What does /a/ think of pic related. Just finished it

Forced drama the animation

>>133107977
Do you mean the plot or the "action sequences"

Mediocre drama with alright characters and good music-segments.
Too much chopin though.

The drama was incredibly poorly handled though. Also whoever thought the way they handled the "comedy" was a good idea should be fired.

>Build up a moment
>Ruin it with slapstick humor and change in artstyle
For what purpose

>>133108205
>Ruin it with slapstick humor and change in artstyle
This has plagued anime for generations though.

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>>133107790
I liked it, but I agree that

>>133108205
>Also whoever thought the way they handled the "comedy" was a good idea should be fired.

>>133107977
Do you know the meaning of word "forced", untermensch

>>133108391
I can easily agree the slapstick didn't belong at all.

It was incredibly predictable. And i even managed to remain spoiler free while watching it.
The predictability was kind of frustrating as a viewer to be honest, it felt fairly stock-standard for a drama series, just casting younger than usual characters and focusing it around music and life goals.
Also some parts of it felt downright melodramatic.

Awkward pacing combined with overly dramatic moments makes it come off as highly pretentious.

Music is pretty GOAT otherwise, though.

NTR flags in the beginning triggered me. Blonde seems like a whore so I dropped it 2 episodes in.

>>133108205
To add to this, one of my bigger problems with the show was actually that the way they introduced Kaori made her to me incredibly unlikeable. She did not seem like a nice or good person with how she was introduced, her behavior was downright grating at times.

>>133107977
this

>>133108538
Fucking kek

The way the show handled MCs trauma and the way his circle of 'friends' decided to attempt to cure it made me drop it at episode 4 or 5. It felt like watching people kicking a dog around wondering why it isn't happy that it's being kicked around.

>>133108495
Jeez, you are one of these shounen-retards, who can watch titles only coz of plot twists or cliffhangers? That reddit-tier hate coz of "deaths flags" is ridiculos, we all know how it will end and this is the main conception of this show.

Babby's first dying girl story.

Also, horrible "friends" who constantly physically and emotionally abuse the main character and the manga pretends it's okay because it's played for comedy.

It was utterly sickening.

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>>133107977

People saying how the horrible friends delt with it must lack the understanding that children of 14 lack a lot of that empathy to begin with. Seemed accurate for them to be selfish

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>>133108720
>Jeez, you are one of these shounen-retards, who can watch titles only coz of plot twists or cliffhangers?
That's kind of a retarded assumption since drama is one of my favourite genres. The problem i had with shigatsu's predictability isn't that it was predictable, but that it was predictable AND generic.
Was it one of your first drama series' or something?
The thing that i feel the show did the best was the concert scenes, they were good and had a great emotional impact. The rest of the show just didn't live up to that.

>>133108205
>Too much chopin though.
>implying you can ever have too much of his gloriousness

IIRC, the only Chopin piece was his Ballade in G Minor, right?

>>133108955
Etude Op.10 No.4
Etude Op.25 No.11
Etude in E minor Op.25 No. 5
Ballade in G minor Op.23

>>133108882
I didn't like the concert scenes at all. Many of them were ridiculously overlong, with far too many internal monologues and mentions of "WOW THIS IS SO AMAZING" instead of simply allowing the music to speak for itself. The internal monologues of the musicians were particularly annoying for me, since the high technical skill required for most of the stuff they were playing would have required intense focus from all of them.

>>133109113
>with far too many internal monologues and mentions of "WOW THIS IS SO AMAZING"
Nailed it.

It felt like they were trying too hard to tell you how to feel instead of taking pride in their own compositions.

>>133108882
It's funny how Kumeta is able to laugh at himself. Him being a huge Key fan.

No offensive, but you really look like a shounen, but not drama guy. Drama is about the path but not about the end of this path. If drama is trying to impress you only by its ending, people call it a forced drama. And plot of this show isn't really generic. Give me an example of non-generic anime drama in your opinion to make me understand the difference.

>>133109304
>>133108882

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>>133107790
Although it was great regarding the sound part and good with the visual, the history leaned on the same type of plotline through the whole series. (Aciddent, trauma, get better, repeat the above). For a 24 episodes only the main character and the two girls got development despite having tons of characters that could be much more interesting then two of them (arima and tomboy).

>Great Ost
>Good art
>Okay characters
>Repetitive and predictable plotline

6/10

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>>133109477
>Repetitive and predictable plotline
Try shingeki no kyojin, it has a lot of plot twists

>>133109304
>Drama is about the path but not about the end of this path
This is bullshit. Nearly all dramas focus on building conflict up to a climax, followed by a conclusion which provides the audience with closure and catharsis. This is literally the point of drama.

