Hundreds of years from now, surviving humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity. Nothing new to see there. She is perhaps best known for her previous work, Toradora, which has garnished worldwide attention. all the soundtrack beyond that were mostly forgettable. If things look as if they're going to be alright, the amnesia will pop its head up and go "not on my watch, pal". 2. That and the fact that the two leads are fantastic characters (which we will get into later) make Golden Time a truly special show. The feeling I had throughout the anime could be summed as: "if only the main character would behave as a normal person and stop putting up with every single thing the other one keeps doing. Koko's erstwhile love interest, Mitsuo, sticks around as part of the nucleus of the series "Scooby gang", while video-game-otaku classmate Takaya (always called by his nickname 2D-kun for his preference for fictional relationships over real ones) and token mini-moe film club girl Chinami round out the central cast. But just as he is beginning to adjust to his college life, the beautiful … an anime based off the light novel and manga of the same name written by Yuyuko Takemiya. Is it to make a statement? Created by Brad Wright. But on the other hand, when it comes to his relationship with Koko, when there's a communication issue, the two will usually have the conversation you wish they'd have. Press Room Golden Time is basically an enjoyable, if sometimes frustrating, ride. The prolific producer, who took home a Golden … By far the character who develops the most in the series is the female lead, Koko. Golden Time's fearlessness in quickly establishing a relationship, and following it for the majority of the show is what makes it so special. Many people might think this is a spoiler, but anyone with a pair of eyes can predict Banri x Koko after watching 30 seconds of the OP. Even the resolution feels contrived and awkward, and therefore that much less satisfying in the end. Season 15 Episode 6 is titled “ Golden Time ” Here is the synopsis from … As such, it's not entirely certain why said amnesia aggravates us; it's weirdly specific, created solely to drive the drama, and is about as far removed as real amnesia as it could possibly be. One could easily assume it's quite telling that the creator of ToraDora is behind this one, since both shows start out by having the main female lead attack someone. Add onto this the questionable decision making of some of our characters, the the story is far from perfect. Golden Time has a medium pacing, which is fair enough. Had JC staff put a better team on this show’s production (or some other more competent staff all together) it could have went down as possibly the greatest romcom anime of all time. There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. 1,350 11 Best New Movies on Netflix… Recommended Audience: The show is a bit weird about its fanservice. And crazily enough, once Koko comes to the realisation that she might be a bit... dominating, she makes quite a good fit for blank slate Banri. Carlos: I too had problems with Banri's amnesia, because that's not actually how amnesia works in real life - instead what we are subjected to bears far more resemblance to a cross between the frustratingly inane spirit-possession of Natsuyuki Rendezvous and the very worst "amnesia" tropes of American daytime soap operas, threatening to wipe out every iota of character development at any given time in the latter half of the show. Read reviews on Golden Time on Crunchyroll. Banri had been shown taking medications after and not before his first relapse, so what should have been a smooth road for the narrative instead became one scarred by potholes (plot holes). Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. The devil's in the details though, and I have to wonder if the replacement of real-life psychological phenomena with what almost seems like non-proverbial demons is simply symptomatic of a lack of understanding of the human mind or just a bad case of poetic license ruining what is otherwise a wonderful story. One of the strongest points of Golden Timeis its constantly evolving characters. We sent two of our critics to report back. None of the main cast are static and are thus always changing based on their experiences in the anime. In other words, both shows have a female lead that ... doesn't make the best of first impressions. Banri, who has amnesia, has a problem with her identity. