Eva’s First Impression:
Ahhh~ Finally!!!! A new, and original Romantic Comedy! Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai immediately caught my eye the moment I read about it being released in the Spring a few months back. And then once the first PV came out, it had me hook instantaneously.
The premiere surprised me in a lot of ways with the simplicity of it, but while it was relatively linear from start to finish, it kept me thoroughly entertained with its humorous and endearing characters.
Our protagonist, Tada Mitsuyoshi has a very quiet presence. He tends to sit back more, let the others do their thing while he takes pictures in the background. He wasn’t entirely comfortable with interacting with a foreigner (Teresa), and tried to dodge her request if he could take her picture for her. The Goddesses of Fate has other things in mind by ensuring he would have to by killing the battery for Teresa’s camera.
And because of his nature, we didn’t actually learn a whole lot about Mitsuyoshi today, but there were still a couple of important clues that have been dropped along the way. He is a photographer, his parents are dead, he and his sister lives with their grandfather, and Mitsuyoshi is scared of heights/planes. And because the writers were adamenant of making the point of how he is scared of planes/heights, it sets the challenge line of what he needs to overcome in the future. But at the same time, I also wonder if perhaps his parents were killed in a height related accident (be it a plane crash or a fall).
Teresa Wagner is an adorable, precious girl who comes from the country of Larsenburg (*Luxembourg), a small country in Europe with beautiful valleys and greenery. Her extravagant way of speaking, her companion’s (Alec) role of serving as her retainer of a sort, constantly reminding her she needs to stop being so careless. Teresa has always dreamed of visiting Japan, and learned most of her Japanese through watching Rainbow Shogun, an old historical drama that she is absolutely obsessed about. (Unfortunately she didn’t quite realize Rainbow Shogun is entirely fiction, so some of the things she’s seeing on the streets are not legit stuff.)
Teresa comes across as an individual who goes wherever the wind takes her. Gets separated from her companion, no worries! Have no money? No problem! Lost and soaked to bone? As long as the cat is dry, she’s good! But it would also be fair to say she is quite a scatterbrain, not thinking twice about wanting to get a closer look at what she thought was the Shogun’s Secret Passage. And has a knack of getting along with cats. I can’t tell you how many times I was thinking, “WHAT IS SHE TRYING TO DO?!”
The funny thing about the two, is how their fates are completely entangled with one another. Not once, not twice, but four times Mitsuyoshi and Teresa encountered each other, all in one day! And now, they are even in the same class at school!
I also was incredibly fond of their first encounter, where Teresa was oblivious to the fact she was continuously photobombing Mitsuyoshi’s shot (eventually he just took the damn picture, and nailed it), forgot to take back her memory card, and just being all around absolutely adorable— eventually it had gotten to the point Mitsuyoshi simply could not in good conscious leave her alone, and brought her back to his grandfather’s shop.
Then we have the rest of the characters that were introduced today, Injuin, who loves the ladies and shown to be a bit of a narcissist, Yui, who loves to dramatically recites quotes from her favourite author, Yoshiko Yamamura Poiron, and of course Alexandra Magritte, or Alec as Teresa calls her. She is Teresa’s retainer, and also a badass. Unfortunately Injuin experienced her wrath through a misunderstanding, and was sent flying and got a black eye because of it. And of course Nyanko Big himself, the adorable cat who will turn his claws on Injuin (poor guy, ahaha). The cat even has a website based on him, “Trepid Big Blog”!
Overall despite a rather “uneventful” start to the story, the premiere was still an enjoyable one that shows us a lot of promise for the future. I really like the character designs, and the OP Theme is very charming! The ED Theme however brings about a totally different mood! Anyhow, I am very excited to see where the story goes! Looking forward to the next episode!
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