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Sora no Woto

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My Anime Music Tournament Picks

June 22, 2013 by Chikorita157 2 Comments

Unless you are living under the rock, a fellow blogger named zzeroparticle who runs the Anime Instrumentality Blog has created the first tournament for Anime Music. If you like listening to Anime Music like I do, go ahead and nominate your favorite songs. But in this post, I’m going to discuss the top ten songs I nominated. As always, my picks are subjective so you don’t have to agree with them.

So, what criteria did I use for my nomination ballot? First, I only considered opening, insert songs and ending themes for shows I have watched and listened. Second, I also factor in how good the song sounds along with how memorable and enjoyable the song for my nominations. While my choices are biased for recent Anime, hopefully you won’t judge me.

With that, I will share the top 5 picks I nominated for the tournament first with some arrangements on the piano. (Image Source)
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Category: AIR, Angel Beats!, Clannad, Clannad ~After Story~, Community Projects, Dog Days, Fate/zero, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Sora no Woto, Tamayura, True TearsTag: anime music, anime music tourney, music, opinion

Twelve Moments in Anime 2010 – #12 – Sora no Woto and the Fascination of Dolphins

December 1, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
Dolphins... Are they the man-eating mammals as Kanata believed to be? Maybe not...

In our first moment of Anime in 2010, we are taking a look at Dolphins and Sora no Woto…

So, why the obsession over dolphins? Human beings define dolphins as a friendly mammal that have intelligence that rivals humans… but are they? Kanata doesn’t think so.
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Category: 12 Days of Anime, Sora no WotoTag: 12 days, dolphins dolphins everywhere, opinion

Sora no Woto – Episode 12 Thoughts and Impressions (END)

March 23, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment

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Here comes the finale… Sit tight…
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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A-1 Pictures, aniplex, drama

Sora no Woto – Final Review

March 23, 2010 by Chikorita157 3 Comments

Unoriginal and Uninspiring”

If you have the sense or feeling that modern anime are heading this way, I don’t think not. Yes, anime adapted from source material can be viewed by some as that following quote I have used in a editorial against Miyazaki’s views* on modern anime, but a effort to change this tend comes in from of TV Tokyo, Aniplex and A-1 Pictures, called the Animeno Chikara project, or The Strength of Anime is a project where they produce completely original Anime and broadcast it. The first project they done with the project is Sora no Woto. People when they first saw the first shots of it accused it being a copy of K-ON! and that it’s going to be a moeblob show since the characters looks vastly similar. That wasn’t the case at all when I was blown away by the first few episodes of Sora no Woto and I liked the story and the setting. Hardly any moe at all, besides that Episode 8.

With original productions, you are left with a clean slate of expectations. With adaptations, the viewers expect that it will be close to the original source material and when they find out that they changed or left something out or that the series has too many fillers, they will start complaining and drive their expectations down. I had no expectations when I first watch this production and it leave me a very good impression, allowing one to have an open mind. Original productions, you don’t know what will happen next or expect how well it is going to be until the next episode, which makes people eager to want the next episode soon. Also, they allow the producers to become more creative and original as opposed to adaptions, where you have to stick to the source material and you are pretty much limited on what new characters or plot you can put into the series without making the viewers angry.

Anyways, since I finished the introduction, first I’m going to focus on the story. The story is pretty deep and takes place in a town called Seize in Helvetia after the war have finished. This is where Kanata gets sent to and she has a very optimistic view about the future. As time goes on, we learn more about legends, past stories from various people and also Princess Iliya!!! The episodes that I felt that had a very good impact is Episode 3, where Kanata gets ill and we first hear “Amazing Grace”, Episode 5, where Noel, Kanata, Kureha goes onto the field trip and we are first introduced to No Man’s Land, Episode 6 is Misho’s story, Episode 7 with Filicia, getting over her loss of her friends and the first time we see Princess Iliya, Episode 9 with Klaus not disappointing Kureha by saving her and her keeping her faith in him and finally the last two episodes. “Amazing Grace” and legends are the most important and underlining of the story, which is shown throughout the season and time after time. However, with the seriousness, the happy and cheery ending theme ever gets so inappropriate that it becomes a mood whiplash, pretty much seen in Clannad After Story and Elfen Lied for examples as they used happy ending themes after a serious episode at the end of the episode. The story even after 12 episode seems that they could of gone a bit more in depth, but due to length constraints, they unable to do so which is fine… but if it was a little longer, I think the story can hold up even stronger. (Keep in mind, we are also getting 2 bonus episodes, possibly tie up loose ends.)

Music was pretty much good overall. Despite Kanata’s absolutely horrible playing in the beginning, but ended up turning out good when Amazing Grace was played in Episode 12 and it just sounded great. The opening theme, Hikarino Senritsu is really good considering how well it fits to the overall setting and story. However, even though I liked the ending theme, Girls, Be Ambitious, it became inappropriate several times after a serious scene happens towards the end and BAM! we are hit with a happy and go lucky tune… I would rather for them to use the other track, but oh well. For the background music, I have no opinion yet since the OST isn’t out yet, but I’m sure down the line, someone will review it.

Now for Characters. Yes, they look very similar to the characters from K-ON!, but I feel that they are different. Why? Kanata is not much of a moeblob and in contrast to Yui, I can’t picture that kind of behavior from her. Noel is the only character that has absolutely no relation to K-ON! (yep, they cut out Ritzu) and more like Nagato, but towards the end, she seems to have more emotion than the latter. Also, the voice acting for these characters are great… The only problems is character development, well mainly because of time constraints… I can’t complain much, but it’s worth saying they didn’t copy everything from K-ON! at all or if we did, well… who knows… From all those characters, I see Rio, Filicia and perhaps Kanata to be the strongest in terms of character development.

