andoR
Ohisama was my 17th Asadora and I feel like this was the dullest Heroine I've seen so far.
It's not bad as a drama, Asadora or story itself, but every one of her friends' stories would've probably been more interesting to watch. That being said, at least she wasn't like Matsushita Nao's character in Gegege no Nyobo who had no free will of her own and her main purpose in life was apologizing to and for all the men she knew (I really disliked to outright hated every character in that Asadora). Maybe I just missed the point and she was supposed to be like a spectator because her future self is narrating the story by telling it to another woman, but it's just that nothing really significant ever happens to her and if something does it's always about her friends, her family, her co-workers, etc. My biggest contra was taht this isn't really why I watch Asadora, the biggest pro was that these stories were actually quite interesting most of the time. So all in all, after balancing it out, it was an ok watch, hence why I gave it a 7.
I actually quite liked her at first, but she annoyed me more and more as the episodes went on. I know these were different times, especially in Japan (well, they at least are supposed to be different now...), where everything concerning women is at least 20 years behind the west, but she never said what was on her mind, and if she did it that one time out of ten, she immediately apologized afterwards and then thanked the other person, just because they let her speak her mind. It happened so often all throughout the Asadora that I dubbed it the "Youko Move" in my head and kind of made it her trademark by which I'll remember her by.
Acting was nothing special. I've seen way better, but then again, I've seen way worse when it comes to Asadora. I didn't watch anything by Inoue Mao before and only knew that she was most famous for being the constantly-sexually-harassed-verbal-punching-bag Shoujo Manga Heroine in Hana Yori Dango, so I didn't go in with high expectations anyways. Overall she did a pretty good job, but everytime she was in a more than 30 seconds conversation or a scene where she "sat around a table" with other people it quickly got awkward and souded more like she (and most of everyone else) was reading the script rather than really acting/meaning what she said. The constant "ah", "eh", "umm" and head tilting of her character didn't help much. I don't really have much to say about the side characters, Kora Kengo was probably the strongest, while I thought that this was Mitshushima Hiraki's weakest performance (from what I've seen with her so far), her overly-cheerful-while-hiding-her-real-feelings character was just annoying most of the time.
The only thing I got to say about the music is that it was an average opening theme. I liked the version without lyrics better because the voice of the singer kind of gave me goosebumps (I'm not good with overly high-pitched voices). But then again, I don't like 90% of Asadora Theme songs, so I shouldn't judge.
So, all in all an ok watch, just a bit worse than average on my Asadora list, but mostly because it wasn't what I expect and think of when it comes to Asadora and because my main draw for rating an Asadora is the Heroine, which was mostly dull and had no outstanding features to remember her by, and her story.
It's not bad as a drama, Asadora or story itself, but every one of her friends' stories would've probably been more interesting to watch. That being said, at least she wasn't like Matsushita Nao's character in Gegege no Nyobo who had no free will of her own and her main purpose in life was apologizing to and for all the men she knew (I really disliked to outright hated every character in that Asadora). Maybe I just missed the point and she was supposed to be like a spectator because her future self is narrating the story by telling it to another woman, but it's just that nothing really significant ever happens to her and if something does it's always about her friends, her family, her co-workers, etc. My biggest contra was taht this isn't really why I watch Asadora, the biggest pro was that these stories were actually quite interesting most of the time. So all in all, after balancing it out, it was an ok watch, hence why I gave it a 7.
I actually quite liked her at first, but she annoyed me more and more as the episodes went on. I know these were different times, especially in Japan (well, they at least are supposed to be different now...), where everything concerning women is at least 20 years behind the west, but she never said what was on her mind, and if she did it that one time out of ten, she immediately apologized afterwards and then thanked the other person, just because they let her speak her mind. It happened so often all throughout the Asadora that I dubbed it the "Youko Move" in my head and kind of made it her trademark by which I'll remember her by.
Acting was nothing special. I've seen way better, but then again, I've seen way worse when it comes to Asadora. I didn't watch anything by Inoue Mao before and only knew that she was most famous for being the constantly-sexually-harassed-verbal-punching-bag Shoujo Manga Heroine in Hana Yori Dango, so I didn't go in with high expectations anyways. Overall she did a pretty good job, but everytime she was in a more than 30 seconds conversation or a scene where she "sat around a table" with other people it quickly got awkward and souded more like she (and most of everyone else) was reading the script rather than really acting/meaning what she said. The constant "ah", "eh", "umm" and head tilting of her character didn't help much. I don't really have much to say about the side characters, Kora Kengo was probably the strongest, while I thought that this was Mitshushima Hiraki's weakest performance (from what I've seen with her so far), her overly-cheerful-while-hiding-her-real-feelings character was just annoying most of the time.
The only thing I got to say about the music is that it was an average opening theme. I liked the version without lyrics better because the voice of the singer kind of gave me goosebumps (I'm not good with overly high-pitched voices). But then again, I don't like 90% of Asadora Theme songs, so I shouldn't judge.
So, all in all an ok watch, just a bit worse than average on my Asadora list, but mostly because it wasn't what I expect and think of when it comes to Asadora and because my main draw for rating an Asadora is the Heroine, which was mostly dull and had no outstanding features to remember her by, and her story.
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