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md3 watches Given ep1

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Maybe it's because I’m having a bad day, or maybe my distaste for most abrasive Romance genre tropes is showing. But I did not have good reactions. If I didn’t get spoiled on how good this series will eventually get, I probably wouldn’t continue. Gawd I’m impatient for this to get good.

Mafuyu is sweet though. ^___^

8:26 PM 9/27/2019

I'm going to watch Given. After today, I'm too tired and defeated to do anything more ambitious than react to anime. ;_;

And this morning I watched some clips that suggested Mafuyu's tragic past? I"m really hoping his childhood friend/boyfriend didn't dump him. They both seemed so nice and in love. Then again, if his boyfriend died that would also be very sad. But at least it's not indirectly saying that Mafuyu was worth dumping. He seems like such a sweet, fragile kid.

given Episode 1 – Boys in the Band

"I'm not lonely." I know it's a cliche now for an anime character to try to convince themselves of this with internal monologue, but it's still effectively sad and still pulls the heart-strings. ;~;

Uenoyama is too sleepy to eat lunch and his friend asks him to play basketball instead of get bread? omg

Everyone is sure staring at Uenoyama as he walks by though. I wonder why.

Jeeze! I don't know why Uenoyama has to be so upset! What was Mafuyu doing that was even creepy anyway? Not talking? Sure, its more common for an anime character to leave when they've discovered they're in someone else's usual nap/hideout spot, but Mafuyu was nice about making room for Uenoyama. And now he's throwing a tantrum about getting Mafuyu's hopes up and his naptime interrupted? Careful or you're going to start hitting my real pet peeves and I'll drop this series.

He just asked a stranger to teach him now to play guitar...Okay? Well, that escalated quickly. ^^;

Thank you, opening theme. I feel like I need some music to really set the tone---no, just get into this story/world. I'm the kind of person who hates that Netflix skips opening/ending themes.

jfc I know I've had a moderately bad day, but this series is just starting and it hit ANOTHER one of my pet peeves?! Siblings who are nasty to each other?! Ug. If it weren't for all the fandom hype over this show and the nice clips I've seen of it beforehand, I would give up on it right now. Or maybe I need to stop pausing every few seconds to write and dwell on the bad stuff, and just watch the show. Ok, I'll try that. I want to record all my initial thoughts for this series if I end up getting deep into the fandom, but rumination isn't good, after all. Maybe all the annoying parts will go faster if I don't pause to react to all of them.

"Now that I think about it, I guess I almost cired when I first broke a string, too, becuase I thought I'd broken my guitar" Aw, Uenoyama is showing empathy. (Finally.)

See? Mafuyu is reasonable. He paid Uenoyama back for the strings and everything.

I think watching clips and hearing the fandom chatter before actually watching this series was a mistake. I've been immune to spoilers for most of my life, but they've been starting to actually hurt my viewing in these past few years. But it's not like when the shock of character deaths were dulled by knowing beforehand, with Madoka Magica. This time, it's more like I'm _impatient_ to get to the good parts I saw before.

So Mafuyu is stalking him now? Now that I think about it, all those BL manga I used to read were quirky like this, huh? ...Really???

I should have mentioned this before, but this background music is a little odd. It's like it doesn't quite match the tone of this very solid, real-feeling animation.

But if he's a total newbie, he won't be able to tell the difference between a "godly performance" and a mediocre one!

"Something cool". LOL ^-^

OMG are they totally just riffing? That's pretty cool. ^___^

"Uecchi"? Is this in Kansai? LOL

This guilt Uenoyama keeps dwelling on is really helping make him a sympathizable character.

"Uesama"? LOL

I'm glad Mafuyu tired the school's music club and that his reason for returning to Uenoyama's band was that he was much cooler. I'll buy that reasoning.

What is this exploision effect? I know the animation in this series so far looks great, like they threw lots of money at it, but wow... Was it supposed to look cheesey on purpose?

Well, this ending theme is soothing and nice.

