Twelve Kingdoms, ep. 01-05
Sat, Oct. 4th, 2008 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterEr. I really didn't like this.
Nakajima Yoko is a reserved high school student with naturally red hair; she's the class president and generally tries to do things right. One day, a strange man comes into the classroom and tells her to come with him to another world. Monsters attack, and Yoko cries (this will occur frequently). Eventually, Yoko ends up in another world, along with class outcast Sugimoto Yuka and friend Asano Ikuya.
So far, this is playing too much like other "transported to magical world" series for me, and I'm particularly annoyed at Yoko, who basically cries the entire time. I mean, I am actually very ok with heroines who are afraid and don't physically kick ass, but Yoko is passive in a way that makes her feel Too Stupid to Live. I.e. she won't fight, but she immediately trusts everyone. I also want to like Sugimoto and hope that the series is doing something about the chosen one trope; I love that Sugimoto thinks reluctant Yoko should go home and let her have this awesome magical world. Unfortunately, it looks like Sugimoto is being set up as the villain.
People who've seen this, is this going to be like the Miaka/Yui rivalry in Fushigi Yuugi? Because if it is, I am going to throw something. Also, I gathered from comments that people like Yoko, so does she get better?
Nakajima Yoko is a reserved high school student with naturally red hair; she's the class president and generally tries to do things right. One day, a strange man comes into the classroom and tells her to come with him to another world. Monsters attack, and Yoko cries (this will occur frequently). Eventually, Yoko ends up in another world, along with class outcast Sugimoto Yuka and friend Asano Ikuya.
So far, this is playing too much like other "transported to magical world" series for me, and I'm particularly annoyed at Yoko, who basically cries the entire time. I mean, I am actually very ok with heroines who are afraid and don't physically kick ass, but Yoko is passive in a way that makes her feel Too Stupid to Live. I.e. she won't fight, but she immediately trusts everyone. I also want to like Sugimoto and hope that the series is doing something about the chosen one trope; I love that Sugimoto thinks reluctant Yoko should go home and let her have this awesome magical world. Unfortunately, it looks like Sugimoto is being set up as the villain.
People who've seen this, is this going to be like the Miaka/Yui rivalry in Fushigi Yuugi? Because if it is, I am going to throw something. Also, I gathered from comments that people like Yoko, so does she get better?
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Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 07:41 pm (UTC)Hmm...it does have some elements of that, but handled in a completely different way. Like, Sugimoto is 100% justified in the "no, I'd be better at this than you!" at the beginning because Yoko is so pitiful. But she isn't power hungry so much as she wants to be someone important, and can't understand how someone as pathetic and unsuitable as Yoko could be special, while she, who is actually willing to step up to it, isn't "special."
I almost want to compare it to Priness Tutu, where it's just as important that Rue have a better life as it is the Ahiru have her story, though it's in very different ways.