Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na -Crescent Love- is the first anime that I have tackled in the Anime Spring Cleaning Challenge. This anime is based off of a visual novel that goes by the same name and it first aired in the fall of 2006. This is an interesting show that I have been wanting to watch for a really long and I finally got the chance. Many years had past since the great war between the Earth and the Moon. Tatsuya Asagiri is just your regular high school student that has dreams and aspirations to visit the Moon. One day when he returns home, he learns that his home will be hosting a Lunar exchange student. The person that will be staying with him and his sisters is the one and only Princess Feena Fam Earthlight. Will a romance rinse between Tatsuya and Feena? Will an intergalactic war be revived?The story, I found it to be weak. Imagine the story of Romeo and Juliet but strip all of the interesting parts, inject it with generic harem anime troupes that you have seen countless times, and throw it into space. This is what this anime is.The characters of this anime are pretty forgettable. Most of the time I would forget who's who. Tatsuya has the personally of wet toast, I have seen this type of character so many times that I don't even bother remembering his name. Only two characters did stand out for me, Feena and Natsuki. Natsuki is Tatsuya's stereotypical childhood friend that lives next door. She exhibited all the classic signs but, she did something different that got me by surprise. SPOILER TIME: She is interested in tatsuya and she's aware that so does Feena, but Natsuki backs off from pursuing Tatsuya because she knows that he has no feeling for her. That was a jaw dropper for me. SPOILER TIME IS OVER. As for Feena, she's pretty cute and I wouldn't mind owning a figure of her. This anime is known for its animation and not in a good way. Seeing scene shots of the original broadcast version is horrifying, its uglier than a cow that has been dead for five weeks in a river of feces. AS for the DVD version, it looks much better because it was completely redrawn. They're still a few scenes that look bad and chopping, but it can be ignored.Damn, seeing the original broadcast version and the DVD version side by side, its like night and day. Final thoughts, play the visual novel instead because you get a more deeper experience, the characters are more developed, and you get to see most of the female characters in the process. The next anime that I will be watching for the Anime Spring Cleaning Challenge is Project A-ko and Project A-ko VS.
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Back to Prologue Chapter 1 “…Hrm?” On the way back home from the academy… Asagiri Tatsuya was walking through the shopping district where he watched a girl dressed as a maid walk unsteadily in front of him. “Mia, is that you?” “Ah? Ta-Tatsuya-san.” Work in progress.
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Yes, you are so cute! So yeah, I thought Moonlight Cradle was just a remake of the original game with added scenes but apparently I was wrong. It’s a sequel so yeah this is awesome. I didn’t buy the game though. Yeah, who was I kidding? Paying $100 for something I would probably only go through [...]
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Prologue “Princess, the Earth has become quite big!” Mia Clementis said with a voice of excitement as she gazed outside the window. The highway ship that ties the Earth and Moon together 6 hours already left the connection port. From the Moon’s capital, everyday Mia looked up at the Earth, but now from the space ship’s [...]
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9. Mia Clementis I honestly don’t know anything about Mia’s back story or in depth inner character which really burns her down to two things on this list 1. Very cute and 2. Moeblob. Though, I am trying to actually pay attention more during the game. It’s tough to concentrate on something in another language that [...]
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Running time: half hour Number of episodes: 12 Vintage: 2006-10-04 to 2006-12-20 Age rating: ??? Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Shounen, Slice of Life Animation Production: Doumu Source: Anime News Network The Good: Nothing in particular. The Bad: There isn’t anything good in particular. Status: Dropped Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na -Crescent Love- is an average school romance story wrapped around some political issues with [...]
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Everyone from Earth and the Moon are watching the news about the battle which is about to start whilst Feena and Tatsuya enter the throne room. Hand in hand, Feena and Tatsuya walk up to Lyones and she says she has something to talk about. Lyones realises that Tatsuya is the person that Karen had [...]
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Karen and Tatsuya are heading towards the Moon, but come across a patrol group. But Karen simply flies off ahead of them before they could be apprehended. Flying by above the colonies, Tatsuya and Karen talk about their impressions of seeing the Moon and Earth for the first time. In the Royal Palace, Jurgen and Lyones [...]
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With Tatsuya injured, Feena has decided to return to the Sphere Kingdom to talk to her Father about Karen’s imprisonment. Arriving back at the palace, she is greeted by Jurgen who tries to detour Feena into a salon, but Feena says that the matter does not concern him, which makes Jurgen back off. Confronting her Father [...]
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Feena and Tatsuya are preparing breakfast for everyone. Mai and Mia are watching with Mia saying that they’ll hopefully be looking after her in the future, which makes Mai imagine Feena and Tatsuya being all lovey-dovey. During school, Midori comments on how Feena has been more pretty lately, but not in a sense of a princess [...]
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I don’t know if I can say the animation improved. It’s better than last week, but it still really sucks...
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Picking up from Tatsuya confessed to Feena, Feena is surprised and says that she also feels the same with Tatsuya, but doesn’t say it exactly. Tatsuya knows it’s not easy for a Princess to say those words and simply says he wants to be with her and wants to find out more about himself. At the [...]
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Whai Whai shows you how bad the animation is. And I mean, it’s REALLY bad. But the storyline of this episode isn’t too bad...
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Feena’s father is looking through videos of Feena but is interrupted when he receives a call from Feena herself. The two end up talking about Feena’s home stay and about Feena’s mother. Over dinner, Tatsuya and Feena find it hard to talk to each other. Feena tells the others that she won’t be attending school for [...]
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Cliché Cliché Cliché. Negotiations between Earth & Moon are going bad, and highly dependant on a successful homestay by princess Feena...
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Members from the Earth and Moon governments are in an argument, but the President calms them down saying that the only thing that should be hot is the tea. In the President’s office, she is shown images of a UFO but diverts the topic by asking Sayaka about how Feena is doing. But Sayaka tells [...]
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Slight redemption! While still far from perfection, YoakeYori is showing faint signs of redemption as its beach episode did not end up as a complete disaster. Though I’m still wary about the series as a whole since it’s pretty difficult to screw up a beach episode. And with next week’s episode preview showing it to [...]
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You’ll need coffee to get through this episode. The script writers must have been watching too much kanon. Add some Love Hina style promises, and you get Tatsuya + Feena...
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Flying cockroaches are THE WORST! Luckily, the princess hates them too.. which means…. that the big guns gets brought in to exterminate them...
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The group are at a beach and it’s the first time that Feena has worn a swimsuit. Karen is slightly embarrassed about showing off her swimsuit, so Jin tries to get her shirt but Karen smacks him into the ocean. Feena talks about how she came to Earth when she was little, and that makes Tatsuya [...]
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