But I'm not caught by this series. So far, the primary couple has proven so be one half too angry, kinda mean, and plain grumpy to me. And the other half is so sweet and fragile seeming, that I just feel sorry when he gets yelled at. I feel like Mafuyu is just Uenoyama's punching bag, even if his actions are driving Uenoyama crazy. Why does he have to over-react?

After a month or so of being tempted to watch this series, I finally gave in today because I couldn't wait to get to answering the questions of those tragic backstories I saw some clips and spoilers of. And maybe I'll stick around to get my answers. But I can't say I like this series in and of itself so far. Mafuyu is sweet and intriguing, but I don't feel attached to Uenoyama so far. I kind of want to watch something else, or just browse through the AkiRyu fandom instead. ...In fact, I will do that. No need to jump into ep2.

But when I come back to this series, I should react to it like a movie. Just watch it without stopping, then write whatever still stuck out to me enough to have inherently gotten a reaction out of me, at the end. I shouldn't just stop every few minutes to write.

Maybe the thing that bugs me with Given ep1 is that I prefer couples who actually like each other enough to instantly click. At least get along together. I abandoned my favorite shoujo manga circle because they kept insisting on this "falling in love with the person who annoys the heroine (the most)" cliche. I generally tell people that I don't like Romance genre movies because so many of them revolve around couples who confuse friction and adrenaline for "passion" and attachment. But that never sat well with me. I never liked the "argue/hate someone so much, you don't realize you're in love with them", as my aunt once put it. Even the couples I like which might be mistaken for that trope actually arne't as abrasive as many filler episodes would caricature them to be: Ranma/Akane, Ichigo/Rukia. Maybe that's why I'd prefer to browse the AkiRyu fandom right now. They actually enjoy spending time with each other! From the first time they met! ...I dunno... Maybe Given will get very good, very fast, after this first ep. Lots of BL manga had rough starts but turned into great series of scenes that were emotionally moving to experience, once the initial situation that contrived the couple to get together, is settled. Why wouldn't Given be the same?

I probably shouldn't post this reaction to my blog. Or maybe have no tags, so the fandom won't come after me. I don't need flames for my flippant venting that will likely change drastically once I get further into the series and find what I liked about those spoiler clips.

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The more time passed after watching Given ep1, the more I tried to use everything else to TRY to figure out why I wasn’t in love with Given (yet).

6:43 PM 9/28/2019

TOBE!!! CAROLE & TUESDAY EPISODE 14 LIVE REACTION

by MemoryNK

https://youtu.be/58OI_yufctQ

OMG THIS SHOW! Just a few clips, edited, talked over by commentary, and I'm already freaking half-crying! GODDAMNIT! ;o; Carole's dad found her, he and his wife wanted to keep her but the wife died and he was unjustly sent to prison, and now he's still on parole and has to return to prison or his parole restrictions on Earth or something---! ;O;!!!!!!!!!!! THIS SHOW---! And Carole takes it as hope and something to look forward to, vs typical cliche drama contrived anger! This show goes for the heart-felt warmth, instead of the contrived anger drama! ;U; I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!

Carole and Tuesday season 1 part 2 doesn't release on Netflix for probably a few more MONTHS. Maybe it was a mistake to see spoilers. But I've been seeing songs from season 1 part 2 all this time. But actual scenes, spoiling the story...I went too far. Maybe I shouldn't have.

But only because I want to note my emotional reactions. Especially when I'm having such trouble getting into Given. I need to now if Carole & Tuesday were able to grab me from ep1, first intros of the main characters,...Because Given is failing hard on that! And I want to know if I'm justified in not being as attached to Given, or if I was just having a bad day (I wasted all yesterday on that horrible cooking that even made me physically ill ~___~;!)

6:49 PM 9/28/2019

I came in from my daily walk and had to immediately watch Carole & Tuesday becasue while I was walking, Mafuyu's song from Given was stuck in my head, even though I didn't even know it well. I started daydreaming about Tuesday and Mafuyu hanging out, jamming, etc., and I couldn't listen to my podcasts while walking anymore. I had to switch to Carole & Tuesday.

