kimikiss pure rouge 14-15: The perils of close combat
Posted by: Owen S in Anime, tags: Honey and Clover, kimikiss pure rougeThis, my friends, is how the ideal blogosphere should be (all links open in a new window). An epic show, bloggers inspired to write about it, bloggers writing said inspired posts that are so inspirational, they inspire other bloggers to write posts that are even more inspired than ever, so much that they up the ante on the anticipation factor every week. As it is, despite my 100~ odd posts that I still need to read, posts I still need to write, and a backlog still looming, I can’t resist stopping the presses for kimikiss. It’s that good.
To kick things off, if I may an analogy: assuming that relationships are like battles of the physical variety, then Honey and Clover was a sniping one. It had the occasional epic stand-off and various impasses, feints, and manoeuvres that made it all the more exciting, as self-respecting snipers are wont to do when they go at it. It was hard-hitting, like a shot from an AWP generally does on a human body — being on the receiving edge of one one too many times during CounterStrike, I should know. For all purposes it was powerful, even if it took a long time to resolve.
kimikiss, on the other hand, has been visceral. It started off like any other skirmish before degenerating into an outright war, and the stakes are getting higher as time passes, like the four Gundam Meisters being held up for half a day or so in their mechs. While H&C had lofty ambitions that worked and wasn’t contrived or anything, I do think that the two sets of triangles were “safer” in the sense that they were pre-defined in their boundaries. You didn’t see Morita suddenly deciding to take that hand-holding consoling with Yamada to another level, or Mayama suddenly giving Hagu the once-over. All that crossover possibility was sealed off pretty nicely.







