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  1. Wed, 01-09-2008, 11:41 PM #1
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    True Tears

    Surprising how there isn't a thread on this yet...



    Shinichiro is a student living in what would be a dream come true for most high school boys, but for him is mostly a frustration. A well liked girl in school named Hiromi has lived in his house for a year along with his family. Her father was a close friend of the family, and when he died they immediately took her in. She is popular and well liked, always smiles, is talented in sports- but Shinichiro knows there must be tears inside her. Having an artistic tendency, he makes watercolours of her and thinks about wishing to ease her tears. Yet he cannot bring up the nerve to talk to her even in his own home. She, too, is quiet and withdrawn in their house, quite unlike at school. Shinichiro is also distracted by teasing from his friend Nobuse for watching Hiromi from afar, a curse of bad luck from a strange girl named Noe, and being forced to perform Muhiga dancing. By helping Noe he hopes to ease his own problems, yet he seems to have difficulty helping himself.
    (source: ANN)

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    Ep 1 (Xvid) - Bakawolf & m33w
    Ep 1 (h264) - Bakawolf & m33w
    Ep 1 (1280x720) - Rozen & NiceBoat (??)
    Ep 1 (704x400) - Rozen & NiceBoat

    I watched the 720p version by Rozen & NiceBoat (wtf kind of name is this?) and was fairly pleased with the release. Picture is sharp and vivid. Translations make sense. Nothing outstandingly bad with it. As for the series, don't know what to make of this. It certainly has its mysterious moments like H2O, but with some cookie cutter romance elements. I thought it was a nice first episode and with the series being only 13 episodes long, the story should pick up fairly quickly.
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    Aye. I got the impression it's somewhere between a triangle of Yourself; Myself, Kanon, and H2O. It seems to have some rought elements like Yourself Myself, it has some out of the blue lines like Kanon, and some mystery like H2O. It looked far more promising than I was expecting. I thought it would be a textbook high-school romance.

    This season seems to be offering a pretty good selection of shows, all in all.
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    Actually, its more like Myself Yourself and KimiKiss combined.
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    I don't know if it was being exhausted or agitated while I watched this but I got very little out of the first ep. The main character likes a 'perfect' girl but won't go for her b/c he's scared, then he meets another girl who is kind of weird but doesn't present any romantic interest and they strike up an awkward friendship, both girls seem to be hiding things...the end. So far it just feels like mad libs of other school romance anime. I'll give it a few more eps to see if it's going anywhere new, but I haven't felt this neutral about a first ep in a while.
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    The animation is pretty high. First episode wasn't bad I guess, like Yuki said it's kinda generic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by animus
    The animation is pretty high. First episode wasn't bad I guess, like Yuki said it's kinda generic.
    It seems there are many experiments.
    Zoom out scenes with leds computer animated
    Noe's excuses to the chicken, with close-up on her mouth and it seemed they tried to animate the mouth as close as possible to reality.
    And the 720p resolution is clearly a big plus. I wish we had more of those.

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    Perfect girls are weird girls:

    Episode 2 h264 - BakaWolf-m.3.3.w
    Episode 2 xvid - BakaWolf-m.3.3.w
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    Interesting, especially at the end. The only normal reason I can come up with for Hiromi trying to make friends would be to ascertain the relationship between Noe and Shin'ichiro in order to try and make her own move. But then, there doesn't have to be a normal reason and she might have simply wanted to be a bitch to Noe for talking to her man.
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    hmmm will there be a 720p version from rozen&niceboat soon?
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    That's what I'm waiting for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Board of Command
    That's what I'm waiting for.
    Well If I analyse this:
    http://a.scarywater.net/rozen/
    It seems the group is either young, or does not have a lot of members, or isn't very efficient @ keeping members.... or whatever reasons explaining why they do first eps and don't push any further.

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    That kinda sucks. Their first ep for True Tears was pretty good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Board of Command
    That kinda sucks. Their first ep for True Tears was pretty good.
    Lets hope the NiceBoat suffix will help them in making the whole season.
    Although the Fallen prefix didn't help for Myself-Yourself.

    EDIT:
    In fact the BakaWolf-M33W release in in HD, I just had the time to start it now and wanted to tell you BoC
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    Interesting development so far. I like where this is going.
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    waaahaa... i want my 720p back 8[

    this series is so nice... however what is this "I need you to collect tears for me" thing and all that stuff about.. what is Noe trying to do? i don't understand that girl at all

    Shinichiro did even dream about here at the beginning of the first episode when he was talking about something like "i want to make a necklace out of your tears and hang it around a tree" and then this girl (Noe) shows up in his mind looking up a large tree... hm..hmm...

    the first episode was weird anyways.. after the scene with the bathroom he grabbed for the handkerchief-box i thought he's going to masturbate but he just made his masterpiece of art: "the chicken box"
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    This is the only new show I'm watching the second half and I'm also not a very big person on this type of anime and I have to say, I'm loving it. Very satisfied so far.

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  17. Mon, 01-21-2008, 04:02 AM #17
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    Those in hurry could have watched it already a while ago, but I prefer the h264 releases these days.

    Episode 3 h264 - BakaWolf-m.​3.​3.​w
    Episode 3 xvid - BakaWolf-m.​3.​3.​w
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  18. Mon, 01-21-2008, 08:38 AM #18
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    poor shin ichiro... why didn't he run away to avoid the "i-just-heard-what-you-said-about-me-so -I-will-rape-you-at-night" scene :/

    next episode will be interesting!

    btw how many episodes does this series have? i hope ~25... but because of the quality i think there arn't more than 12..
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  19. Mon, 01-21-2008, 10:13 AM #19
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    I guess he was too much in a shock to have run away immediately. I doubt he predicted Hiromi would right away come his way after saying those words.

    It was interesting development to say the least. Shinichiro was Hiromi's ally in the family, with his mother disliking the fact Hiromi is there and the father probably ending up being somewhat neutral in order to not piss off either side. I wonder how it will go on from now on. Although Shinichiro doesn't look like a scumbag who would now make things hard for her, but who knows what's going to happen. She was his dream girl after all.
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  20. Thu, 01-24-2008, 06:55 PM #20
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    I'm really liking this series All the characters are likable (I have a soft spot for Noe, weird + cute = funny), the story is kinda laid-back and relaxing, and the animation is great.

    For Shinichiro, I guess in a way, if he wanted to be with Hiromi, he should've done it a lot sooner. I don't know if it has been mentioned, but it seems to me that they have been living together for quite a while now, yet they're not really close. That probably gave Hiromi the impression that he was not interested in developing some sort of friendship or the likes.

    Well, let's just wait for ep4 and see what happens ^_^
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