Tag Archives: Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara

What if her flag were jejune?

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Happy Endings Are Crowd Pleasers, and Savvy Stories Tell The Crowd That It Will Be Pleased

If the story is going to be contrived anyway, it might as well have a happy ending. There’s nothing stupider than writing a badly contrived plot just to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Episode 10: Her Tsundere is over 9000! 9000? [crushes scouter]

Maybe it’s not a well-written show, but it’s a very quotable show.

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Episode 9: Heavy Plot Dumps, Few Laughs — and by contrast, Knights of Sidonia can do flashbacks with much greater skill

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Was that a Nyaruko reference?

I can only assume that the writers and actors are big fans of Nyaruko: http://myanimelist.net/anime/11785/Haiyore!_Nyaruko-san/characters

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Nietzsche? In my brainless harem show? It’s more likely than you think.

The writing is all over the place, and most of the voice acting is uneven at best. There are so many characters that none of them have to try very hard to do a complete job, and thus they start … Continue reading

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If her Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara breaks into harem territory, you can drop the show

Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara looks like a pretty standard romantic polygon harem show – the brooding protagonist has a convenient superpower to explain why people are so one-sidedly attracted to him, which is nice.

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