It's called Shitgatsu for a reason.

>>133109737
If you need some "And they lived happily ever after... BOOOM MC get hit by a car and his wife gets aid" for catharsis i feel sorry for your taste.

>>133109304
>Love interest dying isn't generic
>Drama is about the path not the ending
>What is carthasis
not the same anon but holy fuck you're a retard, it's cookie cutter drama plot to have MC fall for a girl who's terminally ill and then dealing with that + some other aspect which in this case is mucic
also drama without carthasis is fucking pointless and the equivalent of blueballing

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>>133108334
Did you watch the show? It was especially bad

>>133109693
>The only alternative to repetitiveness and predictability are retarded plot twists
Are you just pretending to be dumb or are you legit retarded?

>>133109900
Do you not understand what carthasis is? You don't need a tragic or sad ending for carthasis, you don't need a happy ending for carthasis, you don't need any specific kind of ending to achieve a carthatic effect for the viewer/reader.
Look to the conclusion of diebuster for a great example of carthasis in a series with a happy ending, and anime in general.

>>133108334
I like SD and don't mind slapstick that much, but it was handled really badly here. You'd get the tsundere slap in the middle of sad hospital room scenes and stuff.

>>133109900
That's not what I suggested. I just said that the conclusion is one of the most important parts of a dramatic series.

As far as Shigatsu's ending, its as cliche as it gets and loses some impact for that. That said, I though the ending of the show was fine. It was well executed and was one of the few parts of the show where I didn't want to tear out my hair out of either boredom or frustration.

I liked it; 8/10

>>133110011
Man, if you think that its a drama about boy and girl with deadly disease you are only one retard here. Try Ko-n or smt easier for start. And you didnt name me examples of non-generic anime drama, so its a pointless conversation.
BTW one more fact: your life is predictable. You will die and your consciousness will be erased from this world. But can you call it a reason to not love the life?

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>>133109693
Ama not jokkin bro, it has very cool and rad plot, you will be excited. Unexpected titans in walls, that shit rocks!

>>133110279
I don't know what site you came from, but go back.

>>133109693
>There's no such thing as a middle ground
>It's either cliched and trite or CUHRAZY TWEESTS!

Stop.

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>>133110392
So you don't know what to say? That was really expected.

>>133110279
Try typing like a normal person you inbred monkey. Also i'm not the anon you were talking to earlier.

If you think shitgatsu was some amazingly innovative drama that did something new, you probably need to watch more than 5 anime.

>>133110496
I'm not the guy you were talking to, just can't stand people like you using textspeak and stupid "fiction is like real life" comparisons.

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>>133110279
You need to be 18 years old to post on this site, buddy.

>>133110507
It's not my native so i can afford some shitty language.
>need to watch more than 5 anime
Can you tell me about those five? I really want to turn to a gentleman from an unclean pleb

>>133109693
>If it isn't predictable then it's full of twists
Ah yes, viewing the world in only two extremes, what a great way to look at fiction.
You're a fucking idiot.

>>133110631
>It's not my native so i can afford some shitty language.
It's also not my native language, but that isn't a reason for me to type like a retard.
>Can you tell me about those five?
No, i don't know what 5 anime you've already watched.
And if you're asking for reccomendations, then consider the following: That's banned on /a/

>>133110563
Sorry for ruining your pink-pony-world, but 99% of dramas are about real life.

>>133107790
Manga was better. Yes, I rather have the manga even though is a series with music as a main theme. Why? Adding fucking percussion during a piano performance made me sick. Butchering a classical piece with tacked on shit.

Also the anime treated the audience as retards, jesus fuck. I mean the manga already did it to a degree.

Manga - 8/10
Anime - 0/10
Those wondering, if I remember correctly, it was during Eri´s second performance or third.

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The most overrated shit I've witnessed.

No it wasn't sad.
No the characters weren't good enough or relatable to get attached with.

It offered nothing but throwing in metaphors and sad music tracks.

Am I suppose to feel sad that she couldn't get her message out because she didn't want to mess up the group dynamics because of her own assumptions?

>>133110047
>Talking about poorly handled humor
>Use monogatari pic
Yeah no, is as bad as monogatari.

>>133110722
No they're not, shigatsu isn't about real life, it's fucking fiction.
In real life the way his friend treated his trauma would've in 99% of all cases only caused it to get worse.

