Comments on: Rabid Kanon Fans Blow Hot Air or Illogical Harem Hate

By: zrdb

zrdb — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:20:23 +0000

This Kanon compare very favorably wit the originial, angst mixed in with humour. The characters are the big draw for me, i like the story-YES,there is a story! I loved Air so it’s just natural that I’d go for this. 24 episodes is gonna make for some interesting plot developments. 13 episodes in the originial just didn’t give enough room for some of the characters to grow-more is better!

By: houkoholic

houkoholic — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:52:16 +0000

dsong: There is a central theme to Kanon and it’s common to all the girls, you’re just not reading it yet (or confusing that with plot). Plus it serves no purpose to have yet another Ayu/Nayuki centred Kanon, because that would just make Kanon yet another harem show (or just Toei Kanon with Kyoani artwork, for what it’s worth), which I can assure you it is not.

The story point is moot like omo had pointed out. The draw of Kanon is to see how the girls work – what make them the person that they are now, and how Yuuichi plays in that process.

By: omo

omo — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:29:17 +0000

Plot this plot that? Who cares? Plenty of people love Love Hina; or School Rumble…what’s the plot in that?

The point is that we have interesting characters with interesting backstories. Kanon is character-driven.

By: dsong

dsong — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:26:32 +0000

Note, I haven’t given up on this series quite yet. Giving up on a 24-episode after episode 7 is jumping the gun a bit. Heck, D.C. ~ Da Capo didn’t get going until episode 16, so I’m determined to give Kanon the same chance. I still believe that this show will get better.

Personally I don’t think the anime will really start to move until we start hitting the Ayu/Nayuki arcs. Hopefully, by that time, we will learn more about the girls, and some of them will start growing a backbone. I just hope KyoAni won’t wait much longer before implementing major portions of the Ayu/Nayuki arcs – that WILL give this animation the central theme it lacks. Personally I think KyoAni would’ve been better served focusing on these two girls and push the rest of the characters into the background – it may have dissatisfied Kanon die-hards, but it would’ve made for a more interesting plot for the newcomers.

By: omo

omo — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:57:47 +0000

“At this point” as in two-seventh way through the entire series? Fair enough. I guess by the middle of episode 4 we have already seen “more liveliness, personality, and variety” in the characters of AIR anime? Perhaps, perhaps not. I don’t remember what my impression was at the time. I do remember that the characters were reminding me how the Kanon girls acted.

I don’t disagree with you as far as lacking a central story. But Kanon the original game lacked a central story, and it seems ludicrous to expect that in the ever-so-faithful adaptation.

All this discussion is good, though. I remember talking to Jeff Lawson about it and he would bring up AIR, back a few weeks before Kyoani’s Kanon aired. It made no sense to me why he’d do that, and I had a hard time telling him, also later when Kanon started airing, that looking at it form the AIR perspective didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Oh well.