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First episode is out and owns. Streaming on CR every Wednesday. Ore Monogatari/My Love Story!! is a shoujo romantic comedy written by Kazune Kawahara and illustrated by Aruko and tells the story of official greatest protagonist ever Takeo Gouda and his quest to become even more awesome . There are also some other people. Preview with some actual animation. Yamato's voice is, uh, unique, hopefully I'll get used to it... Hopefully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ZGWRnkdwQ  Our Characters: Takeo Gouda Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi   Blessed with a face Rinko Yamato Voiced by Megumi Han  A gentle soul with a love of making sweets, she is saved from a train molester by our hero and is quickly won over by his manliness. Makoto Sunakawa Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki  Takeo's best friend and blessed with the looks of a typical shoujo dude, would probably be the hero in any other series. Has a bad habit of overshadowing our hero's good deeds with his pretty boy looks, fortunately Takeo is as forgiving as he is wise. Also owns in his, uh, own way, especially since Takeo is occasionally not blessed with the brains or common sense.  So, the manga is pretty much a cute and fuzzy romcom starring the guy who by any rights should be a side character but, thrust in to the limelight, is more than capable of carrying the role of hero. There are a few other characters but so far in the translated chapters haven't done a great deal yet, the stand outs being Takeo's family, who I really don't want to say too much about as they pretty much steal any scene they're in and I don't want to ruin anything. The anime starts on April 8th and by all accounts should be pretty awesome, it's slated to run for 24 episodes, which is twice as much as I expected and will probably cover a good amount, if not all, of the 7 volumes currently released in Japan. It's being directed by Morio Asaka of Chihayafuru fame and also with a bunch of other people who worked on that adaptation and produced by Madhouse, who seem to be on a bit of a roll lately. There's not a whole lot of screens of the anime version yet, and I'm trying to spoil as little of the manga as possible, so hence the rather bland character portraits. The manga is being published by Viz in the US and other places and are up to volume 3 with number 4 due out in a couple of months. Since the show is still a few weeks out there's no details of streaming rights or anything yet (that I'm aware of). I'd prefer it if manga readers didn't spoil too much for potential anime watchers, so please limit untagged spoilers to 'drat, Takeo is awesome', TIA. Takeo, as drawn by Araki of Jojo fame! 
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Whoops, that's true.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:19
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It's a risk he runs every day.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:31
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Looks good, haven't heard any voices yet though, since I'm not busting out a Japanese trailer on my phone in the middle of family dinner.
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Mar 12, 2015 18:01
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Probably not going to care unless it's literally ear piercing.
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Mar 12, 2015 18:03
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Yeah, it's almost like she's trying to sound like she's deliberately putting on a fake voice, it's kind of weird. Oh well, if that's the only not so great thing, I'm good.
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Mar 12, 2015 19:25
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The manga is only up to volume 3 in English so you should buy that then the anime is gonna go way past that point.
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Mar 13, 2015 16:08
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Two weeks, bitches!
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Mar 25, 2015 20:51
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Still no streaming announcement.
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Apr 4, 2015 16:20
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It's on my to do list when my niece isn't running rings around me.
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Apr 4, 2015 18:01
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It got picked up my CR hurrah.
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Apr 8, 2015 00:58
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Looks like a good guy to me.
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Apr 8, 2015 14:42
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Yeah, he's a bit too streamlined there, still cool though.
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Apr 8, 2015 15:26
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Edit: Is there a link to a page with the images plus who drew them, Google is failing me (or I it) and don't wanna go back through 30 pages of the chat thread. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Apr 8, 2015 15:42
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Ah, that was even better than I hoped for. It had like actual animation and everything!maybeflan posted:Yuki Suetsugu- Chihayafuru Thanks a lot!
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Apr 9, 2015 01:26
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Xelkelvos posted:Is this going to turn into some odd Japanese version of Cyrano de Bergerac? Or is there going to be some weird all directions love triangle? Just want to know so I can brace myself for the comedy beats. The manga manages to sidestep most of the usual shoujo drama beats in favour of the characters being generally awesome. DrPaper posted:Is this some sort of NTR show? No.
