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Typ055
I am far too lazy to write a proper review, so I will do it in bullet points about whats caught my attention.
Setting:
- The series is set in 1986. The sole purpose for this is because characters have busy schedules, and without cellphones, they keep missing eachother everytime they call and leave voice messages instead.
I cannot stress how this is a central point in the show. It feels very frustrating (in a good way), and makes me appreciate the fact we have smartphones today. A lot of the drama and heartbreak could be avoided by talking to your loved one at the right time. They cant do this here because there is simple no such technology there yet.
So characters finding themselves unable to speak with their loved ones at the right time create a lot of drama, misunderstantings etc.…
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So an anime with 6.58 score, there is no reason for me to write a review, it's like writing review for "Tokyo Ghoul Re Season 2", everyone knows it's garbage and writing a new bad review makes absolutely no f*cking sense so i'm gonna move on...wait let's check out other reviews let's see if there is an angry dude who roasted the shit out of this one.
and that was where the problem starts, there is no bad review! every single person talks about how underrated this "Masterpiece" is.
Before i roast this Brown Album, let me say this, i'm not the hugest fan of romance genre but there are romance anime where i did actually enjoy so it's not like i hate this one because it's not some action or psychological show, and i absolutely hate cheating stories if it ends with forgiveness and crap, and th…
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Oh yes..Now this is what you call "Sea Of Salt And Toxic".
I know I used this in my Tokyo Magnitude but this show is so drama-tic. Lol.
White Album is an anime that overuses drama. So much that its probably the main reason why this show's rating is so low. However, I don't really mind drama and sometimes I do enjoy a sea of toxic substances. Thus I gave this show a 9.
I could say that this is the worsened version of White Album 2 ( not talking about the second season. ) or perhaps White Album 2 but with more waifus and more drama. And that's about it.
I don't really know what to write on this review. I just want to write this review because this anime is so flooded with drama. That is all.
I recommend this to everyone who likes extreme drama. That is all. End of review.
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This is not your typical harem. There is no kawaii girls, ecchi moments, none. There is, however, a ton of drama that will either make you want to cry or punch the MC in the gut really, really hard.
In the center of it all we have Touya, a college student juggling work and relationships. He has been dating this girl named Yuki, who by the way is the best girlfriend you could possibly ask for. Then, Yuki becomes an idol and gets famous, and it all goes downhill from there.
I hate Touya so much. He's weak, cowardly, unloyal, and makes some terrible decisions that will leave you screaming "baka!" However, this is where I think White Album excels at: showing how people are flawed. You may look fine from the outside, but inside you're just a messed up clusterfuck, and I think this was clear…
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I went into this show knowing how White Album 2 turned out, the anime I hate the most. So, I was expecting a morally degenerate MC and a bunch of confused girls because of some made up circumstances. But I was completely wrong.
White Album is much much more realistic. The scenarios that play out are, while not relatable, unless you have any experience of being in the idol industry or something similar, can be empathized with to an extent and understood. And the main character is also definitely not the shameless wimp that White Album 2's MC is.
And the women in this show, have problems. But they are not made up or trivial or over-dramatized. They all make sense. They were all forcefully tied into the MC, but still that's the way you make an anime - put someone at the center.
I'm sure t…
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Imagine being so close to someone you could feel the heat of their breath yet, at the same so distant. Relationships have a way deteriorating like a rose over time. The beginning is sweet and fragrant, yet the decay is gradual as the petals fall one by one. Now the rose is limped over; the aroma is gone, and there is only death where life used to take root. This is the essence of the white album.
White album is an anime adaptation of a visual novel released in the late 90s. It was relatively unknown then, and its anime adaptation a decade later still didn’t manage to shine the light of popularity on the shadow of its obscurity. Its premise is an interesting one; a college student named Touya Fuji is in a relationship with an aspiring idol, Yuki Morikawa. Yuki’s dedication to her career ha…
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WHITE ALBUM (2009) SEASON 1 REVIEW :
Direction : The directing is great, the people knew exactly when to blend boredom with music and drama, the love drama is nicely done the characters know how to properly hold a conversation between each other and provide maximum boredom for you plebs who don't get the visual aesthetic over dialogue.
