The thing about Ai Yori Aoshi is that unlike other harem shows, its story actually has the relationships develop, and it’s not too shy in bringing across the source manga’s ribald nature, in an industry where broadcast standards tend to neuter such material.
That is Love Hina down to a tee, and most people agree that show has dated terribly. Good things do come to those who wait, and who’ve filled the intervening years by finding and reading the manga.īut what’s so good about Ai Yori Aoshi? It is after all a harem show, a romantic comedy that centres around a somewhat weak-willed male lead, who despite previous total failures with the opposite sex, somehow attracts a whole bunch of cuties to his side, and comedy occurs as all the girls compete for his attention.
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Funimation picked up the show as soon as that happened, but it’s only been this year that they’ve finally released the show in one Classic Collection, which also includes the Ai Yori Aoshi ~Enishi~ sequel series which I have yet to watch. I saw Ai Yori Aoshi, and immediately fell in love with it, only to find that its DVDs were already on the endangered list, and before Geneon could think about re-releasing it, they’d left the scene. That perfect storm turned into a perfect tsunami a few months later, as the economy turned to crap, and anime distributors turned up their heels. So a perfect storm of try-before-you buy, streaming video, a little guilt, two dollars to the pound, and discovering Right meant that I was watching anime like never before, and getting all the good stuff on DVD, imported or otherwise.
This was pre-Crunchyroll of course, and that vow lasted a whole of two weeks. Day 1, I swore to myself that I wouldn’t be tempted by all the illicit anime online, all the fansubs and DVD rips. Introduction I got broadband in 2008, pretty much a latecomer to the whole thing.
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