#anyway unrelated but one thing i DO like about the intro and outro animations | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

sarinatendouji · 9 months

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honestly golden time would be a way better show if the opening and ending themes weren't entirely centered around banri and koko. by making koko the sole focus of the show, they make it seem as though there isn't even a slight possibility that banri could choose linda over koko, which really diminishes the effect of the emotional cheating drama when banri's feelings for linda resurface and koko witnesses it happen. really, i'd be all here for ghost!banri trying to ruin his present self's relationship with koko if the theme songs had just made the outcome a little more ambiguous! focusing on only one of the two love interests either makes it obvious from the beginning that the one girl wins, or it just ruins the ending if the other wins and it turns out that the intro/outro animations were a fake-out the whole time :|

#golden time #mar watches golden time #i mean it's possible that i'm missing the point a bit #and that the show is less about banri being in love with both koko and linda and having to choose between the past and the present #and more about the fact that banri has /already/ actively chosen koko over linda and the actual conflict involves him trying to get over it #and whether or not his relationship with koko can withstand the test of time and the ghosts of the past #because banri doesn't want to emotionally cheat on her; he wants to move on and be with her but his past self needs to be put to rest first #so i guess looking at it that way the ending has been set in stone from the beginning and linda was never a viable love interest at all #they really should've called this the emotional cheating show tbh #either way i hope linda gets more character development... and i want to see what happens between mitsuo and chinami too #hopefully the second cour will flesh all of them out more #anyway unrelated but one thing i DO like about the intro and outro animations #is that even though they're solely focused on koko and banri they do a great job portraying what it's like to be young and stupid in love #they're just two stupid college kids who are caught up in a romantic fantasy! and it's so well portrayed

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