Presentation & Storytelling : Life has never been portrayed as dry as this. When you start to watch a show, you want to escape reality, not be thrown back in it damn it!
Why are the better shows so boring?
Because they are a representative of human consciousness, something this show presents very well. The watercolor blend between actual animation to change the sense of feeling and atmosphere before/mid episode or the actual characters feeling like ACTUAL…
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Before you go on to read this review, make not that I have not watched the 2nd season and these were my initial impressions. I gave this anime a shot since all of the reviews rated it fairly well. I heard it'd be a harem anime with realistic events and drama, but truly, I wasn't prepared for what I actually experienced.
Let me be frank, I like harem anime: reverse or not, they're all fairly fun and I understand the flaws in harem anime. While this does not have the ridiculous situations of your usual harem anime, I don't exactly agree that all of these events and relationships are possible. There are a lot of girls with no real reason as to why they like the main character aside from his own relationship with Yuki. How often does that happen? I get forbidden fruit is full of temptation, bu…
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At first it was very, very confusing. I seriously thought I missed some episodes in between, but no. Thing starts off, things happens and the characters are very hard to grasp. It's like when you walk in the middle of a story.
Then things stats to get better, I actually enjoyed a few episodes and then things get aweful. I mean, it was a pain to watch the characters go down in a pathetic spiral of 'death'. No one dies, but you'll wish they did instead.
This anime brings down all the aweful things that can go wrong in your life on a character that can obviously not take any of this and just "goes with the flow", not even fighting it.
Painful to watch and confusing most of the time. Some say it's a masterpiece because it makes you cringe, but countless other anime does that and are better…
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*Review based on only the first season*
STORY
Drama is something that can be beautiful and heart breaking, if done right. White Album is one anime that had the potential to be both of these things, but unfortunately it doesn't live up to that potential. (In my opinion, of course) Well, I have to admit. The idea of the show is pretty good. I mean the premise showed a lot of potential to show the effects and results in a relationship where work might get in the way. Though, that's where the good things end. First problem that plagued the show from the first episode, is that there's too many sub plots. This would be somewhat fine, if the sub plots are tied to the main plot. While some of them are, a there's ones that are not needed. This results in scenes that are poorly transitioned into, t…
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When we think of the word harem, we think of a oblivious male character along with slapstick humor and filled with perverted scenes that don't really fit in with the story.. White Album takes the harem genre and applies it to a very serious tone. This is a more realistic version of how a harem situation would be.
Story: 6
Touya Fuiji is a college student whose girlfriend has started her path on becoming an idol. The series follows his interactions with his friends as well as the people who work in the same agency as his girlfriend. Keep in mind that communication was strictly at home, as cell phones are not in use and using a home phone was the only way to contact people outside of meeting them in real life. The ending is a great follow through into the second season of this anime.
Thou…
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I really feel I need to make a review of this anime. This is purely based on the first season, since I haven't watched the second season yet. I've watched and read a lot of harem anime/manga, some are good, but most are just shallow, comedy-filled, mindless ecchi fanservices anime that I can't stand watching and decided to drop. But this one is clearly different, I'd say that this is the best harem story I've ever watched/read to date.
Whilte Album's story is very good, it's more deep than most harem anime. This story is very realistic for a harem anime (then again, harem itself isn't very likely to happen in real life, but still much more realistic than most others). It's much more deep and portrays how complicated a human can be. The story is played very well, the events that happened c…
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Acctually I wanted to write a review because I found this anime amazing but after seeing it's overall score it was somewhat disapointing...
Before I start writting about story or about another think I'd like to say this isn't an anime which would make you happy.I think it's the same reason why people's score this low.An anime can't be decided about if it's make you feel relieve or happy.An anime made for emotion not just the good ones even feeling for bad ones.So what about if it's make you feel bad?isn't this anime make you feel bad in a great and amazing way...
Story:
The story is about the relationships of Fujii Touya and the Morikawa Yuki and her surroundings.I can't say this is much of a love story but I can say it would be carved into your heart's deepest part with a pain(which I s…
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I had to let my thoughts sit for a few days before I could write a review on this anime called "White Album". This is season 1 of what I would like to describe as a very strong and very realistic anime. I have not seen one like this since Maison Ikkoku. (Refer to that review to get more of my mind frame for this anime or if u need more of a reference.)
