Fuuka

Will you watch a series that dropped from 7.5 to 7.07 after the last episodes?? The mediocre meter measured a change of 0.43, in other words, the ending and the last minute changes destroyed the animation. It is boring and mediocre. We want to block it in our memory next to Bing Bong. Usually, a series will rise in the last chapters, but Fuuka is one exception let me correct that, 2017 winter season deception. No matter if you follow the manga or not, you will feel that they took the wrong direction. We can't call the anime an adaptation because it is a sidestory. The animation had potential, but the developments killed any chance of seeing a good narrative. The pacing is horrible. The characters aren't well developed. In this fantastic world, you can be a musician using the 24 hours magical training, and you will get a studio record contract after playing a school fair and a single club concert guaranteed, no hard training needed. The main characters are different in the manga. For example, imagine Vegeta. In the manga, he is arrogant, self- entitled and ruthless, but now we take him into the animation and change him as the lover of all the living creatures. It is like seeing a dog eating cat food and meowing. You can't explain why they focus several episodes on some characters if they were planning to trash them. The drama is forced. The romance is weird, from nowhere the characters start loving each other. Their actions and decisions lack background because the story isn't well developed. There is a big crater in the story, details that you can't explain or aren't needed for the new thing. Even if they wanted to change the story from the manga, they shouldn't tease the watchers with details from the manga (street lights). There were better solutions than this aberration, and we could have enjoyed it more. But not everything is bad. There are some cameos with Suzuka if you are a follower of that story. The art is fine, and the music is good. I am wondering if the main idea of the adaptation was selling the songs because selling the episodes is going to be a pain. Finally, if you want to spend some fun time, perhaps you should pick other animation, you could feel disappointed after watching this. My score is 5.0, I saw Suzuka, but I wanted to see this animated in a different way. All these decisions killed any opportunity for a second season Now let's give this adaptation some awards (for more info read my profile). I will give this the Picard's Facepalm Award; the School Days give me other ending Award and the Sakura Haruno Character Award.

What makes a good character? In my opinion, the most essential thing of all is a relatable personality. Otherwise, the audience won’t be able to sympathise with the character at all. This is why people are criticising Kirito from Sword Art Online for being too overpowered; while at the same time praising Saitama from One Punch Man even though he’s litteraly one of the most overpowered characters in all of fiction including the bible. What makes us care about him is his altruism and normal life style. He’s depicted as a normal dude who just happens to be a godlike figure, whereas Kirito is depictedas a godlike figure who just happens to be a normal dude. This is also why the characters in Fuuka never succeeds in making me give two shits about them. From the get go we are presented with a main character whose actions are as logical as a flat Earth painted by Dali. Not only does he decide to hang out with the psycho who just smashed his phone into a million pieces, but he also decides not to mention the fact that the very famous singer said psycho loves is an old childhood friend of his; something he doesn’t tell her until episode four, after they’ve gone to her concert together. This is where we as an audience gets pulled out of the immersion of the show. Because just like a magic trick isn’t as effective if we’re able to see the card hidden in the sleeve, a show loses its credibility if the audience are able to see the hand of the director. In this case it’s painfully obvious that the only reason why the main character acts as he does, is to create drama later on. In other words, the show sacrifices its inner logic in favor of a spicy story. In fact, the whole show is a little bit too convenient. The main character just happens to be a childhood friend of Fuuka’s favorite singer. Their teacher just happens to be a member of Fuuka’s favorite band. The person Yuu tweets with just happens to be sitting in front of him. The list goes on. And when you have so many examples of coincidences stacked on top of each other, it becomes impossible to relate to anything that happens just because it’s so unbelievable. The shallow characters combined with the bad story structure results in a big ol’ mess. The show never seems to figure out what it wants to be, and by the time you reach the end you get a feeling of what was the point? The only real charachter development in the whole show is that Yuu learns how to play the bass on a professional level in the span of what feels like a few weeks, that’s it. In the end, Fuuka expects you to relate to unrelatable characters and believe an unbelievable story. And not to mention, it’s pretty &#@% boring.

I hate this animes so much . Essentially its about childhood friend that leaves to go prove her worth and love to the person she loves . But all that effort is literally is for nothing because random nobody girl steal his heart without much effort. I really hate anime that do this kinda cliche . Effort should always be rewarded. It was obviously based on the title this about those story that childhood friend Nevers wins. It such cliche writing trope in Japanese stories. It's annoying because theirs hardly ever childhood love stories where they win against. It wouldve been more surprising to have protagonistrealize all the effort she put into showing her love to him. Keeps following the narrative the childhood friends always loses.

♦Why I think 'Fuuka' deserves a better rating ♦ |||NO SPOILERS||| Not that I'm an otaku but I have been watching a lot of animes. Personally, my favourite are animes about magic (lots of fantasy basicly) so any other must really try hard to get my attention. What drew my attention was the energy of the main character Fuuka, I tend to be alike a little (hehe). So it kind of swept me on board this anime and I continued watching. Whether you believe me or not, I really thought it would end different. You know what I mean I don't have to spoiler. But the factthat it didn't, maybe I liked that even more. It was more honest this way, no matter how hard the truth can be. I liked the pace of the anime, from time to time you hear them say 'it's been x weeks' so you know time is really passing by fast and you're only seeing the important parts. (Like you know, even in soap series you don't see everything like every toilet visit for instance.) They could have made this a 24 episodes anime but I like it better this way, it showed us what it wanted to show and no unnecessarily information to fill it up. The art work is also great, I just can't stand to watch those old or bad quality animes. (sorry) Art work is really important for me because it brings the emotions out better. Sound was great, I love how we actually heard their songs. (instead of skipping that part because of expenses) But also their practices and everything in between. It bothered me a little how long it took them to realize who was in love with who. But I guess even if that wasn't the problem, it's still not easy. Being in love that is. But besides that, there were also characters who seemed to know exactly what was going on and I wish them the best. ♥☺ Overall I really liked this anime ( I didn't cry!... I didn't!!) So I'd definitely recommend it!

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