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. About ©2021 All Rights Reserved. That not all love stories end with the viewer pleased in the character's decision? It bears pointing out that, unlike said milquetoast leads, however, Banri does at least seem to have a will of his own, because you need a will like that to make stupid, stupid mistakes. rather disappointed by the series' sound overall. What I really hated about Golden Time, however, is the story and characters, and I'll talk about the story first, because I have to save the worst for last. 2. Banri Tada is a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo. On the whole, though, I rather enjoyed this. ", and then ends with a "yes!" 1,474 Whistledown and Dirty: 'Bridgerton's 10 Sexiest Scenes This story has been shared 1,350 times. Stig: Curiously enough, Koko eventually gets the clue when Mitsuo publically and quite loudly rejects her... again, and we suppose even her tenacity and storage of denial has its limits. FAQ Read reviews on the anime Golden Time on MyAnimeList, the internet's largest anime database. I'll admit, at times the plot is so character-driven and lacking of actual motion that it feels like nothing's happening. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu 2nd Season Part 2. present with Koko, and this internal conflict of finding his true identity is what drives this story forward. Golden Time seemingly starts off as your run of the mill romantic comedy and it really remains just that for the better half of the series. The girl was found and raised by Seo Tae Soo as one of his twin daughters Seo Ji Ahn and Seo Ji Soo, They grew up rich but their father bankrupted and they had to experience the hard life of a dirt spoon. Netflix, which recently cut ties with House of Cards star Kevin Spacey amid allegations of sexual assault and harassment, seems to have lost the plot in another area: This video will explain it … a well-thought plot that able to describe the true feelings of the story itself. MyAnimeList.net is a property of MyAnimeList Co.,Ltd. But this anime is a polished story that can be enjoyed. Sadly, the story fails in its progression and pacing. Could this be chalked up to his amnesia? The circumstances triggering his condition were too variable and opportune, apathetic to foreshadowing and logical parameters. Moreover, the characters are quite human. Although in reality there may be no such thing as a ghostly past. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Golden Time (2013) is available on Netflix United States. Recommended Audience: The show is a bit weird about its fanservice. Do Not Sell My Personal Information Advertising After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Scandal, intrigue, and schemes abound in this period drama. Martin Scorsese directs this Netflix original comedy special exploring the enduring legacy of Emmy-winning sketch comedy show "SCTV." Banri Tada lost all of his memories after an accident where a scooter knocked him off a bridge and the resulting fall sent him straight to the hospital. I'm pretty sure most people can relate to this anime to some degree but if you can't then you will just be confused about why these people are acting like maniacs. Today, The Problems With: Golden Time! for "Golden Time", but whatever), and now you'll ask, "What's the problem with that? Set the time and put it on. It is downright baffling why our main lead seems to take an interest in the girl, even if it is mostly due to pity, though her being stunningly gorgeous probably doesn't hurt either. Carlos: While I enjoyed the rest of the cast, really in the end, it all comes back to the rapport between Banri and Koko. Support Which it did. The golden time travel sphere, or simply known as the sphere, is a time travel apparatus used mostly by the travelers of Eva's world. Whatever the case, the characters and ending thoroughly disappointed me. While the songs aren't as immeadiately catchy as their album Cry, after a few spins in the CD player each track carves a little place in your heart and is irreplacable. (Yazawa-sensei, please come back and finish that series already!). Season 1 of Voice is out on Netflix in several countries from March 1, 2020. Golden Time is basically an enjoyable, if sometimes frustrating, ride. However, after befriending Mitsuo Yanagisawa, he decides to move on and begin a new life at law school in Tokyo. — Carlos Ross and Stig Høgset. I'm Standing On A Million Lives (Season One). Really, no matter my mood I've found that Golden Time is an enjoyable listen, and has maintained status as one of my favorite albums. Unlike Ryuuji, however, our main lead for Golden Time is a bit of a milquetoast. Despite Koko's attitude to love, destiny and obsessive-compulsive planning of futures, the show's attitude to the process of love and dating is curiously mature, especially compared to most anime's way of putting that stuff on auto pilot. And to make things worse, we have a less satisfy forced ending. But how about Golden time? The third episode has an unnerving one-episode arc about a school club that's uncomfortably close