Ai Yori Aoshi (TV) Reviews
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Title(s): |
Ai Yori Aoshi
Ai Yori Aoshi [Azul] (Spanish)
Azul (Spanish)
Bleu Indigo (French)
Bluer Than Indigo
Темнее, чем индиго (Russian)
藍より青し (Japanese)
青出於藍 (Chinese (Taiwan))
쪽빛보다 푸르게 (Korean) |
Creator: |
Masaharu Amiya
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Genres: |
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Slice of Life
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Age Group: |
Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity) |
Vintage: |
April 10, 2002 |
Status: |
Completed |
Summary: |
Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student who lives alone, met a beautiful but bewildered girl dressed in kimono at train station. He volunteered to guide her way to the address she was looking for, which looked like in his neighborhood but turned out to be an empty lot. Not knowing what to do next, Kaoru invited the devastated girl to his apartment and asked for additional clue -- a photo with two children whom Kaoru immediately identified as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. It turned out that the girl in front of him is Aoi Sakuraba herself, his betrothed fiancée who came all the way to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only surprising but also reminded the deepest part of Kaoru's memory for why he left the Hanabishi family in the first place. |
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Reviews
One of my favorites.
Written by DaiKallan on March 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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My favorite stories are always ones that put a twist on a theme. On the surface it looks like a simple Harem anime (A child hood friend shows up to remind the protagonist of their marriage pact), however; there is no indecision from the protagonist, and most of the other girls only have a mild interest in him. It's very refreshing to see a romance where the lovers actually trust eachother. The characters have a great deal of depth and you get invested in each of them.
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0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
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Ai Yori Aoshi
Written by grey1992 on February 18, 2013 at 7:57 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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good
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Premium sama
Written by Tite_Kubo on February 18, 2013 at 3:40 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Premium sama
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
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A good one
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Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
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A good one
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10 out of 13 people found this review helpful.
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Ai Yori Aoshi
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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This is one of the first amine I've watched and to state the truth, it was worth my time! It's an amazing amine with romance, love and comedy and how the main characters with his life when his fiancee decided to live with him. Its a worth to watch!
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
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This was the most romance story I ever watched.
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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I do love the dialogue of those lovely birds, Kouru Hanabishi and Aoi Sakuraba. It's kinda made me felt full of joy and sadness about this anime. I do love very much. I think if I also have a person such Aoi Sakuraba, I would take care of her very much as I can. Also the theme song of this anime "Towa no Hana" made me remind of this anime. Very sad cause I was done watch it. (T_T) I very do love it(sorry for said it twice :p cause i do love very much!)
*sorry for bad english I am*
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
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good
Written by mizul89 on September 17, 2011 at 7:17 AM
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Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
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good
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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
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This is how a Romantic Anime should be!
Written by eri8cthow on September 1, 2011 at 4:54 PM
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Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 4
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Predictability will always be a calling card of the harem romance, as much a part of its makeup as colorful hair, cute girls and awkward situations. However, Ai Yori Aoshi takes this a step further, practically redefining the the concept by stretching it to breaking point. Suffice to say that if you are unable to guess how things will turn out after watching just the first episode of this series, it will be because you set your sights too high and hoped for a surprise, a shock, a bombshell or any kind of diversion from the plot's unwaveringly linear ( read more)
Predictability will always be a calling card of the harem romance, as much a part of its makeup as colorful hair, cute girls and awkward situations. However, Ai Yori Aoshi takes this a step further, practically redefining the the concept by stretching it to breaking point. Suffice to say that if you are unable to guess how things will turn out after watching just the first episode of this series, it will be because you set your sights too high and hoped for a surprise, a shock, a bombshell or any kind of diversion from the plot's unwaveringly linear course.
The anime experiments in sentimentality are equally clumsy and ill-advised. In addition to the aforementioned predictability and the tedious characters, something which I will get onto later, the show ruins most of its emotional scenes with its incessant drive to patronise the viewer by having characters voice their thoughts and feelings in a manner more suited to an infant's puppet show than what is ostensibly a series aimed at relatively mature individuals. In one scene, for example, the heroine Aoi stares wistfully at the clock, then at the empty chair opposite her, then at the full plate of food laid out in front of the empty chair. A few seconds pass before she announces, seemingly to herself "I wonder where Kaoru has got to? He should be home by now" or something equally banal but just as bleeding obvious from the circumstances.
The faces and figures of the characters are their outfits. You can tell that the author is quite familiar with Japanese traditional clothing not only in the terminology (another thing left intact by Tokyopop, thankfully), but in the care taken in drawing the outfits. Especially Aoi's. Every little draped fold is given care and thought, and it really adds a great deal of livelihood to the scenes.
There's very little "action" depicted in this manga's panels. True, a romance is going to have much more dialog than action, but while emotion and drama are well laid out with faces and shading, there's not much presented with action or movement. It's a small weakness, but a noticeable one.
Another thing to be wary of; Ai Yori Aoshi doesn't hide its fanservice. Aoi's breasts are on display for all to see several times throughout the story, and frequently as chapter break pages. I'll be true to my testosterone and admit that Fumizuki does a good job drawing the curvy soft parts of a woman, but blatant fanservice is blatant fanservice.
The backgrounds are also very beautiful, consisting of soft and almost dream-like artwork of the most serene proportions. While the sharp and vivid characters clash somewhat with the more subdued backgrounds, this isn't enough to be too distracting. The animation of the series is also done nicely with fluid movements and good camera work that allow foreground objects to blend in nicely with the background.
It's crucial task is delegated to the many failed attempts at comedy, sentiment or anything which would have given the anime some measure of personality. Although there are a couple of rowdy characters in the mix, Ai Yori Aoshi's humor is executed with all the enthusiasm and wit of a chartered accountant with a gun pointed at his head. The only real way to tell that a scene was supposed to be funny is the occasional sweat drops which materialise on the back of characters' heads. If this show had canned laughter, I probably wouldn't be sane enough to write this.
Ai Yori Aoshi~ is everything that I hoped the original series would be, a touching, bittersweet drama with just enough comedy to keep the mood light. A worthy closure to a fine series. ( show less)
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
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The best Romantic anime
Written by vegeta99 on July 24, 2011 at 8:34 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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The story is so nice, the romance in this anime is awesome, also I suggest you watch season two too ^^
Enjoy watching it
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Great Feeling
Written by stanshi on June 29, 2011 at 3:29 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
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A very romantic storyline. This was my first romantic anime that I watched and it really gave me a very good first impression on animes with romantic plots. Definitely worth watching. at least it gave me the need to look for a second season which indeed was released soon after. Try watching, it makes you remember your love ones.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
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