Audience reviews
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Jastereich
Da Capo is a harem anime that is tedious to watch. It features a male protagonist who is pursued by a series of girls who differ from one another only in their hairstyles and personalities. Unfortunately, the series fails to introduce any novel setting or plot, making it a monotonous experience.
Da Capo fails because it lacks any kind of friction. There is no adverse force to challenge the characters and no conflict between them. There's not even a personality clash worth mentioning. The series feels like an endless bombardment of fake smiles. Despite more than one girl being attracted to the male lead, none of them seem to care enough to do anything about it, aside from a few trivial scuffles between the two primary love interests. The male lead, Junichi Asakura, could have just drawn up…
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I would suggest skipping episode eight. It is an arbitrary recap of the cast and is just another one of the characters' own opinion about how the anime. It recaps everything that you watched in a somewhat comical fashion and only has a few original scenes, but they will not effect the story in the slightest or your overall experience.
With that random note of information being said, let us begin.
Da Capo. What can I say about it? It is a nice, deep drama about a brother and sister...
Okay, that is entirely a lie. Actually, this is a comedy with some twists that is all about the misadventures of Junichi and Nemu, following every typical cliché that we all still find ourselves enjoying in most anime comedies due to the way they are always done slightly different.
To top things off, we ha…
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In my mind, this work is essentially a classic; it's an interesting harem with unique characters and a splash of magic. There is a good splattering of romantic comedy early on before developing into a fairly serious drama. It happens that this anime turned out nice for me but it's not for everyone. If you need a reminder of what good'ol harem meant, definitely give this or Love Hina a try.
Animation:
Though the styling is obviously dated by today's standards, it was pretty good for its time. Some people think the female characters look overly cute but I thought it was fine. Given the magical surrounding the sakura trees, expect lots of sakura blossoms.
Sound:
The music in the entire franchise is pretty special, and it all started with Yozuca's melodic opening here. The BGM is orchestral…
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Warning this review may contain spoilers.
First impressions, an anime based off a hentai game, sweet let's see what happens. When I first got into this show I didn't like it at first, but I gave it a second chance and ended up liking it.
Story 6/10
On the island mysterious of Hatsune, Where the cherry blossom trees bloom all year along.
The smell of love starts to fill the air.
It starts with are main character Junnichi has a dream about girl that is going to meet him in the near future. After being woken up by his step sister named Nemu. He starts to make his way to school.
He then meets his cousin Sakura, for whom they thought was living in America, Sakura has come to finish the promise she made to Junnichi when they where children. The first half is pretty much an episodic story…
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Alright, I'll keep this review short. First off, the story line was good, the artwork, although skillfully done to some degree was held back by the sound quality or lack thereof. Also, the plot lacked character development, as one of the former reviewers has previously mentioned. As far as I am concerned, I was only able to enjoy the first couple of minutes before the plot started going downhill.
In short, I didn't enjoy it at all.
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Da Capo is an anime that could be best described as "harem watcher's bible" or better yet, "the holy grail of haremdom". It's because this anime focuses immensely on the harem aspect and makes it glaringly obvious even to the most oblivious of watchers from the word go. However, despite the initial simplicity of the plot and the fact that the gargantuan harem sub-plot makes most dramatic confessions, turns, cliffhangers etc. easy to foresee, the overall story still manages to grab the attention of the average watcher, intrigue him/her and deliver an enjoyable experience.
Before I continue, note that this review will cover both Da Capo and Da Capo second season.
STORY (7/10) :
The story, initially, appears to be fairly simplistic. On a small island called 'Hatsune' lives a teenage boy n…
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Story-7
The story was trying to be serious but failed because the lack of character development. There were episodes where each girl had their own episode but their stories were mediocre and not surprising.At the earlier episodes where the "cat man" appeared were very interesting and asked the viewers who was that guy but the episode that "revealed" him disappointed me.
Art-5
The art is dated and is average.
Sound-5
What irks me was Kotori singing but it was again average and nothing memorable.
Character-6
Nemu and Sakura battling for Junichi was not a surprise. The internal conflict of Sakura did not even come to fruition til later episodes and that disappointed me.Miharu's story was a pretty good one but the rest of the female cast was quite lacking. A more thorough development of Mi…
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On an island where cherry blossoms bloom all year-round, love seems to always be in the air. It is in this magical atmosphere that Asakura Junnichi lives, and when he dreams he travels to the dreams of others, rather than have any of his own. In everyday high-school life, he is accompanied by his adopted sister, Nemu, and an eclectic group of friends including a j-pop idol-in-the-making and a girl they knew from their childhood. Promises, and magic, and love -- Junnichi seems to dream about every girl he knows, but which girl dreams of him...?
Story (9/10)
Been a while since i last did a review around here, think some people pretty much missed me, anyway after i came across this "hidden gem" titled as Da Capo i was abit amazed, impressed of how good this show was. Yeah, i admit, i do love…
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Da Capo is one of those series that never really stood out outside of its time. It was popular enough to get a second season, as well as a sequel, and a second season of the sequel. However, don't let that fool you into believing this series is as good as the amount of seasons they threw out. Overall, the anime was a good watch with mostly comedy with some underlying plot. They weren't able to really express each of the heroines features as well as they should have. But, for its time, it was probably the best thing out at the time as it was a visual novel adaptation.
