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Summary: best romantic comedy ever
Review: I recommend this series to everyone who is looking for a romantic story, beautiful graphics, everyday situations and lots of humor. Although His and Her Circumstances is about high schoolers, even my 30-year-old sister and my parents seem to enjoy it. One more thing: It will please both boys and girls. The girls in the series are stunning and the boys are just gorgeus!!! I prefer to watch it in the Japanese version with English subtitles. There are spanish subtitles as well. Buy it.
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Summary: Many people will like this series
Review: I bought this series first as it was released in Japan on laserdisks, and have watched it all the way though with fan translations. When I've watched it with other people, it seemed to be a crowd pleaser, that diverse people could relate to and enjoy. It's a mix of comedy, romance, and introspection, and it shifts between several art styles. The Japanese cultural context is not anything difficult to follow. There are some "sexual situations", but they are treated tastefully. The USA DVD release is generally a good job of subtitling a complex series that uses both text and speech in parallel. There seemed to be one or two glitches where my player lost sync with the subtitles... Be warned, that while the initial story thread is partially resolved, the series just stops, with no formal ending, because they were following the manga (which is still running in Japan). You will want more! TokyoPop has started a USA manga release. There's some silliness in the art style of a later episode, that's unrelated to the manga, and some other in-jokes from the director, but much of the anime corresponds scene-by-scene to the manga.
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Summary: What a cinematic experience!
Review: His and Her Circumstances is about the unlikely romance between the two "perfect" kids in school. They have both hidden themselves behind poker faces their entire lives. Through meeting and dating one another, they are able to peel away the layers of their deception. And underneath it all...they're pretty whacky!! They're both a little neurotic and unsure of where they stand in the relationship. Now I know this makes it sound serious, but this anime is actually a romantic comedy and is full of laughs. The reason I call it a cinematic experience is because of the unique way of portraying the scenes through the animation. The art goes from silly to serious, from color to black and white or sketches. I highly recommend it for everyone, but especially fans of animes like Love Hina or Marmalade Boy. As a side note, this Dvd is automically set to play in Japanese. If you want it in English (the dubs are good), you have to set it. I also recommend you set it up for subtitles of the Japanese writing on screen, since they use a lot of writing behind characters and such to express the character's emotions. The quality of the DVD is excellent, with great sound quality and visuals. Go buy it!
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Summary: Great second disk adds and expands to the first episodes...
Review: The pace and quality of the first disc slides right through this second installment, but the story expands as Yukino and Arima are letting grades slip and becoming criticized by teachers. Now they must commit to each other and school or split up. The depth and tensions antagonizing the romance of this couple is excellently handled. Further into the disk, Yukino becomes besieged by a conspiracy in the class room turning all the girls, jealously, against her. She has to tread carefully to deal with peer pressure as her class refuses to speak to her because she is popular with the boys. And in the end episodes Yuki finds friends in other classes and her own for a fun 'girl's day out' featuring shopping, Kareoke, and eating. At the end of the final episode, one of her friends decides to run away from home and stay with Yukino to spite her father who wants to remarry. A very pleasant transition of characters and events employing all the cleverness of GAINAX under a limited budget. There are occasional action sequences as events lose balance and people rampage, or play games against each other. Usually, though, it is still a drama with crafty situations and personal insights to characters that unravel into seemingly real people. Great high school stories beyond anything else out there in live action or anime.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Wow! What can I say? When I saw all six acts I was spellbond. This is anime is wonderful! If you love anime along the lines of Love Hina you will fall in love with this one! After watching it you will get a feeling of wanting more, and end up ordering the rest of it! :)
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Summary: A Sweet, Romantic Comedy in its Most Realistic Form
Review: "His and Her Circumstances," or Kareshi Kanojo no Jijoo, is a show full of emotions, laughter, and tears. It is also a show where the characters experience their growing pains: in search of their inner selves and the meaning of love, which is very much reminiscent of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's a lot of fun to watch the show. It is both hilarious and dramatic all at the same time. Even though "His and Her" belongs to the relationship genre, it is not one of those daytime soap operas that would bore you (like Hana Yori Dango.) The director skillfully blends in comedy, drama, and romance in a fast-paced half-hour show. Every episode is so compact that it is as rewarding as watching a grade A 2-hour movie. "His and Her" is not a guy's romance story that plays to the guys' fantasy, which some other reviewers mentioned before. For that, you have to check out Clamp's latest work, Chobits. "His and Her" is one of the most realistic love stories I have ever seen. It plays to the part of the girl's as well as the boy's psyche. In