to a sect that keeps its potential initiates captive, probably meant as a fictionalization of Scientology or one of the Japanese New Religions such as Aum Shinrikyo or Happy Science. This is where Mitsuo, being the lean, muscular guy that he is, also brings a little something for the ladies. The show wields the character trait like a huge war hammer, demolishing the mood like the rocks in the training sequence from Turkish Star Wars, shrapnel flying everywhere. Golden Time however throws that cliche bullshit out the window and paints a vivid picture of how fucking crazy real relationships can get. … However, season 1 has 16 episodes so it should last you a while. It manifests as a shadowy ghost at first, but will later intrude more directly, and never for the better. I'm assuming if you are buying this you have atleast seen part of the anime and already know what you're buying. Said amnesia doesn't completely kill the show, but it leads to many a facepalm moment during the last half -- mostly because it becomes the sole go-to instigator for drama -- so that part got a bit wearisome to get through. Golden Time (ゴールデンタイム, Gōruden Taimu) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Ēji Komatsu.The series includes 11 volumes published by ASCII Media Works between September 2007 and March 2011, and incorporates romantic comedy and supernatural themes. Fuck, shit, bitch, dick, pussy, damn—these words provide the episode titles and subject matter for Netflix’s History Of Swear Words. But the boldness to follow a relationship for 20 episodes and execute it in a way that made you thoroughly care about it is just too much to give the story anything less than very high praise. Stig: I actually liked the first half of Golden Time a lot once Koko got over her hangup and the two started dating. When i did have time to contact golden timepieces they said "sorry, past the 30 time … However, due to an accident, … You get the discs, a case, and cover art. you saw them you were blown-away.) Now, the first few episodes give off much more of a comedy vibe than a dramatic one which may have turned a lot of people away from the show. Anima Dir: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON Released in 2019, alongside Thom Yorke’s album of the same name, this silent movie homage sees the Radiohead frontman strut, stutter and swirl through a well-choreographed universe of drone-like humans. ‘Selena: The Series’ Review: Netflix’s Biopic Fails to Give Star a Voice The series leaves Selena muted and little more than the goose who laid the golden egg. Notice at Collection Like all of Sentai's releases, the release is very minimalistic. All is fair in love and war according to the official trailer for Netflix's new series Bridgerton. They all make mistakes and try to learn from them—though this is often a constant struggle. Many have argued over which romantic comedy is better, Toradora, or Golden Time. In other words, plenty to look forward to, if you become a fan. even when it finally got to that point something stupid would happen that would send me right back to diskling them. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. JC is one of those production house that often adapting romance-comedy manga into anime, Bakuman and Ano natsu is one of their success romance comedy anime. It should feel like more of a mature environment but for the most part, I completely forgot until words like "lecture" were mentioned. If the mere term of "amnesia" makes you shudder, then don't worry; your fears are quite justified. The voices and background music are recorded and mixed properly, but considering that we've got 2014 and good recordings are cheap that's a given. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautiful, yet obsessive, Kouko Kaga. have been more effective. It allows for travel through not only time but also space and dimensions (worlds). 25 years ago, Haesung group lost their grand daughter Choi Eun Seok. The beginning episodes up to around 13 or 14 have an incredibly slow pace. Two women in their 70s decide to come out to their families and get married, sparking chaos — and threatening a … And there, we have a very typical conflict, the problem is not the typical fact, but the level plausibility of the conflict, various watchers maybe annoy by the conflict that inserted in this series, which can bring some soap opera in your brain + think this is a typical drama TV shows, which makes Golden Time have no originality in the conflict sides. Privacy Again; creator of ToraDora at work. The use of tons of romcom cliches (amnesia as a plot device, sad childhood friend, half-assed love triangle, misunderstandings as source of conflict) was constant and just as poorly done as the attempts to make the whole thing stand out from other bad, stereotypical