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Horimiya ~piece~ feels outdated - and other Summer 2023 anime
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Okay so Horimiya originally aired, idk I want to say 3 years ago
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But I'd have to check.
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I didn't love it
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I loved it in the beginning actually, but as it went on it went downhill and I hated the ending so overall it was fine.
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I didn't need a season two
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frankly having seen piece - nobody needed a season 2
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Piece is a bunch of side stories that got cut out of the main story for the adaptation and boy was that originally a good call
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The humour is very dated.
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Even for anime, some of these jokes you just don't really see them in more modern stories anymore
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(manga is not very progressive, but more recent titles have backed off of the gay people are jokes for being gay train a little bit - so to see it used here pretty liberally is dating the story, like a lot.)
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I was easily able to peg he era in which this manga was written based on this
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It has the Fruits Basket vibes circa 2006 (it was written 2007 so I was bang on)
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And it kind of threw me a bit? Because I was like it's 2023 I wasn't expecting this 
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In any case that's on me for not really knowing the story
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And the other half was about trampling over everyone's boundaries
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And trying to get Miya naked
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It's a weird series
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My problem with Horimiya is that I liked Miya before he met her. I liked that he had a personality that wasn't Generic Male Protag 96
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He had a look, he had a history and ultimately he casts all of that aside for her and starts dressing and acting like Generic Male Protag
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And then they get engaged right out of high school and I was like you can do better
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Oh and the casual her beating on him yeah that's funny or something >.>
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So needless to say I had problems. I didn't think it was a good story
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Season two gets into weird characterization problems that just have me scratching my head
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Like Miya supports the student...council...president guy? The redhead.
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He supports him not getting undressed in gym class but then some episodes later the redhead is trying to strip him to see why Miya won't get undressed
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Bizarre bizarre stuff.
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Anyway somewhere around a 5 or 6/10
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This has no reason to exist, I'm not sure why it does.
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Alright let's mop up these final episodes I've got kicking around before I throw on something in full
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Ideally I need to finish like idk, 4 shows today but that sounds like a lot
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We'll see how it goes
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Alright I stand by my stance on The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses
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That was a nothing show with nothing of substance and boring as heck.
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Done.
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Terrible.
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No I don't know why it's so highly rated XD
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Let's wrap up Ayakashi Triangle
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I love this OP by the way - like most of the Winter OPs it's great
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The ED is pretty good too
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I don't know the over arching plot is decent, gratuitous ecchi aside
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It's definitely under the 'Fine' banner
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XD