri series, and it's my personal favorite anime in Fall 2020.
The main duo of the aforementioned names, Adachi and Shimamura, are the highlights of the show, and I would say that they are some of the best written and most relatable out of all the yuri series I have watched so far. Both are extremes of emotional states all of us have felt at one time or another, and both are fundamentally flawed human beings in different ways. Both of them cal…
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For a show written by the same author as Denpa Onna, I wouldn't have imagined myself to be so enamoured by, and so engrossed in Adachi to Shimamura. In many ways, it is a refinement of Denpa Onna's ideas and themes, polished to a mirror sheen and given incredible focus to its subject matter.
Adachi to Shimamura stars the titular couple, a pair of socially awkward introverts (though Shimamura makes an effort to seem outgoing) with copious amounts of inner monologues throughout the whole series. What makes the show so relatable, is that, in spite of the heavy narration, Adachi and Shimamura feel like real people. It's very easy to empathize with either of them and the strong writing does wonders to make these people seem so natural in their behaviour and in their conversations with each oth…
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Adachi to Shimamura is easily one of the best and most realistic romance stories I have ever experienced. One of the gems of the year.
The decade is just beginning, but when it’s all said and done, I think I will look back on Adachi and Shimamura as one of the best anime of the decade. Why? It’s not often that animanga/LN’s portray Yuri in a realistic manner. Often times the girls are heavily sexualised and the romance feels like pure fanservice for horny guys. There’s only a handful of good shoujo ai series and Adachi to Shimamura is one of them.
The relationship between Adachi and Shimamura gradually developing from acquaintances, to friends, to romance blooming is a slow and gradual progression over the course of the show and by the end, we still aren’t quite there. This is a very rea…
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Disclaimer: I am helplessly in love with this show.
Finding something special is an amazing feeling, made all the more wonderful when you make that discovery in an unlikely place. Perhaps you've chuckled at a funny memory for no reason in particular, or found a cherished item you could have sworn you lost years ago. That feeling describes how I feel about "Adachi to Shimamura," or Adachimura for short. I aimlessly stumbled across the show while looking for a quick seasonal to watch, and left having seen one of my favorites all-year. Why is that? Because Adachimura is enamored with that same special feeling - of meeting someone you never knew you needed, and seeing your life change forever. This review is meant to be spoiler-free, but feel free to skip ahead to my Tl;Dr if you'd like to go…
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(TLDR Review at the bottom, as always, thanks for reading)
Let's get the important questions over and done with.
Is AdaShima a yuri anime the community knows and loves with excessive kissing and other unholy actions?
No.
Is AdaShima a wholesome love story that will inevitably take part in fuelling various wholesome forums and anime boards across the internet?
Yes. Now for the review.
AdaShima is a pleasant anime to arise from what is now a playground consisting of generic isekai, hyped (but by no means bad) shounen anime, and other heavily anticipated anime deriving from popular manga and creators. I won't lie, this year has given some other decent romance anime to remember, but I don't think they had the same touch as AdaShima, as in the touch of youthful school romance you usually ge…
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Cutesy (albeit cliche), pure and wholesome (albeit tropey) Yuri, the Animation. "It takes two (hands) to clap/tango" as they say.
A story of two "magical fairy-tales": a girl and a girl (how else am I gonna say?), the former very closed up on her feelings and goes on the attacc when being able to open up to people; the latter already well acquainted with people and getting along with fellow friends at the norm. A simple dose of wishful thinking and a safe haven that the two always frequent to, starts their uncanny "relationship" of being simple hang-out friends. Progressing at an atypical slow burn of questioning their own individual morals and values that could jeopardise their "status" if altercations were to happen, this is the light-hearted "friends or lovers" Yuri relationship story…
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Humans are social animals, meaning we interact with other humans and experiment how we live with our lives. Adachi no Shimamura’s storytelling feels like a social exploration of two female characters and how their interactions influences each other. Hitoma Iruma’s light novel getting an anime adaptation brings together this unforgettable slice of life, romance tale.
Everyone in this world has their own story. Regardless of race, gender, social status, or any other factor, each one of us lives in our own story. However, our own story sometimes intersects with others and that’s how relationships are built. Among relationships, one of the most dynamic and complex is romance. Not every romance story begins with a pair of characters falling in love. From the very first episodes, we meet Sakura…
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Shoujo Ai/Yuri is a somewhat controversial genre. Most people I have seen are quite indifferent when it comes to Shoujo Ai and often try avoiding it; partly because same sex relationship has always been a sensitive topic, but mostly because of the fact that a lot of Shoujo Ai anime have been very ineffective lately.
I'm not a big fan of Shoujo Ai either. While I'm definitely not against the concept of lesbian relationships being depicted in anime, among the few Shoujo Ai anime that I watched, not a single one managed to appeal to me. Rather, because of poor storytelling and particularly bland characters, I thought they were mediocre to say the least. Suffice to say, my experience with the Shoujo Ai genre hasn't exactly been great.
Until I found Adachi to Shimamura, that is.
I won't lie,…
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