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I love how vitriolic your take is on the Class de 2-banme anime. I do think its first episode absolutely lacked in the finesse of the manga. Absolutely. I can see how it came off.
Let's say it wasn't just the line art, like here, but rather the whole look of the series had changed ever-so-slightly for the worse - nothing too offensive, it still looks ok, but it just happened to become more run-of-the-mill - which then made cute and clever look simply stereotypical to a watcher that knows to look for tropes. The hook was definitely missing.
If I hadn't read the manga and loved it, I might've stopped at episode 1 too. But I just want to show you a few pages from the chapters that the anime adapted: Maki being discombobulated, Asanagi playing with Maki, Maki worrying about trying to be a friend.
I do think it has a light, cute touch all its own, and doesn't shy away from seriousness either, even if the drama is relatively light, much like in this show. It also couldn't be further from a harem, lol. I know what you mean, but don't we all want Gals Can't Be Kind
to end in a
throuple, lol!Back to your point about warmth, specifically, I would say the same goes for Class de 2-banme too. I think I'd give it a few episodes, or check out the manga if you like to read. It does have a big heart, too. Thanks for the additional info on Klutzy & Short as well.
An additional note - I just read through the first two chapters of Class de 2-banme and yeah - the adaptation's the problem.
For instance, there's a devastatingly vulnerable look of sort of hesitant and shy sincerity that Asanagi gets when she's being completely open with Maki - and I don't recall even the faintest hint of that in the anime. The adaptation can't have included that expression - at least not that well rendered - because I have no doubt I would've noticed if it had. And if they had just captured that one expression and shown it in its full glory a few times (most notably when she showed him her list of hobbies and interests, said that she was "stupidly honest like him" then asked him to be her friend), that would've gone a long way toward establishing the sincerity that I didn't see.
But I'm going to let it go at that. Tempted though I was, I didn't even go on to the next chapter to see how the confession played out. Giving the anime a chance first.
Hey, awesome. I'm with you on all these criticisms. Let's see how it plays out with the next episode. What I really just wanted to try to hint at is that there is a similarly deep dynamic between the main characters of Class de 2-banme as there is with Gals Cant't Be Kind, and it would be a huge shame if the anime fails to show it.
It's kind of crazy how derivative the first episode looked like, but it made me realize how hard it is to properly translate the little tiny bits in the manga that make it work work. It is really subtle in delivering the overall cozy feel. It makes me think of Fujichika Koume's manga, actually, especially Tonari no Onee-san ga Suki, which was ultra hyper duper subtle, and to a lesser degree Suki na Ko ga Megane wo Wasureta (the adaptation of which was handled ok-ish by Go Hands even if there were super odd moments in the animation at times).
That's also making me feel really hyped about Gals - they got the personalities suuuper right out of the box even if I had some tiny nitpicks about the style.
When I posted that last one, I almost included another bit at the end looking for clarification on whether the problems I saw were in the original or just in the adaptation (or just me jumping to conclusions). But then I looked at what I had already written and decided that if I was wrong, you'd tell me anyway, so I just left it as is. :)
That second link - to Maki's observation that it's obvious that Asanagi doesn't spend all her time playing games but that she does really enjoy them - for whatever reason, I didn't get any hint of that from the adaptation.
I was probably going to end up giving episode 2 a shot anyway, just because of the cliffhanger, but I definitely will now. Hopefully they just tried to cram a bit too much into this first episode and they'll pace things a bit better as it goes along.
And actually, though I've been watching a lot of anime over the last couple of years, overall I tend to prefer manga. I want to give the anime a chance so I'm not going to read the manga yet, but there's a very good chance I will, pretty much regardless of how the anime turns out.