Despite being the source of zillions of cliches and stereotypes, this anime seems to hover around "average" quality. I like the character designs, and the girls all have different personalities, but its failing to excite me. I'm more interested in the outcome and who Aoba will choose, than the actual journey to get there.
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It’s time for the PE festival. Aoba’s class had bad scores in the sport events at the beginning but the table was turned after a special event which won by Aoba himself. The first half of the show is about the sports events but the rest of the episode is [...]
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Top Secret Report 101: The Ministry of Defense is currently experimenting on nano-technology which could boost the fighting capabilities of a human. The first phase of the experiment was tested on a chicken (the guinea pig) with amazing result. Based on the solid evidence shown above, a tiny chicken could easily knock down [...]
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This series is becoming more school life, more harem, and less humour. It’s the school sports festival… watch how Aoba inspires and help his class to win the number one spot...
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Pretty random episode of Yusuke trying to convince Aoba and friend how pretty sports girls are. This leads up to a finale of Aoba and Yayoi...
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We finally get some stereotypical harem action this episode. The only problem I'm seeing with this anime so far is that it focuses too much on one girl then the other. There's no bouncing around from girl to girl mid episode, but instead it basically does full episode features of each girl. I guess this isn't a huge problem, but it feels a little slower in terms of relationship development. It also makes Aoba seem like less of a pimp, which is bad I guess since people want pimps..
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Haado gei! Tokimeki is one of the few series this season whose quality has stayed relatively stable (excluding the heavy hitters Kanon and Death Note). Although, I’ll admit it is starting to get old and fast, they need to find some new jokes or this will end up as nothing but a weak imitation of [...]
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It’s funny episode where a large group of perverted male students gathered outside the swimming pool to see the busty Utsumi while Yusuke shared his thinking about the loveliness of sports girls. In order for Yusuke and Icchi to sneak into the pool both of them bought a camouflage body suit. [...]
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Impressions: Since there are quite a few harems this season, I thought I’d do a little comparison now. In the list of shows I’m following currently, there’s Kanon, Gift ~Eternal Rainbow~, Tokimeki Memorial, Sumomomo Momomo, Negima!?, and technically OtoBoku as well, but I won’t count that. Of those, Kanon stands out because it’s just superb in [...]
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I swore I watched two episodes of Tokimemo this week. But turns out one of them was actually Code Geass. The standard Tokimemo plot goes like this - Riku gets chased around by the entire school while the school council announces prizes for the guy who catches him, normally a kiss from the [...]
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This episode wasn’t that great in pretty much any aspect. There were some funny parts but overall it wasn’t that exciting and the chance meetings weren’t cute enough to hold me over. If it wasn’t for those minor comedic instances and the somewhat decent looking girls (plus the mandatory locker room scene every episode), this would have scored lower.
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After Kanon, Tokimeki Memorial has to be my next most anticipated series of the week. There are several haremistic good reasons for such cravings; the yakuza chick (CR: Hinano), the colourful cast (cross-dressing, voyeuristic senseis FTW!) and hilarious high-school hijinks. But I have to confess I’m really on the ride for the romance. Despite [...]
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Things to do with your new-found BF. 1) Walk home from school 2) Send plenty of text messages 3)make a love bento for him. Except nobody told Tsukasa not to force everything onto Aoba...
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Seriously, the only thing I find distinctive and memorable about this anime is this little chick (Hiyoko). I want to like this series I really do, but I find nothing memorable about the character design or plot. There’s something about this kind of face/eye design I find really ugly and lazy. i can’r perve over [...]
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Impressions: Tokimeki is still holding out pretty well. The quality saw a little drop with the slight waver in art consistency. The storyline has sort of settled somewhat – no more crazy ’round-the-school chases with animal ears, no more Yakuza Chicken pwning random people, and of course, no more mindless comedy. Aww…At least all that was [...]
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From having the whole school chase him in the last episode, this episode sees only the 4 sports club captains “chasing him”. Oh...
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YakuChiki KO’d! Tokimeki Memorial continues to impress, though it seems to be going under the radar this season as I don’t see much mention of it, let alone other people blogging it. Summing up the content and style of this show, it would best be described as the love child of SHUFFLE! and Sukuran. Aoba [...]
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Impressions: Tokimeki Memorial is becoming one of my favourites this season. The show is extraordinarily hilarious, and what’s more, the humour is not mindless comedy like Sumomomo Momomo. The humour is derived from the overly exaggerated…everything! Really, every aspect of the show undergoes some serious exaggeration, which lifts its overall fun-to-watch-ness (I love making up new [...]
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I was a little worried what this anime would turn into because it felt like they used all their cards on the first episode. Well, they kind of did, but now we get to see all the characters from the first episode fleshed throughout the series. I really don't have a problem with this style as long as it stays true to the genres. They showed us that the there's a lot of comedic situations, comedic people, and a bunch of cute girls. All of this spells disaster...if by disaster I mean hilarity!
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Yay for eyecatch! After surfing through the list of fall anime via the “Who subs what” link on AniAri’s sidebar it dawned on me that I forgot about this show which was on my to do list the first time I saw the fall season listings. At first glance Tokimeki looks like your average love-romance/school-comedy show, [...]
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