His And Her Circumstances 1-5

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Summary: Great Anime With A Crappy Ending
Review: This was a great anime. It was funny, REALLY FUNNY, and I would've given it 5 stars, but . . . THE ENDING BITES. There better be another enstallment coming out, 'cause it ended too soon. I have the manga also, so I knew sorta what to expect, but when it ended I was like "WTF!?" How could it end like that? It really sucked. But, overall, this was a very good anime. It had a good storyline (2 overachievers fall in love with each other after discovering the other was a fake), it was really funny, the animation rocked, and I actually liked all of the main chracters. I don't regret buying this at all, despite it's ending. It's become one of my favorites animes.

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Summary: First love...
Review: Two kids in high school, one a girl named Yukino Miyazawa who is a hard working student because she loves the praise and attention it gets her, and the other a boy, named Souichirou Arima,who comes along and takes it away from her, by being the perfect boy. Of course, this pisses her off and that's when the fun starts.
Yukino does all she can to plot her revenge, but what happens when he tells her he loves her? And what happens when she realizes she might love him too?
The story is somewhat realistic in the plot, there are no aliens or robots here, just love, hate, need and friendships. The artwork, and music, changes, depending on the inside thoughts of the characters and whose point of view we happen to be watching. Sometimes it looks like something out of a black and white film and other times it makes Southpark look like a classic! But it made me laugh and, a couple of times, almost made me cry. The characters are all flawed, yet sometimes very strong and very real. While they sometimes get confused, they don't act stupid nor do they just let things get worse while they whine. They charge ahead and try to change things for the better, even if things sometimes get really messy.
There are lots of recaps and flashbacks. Also, the reason I dropped a point was because there is no closure. There better be another anime series in the making, otherwise I'll have get the manga to figure out what happens next!
OK for males and females, so guys, buy it too!

Rating:
Summary: Started out great....
Review: When I first started watching His and Her (or kare kano), I was really excited. I wasn't expecting an earth-shattering, question-your-motives-on-life type of anime, but rather a simple love story. What I ended up getting was kind of a poor conglomeration of the two. They start by developing the two main characters thoroughly, but then, after the two main characters get together and begin to build their relationship, the series begins to feel fake and fall apart. Yes, they did try to represent some of the deeper aspects of relationship, and kudos for that, but there was so much else bad about the series that it is not worth a second watch. First, and most annoyingly, there are recaps in virtually EVERY SINGLE episode that take up a good portion of the time in each episode. This is "cute" at first, but gets really boring after a while, after you realise you can recite the whole thing by heart, probably in the original Japanese. And, for all you fans of recapping-so-you-don't-have-to-develop-anything, there is an ENTIRE ADDITIONAL EPISODE for your perusing satisfaction. Watch it and skip the first 13 or so. After the recap extravaganza, the whole series began to crumble. They made several attempts to introduce new characters and perspectives, and failed miserably on the follow-through, creating a bunch of halfway done story lines and too many loose ends towards the end to make this an enjoyable series. Rent or borrow this one. This is just another example of an anime that started out great and with a lot of promise, then fizzled and died long before it ended.

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Summary: Hm...Masterpiece? definitely!
Review: Yukino is a model student in everyone else's eyes. Straight A, perfect personality, get along with others. Yet, there's another side of her that's yet to be discovered along with the arival of Arima Souichirou, intelligent, smart, kind, athletic, charismatic... everything that Yukino had pretended to be all her life... who quickly becomes a strong competition, like getting better grade than Yukino without trying. At first, Yukino sees Souichirou as her opponant, someone she has to beat. She competes with him on everything, trying to regain the title of "model student." She eventually gets her title back by studying harder and harder. Things are now going well for Yunkino..However..as time passed, Yukino starts to develop a crush on Souichirou. The other side of Yukino, the image of a lazy, selfserving average girl is then accidentally revealed to Souichirou when he pays a visit at Yukino's house. He then starts "threatening" her of revealing her secret unless she does homework for him. Yukino soon discovered that Souichirou is only using her as she gives up her feeling for him and refuses to do his homework ever again. Surprisingly, Souichirou goes after her and tells her that he has feelings for her, and the whole "blackmailing" thing is only an excuse for him to get to know her better. So they starts going out...and more interesting stuff happens. (i dont wanna spoil more stuff)
His and her circumstances is a definitely a masterpiece, it's not merely a romance, it really draws you into the actual anime. I didn't think i would like it at first, because i'm usually into Magic/Romance, but this anime is much more. Let's just say...It gives you like a fuzzy feeling, and you would want to watch it again and again. It also tells you that to always trust your instincts, even though perfect relationship is vague, if you try, you will be able to find it n-n;;