7:21 PM 9/28/2019

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Re-reading my reactions to watching Carole & Tuesday for the first time, I'm surprised how little I say about their characters (until much later episodes). I wonder if it means they were so agreeable that I didnt' have to rant anything about them. Because in contrast to my reactions to watching Given ep1 for the first time, I just kept going on and on about their characters---how mean Uenoyama was. ...omg...I think I don't like Uenoyama. I mean, I LOVE Carole, and Tuesday is really sweet and cute, but I never mentioned anything about that in my reactions from earlier this month until like halfway through season1 part1. In fact, a few minutes ago was the first time I reblogged some Carole & Tuesday art with tags like "#my girls" and "i love them!". I'd hate to say it, but maybe I only realized how good of characters Carole & Tuesday are, because of how abrasive Uenoyama's introduction has been for me. I mean, I always thought Carole's brash confidence was cool and Tuesday was sweet, but I guess I was taking it as a given, instead of something extraordinarily rare. ...I'm trying really hard to get into Given, you guys. All the clips and spoilers I've seen and the music have been good. But it's becoming clear to me now that Uenoyama is a barrier. I used to read a lot of BL and those protagonists do tend to be really quirky or always upset to end up in the plot situation for comedic sakes...But when will the series get to Uenoyama being stupidly in love with Mafuyu so I can laugh at him for being an idiot around him? I'm impatient over here, especially when I usually drop a series as soon as it centers too much on an abrasive character. There are 20+ anime series every season and 4 seasons every year, and I've got a big backlog of anime to watch, so I can afford to be picky---I _HAVE TO_ be picky.

6:18 PM 9/29/2019

I've been really bugged by how I have not enjoyed the first episode of Given. Maybe I got my expectations too high, after watching it because of so much hype over it, and watching spoiler clips that were really intriguing. But what really gets me, after having finally seen ep1, is that Uenoyama is not very likable! Why does Mafuyu even like him?! Well, Mafuyu is a sweethear and will forgive anything, ti seems...I think the problem is that _I_ as an audience member see no reason to like Uenoyama yet. Why would I want this jerk to continue getting angry as adorable, frail Mafuyu? Mafuyu doesn't deserve that! ;o;

The really bad thing are the comparisons. I've been re-watching "Carole and Tuesday" repeatedly this month, and though it's not (blatantly) a romance story, there's just so much reason to want to see these 2 characters always be together. I love watching them, they enjoy each other's company, they are nice to each other equally,---! And I just realized that Given's Uenoyama and Mafuyu are similar to Kageyama and Hinata from Haikyuu. Granted, I didn't really get into the KageHina ship (it just had some cute doujins that I personally thought were too dissimilar to the canon characters for me to think of the ship while I watched Haikyuu), but I LIKED the dynamic between Kageyama and Hinata. WHY? All Kageyama did was yell and treat Hinata badly whenever he could!...No...That's not true. The story made certain from the very beginning to establish Kageyama as a more noble person inside, even though he was just so oblivious to how humans should interact, he only knew how to give commands and yell as a frustrated setter/commander. Kageyama's first personality-establishing scene was him saving Hinata from bullies and proving that he doesn't approve of low, bully-like behaviors. And I think pegging Kageyama, from the beginning, as seeking penance and his angsting over his regrets, the the whole first season culminating with him learning how to properly share bonds with people vs bossing them around, and thus finally remedying his past regretted behaviors---It all really turned and angry, easily annoyed character that could have become abrasive, into a character of sympathy. (Plus, he was cool at what he does. Which is generally another trait a main character nees to garner audience respect.) So why couldn't Uenoyama do that from the beginning too?!?! >O<!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It's driving me crazy! I was supposed to like Given!!!!!!!!! I _WANT_ to like Given!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;O;!!!

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