August 18, 2004

Marmalade Boy Episode 1

Marmalade Boy

"I Want to Fall in Love - 'He's Handsome, But I Can't Forgive Him!'"

Since I liked this episode, I'll get my gripe out of the way first.

Yuu can dunk? Come on...

Anyways, Marmalade Boy is an older series, almost ten years now, inspired by a fairly popular manga. It tells the story of Yuu and Miki, and their relationship, which begins when their parents decide to swap partners and remarry.

No, really.

Obviously, Marmalade Boy doesn't really hold up in the production department against the shows of today, but the music and voice acting is still pleasant, and the art is good (though some of the color choices confuse and bother me).

Watching something like that, you're really going for the story and the characters, which is something that Marmalade Boy does well. In this episode, we get the introduction to the premise, and the main characters of the story (well, at least a good number of them). It's fairly standard as introductory episodes go, nothing really spectacular. Having read the manga, I have faith that it's going somewhere, but by itself, it's not immediately captivating. It is, however, rather charming.

Though it's nice that the first relationship curveball gets thrown right in the first episode.

Rating: B+

Posted by Kei at August 18, 2004 11:21 PM
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yuu is so cute!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: at May 13, 2005 02:08 PM
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