Animedragon

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Bright and sunny, and already 29C

Yesterday I finished watching the first season of Sounds of Life. This is another one of those Slice of Life series based around the members of a high school club, but this one is rather different to the usual stories. The club in question is the Koto club, a Koto is a large traditional Japanese stringed instrument. With all but one of its members having graduated the sole remaining member is looking for new recruits to keep the club from being disbanded but the members he gets aren't quite the sort he would have wanted because several of them have, well earned, reputations for being delinquent trouble-makers and fighters and another is a highly talented Koto player from a prestigious family who is rather scathing about everyone else's skill level. The club has a lot of problems ranging from hostility from other students, a vice principal who would like the trouble-makers expelled and the Koto club shut down and a club advisor who'd rather the club didn't exist. The Koto club isn't the harmonious happy group of friends that we normally get in this sort of series, but as the series progresses we learn the backstories of the main characters and their reasons for joining the club and we see the club slowly coming together. While I wouldn't say I enjoyed watching this series, it's not a fun storyline, but on another level I did enjoy watching as the characters tried to overcome their pasts and strive to produce something good between them The artwork and animation are of a decent quality and it has quite a good and interesting storyline so I'm looking forward to watching the second season.

I've watched the "Colors" music video a couple of times and I can't make head nor tail of it. The animation just starts and looks like a series of random incidents between two girls, then when the song ends the video abruptly ends and gives me the impression that the video was just background images for the song and once the song was over the video was just cut off because it wasn't needed any more. Overall I found it a rather poorly made music video when compared to Porter Robinson & Madeon's music video "Shelter", which actually told a story.

Need

Excellent work.

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Meridian

I've never understood the popularity of Tictoc, but then perhaps I'm now just too old to understand the current youth culture. Some Tictok videos have been appearing on YouTube and I have watched a few of them, but even setting aside my intense dislike of videos filmed in portrait mode, I couldn't see any point to the content of the videos.

It's funny how we get used to seeing one particular actor or actress playing a certain character. For me Joan Hickson and David Suchet were the best as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot I just could not relate to any of the others who played them.

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It didn't look too good when I opened my curtains earlier this morning, but it's brightened up a lot since then.

On the subject of avatars and sig images, and for what it's worth, my avatar is 600x600 and my sig image is 1000x124. I tend to find animated avatars and sigs a bit distracting, especially if they have a lot of action or rapid changes. Personally I think the avatar you're currently using is excellent, it has just enough animation to make it interesting without being distracting.

I had great fun doing this one, but don't stare at it too long or it'll hurt your eyes.

Levorotatory

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I've just watched the Non Non Biyori Vacation movie. Great fun to watch and full of the usual cute girl craziness and subtle humour. One of the gang wins the grand prize in the supermarket's lottery (I wonder how many times that's happened in an anime series). So off they all go and have a great time together.

Labyrinthine

Exponent

Welcome to the forum and the wonderful world of anime. If you're looking for a school based anime with no gore and no super powers and one where you can watch a relationship develop. Try these for starters: Horimiya. Insomniacs After School. Tomo-chan is a Girl. The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten. Clannad and Clannad After Story.

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