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TopicMac Ranks 111+31 User-Nominated Anime - The Rankings!
Mac Arrowny
07/22/19 1:36:40 PM
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9. ef
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AKA ef ~ a tale of memories and ef ~ a tale of melodies. This is one of the first anime romances I watched, and it remains the best to this day. There are a whole bunch of things I like about the series, starting with the visuals. Outside of action series, this might be my favorite anime visuall period (yes, I like it better than Monogatari in that respect, though NGNL is on the same level)? The neat visual SHAFT-isms have a cohesive pattern to them here, and theyre pretty much always used to enhance scenes and make them better than they wouldve ordinarily been. I also played the VN, and the coolest visual scenes are definitely better in the anime. The answering machine scene is just legendary, and the visuals are half the picture there. Both seasons are visually inspired in general.

But of course, you cant have a good series with just good visuals. The show follows four (kind of five) romances, and while they arent all equally good, I do like all of them, and the best ones are great. Chihiro x Renji is probably my favorite of the bunch. They did the memory loss thing in a really compelling way, and the way it ends is just amazing. One of the most romantic lines in anime ever. The Miyako/Kei/Hiro love triangle is consistently entertaining, and I love how the stakes just keep getting higher as it goes along. Kuze x Mizuki is probably the weirdest of the bunch, but the individual scenes are generally great, and theres some cool music stuff. And Yuu x Yuuko works as a perfect capstone on the series, since weve been seeing the two of them all throughout (though the change to how Yuuko died in the anime was dumb). Yuukos story has a lot of neat stuff to it visually too. One of the things that makes the anime feel unique is how serious it is. I mean, there are definitely jokes here and there, but its not a romantic comedy, its a romantic drama, and those are pretty rare in anime (especially good ones). ef really opened my eyes to what anime could be. I doubt I wouldve watched nearly as many anime without it.
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