Well, cant say I really kept my hopes too high for this. For one, the animu's character design and art is seriously bad compared to VN. VN was probably too outstandingly beautiful on its own right, so its not a point to lament over about.
Hmm, the story tweaks. Would have loved if they sticked to the original content more faithfully, Mio's pretty afraid of mounting the horses unless she's with Takahiro at first, animu made it very natural. Sequence of events are messed up, the rpae house obviously didnt appear in VN. Things were blown extremely fast, the debut episode effectively covered the 70% of trial version of the original game, which meant a major cram and skip of contents. Encounters with Lisa and the other members are not made yet, the other heroines only have a short air-time in the episode. Where the heck is Kyle anyway? Seems like he got completely omitted from the animu, too bad.
Side note, animu's portraying Takahiro as quite the emo and lost kid? I kinda like his overall feel in the show, he's much taller and bigger in VN, but animu size-wise, he looks good (except for the face). Takahiro's pretty much more easy-going at this point. They kept some of his traits, but he's certainly not a emo kid. Heck, he can have a clown friend and still do tea parties in libraries. I am puzzled. New guy seiyuu sounds ok.
Too fast, too much skip, stop holding the CTRL button please. I need my Shimizu/Mio moments, not getting enough because they changed the start. The dere scenes are almost all gone, which really appeals to all whom played the game, because Mio's simply the cutest girl at the start. Animu seem to add Akane as a heroine too, which makes the original novel of 4 wrong, although the FD is just around the corner. From pointers, looks like it will scale towards Mio route for the animu, something which I dont know whether would it sit well with the VN/fan community. I personally dont mind, but Mio's route was really too plain magic and nothing out of the norm, and is outshined by Noel and Celia. We will just have to see then.
OP's nice. Hashimoto Miyuki again and again will never fail. ED's a real beauty to behold. Thank you for the beautiful ending sequence and thank you to Asou Natsuko for the lovely song.