The anime itself really liked to skip around to different events and didn't really give a good feel of the characters. They skimmed over many of the points so at times, it just seems like the heroines fell in love with the m…
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Story:
It was okay once they actually got to it... it seemed to me that this series somewhat delayed itself by making simple 1 episode stories about random girls... when i first started watching this, i felt like i was watching a different anime every episode until about 17... none of the stuff that happened at the beginning really had alot to do with the main point which bugged me a bit. BUT thats just my point of view, others may disagree.
Art:
I liked the art.. it wasnt anything out of the ordinary but the colors and faces and hairstyles were cute to me. I thought the rain pouring down in one scene was extremely impressive.
Sound:
The sound was fair.. there wasnt any really awesome music that stood out to me or made me want to write down to later l…
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The anime is really not for everbody, but the sense of watching this anime is really something that is not important and less interesting . The characters are no big deal but to put Nemu as a main character is much more irritating to watch the whole anime. Junichi's powers are way out of nowhere which is not needed to be in the anime. The essence of the story is very much lacking and the whole anime is not consistent to the main story and to the flow of attitudes.
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I REGRET WATCHING THIS!
STORY: [6/10] the story i just very bad, for others they might like this i dont wanna spoil u guys but if youre into TRUE LOVE/ROMANCE you will NOT ENJOY this.
ART: [8/10] Art is very well done. hey this anime was like in 2003. so its amazing how they made this anime very lively.
SOUND/MUSIC: [7/10] OP is a great way to introduce the characters but not really enjoyable to hear/watch. ED thou, note they are i think 2 EDs per episode. one's for the Da Capo SIDE STORY and one for the MAIN STORY. yup, the songs are okay. As for the Background songs, its the same that u guys hear on every anime.
CHARACTERS: [5/10] All the characters EXCEPT for the main girl which is NEMU. She is probably one the ugliest main girl ive ever seen, lol the other one is from Rental Magica…
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Okay, so it's one of the most popular harem titles in japan, probably only second to KEY's big hits. It's even tiring to try to track the amount of side stories and sequels and doujin productions for this huge title.
But surprisingly despite all the hype this series gains, it totally killed all my expectations.
Story:
Okay honestly it started pretty nice.. with all the moe charm points you would find in any harem title. But it isnt really cool when the introduction episodes are cut to half time and u're forced to watch gravure videos of some of the seiyuus. they could have put more effort into developing the story.
So when the real story actually started honestly thought it would be great. but it disappointed me at every turn. most of the plot is too cliche, too flat, too boring. i cou…
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One of the few stories I truly loved.
You will run through a variety of emotions, you will laugh, you will cry, you will think to yourself "what the **** was that part about.
A great mix of a story, characters, and setting.
A MUST WATCH ANIME.
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To be perfectly honest, I don't see what's bad about Da Capo except for the storyline; the characters are well drawn, they have unique and amusing personalities but aren't made to be 'over the top'. Throughout the anime, we see six different girls' relationship with the male protagonist Jyuunichi Asakura improve and we see that they all have feelings for him. However, we only see two of the girls actually confront each other about their feelings for Jyuunichi (i think that this is great since the story would probably go on for too long if all of the girls began to fight each other), these are Nemu and Sakura. The anime also shows us the past of Jyuunichi's life which strongly involved both Sakura and Nemu, nice touch in my opinion, perhaps a little bit too typical but still very nice.
The…
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Da Capo is not for everyone. Especially anti-bishoujo vigilantes who'd surely find plenty of flaws to reinforce their misconceptions of a very very misunderstood class of anime. However, for those who are willing to look beyond its sub-tag of 'harem' and ‘eroge’ (adult games), you might just find an anime gem that few in the genre can outsparkle.
Story - 8
Da Capo has a very interesting premise and is a surprisingly coherent story. It achieves this in 2 ways. First, by never forgetting the thrust of the series. It could be an episode featuring one of the numerous side characters or typical high school hijinks yet it never fails to leverage on these situations to further develop the central plot or characters. Grafting the various characters' stories onto the overarching theme is the 2nd…
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Story: 5/10~5.5/10 Its a pretty decent story. Its your average romance comedy, with a sample of drama and magic. Even so, I didn't find anything that particularly there that interested me, except maybe the "Forbidden Sibling Love". There are also a few things that I found "cheesy" such as: "The Island where sakura trees never wilt", "A love struggle between girls" as well as classic harem scenarios. When it first began I kinda enjoyed it, but I started to lose interest the mid to mid-last episodes as they focused more on the relationship between the two of the leads and the main male lead, and condensed individual character stories in to one or two episodes. But I guess its worth watching if you have never watched anime based off of visual novels and other this anime of this genre.
Art: 8…
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Magic, Comedy
Episode:26
OP-Sakura saku mirai koiyume, Sonzai
ED-Mirai he no Melody, Utamaru Ekaki Uta, Sonzai, Sakura saku mirai koiyume
On the island where the Sakura are full bloom all year round, the wishes of the people are granted. Asakura lives with his younger sister, Nemu, where they are not blood related. One day a childhood friend, Sakura moves back and immediately starts to get together with Asakura, however his lies with his sister...
Story-6/10-The story seems like any other romance/drama series.. except with the twist of magic, which has minor influence on the overall story. There are a lot of bizzare things that are made to seem "normal". There are three phases in the storyline, the beginning is all introductions, a happier time, then comes the myst…
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