☆Dopeness☆ ~: Kimagure Orange☆Road ~ Capricious Orange Road ('∇ ^ *) ☆ ♪

Thursday 9 July 2015

Kimagure Orange☆Road ~ Capricious Orange Road ('∇ ^ *) ☆ ♪

06:26 | Posted by ☆Chibichaos☆ | Edit Post

Type: TV

Episodes: 48

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 6, 1987 to Mar 7, 1988

Producers: Studio Pierrot, Toho Company, Animeigo

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama,Fantasy, Magic, Romance, School,Shounen, Slice of Life

Duration: 25 min. per episode

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Synopsis ~

Fifteen-year-old Kyosuke Kasuga moves to a new city and becomes enamored by one Madoka Ayukawa, whom often treats him coldly even though she seemed friendly the first time they met, when he caught her red straw hat on the stairs. Kyosuke also must try to avoid breaking the heart of the slightly childish Hikaru Hiyama, who fell in love with him after she saw him make an impossible shot with a basketball and who likes to shower him with affection. Also, just to make things interesting, Kyosuke, his sisters, his grandfather, and his cousins all have various powers (teleportation, psychokinesis, hypnosis, time travel, personality transference) which Kyosuke desperately tries to keep a secret, though some of the other family members have no such qualms against using their powers in public.

Dope says ~

Kimagure Orange Road is a very old fashioned Anime with a beautiful twist! You got Kyosuke a teen with ESPer! He and his siblings have the supernatural ability to move things and are forbidden to use their powers in public. So what the show revolves around with is Kyosuke and his love triangle and adventures that follow!

Dopes rates –

Kimagure is a all time favorite of mine, I remember watching it and thinking I should rewatch I’m so glad I did I forgot how good it was. Kyosukes adventures that lie in front of him with his friends and sisters really helped build the show.

The characters I will begin to describe that Kyosuke is a sweetheart who is really indecisive but he is gentle and a goody goody! Mind you he couldn’t pick between two girls at all and it made it difficult when he had no clue what to do. What I loved was that he would take great lengths to get across his feelings but then fail at it, in fact he managed a few times to figure out who he liked before he changed his mind!

Madoka, the beauty of the show with secrecy about her she is very adult like as well. To be honest I remember watching the show only because of her I thought she was amazing! Her character was not a typical girly girl, but at times she would shy away it was sweet, she grasped on she liked Kyosuke but didn’t interfere because of Hikaru. Madoka is the typical bad girl you know the role reverse which was refreshing. Her part in the whole story and the interest towards her is kind of what made Orange Road.

Hikaru the other main girl is whiny and totally oblivious to things around her, she’s got the attitude that she can get anything. She follows Madoka around like a lap dog; in fact they are childhood friends who Madoka saves all the time. She is sweet but kind of child like! But once she becomes friends with Kyosuke her attitude changes which takes a more pleasant turn rather.

The animation is soft and very pastel like, it wasn’t bold but what do you expect from a very old Anime. I feel so happy that I could watch it, it was appealing to me at least, the music in the show was on point, maybe not to everyone’s taste but I thought it was quite enjoyable, I found the style perfect for a high school anime like this with a twist.

Dopes dislike ~

Honestly speaking, I didn’t like Hikaru she was irritating her voice was quite hard to listen to sometimes. I had to get a grip and watch on I forgot how irritating her voice was, and Kyosuke’s little stuttering kind of gets annoying at some point as well, the least he could do is stand up but he doesn’t at times which irritates you. I found that there weren’t enough episodes on the sisters which kind of became silly but then again it was about Kyosuke’s not his sisters

Dopes conclusion –

Overall it was a perfect summer Anime to watch, it’s a slow show but its one you will remember honestly. Of course minus Hikaru’s voice and all you shall be fine! But Madoka is memorable and her interaction with Kyosuke even sweeter! I really enjoyed the Anime unfortunately I never finished the Manga, but that has got to be the most frustrating thing though because I heard most of the Manga was just very indecisive, I need to finish it though. So far i am disappointed in the short episodes but I am glad it ended with a happy note! So give it a go and make sure to tell me how it went.

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