Comments on: True Tears – Review

By: Kurisu

Kurisu — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:59:38 +0000

Stumbled upon this review while browsing around and not sure how I missed it the first time around.

I will respect your opinions zzeroparticle, but I must say I feel quite different about True Tears (and about Clannad apparantly from the way you describe it in your above comment, but that’s for another time).

True Tears is frankly one of my all time favorite anime’s, not just romance. And when it does come to romance, it’s only #2 to Clannad (I do greatly like Kimikiss and ef (1st season) as well).

I felt all the characters were perfectly crafted and most importantly real. I’ll take flawed people in my dramas than unrealistic ideals of them any day.

The only character I will concede seemed to have a bit of a oddly sudden change was indeed Shinchiro’s mom and how she acted towards Hiromi later in the series.

I’ll close by saying that I didn’t feel any awkwardness or really cliche-ness at the end of the series. I was rather impressed with the ending as it was. I must say that this was only perhaps the third romance anime (at that time) I had seen, so maybe I just wasn’t very familiar with the cliche’s your alluding too. Though since then I have seen many many more, and I still don’t quite understand where your coming from with that point.

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:37:06 +0000

I will say that Hagu’s part isn’t quite as compelling as the drama between Mayama, Ayumi, and Rika. Mostly because those three characters are portrayed in a way that you can sympathize with them, and because you see where they’re coming from, it makes it all the more… bittersweet to watch it play out since the emotions run fairly high at times. Takemoto is also worth paying attention to because he’s your everyman/nice guy kind of character that most of us can relate to and the producers do a good job of making us care about what happens to him.

By: Depthcharge101

Depthcharge101 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:28:17 +0000

I’ve watched a little of honey and clover… i couldn’t quite take the loli, but i’ll try watching it again in the future.
Clannad is very good, i’ve always liked the key adaptations, and it’s one of the few real romance shows out there. Can’t wait for after story to finish so I can finally start on it.
I’ll have a look into Bokura ga ita, have been hearing a lot of good stuff on it.
Thanks for all the suggestions ^^

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:12:21 +0000

I’ve already discussed my gripe about Hiromi above (I still say she’s cold-hearted at some points that it defies explanation) and I thought the plot disjunction were big enough issues to detract from the overall quality of the series. And mind you, I thought it started well. It might be a good reflection of reality, but I try to avoid realities like that. So far, so good!

As for good romance series… Honey and Clover is always a candidate (though one can argue that it’s more slice of life, but it does turn pretty serious, especially in the second season). Clannad, for all its missteps still struck me as being pretty good and for what it’s worth, I also enjoyed Kimikiss because the characters are fairly down-to-earth. (Special mention goes out to Bokura Ga Ita as well despite the fact that I haven’t seen it to completion.)

By: depthcharge101

depthcharge101 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:24:15 +0000

Not sure if I am an ardent romance fan, but I find True Tears very good, and it’s probably my personal best true romance show to date.

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I don’t think there are a lot of serious, real romance shows, most are just borderline harem with a small bit of romance mix – nothing serious, lots of funny and embarassing moments, and usually with an ending that has no conclusion. Some have overdone the drama part (eg. ef1), or the characters are difficult to comprehend, their motives and reasoning are hard to follow, or the story doesn’t feel realistic enough like it could ever happen in the real world.

Back to True Tears, I have to say I was charmed by Hiromi from the start. On my second watch, I watched it purely from her perspective and the show felt very different. Most of her actions, including some of “emo” things she had done near end made a lot of sense and the story became more understandable and justified. And the last confession scene was beautifully executed, a conclusive, emotional ending with a heavy impact on both the characters and the viewers, where a lot of romance shows I find, have failed.

But of course, that’s just my little opinion on True Tears.

Always looking out for serious, drama romance shows. Recommendations welcome~