Mei Tachibana has spent her 16 years without making either boyfriend or friends. One day, she injures a popular boy in school, Yamato Kurosawa, because of a misunderstanding but for some reason it seems that he takes a liking to her and one-sidedly claims that they’re friends. Furthermore, he not only protects Mei from a stalker, he does it with a kiss…?!!
Genre(s) Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice Of Life, Smut
Suki-tte Ii na yo
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The snowball fight episode, meanwhile, is purposely designed to be scant on story: this is a pure diversion, a chance to see the characters' personalities as portrayed through snow sculpture. Although amusing enough with its slapstick and action—especially when Yûko gets her comeuppance—this episode also exemplifies just what is wrong with the series. We could be learning about just how Watanuki's character is "changing" (come on, it's Episode 19 already), or digging into exactly why Yûko happens to own all that memorabilia from the CLAMP universe (sharp eyes will spot it in an early scene), but no ... we get 22 minutes of a snowball fight. And the last episode on the disc, although appropriately suspenseful, is about as typical as they come: client comes up to Yûko, presents a personal dilemma, and then eventually gets what's coming to her. It's been done, folks. This kind of spook-of-the-week treatment is exactly why the XXXHOLiC anime never quite reaches the potential of what it could be.
Even the animation itself is an example of not reaching full potential; one only needs to go a few minutes into the first episode to see what happens when animators fumble their way through the show's unusual artistic sensibilities. (Watanuki goes tromping down the street like a malformed man-spider.) And really, it's a recurring theme: the spindly character designs, which look so effortlessly stylish when standing still, become almost nightmarish when put into motion. Even the Monster Procession—with its panoply of colors and literally dozens of unique creature designs—show signs of cutting corners with sloppy linework and jerky motion. Special effects aren't immune to lousy animation either; the tale of the cursed photo loses all its subtle horror by going way over the top with dramatic dripping and fading. With a little more polish and subtlely, this anime could have really captured the unique aesthetic of the series.
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