Nineteen 19

Subject: Nineteen 19 2010-03-05, 22:39

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Title: Nineteen 19

Nineteen 19 11143

Status : Complete

Episode count : 1

Genre : Romance

And that is where both the disappointment and the novel value of this tape come out. This is because the atmosphere is done from the shounen (male) point of view, both in the story and in the ambiance. Thus those of us familiar with how 'shoujo' (for girls) romances are supposed to work will find this a different, and almost annoying, experience. The lead character is an interesting male image, largely silent he never seems to quite have the words to say what he's thinking, even in the multiple one-sided romantic conversations that occur. He's strongly physically attracted to this girl (and wouldn't mind losing his virginity) but his own sense of honor, of how things should be handled (and some story interruptions) conflict with this. At the same time we are never given a clear idea of what the woman is thinking, which becomes irritating because we can't understand what is going on any better than the male lead.

In the end there is a resolution which is sudden, suprising, unsatisfying and unclear...exactly how such an event might really occur. Indeed it is so abrupt that I had to wonder whether the translation was tripping me up. Still, it is very possible that I am reading far to much into a drab, slow-moving and unromantic anime, so be warned. The movie runs for about 40 minutes, the visual style is older and very dark, there is little action and dialogue that I hope was intentionally restricted. The production on this tape is not impressive, and a whole heap of people will probably hate it with good reason, but as a potential shounen answer to the dominant shoujo influence in romantic anime it may contain more than meets the eye.

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*Credits : Vampire

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