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Apr 9, 2015 06:46
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Just finished the first episode, found it fairly okayish. The gags are pretty nice I am just worried this might go Kimi ni Todoke S2 on me. It won't.
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Apr 10, 2015 05:13
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a kitten posted:New thread title please I concur.
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Apr 13, 2015 12:08
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If I crack up every time just from his dad's face I will know it's a perfect adaptation.
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Apr 13, 2015 12:28
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Oh poo poo, it all fits.
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Apr 13, 2015 13:49
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Owns. ViggyNash posted:Fake Takeo owns so much but the other two look retarded. The girl looks like a dude. Hell, she probably is a dude. shut up.
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Apr 15, 2015 05:05
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My body is ready.
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Apr 15, 2015 09:56
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Thank god there's only an hour til the next episode
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Apr 15, 2015 19:02
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I should be asleep but gently caress it.
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Apr 15, 2015 20:02
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Yeah, I was hoping it would get further than that, but nevermind it's all good.
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Apr 15, 2015 20:28
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Chas McGill posted:Watching now. I feel like it was a missed opportunity not to have a really macho song for the OP. I guess it's still shoujo, though. Shayla and Fraw Bow are Gundam characters the rest are probably just TV personalities yeah.
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Apr 16, 2015 01:27
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I'm gaining new appreciation for Yamato thanks to this adaptation, especially her tenacity in the face of Takeo's monumental dense-ness.
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Apr 16, 2015 06:23
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Chas McGill posted:Yamato seems especially over the top, although the shoujo series I've watched before this have featured taller, more realistic girl leads (Chihaya, Sawako, the girls from Nodame Cantabile and Lovely Complex). I guess her voice works well in juxtaposition with Takeo's and that's the whole idea. Most of those leads were deliberately not cutesy girly-girls though whereas Yamato's point is kind of that she is.
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Apr 16, 2015 14:06
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That's why I said 'kind of'!
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Apr 16, 2015 15:45
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I hate how CR lies on my queue page that the next episode is in an hour when it's actually one hour and fifty minutes.
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Apr 22, 2015 18:11
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Congratulations you're now watching one of like two shoujo romances where the couple actually gets together without 40 chapters of misundrstandings hurrah!
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Apr 22, 2015 20:26
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The Devil Tesla posted:Imagine if Suna had shown up in Kimi ni Todoke The friends know what's going on but won't say anything because 'they need to figure it out for themselves' bit is one of the most annoying things in shoujo because jfc people the world isn't going end if you say 'oh hey turns out guy you like is totally in to you.'
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Apr 23, 2015 04:43
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It was only really at the start of each episode but yeah, the 'what happened last week' bits seemed kind of unnecessary when not a whole lot has happened. 
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Apr 23, 2015 19:46
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Volume 4 should be out soon and possibly already is in the US????
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Apr 24, 2015 18:22
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Okay, just checking, I saw a review of it already and last time the US vol 3 was out way before Amazon UK would let me buy it.
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Apr 24, 2015 22:34
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hmmm I concur
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Apr 26, 2015 00:12
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I honestly don't remember the meet up going that well for the other guys in the manga, did they change that or am I just miss remembering?
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Apr 30, 2015 09:39
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NowonSA posted:Yeah, I was worried that they'd be completely blown off. I'm fine with it being clear that Suna is the girls' first choice, but I'm glad they also noticed the other guys and talked with them. Maybe a few of them will pair up and we'll see them later, we have a strong trio now but we could use more supporting or even minor characters with actual names. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7PdheiAT-Y Works well. I wonder if it's a coincidence that the first thing I thought of when Takeo was psyching himself up to get out from under the rubble was an EVA unit going into berserk mode.
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Apr 30, 2015 15:39
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I like that they're introducing Suna's sister as an actual character way earlier than the manga. I'm also sad we still haven't seen Takeo's dad yet.
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