I will not go into detail of this anime but I will go into the mindset of why I think this anime is so damned good. The story takes place in 1986. Ironic enough, Maison Ikkoku also took place in the 80's. In additon, both protagonists are looking for part-time jobs and are both going to college. There are similarities but also big differences.
In "White Album", the protagonist, Fujii Touya already has a girlfriend and she wants to be an id…
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This is an anime just about anyone can relate to for we as people often face times where the situation rejects your desires and you realize that even though you wish for your happiness, you would be rejected from it and at times you could fall into a confused or desperate state of mind trying to grasp on to someone or something for comfort. Regardless of what genre you are into, if you begin to watch more then just the first or second episode, you will be reeled into an anime in which the theme is common everyday whereas the setting is however a bit more rare. What may seem like a harem at first glance is nothing at all as you explore and discover the past and relationship of each and every character.
This story is about the trials of a couple deeply involved where the heroine(Morikawa Yu…
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What is this story's all about?
The story is all about the life of the two main characters whom separated from each other on the cause of the one of them has become the idol.
What is the conflict of the story?
The protagonist was difficult to contact his girlfriend whom has became the idol. Many circumstances among the other characters who has became his ideal person or what he called "goddess" or "every day(the person who has been worth for him)" person.
What is the point of the story?
The protagonist has been told that he's a hindrance for his girlfriend's future, that she has been more popular. One of the characters had to plan that the protagonist to be pulled off not to contact the heroine. So much circumstances that lead them to sadness and pain.
My Review:
So I say that, White Al…
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Cheaters never win. They just end up banging a lot of chicks.
White Album is a true life story about what it means to be a guy in the real world. In fact, a lot of people will say that this anime is fake and that there is no way that, how many were there, three, no, SIX girls would want to jump the bones of Joe Average, but you know what?? It's real, kids! In fact, it helps a lot when said loser in question is a big tool. Girls like that stuff. What success that the main character of this anime is a big douchebag.
So the story is about a guy (I don't remember his name, whatever, that wasn't important) who has a pretty girlfriend and just because he doesn't get to see her everyday, he decides to make use of all the other girls who are crushing on him. Instead of rubbing one out every ni…
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*Zels short personal Review*
1986; the year this show was set in, and coincidentally also the year I was born in. These are my type of show, senien romances; no ecchi, no fanservice, drama packed and a slow maturing storyline. The story is about our main protagonist Toya who dates an upcoming idol star, as he has to deal with the obstacles, he has to face while dating a rising pop star; throw in a bunch of girls for distraction and that's our plot. But unlike most harems, this isn't for kids. As mentioned above, this is no panty flashing show.
The storyline was pretty interesting. I felt the relationship with our main protagonist believable. Aya Hirano was a great in voicing Yuki, and throughout the show it was interesting to see how Toya had to deal with his relationship with Yuki, as…
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*An underrated series with plenty of potential for its second season.*
“The beginning has ended.” - White Album
1986
A year where internet does not exist.
A year where cassette tapes still dominates in the media industry.
A year where cell phone, the size of a brick, has just emerged in the market.
A year where the story of White Album takes place.
White Album often presents viewers with these muddy views of reality. There is often no clear distinction from right or wrong, good or evil. There is, however, often grief and suffering caused by various circumstances and misunderstandings. More often than not, people simply turn their head and walk away from the show because people just do not get it. White Album is the type of show that likes to tell the story as indirectly as possible to t…
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White Album was just one of the more awesome shows this past season (Winter 2009), just because of what they've done with their take on the whole "harem" anime genre.
Now I haven't played the game or anything on which I can base a claim on it being a good adaptation, but from an uninformed view on it, they handled the whole story in a pretty good way.
Elements from harem anime are still present, but they added a whole lot of realism to the whole thing as well in their situations and how they lived and reacted through it.
The whole season was just chock full of raw emotion from the first episode onwards, and seriously answers most of those "what if" questions about situations one would usually imagine about. I guess a good way to summarize the whole thing is "It's so messed up, it's awe…
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