My Love Story!! (Ore Monogatari) - First impressions

My Love Story!!
(Ore Monogatari)

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Tsuyoshi Takeo is a freshman in high school. (Both estimates) Weight: 120kg, Height: 2 meters. He spends his days peacefully with his super-popular-with-girls, yet insensitive childhood friend, Sunagawa. One morning, on the train to school, Takeo saves a girl, Yamato, from being molested by a pervert. Could this be the beginning of spring for Takeo?


Hey, I just watched the second episode of this series and am pretty hooked. This has gotten off to a great start. The forecast from the intro was enough to showcase Takeo to be a hilarious character. Quick shots of his facial expressions and I was excited to watch. Then it got to the short preschool scene/cutaway. I was laughing, mashing ctrl+d, and saying "damndamn DAY-ummmn!! Committed." I'll grant that it could have just been some perfect storm kind of atmosphere or something, but it is how it is. So this series will be one of the ones with my full attention this spring. So quick three adjective description: Great | Funny | Adorable.

Despite my praises, I am a little worried that for 24 episodes it may be moving too fast and could end up being meh around 15-21. Might happen. Might not. We'll see.

So what's your impression of the first 2 episodes? (Haters welcome too )

 

Haha yeah I had some half asleep fun with that

I'm never really sure which name to go with though I usually exclude non-latin alphabet writing. I changed it to both so it ought to not confuse anyone

 

As someone who read a fair bit into the manga for reasons unbeknown even to myself I am genuinely impressed by how closely the anime is following it so far. At points it is panel for panel and whenever it isn't there is not a whole lot of a difference.

As this is the anime thread I'm not gonna spoil anything but I will say if the adaptation keeps up this level of faithfulness then it is gonna be a welcome change for many.

Takeo is a sir and Suna is a bro.

 

@Supernatural-Knight I'm looking forward to it. I like it when things progress quickly. Kind of felt that way for things like lovely complex, where instead of dodging around for too long the story dashes into critical events and you see what you want to see sooner. (As long as it isn't too soon) I am looking forward to seeing the one-on-one "date" happening next episode and all of the misunderstandings that come with it. Since you're not particularly interested in to romance anime, what snagged your attention for this show?

@MacMeaties I'm glad to hear that it follows the manga closely. That spins up quite a bit of hope for how it will fair. Did you enjoy the manga? at least the parts you read

 

Did indeed lad. The humour doesn't let up, the characters get more and more likeable and some of the new ones that get introduced later are all enjoyable in their own rights. And you'll be happy with the pace. It doesn't linger on anything too long or get overly serious; it is just good, clean situational comedy about an unlikely romance.

 

I'm enjoying this so far. At first I didn't know what to think but once I saw the 1st episode, I got hooked. I'm glad I picked this up cause I've been laughing my ass off. At the same time, I've had so many facepalm moments with Takeo but I get why he's like that.

 

That's awesome! Starting to get even more excited for the next episode.

His character is just so perfect. Unlikely underdog who's upstanding and very good natured, but dense and oblivious to what is common. He's just hilarious. Can't wait to see more

 

Oh man episode 3 was awesome! I didn't know Yamada could get any cuter but I was proven very wrong. Have to say that my favorite part was all times she confessed her love of Takeo to Suna, just to make sure Takeo heard her lol. Another thing is that Suna is in no doubt, a great wingman. Lastly, to tell you the truth, i would not be mad if the series had ended there so having 21 episodes left makes me wonder what will happen.

 

Yeah, he looks lie the character that would be the second best friend who's just very content all the time. The buddah-y character, like Chien Po in Mulan. That kind.

Haha yeah I watched it and holy crap is this show sprinting! Even going fast I didn't expect

Spoiler

Them to get together

until like ep. 5 earliest. However, it was done extremely well. Yamada was super cute shouting to Suna and then Takeo's expressionless rise from under the bed was hilarious. These characters are so well developed for the few episodes they've existed. And they're so well crafted too.

I get what you mean now. Suna is such a bro!

When they were reacting to him, I was thinking this guy's a Tomoda-tier bro! for those of you who have watched "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun"

 

I'm a sucker for shoujo anime and quite a few people been saying I'll love this anime as they read manga. Obviously I was anxiously waiting 5 months for its release with really high expectations. I was kinda afraid it won't live up to my expectations and the anime will be disappointing even if it's not bad. However, it even exceeded my expectations! I am in love with the series. Can't wait for the next ep ^^

 

Okay I keep forgetting to come back to this but.

Over all it's a good story and I like the characters. But it feels almost like things progressed a bit too fast. I'm glad we aren't spending 12 episodes waiting for them to confess but if they are already this far then what next? Will we have an obligatory rival and/or break up to drag things out?

It's funny because I'm both glad they skipped over a lot of the fluff most romance series use to pad a series but I'm also worried about what they plan to do instead.

My other problem is that I'd like them to do a bit more. The last few episodes have mostly been "I like you and you like me" and being rather calm with it and nothing else is happening. I don't mean the romance itself has to be over dramatized but I'd like if at least something else was happening along with all this to make the overall story a little more interesting.

Still not a bad series overall since they are breaking a lot of cliches with this but I'd like to see a bit more.