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The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity • Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku - Episode 1 discussion (infosec.pub)
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Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku, episode 1

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Alternative NamesBLOOM, Kaoru i Rin: Rozkwitając z tobą, Kaoru und Rin, La nobleza de las flores, Благоухающий цветок расцветает с достоинством

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[–] Crank@ani.social 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is this even available anywhere outside Japan? I heard Netflix has it scheduled for September

[–] wjs018@ani.social 4 points 3 months ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I have disabled future threads for this show. It will still be requestable if somebody in a different region with a different release schedule wants a thread.

...unbelievably terrible move by netflix

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Confirmed: https://x.com/NetflixAnime/status/1941587892154896827

Potential generational fumble by Netflix. They thought they could simuldub but couldn't pull it off. On the flip side, this could be a hybrid batch/weekly release, so it's a case study for how that would look like.

[–] glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Livechart says that english subs will be available on a week delay in at least some regions ("Asia-Pacific", allegedly), so with a VPN it should be accessible much sooner. Either way, though, Netflix is doing what they do again...

Edit: I can confirm that the English subtitles are available from Japanese netflix

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My first impression is: this looks like another rehash of Romeo and Juliet + Beauty and the Beast

[–] anime@ricard.social 2 points 1 month ago

@Endmaker I haven't read the manga but I hope we're wrong and this turns to be more.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Gross, Netflix jail

[–] glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

This doesn't appear to be doing anything new (at least so far) but Cloverworks' gorgeous animation and direction really sell it regardless. Everyone's very cute and I'm eager to see them grow. I give the premiere a 4/5.

P.S. netflix please let this out of jail, what is wrong with you

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cloverworks actually did it, again*. This madlad of a studio is releasing banger after banger this season across three shows. Unlikely to be replicated because of potential burnout issues, but still, mighty impressive.

Does it meet my initial hype? Short answer: Yes and no. Long answer: Yes, and it's more fully-realized in MDUD.

*See below

After properly watching Episode One, and also watching My Dress Up Darling S2, I can tell MDUD is the studio's passion project, sadly at the expense of this anime and perhaps Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus, which I haven't started yet. The telling sign is the inconsistency of animation quality: Rintaro's CGI walking sequence at 0:40 of the OP, juxtaposed with the scenes depicted just eight seconds later, made me cry inside at the what-could-have-beens.

This team can draw excellent animation if enough resources are given. See Akebi's Sailor Uniform. Here, they have to be selective on where to spend their time and money, For example, car animations are... ass, like they used Blender to move them from point A to point B and call it a day. On the other end of the spectrum, the sakuga moments are absolutely brilliant, like I can count the number of shows that have better shots than those with only one hand. Kaoruko's reactions and faces are some of the most expressive I've seen yet.

Other stuff I noticed:

  • Episode structure, eyecatch, and title card is reminiscent of Your Lie in April. I was half-expecting wacci's Kirameki to play in the ED.
    Eyecatches

Title cards

  • Just like MDUD S2 is Bocchi-fied, the gags include artstyle changes to a lesser extent. I hope it's not overdone here. KaoruHana's story feels like it should be taken seriously.
  • Kaoruko's face looks like a grown-up version of Akebi Kao's in some ways

As for the story itself, I need more time to digest it. I just finished The Dangers in My Heart and am feeling kinda empty right now.

By Cloverworks standards, the quality could be better. And yet at that state, it's much, much better than other shows out there. That says a lot about what the studio's capable of. The BD release may contain quite a bit of cleanup work. This show more than deserves to be a moving artbook!

[–] sag@ani.social 1 points 3 months ago

My most anticipated Romance Summer Anime. Her drooling over cake is so cute. She is eating cake but I will get diabetes xD

[–] lemmy@ani.social 0 points 3 months ago

so there isn't a official dub yet