the show, I saw a reflection of myself and my relationship, and my girlfriends and their relationships. Many dialogue and self-examining questions posted in the episodes resemble the ones expressed by my girlfriends and their fiancés during their bridal showers: what they were thinking or struggling to know what the other party was thinking, and what the funny moments, the memorable moments, and the hardships they went through during their courtships. Thanks to Anno Hideaki's elaborate interviews and extensive research with today's Japanese high-school students. The show is as real as watching a touched up documentary of everyday people. I am impressed with the witty characters and the deep character development in the story. Great editing but more work is needed on cinematography. I greatly appreciate the deliberate use of music to accompany the flow of the story and to set the mood of the many segments of each episode. On the other hand, I am VERY disappointed with the episodes toward the end, specifically Ep. 20 on. The show went flat and it literally came to a halt at Ep. 24. When it got to Ep. 26, 90% of the show was cut out shots from the manga. One can infer that the Studio went out of money by the sudden, weary end at Ep. 26. (This reminds me that Evangelion has an unsatisfactory ending too but Evangelion's abrupt ending wasn't about money.) It is a pity to see such a wonderful anime, which started with such fanfare and great expectations, came to an end like this! You can't even see what happened at the Culture Festival where Maho and Yukino were to be the leading actor and actress in a play. (I am going to find the manga to find out the rest of the story!) Other than that, this is a great anime where you would appreciate/love all the characters. Thanks to the detailed character development work by the studio team. Good work, team! But please finish something next time! ^_~ I also want to give my admiration to the translation team. I don't know how you did it, especially the titles for some of the sub-segments that are old Chinese proverbs. I would have to pull my hair off! ^_^
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Summary: Funny and charming
Review: "His and Her Circumstances" is a quality anime DVD worth buying. At fist glance, it seems like a typical high school romance-comedy, but the story is good (so far), and the visual style is unique with the changes in the art, and text that appears onscreen. The characters are truly funny and, sometimes very serious. The series strongly relfects high school life, which, gives it the right amount of authenticity. I would love to see the entire series. There were six episodes on this DVD. Most of the other anime DVD's in my collection contain only three or four. This is a good bargain. I am a big dub fan, and the voice actors are well suited to their characters. The music is also very catchy. While "His and Her Circumstances" is not an action series, that does not mean it's slow or boring. Enjoy the series.
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Summary: His & Her Circumstances
Review: Well, what can I say... if you like anime like "Love Hina", "Nadesico" or "Vandread", you'll definitively be hooked on this one... same producers as "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Nadesico", and the director of N.G.E. (who has lost some (ok, A LOT) of his suicidal tendencies and psychosis... and it shows in the show). You'll always be attentive to what's happenning, either because you're laughing hard, or because you're actually re-thingking what was said in the show... plus, if you had the chance to watch N.G.E., you'll find all those small references/puns/images/facial expressions/atmosphere... Basically, His & her circumstances is a show about love (what is really love...), self-questionning a-la N.G.E... but you can easily watch it as "light" anime, and enjoy it just for laughs... Having said that, all 5 DVDs are more than worth the price... my only regret is that the serie stops (and there won't be any more episodes/sequel) at 26 eps, which is kinda standrad in anime (which is a full anime season) but you'll see that the story comes to a halt after episode 24... Even though the manga it was based on is almost 50% longer... we don't even get to see the play they were planning... etc... the "comming out" of Arima's "real" self... Still, lives up perfectly to the expectations of any anime lover, and it's a great show to iniate your girlfriend to anime... worked for me and she even hates Nadesico and Trigun, which are "lighter" animes than N.G.E., H&H Circumstances, Serial Experiment Lain, Cowboy Bebop...
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Summary: Finally, a GOOD Romance Anime!
Review: I am not the kind of person you usually likes romance anime. They are just too cheesy or too risque. BUT along came KareKano (AKA His and Her Circumstances) and I love it! The characters are deep. Their whole lives are shown not just their love for each other. And they are realistic. Seriously, I could swear I've met Yukino before. It's so great! You will love this anime no matter what your usual tastes are! It' very unique and refreshing!
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Summary: Gainax does it again.
Review: One of the best anime series I have ever seen. Well why not give it
5 stars? This is why. The Series is based on the manga Kare Kano and since it seems the tv show wasn't doing as well as the manga it got canned. The result was a great tv series without a real ending.
The manga however is still continuing the story. Here are some facts people might have forgotten to mention: Animation is original
but too many times picture stills are used, its like they took the manga drawings and put it on the tv screen and added sounds ^_^
Also those who like subtitles will be in deep trouble. This show has the most on-screen text messages I have ever seen. If you don't like pausing or are a newbie stick to your dubs.
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