{"id":1238,"date":"2009-04-09T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2009-04-09T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:06:51","slug":"ristorante-paradiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/ristorante-paradiso\/","title":{"rendered":"Ristorante Paradiso 01 – 02: Old men with glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FAIL-O-METER<\/span><\/strong>
\nQuite a bit here. \u00a0The fail here is about the size of a truck.<\/p>\n

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Shit, it really is shoujo! \u00a0And hardcore “old guys with glasses fetish” shoujo!<\/p>\n

Still, I know one person who’d like this for sure (excuse the lack of a better picture with correctly colored eyes):<\/p>\n

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"Look, I'm in the same position as that sexy guy!"<\/p><\/div>\n

I was looking forward to something of a slice-of-life show with people coming to the bar<\/span> restaurant and getting advice from the bartender<\/span> old men with glasses.<\/p>\n

I mean, seriously. \u00a0If you read any of the reports about the show beforehand, that’s probably what you thought!
\nFor example, this article on ANN<\/a> pretty much says “this is going to be a slice-of-life show, perhaps a SOC comedy.”<\/p>\n

The PV<\/a> (click “speciale” and then the one on the right) also didn’t really dictate this as a weird shoujo fetish romance. \u00a0The blush early on could have hinted at a romance, but the rest of the PV showed more SOC comedy aspects than anything else.<\/p>\n

Basically, I was looking for a good, solid SOC show (like Bartender<\/em> or Shinigami no Ballad<\/em>), but I got “sexy” old men with glasses.<\/p>\n

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Huge noses and anorexic characters. \u00a0Not good for character design in my book.<\/p>\n

I liked the eyes, but the noses were just too much.
\nI found myself looking at the noses before the rest of their faces. \u00a0@__@<\/p>\n

Those dissidents of Code Geass, saying Lelouch was anorexic beyond belief… take a look at Claudio!
\nHe ain’t no product of CLAMP, but he’s undoubtedly as thin as, or even thinner than, Lelouch.<\/p>\n

And in his elderly years, looking that starved ain’t good.<\/p>\n

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The best part of this show for me was Nicoletta’s facial expressions.<\/p>\n

How can a character with eyes like that, a nose like that, and an overall character design like that compete with the best in terms of facial expressions (Nagi-sama, for one)? \u00a0I’m not quite sure, but there’s something about her that’s strangely awesome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Random loli scene!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Half-smile.<\/p><\/div>\n

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What’s up with this guy’s cheek, anyway?
\nI know he’s eating in this screenshot, but he ain’t eating in the OP, nor is he eating all the time. \u00a0His cheek is almost always puffed out…?!<\/p>\n

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This, no doubt, has got to be the best facial expression I have ever seen.
\n100% win.
\nNow only if the rest of the anime could be like this…\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eh, I’m going to keep watching this one. \u00a0It’s definitely got some potential for epic and utter failure, and I don’t see any possibility of awesomeness in its future (happy ending in a romance like this =\/= not my type), but Nicoletta is freaking awesome and I want to know more about that cheek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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