Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[pokoko]

vivster said:

pokoko said:

Keijo ep 1.  Well, that was a surprise.  They skipped the entire entrance exam arc and jumped right into the school.  That threw me off because Nozumi and Judo girl weren't friends at first.  Well, Nozumi kept trying but Judo-chan was super tsundere and cold.

I can kind of understand it, though.  Several of the characters in the entrance exam arc didn't pass.  I suppose they thought it was a waste to develop characters who wouldn't be there after a few episodes.  Also, this means they got to cut the biggest fan-service moment of the entire manga with the shower room confrontation.

Aoba (scarf girl) is my favorite character, though, so it was nice to see her in the first episode.  Mio (the tall blonde) is a close second.  She's a badass.

I'm pretty disappointed myself since I made this mistake of reading the first few chapters to see what it's like. Especially since those perfectly capture main girl's personality and motivations. Now it seems like a pretty lame and generic beginning when there's actually some substance behind it.

Yeah, that really did surprise me.  The strength of Keijo, despite the ridiculous premise, is that it has some really good characters.  Not seeing Nozumi's family and understanding why she went into Keijo undercuts her character a bit.  Kind of the same with Judo-girl having an enormous chip on her shoulder to begin with and how Nozumi had to keep pestering her to open up.  It makes her seem like a different character without that context.

Besides that, the entrance exam arc was pretty fun.

Maybe some of it will come via flashback.