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Fuuka – 12 (Fin)
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 25 Mar 2017 Format GalleryCategories Anime Reviews, Fuuka, Winter 2017Tags akitsuki fuuka, bass, concert, concerts, 風夏, haruna yuu, hinashi koyuki, idol, iwami sara, just friends, love triangle, lyrics, misunderstanding, mock review, nachi kazuya, practice, quitting, support, trouble, twitter, unrequited love, working hard1 Comment on Fuuka – 12 (Fin)
Fuuka – 11
Ay Caramba was that a jumbled mess of an episode, full of people being selfish and awful, other people being pushed and pulled around like ragdolls, people saying things no normal people would ever say out loud, and peppered with seemingly even more superfluous fanservice than usual.
First up, Fuuka, who leaves the band she forced everyone into to begin with to sign a contract with a studio. You know she's leaving the band because it's too painful to be around Yuu, and I know that too, but Yuu doesn't, because he's an idiot.
This isn't about pursuing her dreams. You can tell because throughout this episode she's sad and saying out loud "I AM MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE HERE," as if trying in vain to convince herself.
As for the other girl whose feelings for him Yuu is totally unaware, Koyuki surprises him when he's moping in the dark his bedroom, presumably a few days later. When Koyuki learns why he's blue, she tells him it's for the best, how she wants to be on stage with him, no matter how much he sucks at bass, then opens her blouse and pounces on him.
Yuu is just not feelin' it, and Koyuki starts to sob, talking about how she knew she wasn't the one, how she knew about the feelings he doesn't know he has, and how he needs to "be honest with himself" before leaving the site of her almost comically brief and awkward attempt at seduction. I feel bad for Koyuki, not because she was rejected so utterly, but that she likes a schlub like Yuu in the first place.
Yuu isn't just a schlub: he's also a deeply selfish, destructive person. Mind you, it feels like only a few days have passed, but all the other members of the band have already moved on to other things; Fuuka was the now-absent glue that held them together. Without her, Nachi goes back to focusing on track, Mikasa prepares to move back home and be the finance bro his dad wants him to be, and the talented Sara instantly finds another band to play in.
The wound of the short-lived The Fallen Moon (ugh) is healing nicely for everyone…except Yuu. The band was, apparently, all he had, so he tears it back open, writing a song that "contains all his feelings" (ARRGH) and delivers them to the members one by one in person, totally ignoring their firm yet polite attempts to decline.
Mikasa's egregiously soapy-yet-oddly robotic monologue to Yuu borders on self-parody:
Sorry, Yuu…I'd moved out of my family's home as a rebellion against my father, but that's over now too. I've decided to listen to my father. He's literally promised me a happy future! So I won't have to suffer or stress myself out chasing pointless dreams anymore!
Who talks like that? Who wrote this drivel??
Yuu doesn't give a shit what you're up to now. HE wants the band back together, and he knows if they just hear his song, they'll come running back to Denny's. And of course, one by one, the rubes prove Yuu right.
"You're absolutely right Yuu! How silly of us to move on with our own lives after the most talented, charismatic member of our band quit. Let's re-form the band on the recommendation of the least talented and charismatic member!" What are these people, lemmings?
The only one he's not able to immediately bring back is the one who he let leave in the first place without a word of complaint, saying at the time, "if it's her decision, there's nothing we can do." Moping in the dark, getting jumped by Tama-chan, and pouring his feelings into a song have changed him. Now he wants the band back, Fuuka included. Everyone has to do what he says, dammit!
It's tricky, though, because Fuuka, perhaps not ready to face the band she started then abandoned, is using her mom to screen visitors to her house. She mopes much like Yuu mopes, clutching his feelings-song in her hands, insisting she's on the right path despite all outward evidence to the contrary, to say nothing of the turmoil in her head.
The insinuation is that, like Yuu had been doing until now, Fuuka isn't being honest with herself. So go ahead, pursue your dreams as far as your talents will take you…but only until Yuu incessantly hounds you to return to the band. You're done with the band when he TELLS you you're done.
I don't like this show anymore!
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 17 Mar 2017 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Fuuka, Winter 2017Tags akitsuki fuuka, bass, concert, concerts, 風夏, haruna yuu, hinashi koyuki, idol, iwami sara, just friends, love triangle, lyrics, misunderstanding, nachi kazuya, practice, quitting, support, trouble, twitter, unrequited love, working hard2 Comments on Fuuka – 11
Fuuka – 01 (First Impressions)
Twitterphile Haruna Yuu has moved to Tokyo with his younger sister to live with his two older sisters. In a misunderstanding, a blue-haired girl breaks his phone; he later transfers to her class. After more interactions, the girl comes to trust Yuu, gives him her name, Akitsuki Fuuka.
She accompanies him to a movie, the theme to which is sung her favorite idol (and Yuu's childhood friend) Hinashi Koyuki. After a surprisingly pleasant date, Yuu gets a cryptic photo text from Koyuki, asking if he remembers her.
From the creator of Suzuka and Kimi no Iru Machi (Seo Kouji) comes Fuuka, about a guy with an unconventional family situation, an old friend who is now a celebrity, and a weird but charming girl with which he gets off to a rough start, but gets smoother as the episode progresses.
The episode is the same way, relying on a super-lame upskirt photo-based misunderstanding that's followed up by a second instance of Yuu pointing his camera at Fuuka and just happening to catch a glimpse of her panties.
This is a show with the sheen of a serious, naturalistic romantic drama, but too often leans on exaggerated actions and coincidences that strain credulity.
It doesn't help that while he seems to be a nice guy, Yuu is pretty dull, and is more defined by outward things, like his many sisters who don't mind being undressed around him, or his patently awful Twitter feed. No one cares what you're doing every waking moment, brah.
As charming as she is, Fuuka also seems at times to be trying too hard to be the hyper sporty weird girl. Minorin you ain't, kid.
Still, neither party is as loathsome as the couple from Kimi no Iru Machi, but I have a feeling the could become so at some point, as the love triangle forms. For now, I'm still barely on the guy's side. I'm just hoping the fact that Fuuka's favorite singer being Yuu's childhood (and likely another love interest as well) doesn't collapse under the weight of its own coincidence.
The idol herself was only on the margins of the episode, lurking; I imagine we may see more of her in the next episode…which I'll be reviewing soon, as it aired right after the first. For now, I'm hedging.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 6 Jan 2017 Fri, 6 Jan 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Fuuka, Winter 2017Tags akitsuki fuuka, childhood friend, 風夏, family, first date, haruna yuu, hinashi koyuki, idol, lucky, niko-chan, odd couple, romance, sisters, smartphone, tama-chan, tokyo, track star, twitter, yelling