romcoms. Koko, on the other hand, is ... very appropriately named, mostly because I imagine that she's going to come across as a few beans short of a cocoa puff for a couple of episodes. Perhaps it's because the writer is showing that the character has control over their story, not the writer like most people think. sets this apart is the college setting. to a maximum. Carlos: The disappointing thing about both this and its predecessor ToraDora is that we have great characters and a great love affair which get bogged down by details and drama. But after Banri's past is revealed, and his relationship with Koko blossoms, the show kicks into full gear. All rights reserved. Terms He also learn friendship and love. The show was produced by Shonda Rhimes Underestimate Shonda Rhimes at your own peril, is what I like to say. There, he meets and befriends Mitsuo Yanagisawa, who's got a problem of his own; his girlfriend, Koko Kaga, has followed him there, as the two are destined to marry, she feels, and isn't about to take no for an answer. Not a review, but close enough! As for the guys; Koko is a stylish woman, and while she isn't prone to wearing boob-windowed outfits, they don't exactly hide her voluptuous figure either. The annoyances we had with the amnesia angle don't completely manage to kill the show for us, but do keep this from being great. The show then gets into the groove of bringing her and Banri together, which is easily the show's strongest part. Season 2 has 12 episodes while season 3 also has 16 episodes. There are also occasional and almost invariably hilarious scenes involving a mysterious upperclassman punk rock singer known only as "Nana-senpai" who is for all intents and purposes a 24-7 cosplayer of exactly the character she sounds like. Not really, since the show quickly makes sure to point out that, even before the accident, his personality wasn't really all that different. The story and the conflict doesn't truly develop until around episode 17 to 18, and most of the beginning seems like filler. It kind of turns into a tool to inject barriers when characters are too sensible, which kind of gets in the way of more honest and understandable mistakes that the characters make throughout the story, which they also sort out with the thoughtfulness and maturity you normally don't get in romantic drama. There isn't much in the conventional way, like nudity or cameras at iffy angles, but we do get our prerequisite beach episode (with surprising outcome) and one (or maybe two) of the episodes partially take place in a birthday party for a group of people who are crossdressers or transsexuals. BEST OF Arts & Review. As a romantic comedy, I thought Golden Time could do no wrong and I was hooked. Her opening scene is literally her walking up and slapping the destined love of her life with a bouquet of roses, and then proceeds to spend the next couple of episodes stalking him and making general crazy talk about destiny and whatnot. © 1996-2015 THEM Anime Reviews. This story has been shared 1,474 times. Koko and Banri's relationship suddenly appears out of nowhere, and I was quite confused on how that even happened; while it is clear from the opening theme that Koko and Banri are the main couple of the show, the anime doesn't present their relationship with an appropriate pacing. Or it could also be a story that might happen to people who have amnesia. It's a shame, because the handling of the amnesia angle could have been really interesting, but instead devolves into a simplistic and overdramatized duty vs. desire scenario that just isn't very compelling and honestly doesn't even make that much sense. My review for this collection is strictly based on the product itself and not the actual series. Due to confusion about identity, maybe people with amnesia will often hallucinate to meet themselves in the past and assume that they are different figures who are fighting for positions in order to live in the world. 0 /5000 generic in anime industry. Directed by Takuya Inaba. In this case, at its core, Golden Time is a bright, shining example of how to portray a mature relationship - that is to say, lovers who are great friends and equals rather than just objects to just gaze upon. The last part of the anime attempts to cram in everything important in the series, and this results in a rushed conclusion. hindered by a few missteps and poor production. Kristen Lopez While it never gets to the point of ruining the show, it really wrecks the pacing, forcing unnatural cliffhangers and bogging down development until circumstances demand a conclusion. The story is pretty stable and I think from time to time the story might get little bit confusing or maybe shaky. With Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson. Did not have time to address with company