Anime/Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko

Are you reading translated ones or are you really well versed in Japanese texts??

In any case, I'm seriously loving SHAFT's adaptation here. Wouldn't mind having a 2nd dose of this premise in animated form

Full officially translated volume. Such volumes are available here, much to my delight.

Extra episode out in 'usual places' near you!

Erio looks cute in blanket as usual~ This episode features.... matsuri

INDEX why are you such a Moment Killer ?!?

edited 10th Feb '12 5:19:05 AM by Cassie

Oh, this reminds me of my opinion on the novel.

I fucking abhor it. I threw away the LN, which I've never done before.

I find him grading points on each event in his life to be utterly contemptible. Unless you are Keima, you just can't play out your story like a dating sim.

....but, what do you think about the anime?

...shit, completely forgot about that it even had an anime. I...well...my impression on anime was significantly better, that much I can say. I've only watched the first episode so I can't say.

You should have given me the LN, it sounds interesting based from your reaction. XD

Re: extra episode Everything I love about Denpa Onna, basically. Cute fluff, Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane happenings, and oh-so-quotable quotes ("Feel, with your five senses, what believing can change!) It gets me pumped up for writing~

I think this episode completely dropped all the Maybe Mundane Maybe Magic pretenses and pretty much established the fact that the strange happenings are indeed magic.

Which is a shame becuase most people won't even watch this becuase they will assume is just some random extra episode, while in fact it has more answers than the entire show ever did.

Sure, to us viewers. But if I personally faced with a situation like that I'd probably consider it weird, but not outright supernatural.

Oh, good thing I didn't watch it then because that sounds terrible.

You got the wrong idea. The whole show and the extra episode are worth watching

I did watch the whole show. The only reason it was interesting was because of the Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, leading towards mundane. Making it obviously magic retroactively makes the show terrible, in my opinion. So I'm glad I didn't watch the extra episode.

Rather than magic, I really hope people will just interpret it as just an occurence of probability. Probability itself is a Truth in Television kind of thing, right down to a meteorite being pebble sized

I never had a thing over watching the extra episode, but this might be the exception since it might explain more over Yashiro. I've rewatched and finished this two days ago, and I couldn't stop gushing over how adorable and well-developed the characters are. I don't know why, but I'd rather end the series as if it's a simple slice-of-life anime.

The extra episode is pretty much the same in tone as all the other ones. There is indeed heavy implications of magic going on, but they're still only implications.

Hm. That's nice, but hasn't it already proven over the 12th episode where Yoshiro helped him win the baseball match?

Nothing was proven in that baseball match. Or rather, it wasn't conclusive evidence that magic exists.

@droy: Was the light novel good? I'll check that out! :D

Strange, even when I don't remember much over the last episode, the baseball match actually was conclusive to esper powers of that helmet alien girl as I originally predicted. (It's been long since I watched the series, so feel free to correct me.) The spoilers are in tags.

I just watched the final episode.

The series as a whole is as refreshing as I experienced originally. It's not simply a slice-of-life anime with a harem filled with cute females and wacky characters but over friendship, character development, humor and over how each interpersonal relationship relates to each other.

It's not harem and a romantic comedy with aliens. (But if it was, I'd still watch it because Erio is cute. :p) It's an anime about friendship and maturing into adolescence with mostly normally weird people, until the final episode hinted at the potential relationship with that eccentric brown haired girl over the new year date and being nervous to text the MC "I love you". The plot may have been disappointing that Erio ended up not being an actual alien but even that fact had been disproven since it was speculated that an alien have come into contact with her, and that esper girl was actually an alien of some sort who had predicted the future and saved that MC from a meteor.

The series is clouded in mysteries, but that's what made it good. It has the delicate balance between being ridiculous and realistic.

The last episode was good, in a way that it showed me that the fact that even believing a lie has the capability of being the truth in ways that would be surprising. To remain open-minded over what might happen and happened, because who knows what will come?

It's heartwarming. I...don't really rave over a series like this, but I liked it a lot.

I'll watch the series again when I get the chance!

edited 19th Jun '14 5:09:27 AM by TheTomatoFairy

I do think psychic powers were involved, but I also think that there's enough room for the author to backpedal from that.