ef - a tale of memories.

[Munsu]

First episode by a group called Nuke:
http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=2388

Here's the prologue by Aquastar-Anime and Nuke:
http://a.scarywater.net/aquastar/%5B...5D.mkv.torrent
http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=2326

Here's the game intro by Froth-Bite for those interested:
http://www.froth-bite.com/torrent/%5...5D.mp4.torrent

Based on the visual interactive novel by Minori, featuring character designs by Nanao Naru.

The story revolves around the protagonist Hirono Hiro, a poor high school boy who draws shoujo manga for his living. One cold Christmas night after meeting a very strange woman in a church, who tells him that he`s going to meet someone he has to meet, his bike gets stolen by another strange girl. He runs after her and finds her collapsed on the street. Her name is Miyamura Miyako and her bag got stolen by a man on a motorbike. Soon after, they start hanging out together, enjoying highschool life. Miyako falls for Hiro pretty quickly but naturally finds a rival in his childhood friend, Shindou Kei, who has been dictating Hiro`s life since ever.

http://www.ef-memo.com/
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl...anime&aid=5274

I'm going to wait for Conclave-Mendoi or AQS-Anime to release before giving this a try. Anyone knows if Nuke is any good?

[Kraco]

Fortunately your wait wasn't a very long one:

Episode 1 - Conclave-Mendoi

Edit: Hmm... A peculiar series. I have yet no idea what to think of it. This was pretty random stuff for a first episode. No clear main character, no clear idea what is supposed to be going on, except for guys meeting, fatefully, some girls. I wonder if this series is going to even have anything more concrete than this. I hope it will, because the fragmented feeling it had could be hard to bear through all of it. Still, some things suggested they could all be connected sooner all later, which would certainly do wonders to the disjointed feeling.

[animus]

Man that was so odd. It's like Baccano cept in Japan and without the killing and gangs and stuff.

[Board of Command]

Very random episode indeed. I have no idea what this thing is about, but the mysterious undertones seem interesting. The camera work is also a bit odd, but not necessarily in a bad way.

[Buffalobiian]

Seems like Chihiro has some memory condition that requires her to write down everything that happens to her so she won't forget it the next day. (reminds me of fifty first dates).Strange first ep, as mentioned. Hope that makes this series a good one, rather than let it down. Can anyone make out if the girl in the Camera guy's bed was the one with glasses that he was talking to earlier?

[Lucifus]

Wow. That was such a confusing intro. But, I like it all the same. The anime shows alot of promise, and I'm hoping to get alot out of it.

Looks like its gonna be one of the better new ones.

This is purely a guess, but Chihiro seems to forget everything that happened the day before.

I'm guessing she wrote it all down in that diary of hers, then read it as soon as she woke up. All she had was a name, but she didn't recognize Asou when she saw him the next day.

Whatever it is, this show looks promising and the characters are more than alright.

[Church]

Damn, I was hoping for epic OP
Considering the game OP was amazing...
It doesn't follow the game exactly, some things are out of chronology I think, then again, I haven't played the game too far yet.

[Buffalobiian]

Is this epic OP the one that was played during the ef anime preview trailer? That one was awesome, one of the thing that dragged me into this.

[Kraco]

The tale of amnesia continues but will it offer any answers?

Episode 2 - Conclave-Mendoi

[guuchan]

Can anyone make out if the girl in the Camera guy's bed was the one with glasses that he was talking to earlier?

Yes, it's the same girl.

[Board of Command]

I still don't get this part: is Kei really Hirono's sister? Chihiro never mentioned a brother, and Hirono's friend kept insisting Kei is Hirono's girlfriend.

[animus]

Well according to the series description it says Kei has a crush on Hirono. I don't think they're related, because as they were entering the school Hirono told her to stop calling her by his Manga pen name, and Onii-chan. So then the last thing she says to him as she disappears is Hirono-senpai.

[Church]

huh, I like ep two's ED a lot. And for some reason, the ED sequence reminds me of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi OP. Maybe I'm just crazy.

[Buffalobiian]

This episode pretty much expanded on episode 1, but still seemed fragmented. I hope all the different parts fit in together soon. I guess it's already happening, but continuing such a disjointed form of story telling will "take it's toll", so to speak, if it keeps it up too much longer. But then again, this is what's setting this show apart form the other school-days anime this season, if you can consider it so.

[Buffalobiian]

Singles are out for ef - a tale of memories.

OP- euphoric field
http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents...5D.zip.torrent

ED- Adagio
http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents...5D.zip.torrent

[Kraco]

With three episodes you can already start to talk about memories:

Episode 3 - Conclave-Mendoi

[Buffalobiian]

It was an interesting episode. Seems like that Mizuki character's been reading too much yuri.

Kei goes back to calling Hirono Onii-chan. We learn a bit more about Chihiro's 13hr memory. If she loses the first hour on the 14th, and 2nd on the 15th, I'd be interesting to know if she forgets what she reads in the morning by midnight. Kuze-san was interesting. Amazing anger management.

[Church]

Finally got somewhere in the game, and it explains the anime's unique styling. The game has enough movements and voice, that if the anime was done in a normal fashion, it'd look exactly like the game. Interestingly, the Hirono in the game has more of a spine than the Hirono in the anime, who just seems like a normal, lazy, school kid that gets bossed around, at least in the game he has some good banters.
The music is amazing, unfortunately I can't find it

O yeah, just in case anyone really wants to know about the sibling relationship
[SPOILER]They are not related by blood[/SPOILER]

[Kraco]

A life, thirteen hours long, reset:

Episode 4 - Conclave-Mendoi

[shinta|hikari]

Not really reset, but tape over. Its like using a 13 hour tape to record your experiences and when you reach the end you simply tape over the beginning. Its not nearly as bad as 50 first dates, but it presents its own brand of suffering and fear, since in this case, the person is aware of the situation and has to deal with it.