due to traveling for work. Supernatural’s “Golden Time” saw the return of fan favorite Shoshannah Stern aka Eileen, and not just for a couple seconds as a ghost.She was resurrected, gave us all the feels, and reminded us of how badass this woman truly is. An old TV set find itself abandoned in a junkyard. #Supernatural The Final Season Golden Time S15E6 Preview via @stacyamiller85 @jarpad @JensenAckles @cw_spn Supernatural returns for its final season on October 10, 2019. Now, there are plenty of head-scratching plot devices that don't really do anything but confuse the viewer until they are resolved in the final episode. Find out where The Golden Girls is streaming, if The Golden Girls is on Netflix, and get news and updates, on Decider. Both episodes continue the walk down memory lane as the show revisits two characters from its past. Still, this didn't stop him from recuperating physically and later attending law school in Tokyo, though with no memories whatsoever from what happened before. But while Taiga Aisaka's attack was made due to a misplaced love letter, and done by way of a wooden sword, Koko's tool of attack is a boquet of roses (with the thorns removed, as the show makes sure to point out later on.). Mostly Koko, because veteran seiyuu Yui Horie does such a fantastic job selling the character, down to all of her quirks, because she is clearly not your run-of-the-mill debutante. Stig: There are shadows on the horizon, though, and they all bear the name of Banri's amnesia. because it doesn't really rely on any specific plot quirk to tell its story, with little-to-no fan service, realistic character designs (okay maybe not the one pink-haired chick), realistic drama that isn't overtly melodramatic, and just in general unique characters that feel like real humans and don't rely on character tropes. It's funny and does the job so who's to say that's a bad thing if you know that's what you've signed up for when you pressed play on episode one? Privacy Settings ", the problem, which I'm very surprised nobody talked about it, is that to "cure" this type of amnesia it's not enough to simply be told personal experiences and/or his identity, -which in Golden Time is well done, Tada Banri didn't suddenly remember everything when Linda told him stuff about the past- instead this amnesia can be and is usually cured due to "Spontaneous recovery", which is described as "Spontaneous recovery is the reemergence of a response that had been previously conditioned", which basically means that he (Tada Banri) would eventually remember all his past due to the fact that he already lived it, which we all now that that happens in the last moments of episode 23. person not knowing your past life. For me, watching the progression of the core relationship made this show the must-watch show of my week through a great part of the fall and spring 2013-2014 seasons. Watch arrived after 6 weeks after ordering. Checked the time an hour or so later and it was not working. At the start of the show, she defines her l… GOLDEN TIME – NETFLIX Golden Time is a beautiful and sentimental Japanese animated film of a recently discarded television set, who’s trying to change his fate. Due to a tragic accident, Banri Tada is struck with amnesia, dissolving the memories of his hometown and past. Instead, it just goes down as a great romantic comedy anime that if you can get past the technical inadequacy and the flaws in pacing will surely please. Cookie Given how I remember my own college-age "golden time" ... that may not be too far off the mark. The anime achieved success but now it’s Golden Time’s turn to shine. ... ‘The Life Ahead’ Review: A Golden Age Star in a Film Without Filters ... and the camera isn’t kind to her face in Netflix’s “The Life Ahead.” That’s by design. And as someone who focuses mainly on character writing when watching/reading something, the way the two of them were handled was really all I needed in this show. I found that really refreshing. Despite the shadow of amnesia looming overhead, the relationship forming between Banri and Koko was both sweet and curiously respectful towards either of them. Looking to watch The Golden Girls? Please do not use ALL CAPS. Netflix's '80s-set horror blockbuster remade part of downtown L.A. for a pandemic-era, drive-through event. Stig: Which means that, normally, I would have ditched this show like a glowing piece of metal being dropped into my hands, but since I already knew what was mentioned in the notes section, I chose not to in the hopes that it would improve later on. So My Grandma’s a Lesbian! Yes, in this anime, the main character actually ends up dating the girl (and quite early on at that). And we're all in the danger zone. Your review may be edited for content. 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