Please stop being a fucking idiot.

>>133110781
Monogatari really doesn't have much slapstick, since the tsundere lead is more into threats.

>>133110722
>99% of dramas are about real life
Dramas oftentimes take place in real-life or plausible settings, but the character interactions are always exaggerated or contrived in some way or another. That's because it's a story, not a real event.

>>133107977
Buzzword: the post

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>>133110764
>Lelouch with a worthwhile post
Amazing, guess a broken clock is right twice a day

>>133110781
Since when did the reaction image use have anything to do with if an anon thought a show was good or bad? I have plenty of reaction images from incredibly shitty shows.

>>133107790
Fairly bad. Many things wrong with it in general, but the main thing I'll remember it for is butchering the music with all sorts of shit, interruptions, idiots speaking over it etc. If they had any sense when picking the interpretations they might not have needed to shout over it all of the time. It was really irritating.

>>133110702
Stop being of dickhead grammar-nazi, i know that i am not really into english. All threads has plenty of off-top posts, check gatari thread for example. This not criminal to reccomend me some NON-GENERIC anime, coz it is connected with our discussion. But the point is that you can't.

>>133110722
You completely misunderstood me. Regardless of how realistic or not the story is, it's a story. I don't enjoy the same things in fiction I enjoy in real life.

>>133107790
Pretty decent show. Anyone that bitches about the plot being too predictable or done a million times before is a retard. >>133108205 pretty much has it spot on. The drama with the mother was particularly poorly handled.

>>133110887
>guy calls out your grammar
>it suddenly gets much worse
Really subtle.

>>133110887
>This not criminal to reccomend me some NON-GENERIC anime, coz it is connected with our discussion.
Actually recommendations requests belong on /r/, why would i recommend you anime?
Recommendation threads are banned from /a/, they're not allowed here.
>But the point is that you can't.
Why the fuck would i? I'm still not the anon you were talking to earlier

>>133107790
I liked it. I really liked it. I would have liked a bit more variety in the piano pieces though.

>>133110936
Fucking this

>>133108763
You failed.

>>133110961
You are realy some kind of a spastic man. It's not a reccomendation thread, and my request was the result of discussion, its not a bannable situation. I asked for examples in order to understand why my taste is so shit and how i can improve it.

>>133110824
People can't watch the show without imagining, that it could happen in a real life, even a fantasy one. Otherwise there will be 0 viewer connection with characters and 0 empathy.

>>133111398
>People can't watch the show without imagining, that it could happen in a real life, even a fantasy one.
You're a fucking idiot

>>133111750
I can't believe that it is not obvious for you and you don't know even a basic psychology rules.

>>133110764
>Lelouch not shitposting / waifuposting for once

Wow.

>>133111941
I was just calling you an idiot because your post is almost incomprehensibly dumb.
People can easily watch and enjoy a show about characters that act nothing like how people would in real life, it happens all the time infact.
Characters in fiction often act in ways that exist only to prolong the story without regards to if it makes sense in the setting, for the character of if it's even a sensible thing to do.
It happens all the fucking time in fiction.

There are plenty of ways for a show to create empathy for a character without having viewers relate to a character's 'realistic behavior'

So again, you're a fucking idiot.

>>133112146
You can't be so deeply stupid, i think that you are just baiting me. People just CAN'T watch a film or read a book without modulation the world of this film or book in their brains as a real one. It's really how it works.

>>133112435
Except that it happens all the time, there's plenty of characters in anime that act nothing like real people and nothing like what you'd imagine a real person to be like even in the given circumstance.
It's fiction.

Read synopsis, "okay, main girl is gonna die for MOAR DRAAMA," didn't pick it up.

Wasted OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXkhkEvNIM

>>133112511
You are still missing the point.
>characters in anime that act nothing like real people and nothing like what you'd imagine a real person to be like even in the given circumstance.
Yes, and that circumstance can be not possible to exist in a real life. But people assume that it CAN be happen one way or another, this freakin univers or a parallel one. All the time. Always.

>>133107790
forced drama: the animation

>>133112882
You are kinda slowtarded, someone are already baited like this.

I watched it for the god-tier OP.
Dropped it immediately when they changed it on the second-half.

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Here you go, you retarded faggots.

Get some exposure.

>>133113635
>>133112971
>You are kinda slowtarded, someone are already baited with this pick

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>>133113728
>baited

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>>133113775
Are you trying to impress me?

>>133110781
Monogatari humor is almost all wordplay though.