Overall, I think Sora no Woto is a outstanding series and I would recommend for those with a open mind. This is not K-ON! and Strike Witches smashed together, but I think with it’s strong setting, great storytelling and the eyecandy, I can say that Sora no Woto is a very interesting series that pretty much kept me watching. Hopefully, this production will encourage some more studios to start pumping out good and original Anime that can catch the viewer’s attention and keep it interesting so that it keeps the viewer watching. This pretty much proves that studios can produce original and inspiring anime if they work at it. They should use Sora no Woto as a model (but don’t copy the story/setting) and try to use the tactics used to create an original story that viewers will probably like.

Don’t say that I’m finished with Original Animes, the next one up is Angel Beats, which I will cover when it starts next week…

Final Score

9.04/10

Notes

*I’m no way against Miyazaki’s works at all, I think he did a good job in producing movies that I did in fact enjoyed, but I just don’t agree with any of his politics and his views on Anime

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Category: Reviews, Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, comedy, drama, final impressions, review

Sora no Woto – Episode 11 Thoughts and Impressions

March 16, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
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I laughed at their reactions on their faces...

Some Les Yay! Moments going around here including some serious stuff.

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A-1 Pictures, aniplex, drama, Les yay, not moe

Sora no Woto – Episode 10 Thoughts and Impressions

March 10, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
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Well...

More on Rio and her family connections…

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A-1 Pictures, aniplex, drama, not moe

Sora no Woto – Episode 9 Thoughts and Impressions

March 2, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment

I never got this excited about last night's dinner.

Mostly a Klaus/Kureha focused Episode…

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, drama, not moe

Sora no Woto – Episode 8 Thoughts and Impressions

February 24, 2010 by Chikorita157 1 Comment
When you really need to go, drastic actions are needed.

You wished there was such thing as a cell phone or cordless phone, so you don’t have to stay in the same room all day… …

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, comedy

Sora no Woto – Episode 7 Thoughts and Impressions

February 18, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
Awwww.

Well, there is one thing we know… War is bad…
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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, drama, not moe

Sora no Woto – Midseason Review

February 10, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment

Sora no Woto was tainted by preview and people thinking that it’s a rehash of K-ON!, but in the military. However, when it first aired, the series proved to be more than just a moeblob series… Perhaps there is hardly any moe at all?

Well, they do alot… Rather than drinking tea and eating crumpets all day long, they go on field trips and checking safety device, checking for ghosts, finding lenses for the tank and the questionable dealing of bootlegged wine for goods or some dramatic moments like Kanata getting sick. Sora no Woto is a slice of life show more in the style of ARIA or perhaps Haibane Renmei instead of K-ON! where we have girls doing cutesy things like tripping over cords or acting childish.

The strongest point with Sora no Woto is that it doesn’t have any moe and more on serious plot like Misho’s story or Kanata getting sick. Although the story have some happy moments, it has alot of serious moments, which one can appreciate.

Another strong point is the art and music. The music perfectly fits in, especially with Hikari no Senritsu by Kalafina because of the theme of the song that sets the setting of the story. Also, it features other important music such as Amazing Grace (we know…) and others. The art is rather good, dispite the K-ON or Kannagi like art style. It’s background is appealing to the eye.. as they say.

However, “Hater’s gonna hate” no matter what (complete with animated GIF)… Just ignore them and watch it without comparing it to obviously moe shows like K-ON! You might just enjoy it.

Verdict

Rating so far: 8.88/10, B+

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, comedy, drama

Sora no Woto – Episode 6 Thoughts and Impressions

February 9, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
Noel's Big Freaking Gun! It's Bada**.

Well, this gets more interesting…
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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, comedy, drama, not moe

Sora no Woto – Episode 5 Thoughts and Impressions

February 4, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
Let's have fun with splashing water!

Now they go on a torture field trip on a hot and steamy summer day.
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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, comedy, not moe, tsundere

Sora no Woto – Episode 4 Thoughts and Impressions

January 26, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
Someone seems to overworked themselves to be that tired.

Episode 4 mainly focuses more on Noel, the only character that isn’t a carbon copy from you know what and actually…

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, music, not moe

Sora no Woto – Episode 3 – Thoughts and Impressions

January 21, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
No! Don't go!!!

Things get a bit more dramatic than your average comedy anime… well, as you can tell, Kanata comes down with some illness

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, drama, not moe

Sora no Woto – Episode 2 Thoughts and Impressions

January 14, 2010 by Chikorita157 Leave a Comment
So this Owl was the... Ghost? O RLY?

YA RLY

Not seeing much moe here, but now we are finally introduced to more characters. Kureha, the hot headed, twin tailed Tsundere which yelled “You SUCK!” at Kanata and forced to give a tour to her by Rio. Felicia, the second lieutenant where she ends up cleaning the bathroom and not seemingly flashing her high position. Lastly, you have Noel and she seems to work herself a bit too much…

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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A1 Pictures, aniplex, not moe, owls

Sora no Woto – Episode 1 – First Impressions

January 5, 2010 by Chikorita157 2 Comments


What this reminds me of? K-ON! meets Strike Witches wearing pants or K-ON in Boot Camp?

Sora no Woto is a Anime First and has pretty decent eyecandy if you put it this way. Don’t let the K-ON! or perhaps Kannagi art-style fool you, the first episode, there isn’t much moe in this episode… or perhaps no moe at all?
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Category: Sora no WotoTag: A-1 Pictures, aniplex, not moe

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