![]() ![]() It’s totally cool when you drop by, with a pretext of checking out some harmless video game, and drop a line that you know will do something to poke a friend who’s down. Sometimes you have to pry, other times you’re just being annoying. Some of my friends talk about themselves, others don’t. Sometimes, when you are with friends, it’s just silence. (And also “just how much lolicon pandering was this suppose to be?”) But that’s a prime example of a very real moment. Yes, that was what I was thinking, about Mucchi, while she was eating her ice pop in that summertime episode. It could be a criticism or a praise, but it’s irony either way. In a pastel-color world with gradient hair and happy-go-lucky carebears, subtlety can only be detected as far as it is put out there to be seen. Also I just think a lot about these kinds of stupid things, the things just out of reach but not out of sight. In fact in FutaAlt that’s part of how it drags the series down–UFOTable spent way too much time trying to show you something subtle without telling you what it was.īack in Manabi Straight, Mucchi especially was a subtle character that glowed with realism and its matching subtlety that made her easily my favorite out of the 5 if not for Mikan’s overpowering cuteness and Momo’s equally subtle but totally unreal characterization.īeing the fanboy that I am, I am probably a little too much to ask for to review the ins and outs of an UFOTable title. If you look at Futakoi Alternative or Coyote Ragtime Show, there are a lot of subtle stuff they play with but also hide. Even if we take into account of the OAV episode we’ve only scratched the surface of the massive potential. In fact we started at Mei, then Mikan…and stopped at Mikan, at least formally. Episode 4 and Mei showed how it was possible, but unexpectedly we didn’t really do a round robin of character expose. In just 12 episodes there have been a lot of character development and realization. One example that comes to mind is the realization of Manabi Straight’s inter-character dramatic potential. Or perhaps, it salvages itself from them? I’m not sure. It also utilizes a team of directors that rotate on working on each episode, breathing life into the work but also mirroring that team spirit told within the show.īut like other UFOTable works, Manabi Straight shares some similar shortfalls. For starters, it is something conceived by some folks at UFOTable and serialized as manga at first. Manabi Straight is an interesting organism in that it is not produced by the same process your typical TV animation is. Maybe I can say something about UFOTable. And a good joke explained is rarely funny anymore. Sometimes I fear that the more I talk about it, the more it gets cheapened. So why am I talking about Manabi Straight besides I like it a lot? I don’t know.
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