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I just finished this (in the English dub, fairly good considering the cultural differences) and I have to say it left little impression upon me. I can't help bu compare it to Kamisama Kiss, which is much dumber, very inferior in art and had no romantic resolution, yet I enjoyed it far more. I guess it's the simplicity of the whole thing. While RDG has good ideas coming and going with no lasting impact. I could not care about anyone because their goals are so abstract and they don't seem to have a normal life. It is also disorientating how it throws into an in media res for dialogue (rather than action, the usual way) but that wasn't a problem after the first few episodes.
Even the wonderful art failed in one important area: making the cast distinct. And the dancing was unimpressive.
It has wonderful ideas, but the execution fails me.
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To expound upon my last post, I think the problem a lot of people had with this series is that it's not conventional modern fantasy - the story isn't about some large, epic arc in which the protagonists go off and save the village while experiencing the classic Coming of Age Story. It's a Coming of Age Story, sure, and there's a grand overarching plot, but the narrative is only ever focusing on a tiny part of those. What happens with the Himegami and Izumiko and Miyuki and Takanagi and everybody else will ultimately get resolved, but that resolution isn't necessarily what this story is about.
edited 25th Jun '13 12:46:18 AM by HighVelocityPointyThings