Kokoro Connect...
I picked up Kokoro Connect...
There is some suggestive dialogue and situations. After watching the entire series, I have seen nothing that, in my humble opinion, should greatly concern the younger anime fans among us. I found the series very intriguing, but, personally a bit painful to endure. I felt a great sadness as the main characters were forced to endure wave after wave of trials at the whims of mysterious entities. Although, it could be argued that by the end of the series, the characters did grow, evolve and presumably benefit from the experience, after the first wave, it was not really as enjoyable for me to watch them suffer as I would have preferred. The mysterious entities at the heart of the series gave me the impression of being rather mean spirited. And then, to find that the end of Kokoro Connect was not really the end of the series was almost too much to bear. The remaining four episodes are expected to be released later this year.
There isn't any gore or awe-inspiring special effects in Kokoro Connect. The series is primarily a dramatic character study showcasing the evolution of characters under difficult circumstances. There are some loose ends left at the end of the series which presumably will be concluded with the release of the remaining episodes. Kokoro Connect was *a lot* longer and more slowly paced than I would have preferred, but, nonetheless, it was interesting to watch. Although, the entities are never flashy when they appear and I wouldn't want to commend the entities for their actions, it is always riveting when the entities make an appearance. Overall, although, part of me would like to give Kokoro Connect a higher score, I really cannot, in good conscience, give the series anything higher than a 2 out of 5. That being said, I'll probably still pick up the remaining four episodes just to finish off the series.
I started watching Kokoro Connect and I was immediately hooked. Kokoro Connect employs an unusual twist on the body-switching trope in that the body-switching occurs seemingly at random within a group of individuals. There are some scenes early in the series where we see the group or members of the group from above which suggests that a third party might be involved in the body-switching and is perhaps observing the reactions of the group from a distance... ...Then, while the group is in the midst of freaking out, Mr. Goto, their homeroom teacher, shows up to see if they've started freaking out yet... ...only it's not really Mr. Goto....The five members of the Cultural Study group that meets in class 401 have spent a lot of time wondering what it would be like to be in someone else's shoes. But they're about to learn that there's a huge difference between thinking about it and literally BEING in someone else's shoes! That's exactly what happens when, suddenly and inexplicably, they each find themselves inside the body of the girl - or boy - next door!
What happens next? Well, besides bringing a whole new meaning to the term "exchange student" and the to-be-expected freaked-out runs to the bathroom, it's not hard to do the math: take one wrestling geek, the resident cool girl, the class clown, the popular chick and one sultry maid of mystery, scramble thoroughly and divide, and you can bet that pretty soon they'll be answering ALL of the questions they never wanted to know about the opposite sex in ways they never anticipated!
There is some suggestive dialogue and situations. After watching the entire series, I have seen nothing that, in my humble opinion, should greatly concern the younger anime fans among us. I found the series very intriguing, but, personally a bit painful to endure. I felt a great sadness as the main characters were forced to endure wave after wave of trials at the whims of mysterious entities. Although, it could be argued that by the end of the series, the characters did grow, evolve and presumably benefit from the experience, after the first wave, it was not really as enjoyable for me to watch them suffer as I would have preferred. The mysterious entities at the heart of the series gave me the impression of being rather mean spirited. And then, to find that the end of Kokoro Connect was not really the end of the series was almost too much to bear. The remaining four episodes are expected to be released later this year.
There isn't any gore or awe-inspiring special effects in Kokoro Connect. The series is primarily a dramatic character study showcasing the evolution of characters under difficult circumstances. There are some loose ends left at the end of the series which presumably will be concluded with the release of the remaining episodes. Kokoro Connect was *a lot* longer and more slowly paced than I would have preferred, but, nonetheless, it was interesting to watch. Although, the entities are never flashy when they appear and I wouldn't want to commend the entities for their actions, it is always riveting when the entities make an appearance. Overall, although, part of me would like to give Kokoro Connect a higher score, I really cannot, in good conscience, give the series anything higher than a 2 out of 5. That being said, I'll probably still pick up the remaining four episodes just to finish off the series.
