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REVIEW: Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara Complete Series Streaming




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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:13 pm Reply with quote
Decent show, but shat the bed at the end when they diverged from the LN and came op with a really retarded plot about VR.
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dtm42



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:18 pm Reply with quote
The show seemed leisurely paced in the middle and then was very rushed at the end. If the pacing had been a bit better managed I would have enjoyed the show a lot more. But it was entertaining enough and I did like the self-references and the parody of the genre elements. Oh, and Nendoroid Ruri was adorably cute.

By the way, doesn't "kanojo" mean girlfriend? So shouldn't the title be translated as "If My Girlfriend's Flag Breaks"?
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Thatguy3331



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:30 pm Reply with quote
DmonHiro wrote:
Decent show, but shat the bed at the end when they diverged from the LN and came op with a really retarded plot about VR.


So that wasn't apart of the actual series? what was supposed to have happened then?

Regardless I did have some fun with this series though I still can't get overspoiler[Nanami actually being Souta's sister. I mean wow they don't look a bit alike...]
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:11 pm Reply with quote
dtm42 wrote:

By the way, doesn't "kanojo" mean girlfriend? So shouldn't the title be translated as "If My Girlfriend's Flag Breaks"?

Kanojo can also be used to refer to any young woman as a 3rd person pronoun.
It only really means "girlfriend" when using it in a possessive like "ore no kanojo".
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dtm42



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:53 pm Reply with quote
samuelp wrote:
Kanojo can also be used to refer to any young woman as a 3rd person pronoun.
It only really means "girlfriend" when using it in a possessive like "ore no kanojo".


So essentially, the way the Japanese say the term "girlfriend" is literally as "my woman"? Well, that's the progressive Japanese for ya.

Anyway, thanks for clearing up my confusion.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:49 pm Reply with quote
Thatguy3331 wrote:

Regardless I did have some fun with this series though I still can't get overspoiler[Nanami actually being Souta's sister. I mean wow they don't look a bit alike...]


Well, if you look closely, spoiler[their bangs are identical.] That's pretty slim, but given the spoiler[bladefield braids that all of the girls seem to have,] it sort of works. Kind of.
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tcdelaney



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:33 pm Reply with quote
This show just rubbed me the wrong way early on and I dropped it. With so many shows available each season; so little time to watch; and me becoming a grumpy old man Wink if a show doesn't grab me in the first couple of episodes I'm no longer willing to give it more of a chance.
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Tenebrae



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:04 am Reply with quote
Well that's an interesting assessment. I followed this series a bit due to the light humor, but the further we got more and more it looked like a rote harem series going by the numbers, until I just couldn't take it anymore. If I were generous I'd give it a C rating at most.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:52 am Reply with quote
For me, the underlying supernatural (or whatever you want to call it) element in this series, and the fact that the LN is ongoing, really hurt the anime adaption.

There were elements of mystery and another world, along with the whole "MC gets flag powers" deal...that seemed to get bumped into the background for a long time to focus on the harem, humor and school life aspects.

Guess that, at the end of it all, I felt like they weren't exactly sure where the main focus of the show was meant to be. Then, the VR ending comes along...

Also found that having the spoiler[homeroom teacher] thrown in there was a bit weird. Character didn't seem to be in the series much, but all of a sudden becomes a member of the group.

And Megumu remains androgynous. Laughing

I enjoyed some of the humor. Can't say that an episode went by where I didn't like something that happened in it. And then spoiler[pressing the reset button at the end] just made the show feel, to me, more pointless/directionless than it already did.

Oh, and anyone else think that spoiler[Akane actually remembers]? When they play out a scene from the first episode in the last, it certainly came off like she does. Though the mention of a promise went over my head.
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Jacquipuff



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:01 am Reply with quote
Ali07 wrote:
Oh, and anyone else think that spoiler[Akane actually remembers]? When they play out a scene from the first episode in the last, it certainly came off like she does. Though the mention of a promise went over my head.


Yeah, that was the impression I got, too, that spoiler[the similarity of what happened in the last episode to what happened in the first jolted her memory], or something.

I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the ending, but I really did enjoy the rest of the series, as strange as it got at times. One thing I especially liked was that, even though most of the girls (+ Megumu) were technically rivals for Souta's love, they still managed to stay good friends with each other.
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DuskyPredator



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:43 am Reply with quote
It had good ideas, but execution was a bit shoddy that direction either happened too slow for what was happening, or too sudden a shift. In my opinion it kind of makes me think of Shuffle where there was a high school harem setting, and more fantastical stuff, only this show tried to squeeze it all into too short amount of episodes.
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naki12



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 5:01 am Reply with quote
dtm42 wrote:

So essentially, the way the Japanese say the term "girlfriend" is literally as "my woman"? Well, that's the progressive Japanese for ya.


"Kanojo" means "girlfriend" as well, but when used as the 3rd-person pronoun, it is the 3rd-person pronoun "she/her". As "girlfriend" it would be a noun not pronoun and you don't need a possessive for it to mean "girlfriend". "Kanojo" is never used as the noun meaning "woman".
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